{"id":10159,"date":"2020-02-25T13:03:49","date_gmt":"2020-02-25T20:03:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.aerocominc.com\/info\/?p=10159"},"modified":"2020-02-25T13:03:49","modified_gmt":"2020-02-25T20:03:49","slug":"itsmiths-chris-romano-global-chief-technologist-at-dell-emc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.aerocominc.com\/info\/itsmiths-chris-romano-global-chief-technologist-at-dell-emc\/","title":{"rendered":"ITsmiths: Chris Romano, Global Chief Technologist at Dell EMC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe style=\"border: none;\" src=\"\/\/html5-player.libsyn.com\/embed\/episode\/id\/13146041\/height\/90\/theme\/custom\/thumbnail\/yes\/direction\/backward\/render-playlist\/no\/custom-color\/87A93A\/\" width=\"100%\" height=\"90\" scrolling=\"no\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.aerocominc.com\/info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/ITsmiths-Chris-Romano.png\" rel='magnific'><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-10160\" src=\"https:\/\/www.aerocominc.com\/info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/ITsmiths-Chris-Romano.png\" alt=\"ITsmiths - Chris Romano\" width=\"519\" height=\"435\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.aerocominc.com\/info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/ITsmiths-Chris-Romano.png 940w, https:\/\/www.aerocominc.com\/info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/ITsmiths-Chris-Romano-300x251.png 300w, https:\/\/www.aerocominc.com\/info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/ITsmiths-Chris-Romano-239x200.png 239w, https:\/\/www.aerocominc.com\/info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/ITsmiths-Chris-Romano-477x400.png 477w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 519px) 100vw, 519px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>As you know, choosing a career in IT doesn\u2019t mean your job has to stay inside the IT department.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\"><a style=\"color: #ff6600;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/virtualirishman\/\" target=\"_blank\">Chris Romano<\/a><\/span> is one such example.<\/p>\n<p>If you\u2019ve been to a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vmworld.com\/en\/us\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">VMworld<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.delltechnologiesworld.com\/registration.htm\" target=\"_blank\">EMCWorld<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ciscolive.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">CiscoLive<\/a>, or <a href=\"https:\/\/insight.netapp.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">NetApp Insight<\/a> conference, you may have listened to a presentation by Chris.<\/p>\n<p>In addition to being a frequent presenter at gigantic IT conferences, he was employee number 87 for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vmware.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">VMware<\/a>, and in his 16 year tenure there, he worked his way up to the prestigious role of Principal Systems Engineer.<\/p>\n<p>Currently, Chris is a Global Chief Technologist for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.delltechnologies.com\/en-us\/index.htm\" target=\"_blank\">Dell EMC<\/a>, which basically means he gets to travel the Globe, helping companies brainstorm on how to use Dell\u2019s latest technology inside their own products.<\/p>\n<p>But what you don\u2019t know about Chris, is that as a kid, he wasn\u2019t remotely interested in IT.<\/p>\n<p>In fact, as you\u2019ll hear, he actually had a pretty tumultuous childhood\u2026<\/p>\n<p>But if there is one thing that\u2019s been consistent about Chris throughout his life, it\u2019s that he\u2019s a risk taker, since day one. Which always makes for a good story.<\/p>\n<p>Here\u2019s Chris.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As you know, choosing a career in IT doesn\u2019t mean your job has to stay inside the IT department. Chris Romano is one such example. If you\u2019ve been to a VMworld, EMCWorld, CiscoLive, or NetApp Insight conference, you may have<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aerocominc.com\/info\/itsmiths-chris-romano-global-chief-technologist-at-dell-emc\/\"><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\">Read more &#8250;<\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":10160,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[964],"tags":[965,423],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aerocominc.com\/info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10159"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aerocominc.com\/info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aerocominc.com\/info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aerocominc.com\/info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aerocominc.com\/info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10159"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.aerocominc.com\/info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10159\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aerocominc.com\/info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10160"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aerocominc.com\/info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10159"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aerocominc.com\/info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10159"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aerocominc.com\/info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10159"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}