{"id":10355,"date":"2020-09-16T07:50:42","date_gmt":"2020-09-16T14:50:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.aerocominc.com\/info\/?p=10355"},"modified":"2020-09-16T07:50:42","modified_gmt":"2020-09-16T14:50:42","slug":"itsmiths-dennis-keane-cio-and-vp-at-red-wing-shoes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.aerocominc.com\/info\/itsmiths-dennis-keane-cio-and-vp-at-red-wing-shoes\/","title":{"rendered":"ITsmiths: Dennis Keane, CIO and VP at Red Wing Shoes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe style=\"border: none;\" src=\"\/\/html5-player.libsyn.com\/embed\/episode\/id\/15984461\/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\/09\/ITsmiths-Dennis-Keane1.jpg\" rel='magnific'><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-10357 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.aerocominc.com\/info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/ITsmiths-Dennis-Keane1.jpg\" alt=\"ITsmiths Dennis Keane\" width=\"479\" height=\"401\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.aerocominc.com\/info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/ITsmiths-Dennis-Keane1.jpg 940w, https:\/\/www.aerocominc.com\/info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/ITsmiths-Dennis-Keane1-300x251.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.aerocominc.com\/info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/ITsmiths-Dennis-Keane1-239x200.jpg 239w, https:\/\/www.aerocominc.com\/info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/ITsmiths-Dennis-Keane1-477x400.jpg 477w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 479px) 100vw, 479px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a style=\"color: #ff6600;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/denniskeanesoftware\/\">Dennis Keane<\/a> is the Chief Information Officer at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.redwingshoes.com\/\">Red Wing Shoes<\/a>. A company with (not only great shoes), but over 1,000 employees and more than 600 retail stores.<\/p>\n<p>Since he was a young boy, living in Ireland, Dennis had a natural curiosity about things, and a thirst for acquiring the knowledge that could satisfy this curiosity.<\/p>\n<p>He also has a great way with people.<\/p>\n<p>Add those two things together, and you have the foundation for what lead Dennis into initially becoming a software engineer. Then, it\u2019s also what pushed him to lobby to his boss, early in his career, that they needed to make the bold shift from a Waterfall, to an Agile software development approach.<\/p>\n<p>And it\u2019s also what later, helped him climb the ladder to becoming a Vice President and CIO for Red Wing Shoes&#8230; which is when Dennis and I sat down, to hear the story.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dennis Keane is the Chief Information Officer at Red Wing Shoes. A company with (not only great shoes), but over 1,000 employees and more than 600 retail stores. Since he was a young boy, living in Ireland, Dennis had a<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aerocominc.com\/info\/itsmiths-dennis-keane-cio-and-vp-at-red-wing-shoes\/\"><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\">Read more &#8250;<\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":10357,"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\/10355"}],"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\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aerocominc.com\/info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10355"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.aerocominc.com\/info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10355\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aerocominc.com\/info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10357"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aerocominc.com\/info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10355"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aerocominc.com\/info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10355"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aerocominc.com\/info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10355"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}