Fail Faster

Varghese (Alex) Alexander is a Senior Director of Engineering at UnitedHealth Group. Alex shares his story rising the ranks of engineering leadership and some of the most impactful moves that UnitedHealth Group has made over the years that has resulted in more aligned and happy teams and better business outcomes. He walks through the decisions that leadership made and in some cases leaps of faith that ultimately lead to significantly improved results.

Janine Nock is the Director of User Experience at Freedom Mortgage. Janine has a long career as a UX Design leader working inside large organizations and leading consulting firms. She shares her story from photographer turned UX design pro and many of the lessons she learned along the way. Janine discusses how she looks to build design teams and how she is sharing the gospel of design at Freedom Mortgage as they begin their work to build more digital solutions for their clients.

Anita Jindal is a Senior Director of Engineering at VMware, an American cloud computing and virtualization technology company headquartered in California. Anita shares her journey of how her strong foundations in Physics from her childhood led her into this role where she leads her team as a fearless leader introducing innovations and playing a key role in transforming entire organizations. Her massage to her fellow women professionals is to never give up and always be fearless of what's next.

Ramesh Tirumala, the Director of Engineering and Digital Strategy at Welbuilt joins me as my first guest from the Food and Beverages industry. Welbuilt is a team of pioneers and innovators with the industry knowledge stretching back nearly a century since 1929. Ramesh brings stories of becoming a creative solutionist, spanning from his mischievous childhood to engineering award winning solutions with his imaginative and pragmatic mindset. He is thrilled to push the boundaries in creative ways to create smart kitchen products that engage with their users in practical ways like never before.

Priyanka Agrawal, Country Head Isobar Consulting, a global digital agency, creating exceptional brand experiences. She also Co-founded Frantal Ink, an award winning design agency in Mumbai. Priyanka's career has been one bold step after another, sometimes stumbling, then walking and falling, sometimes running and even flying. She leads a large team of designers in creating experience-led transformations for customers across the globe. This passion packed episode touches upon work cultures, people before pixels, women empowerment and messages for the youth entering the design world today.

Ron Herardian is a cybersecurity leader with 25 years of leadership for IaaS, PaaS, SaaS, DevOps, SRE and DevSecOps. Co-founder of a cybersecurity startup. Former head of operations and Chief Security Officer of Cloud Native FinTech SaaS company. In this episode he paints a picture of the evolution of technology from the times of PDA devices, pagers, audio cassettes and sony walkmans to virtualization, wireless devices, becoming cloud native and looking at a future where Zero Trust will be the norm.

Shri Director, Digital Experience at Main Line Health (MLH) is a not-for-profit health system serving acute care hospital facilities, homecare and hospice. Shri is passionate about how she can make people's life better by creating better user experiences which she feels should never be opinion driven but data driven. She brings some amazing stories in this episode from her career path as it traversed through various industries.

From learning about how data drives the produce delivery to driving a traditional healthcare to their digital future. Shri is excited about her work as she looks forward to bringing more and more data insights to inform designing meaningful user experiences.

Mike Colarossi is the Vice President of Product Line Management, Innovation and Sustainability at Avery Dennison, a global material sciences company. Mike shares stories from being on the ground in China and the hyper-growth he witnessed there and how that shapes how he thinks about risk-taking, moving fast and making mistakes. We explore enterprise innovation and how to prioritize projects across multiple horizons. It is a fascinating discussion about placing bets, making mistakes and innovating in a rapidly changing world.

Lorena Molina-Irizarry is the Director of Operations at the United States Census Open Innovation Labs. Here she's leading a small but mighty team to reimage how to transform the 14-year cycle of the US Census to empower data scientists and help business leaders access and utilize the treasure trove of big data that the Census bureau tracks.

My guest Ronnie Thomas is the Senior Director of Software Engineering at Werner Enterpries which is among the five largest truckload carriers in the United States who believes in keeping America Moving.

This conversation brings a lot to the surface as we collaborate, contribute and create for the greater good of not only our immediate surroundings but as a member of the communities we live and thrive in. From supercharging digital transformation at Werner to quadruple speeds from a robust infrastructure to enabling cloud solutions to implementing saas platforms and migrating from legacy systems in the near future to making dreams come true for kids that are fighting cancer. Ronnie has a strong purpose and is open to joining hands with like minded people to create a better world.