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Joe Way

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
221 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

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Ask The Programmer Episode 258 - Guest Joe Way Shares Lessons from a Ground-Breaking AV Solution

really showed that.

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Ask The Programmer Episode 258 - Guest Joe Way Shares Lessons from a Ground-Breaking AV Solution

I always knew it, but it really showed it.

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Ask The Programmer Episode 258 - Guest Joe Way Shares Lessons from a Ground-Breaking AV Solution

And it's great to have an institution where I work at that really is supportive of that.

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Ask The Programmer Episode 258 - Guest Joe Way Shares Lessons from a Ground-Breaking AV Solution

We work so close with our teaching and learning center, so close to our facilities management, our CISOs office, our data lake house, all of these other groups are like, we love this.

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Ask The Programmer Episode 258 - Guest Joe Way Shares Lessons from a Ground-Breaking AV Solution

How can we do this together?

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Ask The Programmer Episode 258 - Guest Joe Way Shares Lessons from a Ground-Breaking AV Solution

And I think, you know, going back to the previous episode, because there was so much technical debt and everyone is trying to move forward,

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Ask The Programmer Episode 258 - Guest Joe Way Shares Lessons from a Ground-Breaking AV Solution

Also, it came at a time where it was like everyone knew something had to happen.

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Ask The Programmer Episode 258 - Guest Joe Way Shares Lessons from a Ground-Breaking AV Solution

And if we can all do this together, we can all save money and we can all come up with a better product and we can all bring better services to our campus community, then let's do it.

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Ask The Programmer Episode 258 - Guest Joe Way Shares Lessons from a Ground-Breaking AV Solution

So understanding that sometimes you got to go all the way to the point where you have to blow it all up in order to blow it all up and do these things.

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Ask The Programmer Episode 258 - Guest Joe Way Shares Lessons from a Ground-Breaking AV Solution

But that's kind of where it ended up working for us.

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Ask The Programmer Episode 258 - Guest Joe Way Shares Lessons from a Ground-Breaking AV Solution

Yeah, yeah.

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Ask The Programmer Episode 258 - Guest Joe Way Shares Lessons from a Ground-Breaking AV Solution

No, no, no.

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Ask The Programmer Episode 258 - Guest Joe Way Shares Lessons from a Ground-Breaking AV Solution

Great, great, great point.

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Ask The Programmer Episode 258 - Guest Joe Way Shares Lessons from a Ground-Breaking AV Solution

You know, again, I was very blessed and I came to UCLA as part of our, you know, re-imagine IT thing where it was, you know, we did a full reorganization of the organization.

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Ask The Programmer Episode 258 - Guest Joe Way Shares Lessons from a Ground-Breaking AV Solution

The point where, again, we knew that something had to get done.

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Ask The Programmer Episode 258 - Guest Joe Way Shares Lessons from a Ground-Breaking AV Solution

Um, so with that, I already knew kind of where I wanted to go.

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Ask The Programmer Episode 258 - Guest Joe Way Shares Lessons from a Ground-Breaking AV Solution

I knew with my peers, I have an incredible peer group.

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Ask The Programmer Episode 258 - Guest Joe Way Shares Lessons from a Ground-Breaking AV Solution

Um, it is also the advantage, you know, another lesson learned.

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Ask The Programmer Episode 258 - Guest Joe Way Shares Lessons from a Ground-Breaking AV Solution

Every institution needs an AV person at the highest level of the university.

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Ask The Programmer Episode 258 - Guest Joe Way Shares Lessons from a Ground-Breaking AV Solution

I sit on the entire working group that has our, you know, vice provost on it.