ITOS

In 2007, I needed to innovate my personal brand after receiving a promotion to IT Manager. I developed the “Hurry-Up, No-Huddle IT Offense” to inspire myself and my team to pro-actively implement Information Technology at the speed of a fast paced business. I always stayed on the cutting edge—or more aptly for me, the bleeding edge—of technology and was not afraid to implement new technology or take on any technology challenge. Over the next years, I developed the “Hurry-Up, No-Huddle IT Offense” as my personal brand of leadership to differentiate myself from the competition to obtain an IT Director or higher position.

In 2010, I became one step closer to becoming an IT Director by being promoted as Regional IT Manager. Like the Rolling Stone lyrics, “We don’t always get what we want,” I wasn’t offered an IT Director position, but later on, I started a Managed IT Service Provider: Xccelero. The name Xccelero means Execute Fast. The XC is short for Execute and Celero in Latin means fast. When I started Xccelero, I executed fast to bypass the director level position and reach the C-Suite as the executive of the business! In addition to starting a company, I modified the “Hurry-Up, No-Huddle IT Offense” to become the ITOS.