S2E5 Justin Esgar: Founder and CEO of Virtua Consulting Group

When it comes to IT, few things require better security than a bank holding our precious savings. BJ Beier started at the Guardian Savings Bank in an entry-level non-IT Position and worked his way to the top, obviously, he knows what he's doing.  Join us to learn about running IT operations for a small-town regional bank, and what it takes to get there. Enjoy!    Subscribe to our Youtube channel at youtube.com/tabgeeks to be notified when we publish new shows! Continue the conversation by joining our exclusive community for IT Professionals at tabgeeks.com/slack. No advertising or assholery allowed. Check out our amazing shows and sign up for our weekly newsletter with updates, insights, news, and jobs at https://www.tabgeeks.com! Subscribe to our other amazing tabGeeks podcast discussing and analyzing Google Workspace updates at workspacerecap.com and stay tuned for other amazing tech content from the tabGeeks Network coming soon!

Can you imagine running IT for a major Hollywood awards show? What about the leading video games event of the year? John has done both of these and way more, and is just getting started.  Join us to hear his story of learning event IT, how to approach venues as a vendor, and what happens when the lights go out.    Subscribe to our Youtube channel at youtube.com/tabgeeks to be notified when we publish new shows! Continue the conversation by joining our exclusive community for IT Professionals at tabgeeks.com/slack. No advertising or assholery allowed. Check out our amazing shows and sign up for our weekly newsletter with updates, insights, news, and jobs at https://www.tabgeeks.com! Subscribe to our other amazing tabGeeks podcast discussing and analyzing Google Workspace updates at workspacerecap.com and stay tuned for other amazing tech content from the tabGeeks Network coming soon!

Supporting IT Support is now Heroes of IT! Same great show with more guests and a new name and an amazing new logo. With our new brand, we are expanding to include more than just IT support, but other areas within IT as well, and expanding into a video show. IT is an enormous field, and we are bringing you interviews with amazing business technology leaders from across the spectrum. Enjoy! Freda has worked at a bunch of amazing companies in Silicon Valley such as Facebook, and Bolt. She has an interesting career starting out in Marketing of all things despite being very into computers from an early age. Surprise surprise, she discovered she didn’t like being in marketing. Like many of our guests, she switched over to IT and the rest is history. Join us to hear her story, this show was a ton of fun, and is full of great insights! Subscribe to our Youtube channel at youtube.com/tabgeeks to be notified when we publish new shows! Continue the conversation by joining our exclusive community for IT Professionals at tabgeeks.com/slack. No advertising or assholery allowed. Check out our amazing shows and sign up for our weekly newsletter with updates, insights, news, and jobs at https://www.tabgeeks.com! Subscribe to our other amazing tabGeeks podcast discussing and analyzing Google Workspace updates at workspacerecap.com and stay tuned for other amazing tech content from the tabGeeks Network coming soon! 

Dr. Eric Cole has a life story that sounds like it should be a movie. He starts out cutting his teeth on cybersecurity for the CIA, when he, get this, decides Cyber Offense is boring since there is always a way to break in. He goes on to become Sr VP and CTO of McAfee, Chief Scientist at Lockheed Martin and even consults on Cyber Security for Bill and Melinda Gates and family as well as many fortune 500 companies. Join us as we discuss his amazing career, when is the right time to make a move professionally, cyber hygiene, his experience in the CIA, and of course what it's like working with Bill and Melinda Gates. He has a new book out called Cyber Crisis, which is all about protecting your business from Real Threats in the Virtual World. I greatly enjoyed reading it, as well as hosting him on this episode of Supporting IT Support. Continue the conversation and join our online experts community of IT professionals at www.tabgeeks.com You can also find me on Twitter @MrJNowlin Subscribe to our other amazing tabGeeks podcast discussing and analyzing Google Workspace updates at workspacerecap.com and stay tuned for other amazing tech content from the tabGeeks Network coming soon! Learn more at tabgeeks.com Thank you to our sponsor for this episode Paladin Tech Solutions. Thank you for helping us keep these shows free and available to all!

Wow, can you believe this year is almost over?? With Thanksgiving now behind us, we are in the home stretch, and over here at tabGeeks things are heating up! In case you missed the announcement post, I have stepped back from my day job to focus more on building tabGeeks! We have already launched our newsletter which you can subscribe to at tabgeeks.com/newsletter, as well as new blog posts, adding video to our shows, and finally getting back to bringing you more amazing content!  Starting off is an amazing episode with the EVP of Growth at technology solutions company BairesDev, and our topic is: What Comes Next? E.B. and I discuss the challenges faced by businesses today heading back into the office, as well as the many ways companies are changing to adapt to the new normal. As Executive Vice President of Growth, E.B. is responsible for the strategic growth and maturation of BairesDev’s global presence. E.B. brings over a decade of leadership in a variety of revenue generation capacities for high-growth organizations in the technology space. He has a soft spot for manufacturing and IT engineering, the public sector, and emerging technology markets. If you have more questions for EB, you can find him on LinkedIn by clicking here Continue the conversation and join our online experts community of IT professionals at www.tabgeeks.com You can also find me on Twitter @MrJNowlin Subscribe to our other amazing tabGeeks podcast discussing and analyzing Google Workspace updates at workspacerecap.com and stay tuned for other amazing tech content from the tabGeeks Network coming soon! Learn more at tabgeeks.com Thank you to our sponsor for this episode Paladin Tech Solutions. Thank you for helping us keep these shows free and available to all!

tabGeeks is back! Been a few months with our heads down working on building the tabGeeks Network and it is finally coming together in an epic way. We partnered with some of the top names in tech to bring you amazing content to help keep you informed on today's technology. More info at tabgeeks.com! Dana Chamorro is a powerhouse in IT, well known in several tech communities, and has had some amazing experiences in her journey through IT. And she's just getting started. From starting out at CompUSA, moving over to Apple, and becoming tech #4 at Slack, and managing the growth as they went going public, Dana has learned some incredible lessons along the way. Today she manages both IT and Workplace at Benchling and continues to be an amazing resource in the community.  Continue the conversation and join our online experts community of IT professionals at www.tabgeeks.com You can also find me on Twitter @MrJNowlin and Dana @danajc Subscribe to our other amazing tabGeeks podcast discussing and analyzing Google Workspace updates at workspacerecap.com and stay tuned for other amazing tech content from the tabGeeks Network coming soon! Learn more at tabgeeks.com

In this episode, we talk to Justin Esgar about his story into IT as usual and how he met his wife working in IT, as well as what it's like running an MSP, and what to focus on for the future. This is a long episode but a ton of fun with lots of laughs.  Justin is a businessman IT guy, using his skills to set up one of the top Apple consultancies in NYC, and then spread out into several areas of IT services thanks to his thirst for knowing how things work and a love for awesome customer service.   Continue the conversation and join our online community of IT professionals at www.tabgeeks.com/slack You can also find me on Twitter @MrJNowlin and Justin @justinesgar Subscribe to our other amazing tabGeeks podcast discussing and analyzing Google Workspace updates at workspacerecap.com

Happy New Year from all of us at tabGeeks! There is a ton in store for us this year, starting with a new podcast at workspacerecap.com so go and check it out!  Our guest this week, Steve, is a wealth of knowledge on Google Workspace, runs the GSuite SubReddit, and is active in a number of different communities, always sharing his knowledge in SaaS management and Google Workspace specifically. He has quite a story and is just getting started!  Join us as we explore some of the behind the scenes of Google Workspace back when it was Google Apps, and our chance meeting in person years ago at Google, and learn how Steve got into tech with a Tandy 1000 EX with an Intel 8088 processor and endless computer manuals and built his career from there.  If you would like access to the folder of Google Workspace resources Steve has put together, Documents can be found in the Workspace Admins [Public] (https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/0ANkIXd3coZwTUk9PVA) shared drive which can be accessed by joining the Google Group (https://groups.google.com/a/workspaceadmins.org/g/workspace-admins-community-comment) which gives you comment access to all the files there. Continue the conversation and join our online community of IT professionals at www.tabgeeks.com/slack You can also find me on Twitter @MrJNowlin and Steve @larsen161

In this episode we head out to sea, following our previous episode which was up in the air, and move from Planes to Ships because IT is everywhere.  Join us as we learn what it takes to run cables and setup wifi on what was not so long ago, the most armored ship on the planet with every room essentially an isolated Faraday cage. Permanently berthed at the Port of Las Angeles in San Pedro CA,  the USS Iowa serves as a museum that has hosted over 100,000 people to date, after an illustrious career as our Navy's flagship. From disguising cables to look authentic to installing magnetic phones for easy removal when Hollywood comes calling, Troy fascinates with his stories of overcoming these challenges and more.  Continue the conversation and join our online community of IT professionals with no sponsors and no assholery allowed at www.tabgeeks.com/slack You can also find me on Twitter @MrJNowlin Enjoy!

Continuing our new format of interviewing interesting people in the IT industry, our guest in this episode is the Sr Desktop Tech for Clay Lacy Aviation, one of the largest private jet charter companies in the world with over 250 million miles flown. We explore David’s journey into IT, and as usual, it is unusual. David has a great ability to blend his business knowledge with his IT skills, and run a lean IT Dept.  Join us to learn what it means to be a Sr Desktop Technician for an aviation company, delve into our love for wings, the flying kind, and the eating kind. :-) Like many of our guests, David got his start in IT through a non-traditional route. Join us to learn about his story and how he manages IT with a small team for a large jet charter company.  Continue the conversation and join our online community of IT professionals at www.tabgeeks.com/slack  You can also find me on Twitter @MrJNowlin