• TPM Podcast With David Glick – Part I

  • May 1 2022
  • Length: 26 mins
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  • Mario Gerard: Hello, and welcome to the TPM podcast with your host Mario Gerard. Today, we have a very interesting guest with us, David Glick. A lot of you might know him. He's been a mentor. He does a lot of linkedin posts and he's a cool person to follow, so do follow him.  He's worked at Amazon For 19 years and was a VP of Amazon fulfillment technologies. And then Amazon tickets. He left Amazon to go join as a CTO of flex. He has incredible, incredible experience in building high performing teams and building high performing organizations, some very excited to have today with us and share his thoughts.  Quick Links TPM Podcast With David Glick - Part II TPM Podcast With David Glick - Part III David, thank you for being here with us today. And why don't you introduce yourself to our audience? David Glick: Yeah. Hi, this is Dave click. Thanks for having me on Mario. You did a great job of introducing me, but I can say that most all of my career was at Amazon for almost 20 years. I've been at flex as CTO for the last three years. And so it's been a fun ride at both of those places and I'm sure we'll get into some of the things I did both at Amazon and flex. So I won't take too much time with that here. What flex is doing Mario Gerard: Do you wanna like quickly go over like what flex is doing and maybe do a pitch because I know you guys are hiring like crazy too. David Glick: So yeah. Flex is a marketplace which matches enterprise shippers. That's big retailers and brands with logistics capabilities or fulfillment capabilities. And we work with six of the top 10 retailers in the us and we are building our own WMS, building our own transportation network and so on.  And so we're always looking for TPMS engineers, product managers, basically everything. Mario Gerard: Everything, whole nine yards. Now that's amazing. Did you say four of the top 10 retailers? David Glick: Six of the top 10. Mario Gerard: Six of the top 10 retailers, you work with six of the top 10 retailers in managing their logistic process? David Glick: Yeah. Mario Gerard: That's something David Glick: My goal for 2022 has been to, i've been assigned to get the other four. Mario Gerard: That's incredible that being operational only for like a couple of years and you're able to do that, that says something about the product. So thank you so much for being here, David, to our listeners. What we are gonna do today is we're gonna split the podcast, kinda two sections. The first section, we're gonna talk about David and ask him what he thinks are the fundamentals of the TPM roles. We'll go about the, we'll asking questions about the role, the skillset, how to be a great TPM and those kinda things.  And then the second part, we're gonna ask him and we're gonna like work around the topic of how high level leaders like David, who VP of like a hundred or thousand people or several thousands of people. How do they get the right people working on the right set of problems? And that's what we're gonna focus on on the second part. So let's get started with kinda the first part here. So David, why don't you kinda give us your take on what would you describe as a TPM role and, and the function of the TPM role? David Glick: Yeah. Thank you. The number one thing that the TPM does is deliver. Like if you summed up the role in one word, it'll be delivery. And so their job is to get projects or programs over the line on schedule and under budget or at budget.  And so what does that mean? Have to be very detail oriented drive and your number one tool is the Gant chart, right? When are people going to get things done? What do they depend on, how much time is it going to take? And so you could stop there and say, that's the job of the TPM, but what I found, and I don't have a CS degree and Amazon talks about big T technical being someone who can write code and little T technical, being someone like me, who has led in technical places,
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