UPG ENTERPRISES
Joe Madda is the CIO at UPG Enterprises , which works across steel services and logistics . Here , he discusses security , digital transformation , and automation
UPG Enterprises provides shared services across a series of companies that it owns , primarily in the steel service centre and logistics industries . The company also provides technology enablement - from IT to - from IT and HR to finance and marketing - while looking for areas where it can introduce new , more mature processes to help the businesses it owns run more successfully .
Joe Madda is the CIO at UPG Enterprises and has been with the company for two years . In his role , he oversees the IT teams , which are made up of a help desk and infrastructure team , a digital marketing team , an enterprise services team , and a data services team .
“ I ' ve always been interested in technology ,” Madda says . “ Even as a kid , I always had computers and tinkered with them to figure out how they worked . That got me into programming .”
How automation can build more efficient teams UPG Enterprises ’ cloud migration has been an interesting journey , according to Madda .
“ We ' ve grown the business and , as we acquire new companies , some of them have varying degrees of maturity in their own processes and their own technology ,” explains Madda .
Due to this , UPG Enterprises has inherited several different varieties of tech maturity , as well as areas for improvement .
“ When I joined UPG two years ago , we had to get a real lay of the land . IT teams were scattered and not connected . I had a help desk team that was helping
118 February 2023