Lead How Technology Gets Leveraged w/Bart Waress
You've Been Heard Podcast, Monday, April 27th, 2026
IT leader Bart Waress discusses business-first technology strategy and using data to drive operational improvements.
In this episode of the You've Been Heard podcast, Bart Waress shares his extensive IT leadership experience across industries including healthcare, telecom, finance, banking, and oil and gas.
He emphasizes the importance of learning business language to identify real friction points and solving problems from the business perspective rather than leading with technology.
His signature example describes how his team used tank floats, field networks, and SCADA readings to reduce an oil and gas operation from 40 to 25 trucks, saving $2.5M while improving worker quality of life. Waress applies this business-centric thinking to security and AI, arguing that risk must be translated into business terms and that automation should remove friction without hiding measurement data.