Who is Carmine Granucci?
An IT operations leader, an Arlington, Massachusetts town meeting member, and a dad.
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the work
I lead IT operations for a behavioral health and human services nonprofit, which mostly means I care about the unglamorous work that makes good service possible: clear expectations, calm systems, and teams that trust each other enough to try things.
I came up through the early web and never really left it. Over the years I have led technology and operations through acquisitions, migrations, and a lot of quiet rebuilding, and the hardest part is almost never the technology. It is the trust.
how I lead
01Shared understanding
I get everyone clear on what we are trying to do and why. I write things down so nobody has to guess, because people do their best work when expectations are explicit and humane.
02Shared identity
I build teams people actually want to belong to, not just report into, and then I protect that. A shared sense of who we are is what holds when the work gets hard.
03Room to try
I would rather someone bring me a bold attempt that missed than a safe idea they sat on. You cannot ask people to reach and then punish them for it, so I celebrate the attempt and fix the system instead of the person.
Broken gets fixed. Shoddy lasts forever.
a working philosophy
around town
I have lived in Arlington, Massachusetts for twelve years. I have served as a Town Meeting Member for Precinct 21 for the past six, and in 2026 I was appointed to the town's Community Preservation Act Committee for a three-year term. Local government is slow and unglamorous, and I love it. It is one of the few places left where showing up consistently actually changes the outcome.
The thing I care most about is letting the people who make this town run afford to live in it. That is two problems: accessibility, meaning enough supply and sane zoning that working people can live near where they work, and affordability, meaning real support for the people who need it.
- › Authored the home rule petition ending the tax exemption on private country club land. It passed Town Meeting 198 to 18.
- › Worked to pass the 2026 operating override, which carried with 72 percent support.
- › Part of the coalition moving Arlington toward more housing near transit and in our business districts.
belonging
I put real energy into making workplaces more inclusive, and I have learned to be careful with the language. I do not call myself an ally. That word belongs to the people you show up for, and it is theirs to give, not mine to take. So I try to just do the work: listen first, spend whatever influence I have on people who have less of it, and leave a room more open than I found it.
off the clock
I am a father to a teenager, which is easily the most humbling leadership role I hold. The rest of the time I am a Red Sox fan, a serious coffee drinker, and the kind of person who names every device in the house after a Transformer. On weekends you might find me pouring pints at Arlington Brewing Company, helping some friends spread a little joy around town. The beer is award-winning, but beer is just the medium. The point is getting people in the same room, which is the same job I have everywhere else, only with better beer.
I do not take myself too seriously. I take the work seriously.
Do it with style, or don't bother doing it.
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