All right, welcome everyone back to dissecting popular IT nerds.

Today, Jeff Reed, vice president of information technology at the Buccini Poland group.

Welcome to the show.

Let's just, let's go back the old school way and we'll start off with.

You give me a little background and how you got into this

perfectly always organized working in efficiency technology job. Yeah, we'll pretend that's true.

Well, how far do we want to go back? You want me to go back to the beginning? I mean, I like as old as

Pong. Sometimes that's older for other people. Sometimes it's punch cards. So, I mean, I like going back that far.

So because there's, you know, as there's a turn of the guard, I guess, with people older than younger than millennials.

Like myself, you know, there's people that have actually grown up with internet which i'm assuming you grew up with no internet

that's for sure i'm back in bulletin board days i go way back so i'm 49 now just turned 49 and i got my first

IT position when i was 17 my My uncle worked in at a company called DuPont here in Delaware.

It's one of the biggest employers in Delaware. He kind of got me in as a weekend, what they

called a computer operator, but all it was was a glorified, like, librarian.

Yeah, because what was it?

What was it?

I mean, was it running on, you know, spinning tapes, like what we had in, you know, the early

007 movies?

Have you ever watched?

Isn't it funny how you watch those movies and you look at what was, like, high-tech

back then?

It's always, like, a big room with like spinning wheels of tapes and stuff like that.

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