Hello and welcome to this week's edition of Underserve, the podcast for the rest of the

tech industry.

I'm your host Andrew Jilina. With me this morning in

studio is Jim Martin, CIO of Sheppley Bullfinch. Jim, welcome to the show.

Well thank you very much. It's great to be here. Glad to have you here. It's very strange to see people in person these days.

It is a rare, rare benefit.

So a thing I often ask folks right off the bat is tell us what got you excited about

technology way back when when maybe when you were a kid. Yeah so I was pretty

fortunate my dad owned a franchise of Culligan's soft water conditioning.

You know, he basically sold equipment that made hard water soft.

And I don't know how he got it into his head

because he actually had an economics major, I believe in college,

although that was before my time. He decided

he was going to buy an IBM PCXT and Foxpro for Doss and he wrote his own ERP basically,

managed the entire business from that thing and so every time he would upgrade a computer there would be the old computer at the house because my mother's job was actually to do quality control and she is really good at finding bugs and

software as it turns out so that was a huge boon and a huge frustration for my

father. But we always had computers kind of rolling around the house and I'm

actually dyslexic and when I was in

school I was trying to find things that I could do that would make life easier for me and

spell check was one of those magical things that once you find it if you really need it, you cannot live without it anymore.

So I remember one of the first papers that I handed in probably in sixth or seventh grade.

I didn't know what Capslock was.

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