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

I'm your host Andrew Jelina.

With me this week is Damien Scott,

managing director of New York for Rightpoint.

Damien, welcome to the show.

Thank you very much for having me, Andrew.

So I understand like many folks we've talked to way back in the day there was a computer in the house, in your case an

Atari that was kind of a bridge to the computing world?

Yeah, it wasn't a tardy 800, very high power,

probably had about eight bites of memory.

Having one of the things we learned early on

as technologists, how do you do more with less and it's one of

the luxuries that we have today how can we do more with more is a great thing at the

time we're now right we have all the memory you need and all the

storage you need and how do we take advantage of it?

Yeah now it's people in productivity

that we're all trying to figure out

how to get everything into the box.

So you originally, I think, wanted to be a journalist?

Yeah, I think early on for me, I loved writing. I was part of the school newspaper. I enjoyed that and as we got more in a computer, the funny thing about it is I started with the coding side of it and creating games, creating whatever we could, right? And one of the fun parts was really creating audio as

the computers got a little more powerful and I started to really enjoy the hardware

side of it so I decided you know let me switch and look at engineering and chip design

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