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Underserved

Ep 049, Ace of Bass

Underserved

Andrew Gelina

Society & Culture, Technology

5.01K Ratings

🗓️ 5 July 2021

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

Our guest Sean Mack spent many sunny surf days at UCSC in the basement computer lab, but it paid off. Sean was at the dawn of the streaming age, helping bring online everything from submarine trips to game shows. Later in his career, he moved to education technology as the mission was more in line with his interests. We talk about enterprise DevOps, balancing security and capability delivery, and playing the upright bass for rent.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hello and welcome to this week's edition of Under-Serve, the podcast for the rest of

0:11.6

the tech industry.

0:12.6

I'm your host Andrew Gelina.

0:14.9

Joining me this week is Sean Mack, CIO and CISO at Wiley, Sean, welcome to the show.

0:21.6

Thank you Andrew, great to be here today.

0:24.2

We appreciate you joining us, why don't we start with ancient history?

0:27.9

What got you interested in technology way back when?

0:31.2

You know, it has been a while Andrew, I feel like I've been interested in technology

0:36.9

pretty much most of my life.

0:39.0

Actually, I remember I started learning about computers when I was just a kid.

0:45.0

I remember learning how to program dungeons and dragons games back on old 386, I 386.

0:54.7

So yeah, just a little while there.

0:56.7

And it's always just been something I've loved and it's been a wonderful experience

1:01.4

to have that go through my entire life and make it into a career.

1:05.2

I wish I had it here.

1:06.2

I have this old box of five and a quarter inch floppy's with my name in all caps, crawled

1:13.8

across and silver, been a beautiful kind of relic of the past, but a great, great testament

1:19.6

to how long I've been passionate about technology.

1:23.1

I've got some zip drives and other digital hoarding going on myself.

1:28.6

I keep trying to purge, but this one box of five and a quarter floppy's is one that's

1:33.4

going to stick with me too close to your heart.

1:37.9

So when did you start working in technology?

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