Welcome, everyone, to episode 61 of Under Served.

Today, we are featuring Lance Sleeper,

Senior Director of SOC Operations at F5.

Let's get started.

Welcome to this week's edition of Under Served,

the podcast for the rest of the tech industry,

where we focus on stories of tech industry leaders,

their insights, and their lessons learned.

And now your host, Andrew Jalina.

Lance, thank you very much for joining us today on Under Served.

I appreciate being here.

I'd say it's an honor and I look forward to the conversation.

Absolutely.

So let's kick it off with one question I often ask folks.

What first got you interested or excited about technology?

I grew up in the era before the internet and before social media.

So for me, it really was kind of something that started very early.

So I grew up in a very small town in West Texas.

I like to look at how things work.

I like to tinker with things I still do.

And my first computer was a Xerox.

And it was a Xerox that I held my dad actually put together.

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