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Underserved

Ep. 063, Mentor Me to IT

Underserved

Andrew Gelina

Society & Culture, Technology

5.01K Ratings

🗓️ 4 April 2022

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

Season 6 of Underserved kicks off with Daniel Goldenberg. While many kids in high school were biding their time, Daniel was finishing a CCNA curriculum and working for a local MSP. User empathy and customer focus he learned there served him well later in his career as a Director of IT and Security. We also talk about the best brisket in Texas and the sports scene at Syracuse.
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0:00.0

Welcome everyone to season six of Under Served, episode 63.

0:05.4

Today with me in studio is Daniel Goldenberg,

0:08.6

Director of Information Security at Plymouth Rock Assurance, let's get started.

0:13.8

Welcome to this week's edition of Under Served, the podcast for the rest of the tech industry,

0:21.2

where we focus on stories of tech industry leaders, their insights, and their lessons learned.

0:27.2

And now your host Andrew Gelina.

0:35.0

Thank you Daniel for coming down and joining us to kick off season six of Under Served.

0:39.8

It's great to join you here today.

0:41.4

So way back in the day, you know, in the golden age of computing the 286, what draws you to the

0:47.2

keyboard? Um, and 286 was my first machine. So many memories with that from MSDOS,

0:54.5

working my way up to my first 386 running Windows 3.1 to my 486.

1:01.8

This was the beginning age of everything computing that we knew today. And now we're holding

1:07.0

computers in our pockets that are a thousand fold more powerful than we were working with back then.

1:12.0

I get the hands on the keyboard very early and kind of start playing around.

1:15.9

You know, I certainly took apart that 286 a number of times understanding the different

1:20.2

components and that really sparked my interest in technology.

1:24.0

Are you like building these from scratch with motherboards and RAM and processor in the whole

1:29.0

nine? Oh, yeah. As I got into high school, that was certainly where I was spending all of my

1:34.1

money was on computer peripherals, upgrades, new machines. I was doing custom builds for friends

1:40.5

and family. I went deep down the hardware hole. Did you have favorite devices throughout the

1:45.5

years like that special phone or tablet or anything that was a favorite? I feel like I'm going

1:50.9

to age myself a little bit, but LG had a candy bar phone called the VX 9800. This is like the first

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