Ep. 066, Across The Pond IT

Underserved

Andrew Gelina

Society & Culture, Technology

5.0 • 1K Ratings

🗓️ 25 April 2022

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

Episode #066’s guest is Matthew Wood, Deputy CTO, Commonwealth of Massachusetts Department of Transportation. Before ruling the IT end of Massachusetts roadways, Matthew grew up with technology in the United Kingdom. Some things were the same (the quest to build and play games), others very different (PC makers like the Alan Michael Sugar Trading company, aka Amstrad). We discuss differences managing when your workforce is unionized and in the public sector, and searching for the balance between being a team player and calling out bad ideas.

Broomstones (curling location) - http://www.broomstones.com/ - you can rent them out for fun corporate events

Coventry (where Matt grew up) - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coventry

Sinclair ZX81 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ZX81

Amstrad 6128 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amstrad_CPC

Acorn Electron - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acorn_Electron

Transcript

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0:00.0	Welcome everyone to episode 66 of Underserved.
0:04.0	Today in studio I have with me, Matt Wood,
0:07.0	Deputy CTO for the Massachusetts Department of Transportation.
0:11.0	Let's get started.
0:13.0	Welcome to this week's edition of Underserved,
0:17.0	the podcast for the rest of the tech industry.
0:20.0	Where we focus on stories of tech industry leaders,
0:23.0	their insights, and their lessons learned.
0:26.0	And now your host, Andrew Jalina.
0:34.0	Welcome, Matt, and thank you for joining us here today on Underserved.
0:38.0	Thank you for having me. It's great to be here.
0:41.0	So you grew up in the Coventry area of England,
0:44.0	probably a little different than growing up here
0:47.0	and getting interested in technology. What was that like?
0:50.0	Yeah, some of the technologies definitely was a little different.
0:53.0	My first introduction was actually through my brother.
0:56.0	He was the real techie in the family growing up.
0:59.0	And he got a ZX-81, which is from Sinclair,
1:02.0	or a ZX-81, I guess you would say over here.
1:05.0	But I don't think it was that big outside of the UK.
1:08.0	It was in 1981 as the 81 would suggest.
1:12.0	Very basic black and white, plugs into your TV,
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