Hello everyone and welcome to episode 68 of Under Served.

Today we are featuring Kevin Jarno, CIO at Uptime Institute.

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.

Now, your host, Andrew Jalina.

Thank you, Kevin, for joining us and sharing your experiences with the listeners of Under Served.

Hey, Andrew, thanks for having me.

Way back when, what got you interested in technology when you were a kid?

Video games, so very early video games.

I'm in my mid-50s, so you're thinking way back to the days of pong and tank battle.

And when you had a unit that only played one game hooked up to your television through an RF frequency modulator.

But yeah, I was just fascinated by the fact that you had these games that were you moved a joystick

and something happened on the screen.

And I wanted to know what was going on behind the scenes with those.

And there was a few times where my father had to stop me from taking things apart.

I would have my little balestar galactica video game, and I had the back open,

and I was prodding at it with a screwdriver, trying to figure out what is this thing doing.

And sometimes the magical smoke would come out of the unit too.

So I went through quite a few electronic games when I was a kid.

Yeah, I remember the round round.

They would have like an arcade game or something for a quarter.

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