Welcome, everyone, to episode number 105 of Under Served. Joining me today is Vic Caruso,

Senior IT Manager of Network at Unibai, Rodamco, Westfield. 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.

Vic, thank you so much for joining us today on Under Served.

Thanks for having me, Andrew. It's certainly a pleasure to be here.

So way back when you grew up in sunny California, born in Santa Monica, raised in LA, what was that like?

Fun is the first word that comes to mind. Each was definitely a part of everything we did.

All the typical things you would think of in Southern California, I experienced those, you know, playing in bands,

being involved in music, and the whole scene, and just having friends, and having a great time.

Was there any skateboarding?

There was some skateboarding. I wasn't the best. Many of my high school buddies went on to do some pretty cool things.

One of them actually works at Nike skateboard. I'm not going to say his name.

But he is still a close friend of mine, and we always get together.

He's a skateboarder, and he works at a skateboarding shoe company. So definitely part of the culture.

Very cool. So you weren't just outside doing fun, cool stuff.

You were also getting into computers. What was your first experience there?

Yeah, so I really spent quite a bit of time on my two personal computers.

First was the Vic 20, and then the Commodore 64 was when I really dove into and started learning programming using the fun and amazing language of basic.

I really got into doing my own little, if then, go to type programming with just some choose your own adventures, storylines.

It was very childish stuff, but it definitely gave me an insight into the coolness of being able to write code and turn out a product and has fun with it.

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