Welcome everyone to episode number 120 of underserved.

Joining me today is Christine Byrd, SDLC manager at Brown Brothers Harriman.

Let's get started.

Welcome to this week's edition of Underserved, 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 Jolina.

Christine, thank you so much for joining us today on underserved. Thank you, Andrew. I'm very happy to be here.

So how did you first become interested in technology?

Was it a way back when thing?

It was a way back one thing.

It was back in eighth grade, ninth grade, taking algebra and going from not getting it at all to getting it.

And in high school, I was able to take a basic

class, which is the one zero's, started way back then, and the one zero, some business law

and things like that. And I was almost often running from there. And where'd you go to college?

I went to UMass Amherst. Go minute men. Yes, and Zoom Mass. Now, where'd you go to college? I went to UMass Amherst. Go minute men?

Yes, and Zoom Mass.

Now, where'd you live when you were on campus?

I lived in Southwest, which Southwest was a bit of a city right in the middle of nowhere in Amherst,

with tall towers and tower wars and a lot of people, and I really loved it. I'm a fellow UMass alum. I was a little

bit scared to live in Southwest. I thought that like my grades might suffer. So we lived in the nerdy

engineering dorms in Northeast, but we would go down to visit Southwest. My fun Southwest fact,

at least when I was going there, we learned on the tour, it was the ninth most densely populated

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