I was born in Cuba on October 10, 1985. Many people wonder what it was like living in a place with no liberties and no options to do anything. From my point of view, I had a great life. Ever since I can remember my parents have been trying to get me through life as smoothly as possible. I can assure you that I never suffered hunger, thirst or even dreamt of anything better. When I was 9 years old, my Mom and Dad started working for an Information Technology firm that had just opened a franchise in Cuba. This was the reason for my first encounter with a computer and it opened the door to what I would become later on. After many failed attempts, my parents finally got permission to buy me a PC. It was an old 386 with DOS, it had 8 Megs of ram and about 100 Megs of hard drive space. To the amazement of many I learned to handle the OS right away. I was able to do just about anything on a DOS system and when Windows 3.1 came out it was almost too easy. At the age of 15, I had mastered MS-DOS and all the Windows versions from 3.1-ME. I had also used Macs and built a Linux box. I ventured to the United States on July 15, 2000 after a long wait for my father.
Education / Career:
I attended Miami Beach Senior High in Miami Beach, FL where I took several programming classes ranging from HTML to C++. I also got involved in the Engineering and Robotics club. I graduated from the University of North Florida with a Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Information Sciences in 2007. I am a part-time web-developer for Enrollment Services at the University and the full time lead programmer for Zabatt. In 2005 I started a company with my friend Pablo ( Atanticsoft ). We had great success and were able to get a lot of experience. In late 2006 I left the company because school was demanding too much of my time. Pablo has continued to work with it since. I still freelance once in a while when I have time, but the experience I acquired has helped me tremendously.
