ABOUT ME

It all started back in 1986. I was in 4th grade, enrolled at Holy Angels Montessori School in Project 4, Quezon City. We had a computer subject using an XT computer, a dot matrix green screen monitor, and some diskettes that contained typing games and exercises. 

Seeing it for the first time and getting to know "Logo" learning one command syntax  and basic methodology after another just to play the game. It was then that I got hooked into computing.

My Mom would tell her friends how good I was in the subject since I had received high grades and commendation from our teacher Ms. Quing. "Knowing and memorizing the keyboard like the back of my hand. I was speed typing just to get a high game score using these keys. Teacher Quing would let us type "The quick brown fox jumps over to the lazy dog" without even looking at the keyboard. I didn't know then that was typing all the English alphabets in one sentence structure.  Some are just random words to type then but all I had wanted was to shoot out the alien ships attacking my space ship. You know, "kids"!

Fast forward to High School. I had to ask my mom to buy me a computer in exchange for my help in doing steel work and construction labor during the building of her apartment units. I was ecstatic when I got my first computer it was an AT 286 with a CGA monitor with two high density floppy drives and a keyboard (we don't use mouse back then. This was in 1994 and MS-DOS was the best operating system available to us here in the Philippines that time prelude to the GUI Windows  3.1 to 3.11. This when Windows 95 became available I had to upgrade my AT 286 PC to an AT 386 with a 120 megabyte hard drive into a much stable 100  gigabyte hard drive. This was all 2nd hand parts I got from Buy & Sell periodicals and HMR warehouse back in those days. I had them all 286 to  486 to Cyrix Processor 686 to Pentium PC's and AMD's in ages to come.

Enrolled myself in STI - Alabang  branch and STI - Guadalupe with their Computer Programming & Computer Technicians course while I work as a service crew in one of the store in SM  Mega Mall.  Schedules were quite easy since the course requires you to attend only during Mondays, Wednesdays & Fridays.  Since employers requires you to be at work during weekends since it was mall duties.

After finishing the course and ending my working contract as a service crew, It was then I decided to work with a paging company. It was where I had finally put my speed typing and computing skills to practice. Not long call centers, sprung out everywhere.  

I might have filled in every position back then as the demand for new skilled IT workers increase. From Customer Service and Sales to Technical Support positions to Administrative Assistant I was everywhere. Computing has been a part of my life since the mid 80's.  Played with DOS batch file.programming to DBase and Clipper even had to use a Mainframe Computer during my studies in STI using CoBOL/CiCS programming form.  I never had to use it though since GUI had become available and there were other tasks that demands a different computer operational skills. 

Corporate life with same the task  everyday. Honestly, I would say it became boring at some point. I wanted to work on something that is passion driven something that I could engage with different ideas, approach. Learn something from. 

So I shifted from Corporate to Freelance. I never looked back ever since.

Looking back now, I never thought I'd live the life I dreamt of when I was just a kid.  The digital age is now and I've progressed with it as part of something beneficial to every industry I could get myself into.  Serving people from my community to global out reach.

I had become an all in one customer service and tech guy. Digitally cosmopolitan and technically experienced, a modern discipline and professional practice that serves the Information Technology industry, traditional or online products, services and consumers globally.