Through The Years...

I grew up in Cabanatuan City, N.E., Philippines, where I spent my grade schools at the West Central and attended Nueva Ecija High School, graduating in April of 1973. I then enrolled at the University of Santo Tomas, Manila, Philippines and obtained my B.S. in Electronics & Communication Engineering in 1978.

I worked as Process Engineer at Semiconductor Devices (Phil) Inc. and then at Philips which both manufacture hybrid microcircuits and electronic components. As the economic climate was getting worse in the Philippines in 1984, I went to the Middle East joining thousands of overseas workers. I worked as a Data Communications Technical Support Specialist at the Arabian American Oil Company (Aramco) in Dhahran, Saudi Arabia and as a Help Desk Analyst at the General Petroleum and Mineral Organization (Petromin). Then I was hired as Network Controller at the Saudi French Bank, one of the major commercial banks with a sophisticated data and telecommunications network in the Saudi capital city of Riyadh.

I got bored after spending the twelve prime years of my life in that weird place. Maybe, staying in KSA that long was the greatest mistake I've ever made. Oooops. It's not really that bad, I was getting a financial package which is equal if not above the international standard, at the very least. I was also sent for training in the U.S. and in Europe as well as those various in-house seminars conducted British Telecom, AT&T-Paradyne, Network General (Telindus) and Proteon routers.