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          My Background:

                I was born in Havana, Cuba and after Fidel's arrival in January of 1959, my family soon gave up the "island" for the "U.S.A.".

                I was already studying Mechanical Engineering at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in cold Troy, New York and after June 1959 never returned to my native Cuba.

      After graduating with a Bachelor in Mechanical Engineering, in June 1962, I married Maria Elena, and moved to N.Y. where I worked for 6 years in Manhattan, during which time I studied at night in The Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn (now NYU Tandon School of Engineering) where I got my M.S. in Industrial Mgt. and Maria Elena gave us two wonderful daughters.

     We then moved to Curaçao (Neth. Antilles). There I worked in a local bank (Maduro & Curiel's Bank N.V.) where I developed their Electronic Data Processing Dept. from scratch. I also was in charge of many other areas of the bank. After 18 years we moved back to the U.S. but this time to sunny Miami where we have been for the last 30 years.

               I have been around computers since 1964 first mainframes, then minis and now PC's (micros).

               Ah, if everything in this world would progress at the same rate as computers have been, (and continue) progressing, we could fly around the world in a couple of hours and for pennies...