I spend lots of my time supporting the users of our products in any way I can. I know well what it's like to be down when you can't afford to be. The rest of the time I spend overseeing licensing, finance, marketing and sales and supporting my team so they can focus on the development of AquaFold products.

Prior to moving to California in January 2007 to work at AquaFold, I lived in Louisiana managing reconstruction projects in the southern parishes between Orleans and Cameron. Most people recognize the city of New Orleans (which is in Orleans Parish) and the devastation that was caused by Hurricane Katrina in 2005 (over 80 billion USD in property damage). A month after Katrina, another major Hurricane (Rita) hit the western coast of Louisiana (over 11 Billion USD in property damage). My major focus for the last two years I was in Louisiana was in coordinating financing and reconstruction efforts in both areas. I worked directly with FEMA and the Small Business Administration to acquire financing and manage teams in the reconstruction effort.

I immigrated to the US in 1979 at the beginning of the Nicaraguan revolution, and I attended University at both Louisiana State in Baton Rouge and University of Louisiana at Lafayette. I made Lafayette, the center of Cajun country, my home base. I began my career in construction, finance and real estate and was quite new to the software business when I arrived in silicon valley. The move was immensely positive and exhilarating and I looked forward to the challenge of supporting AquaFold's mission. Though I was fond of the community in Louisiana, I have become enamored with California's natural beauty, the ideals of its people and its diverse mix of cultures. In short, I have found home.