History

Information Technology has been an integral part of my family for the last 46 years. My father, Mr. Victor Diaz Sr., has been on the IT business since 1957, when he joined Burroughs Corp. (now Unisys Corp.) as a Customer Service Engineer. Currently he owns a PC repair and Consulting business.

Since my childhood, computers have been a extremely familiar term in my house. Being around computers like Burroughs L-Series, Jacquard Systems CPM-based systems, Commodore PET, C64's, VIC20's, ALTOS, etc., I decided to switch careers, from Electrical Engineering to Computer Sciences. On 1985 I began working as Service Manager for a well known Audiophile store in Hato Rey, PR, and as part of the job managed a Xenix-based computer system, a Tandy TRS-80 Model 16. In 1986 I finally managed to buy my first PC, a Tandy 1000HD with 256K of RAM and a 10MB Hard Drive (a ton of storage capacity at that time!!!).

In 1987 I graduated from Inter-American University of Puerto Rico with a Cum Laude Bachelors Degree in Computer Sciences. A few months later I joined Unisys Corp. (coincidence?) as Programmer Trainee and was assigned to the development project of the Puerto Rico Judicial Court System new Case Management System. The system was developed to run on a Unisys A-Series mainframe and today, the same application still runs on a Unisys ClearPath mainframe recently acquired by the Court System.

As my career path in Unisys continued, I started gaining experience in the Software Support area managing customer support calls for both off-site and on-site support. This gained experience was decisive to be assigned in 1992 as Technical Project Manager for the implementation of the new Property Tax System for the newly formed Municipal Income Collection Center, a government agency managed by the 78 municipalities in which Puerto Rico is subdivided. The project lasted for 2.5 years and involved extensive programming and data conversion to migrate data from an IBM mainframe to a Unisys mainframe.

After the project was finished I was assigned as Sr. Systems Support Specialist in the Software Support Group. This group provided all the Software Support to the Unisys installed base (Mainframe, Windows, Development and Communications). In 1998 I became Unisys PR first Microsoft Certified Professional to hold the MCSE title. During this period, I performed Project Manager duties for the installation of more than 6 new and upgraded Mainframe installations and more than two dozen Server installations. During the Software Support Group years, programming, training, installations, and data conversions projects were performed, but are too many to describe.

In 1999 I decided to cross the bridge and was assigned as Systems and Technology Program Manager, in charge of the Technology Pre-Sales and Marketing efforts for the subsidiary. This included all Unisys Mainframe, Windows Server, including the world's first 32 CPU Intel-based Windows server. As part of the Pre-Sales support functions, I performed the first Windows 2000 Datacenter production installation known in Puerto Rico. For exceeding sales performance, I was awarded the Unisys Chairman's Club award in both 1999 and 2001. Later I was reassigned as Senior Technical Consultant for the Mexico-Costa Rica-Puerto Rico area of the Latin-America and Caribbean Region, position which involved a lot of travel time and in which Consulting Services were given to Banamex, the largest bank in Mexico.

Late 2002 I decided to move on and joined a local consulting company for a brief 9 months, performing duties as Pre-Sales Engineer in Storage Area Networks (SAN) and Business Continuance Solutions Design before establishing myself as an Independent Information Technology Consultant.