Alvaro Rodriguez:  

Life Ok, here we go. First off I doubt if anyone here is going to remember me by my first name of Alvaro. Most people knew as Ivan, my middle name. I was the really skinny kid trying to be cool by growing his hair long, wearing heavy metal tee shirts and Lee jeans. Now, I am the really fat kid trying to be cool by listening to heavy metal and wearing J Crew shirts and GAP jeans. Thankfully my musical tastes have matured and I can now appreciate soul, blues, funk, good song writing and jazz. I mean real jazz. I hate that CD-101 trash. After high school, I gave college a try. It really wasn't for me at the time. I regret not finishing. I bummed around a few years and ended up in technical school studying computer technology. Fortunately it turned into a career I love. It turns out that I must have always been a geek at heart. I worked for a major insurance company in their IT department for 11 years. In 2000 I joined the dot com craze as the IT manager ...Expand for more