Paco has 25 years experience in software R&D. He holds a BS in Math Sciences and MS in Computer Science from Stanford, worked at NASA/Ames, Bell Labs, Motorola, and has focused on early stage tech start-ups for several years. Among those, Paco co-founded FringeWare in 1992, one of the early ecommerce firms. He's written for several periodicals, including Wired , O'Reilly Network , bOING-bOING , Mondo 2000 .

Male, (Houston, TX, United States)

Of my 25+ years in IT, 20+ of these have been in management positions. I subscribe to very hands-on management. My entire career has been build around the objective of extracting maximum benefit from technology for those with whom I worked and who benefitted by that technology. I absolutely believe that there is no such thing as “impossible” from a computer hardware and software perspective. It all depends on how creative you are and how prepared you are to challenge conventional thinking.