Mauricio Pastrana

CTO, VTI

Specialties: - Able to apply the knowledge, rigor and logical thinking of a physics degree to the solution of engineering problems - Naturally gifted sense of business, enhanced by recent training and exposure to the startup world - Able to understand, extrapolate and analyze complex trends and patterns by means of science and logic - Able to merge information technology and business sense through critical thinking First off, what's there to be said that is yet to be discussed about in my blog? (available at http://www.mauriciopastrana.com -in spanish). I urge you to poke through my resume-site, who knows? you could grab a chuckle or two. Born in '82, and doing the "internet jiggle" since early 1999. I pursued my interests in science (through a bachelors in physics) and the depth of human behavior (through a masters in economics) to later arrive at the inescapable conclusion that there is just not enough being done about this whole world-wide-web-largest-human-network-ever-done -"thing". Unfortunately, and to my grandparents' chagrin, I was mistakenly exposed to the wonders of startup business work on my first serious job posting as an intern-turned-project-manager at Nauro, Inc... And ever since, I've been looking to how to replicate the model, perhaps to build upon. Whilst i was there, i had the best years of my life. so far. In fact, ever since I've had the nerve to stick to the online services market, sometimes freelancing dumb fixers, sometimes designing whole projects from start (one such good example? the smart-EMR online medical records project as designed by Vipahealth, on which i worked for a full year. It's a very promising field!) As to what the future holds? I'm not sure it's a perennial incognita. Having lived in Colombia, the northern US, the southern US, Australia and now; Mexico. I've learnt that life is much more about adjusting than seeking. Again, here's a warm invite to you, to please join me and help me. The best work I've done is work with someone else, and the best ideas I've ever had weren't my own. Its why i'm here, after all. There is no one-man island, right? right. -mp