I am NOT an Internet Marketer...

I am a Chemical Process Engineer that went on the Computer Science path.

At the time I begun writing programs, I’ve started with punched cards and Third Generation Hardware (Discrete transistors and SSI, MSI, LSI Integrated circuits): mainframes and minicomputers.

A big step forward for me was getting access to Microcomputers, as M118 and later M218
These Microcomputers were equipped with 8” Single Side, Single Density floppy disk and CP/M (Control Program for Microprocessors), the first operating system for Intel based computers!



Because these devices were very few and hosted in special locations, where access was possible only during the daytime, depending exclusively on them was not the best option.

It took us (to me and to my girlfriend at that time, today my wife) 6 looong months full of privation in which we have spent half of each scholarship buying individual electronic parts and components from which we built, after a huge volume of work, our first OWNED computer:

Z80 Cobra equipped with 5” floppy disk and CP/M.


This was the moment when we were really set in “business”, because I begun writing all sort of programs in order to do for other lazy / uninterested students their assigned projects on a wide variety of technical topics.

Then December ’89 came with the fall of the communism, which opened the formerly closed gates towards the capitalist technology.

Even so, I needed an additional year to work on my (very dear) gizmo until I was able to buy, in 1991, a factory made computer which was the latest technology at that time: a Hewlett Packard PC/AT 286 !!!

My first two employers were local companies and in the fall of 1995 I got my first employment abroad, at an IT company located in Muenchen, Germany. My first project with them was for Siemens: what they needed was an alternate way to authenticate users and grant different levels of access on their intranet website content. I say alternate, because the classic and the only possible way provided by MS, was to define the user in the operating system, which they initially did but turned out not to be a solution.

Sounds familiar to you? Yes, a membership site…!

Some years after, I worked on an accounting server, built from scratch, as an extension for a German medical knowledge base system: KAMATO. It was a much more complex membership site, which actually was allowing you to purchase access to a designated area or topic. Once your membership was expiring, you were still allowed to see all the materials that were published until the expiration date, but no access to any fresh content that was added after, unless you were renewing your membership.

In the spring of 1998, the credit card processing over the net had very insecure and even stupid implementations (I will not give any names here, because they were and still are on the market and today they are huge) – it was sufficient to save the preorder page on the hdd, modify one digit (set it to 0) inside a string used for the return url and that was enough to get to the download page without paying a dime!

It was so easy to do it as it is today, to bypass Aweber subscription form in order to get the freebies on your websites…!

Because of this, we were requested to develop the client side of a REAL (and secure) credit card online processor, as part of a service offered by a Swiss company (Vitress AG). We had to comply with the Swiss banking security standards and we did it very well: our implementation got authorized by the Swiss banking technical committee for online usage.

At the time “Big G” was starting (January 1996) I was already in the middle of a very complex and interesting project, the very first one of its’ kind: an online Internet Casino that we’ve launched it in the fall of 1996. Initially hosted in Germany, we had to relocate it in December of the same year, in Antigua, on the Cable and Wireless network. This project was developed in three persons and I am one of them.

I mention it here because the next development step was taken towards an AFFILIATE module!

Yes, you read it right, affiliate promotion and commissioning, back in early 1997!

All these (somehow) IM related projects and many others not mentioned here are based on client server architecture and all are success stories written under my management and with my contribution.

And just in case you wonder if I had the chance to know the corporate environment, the answer is YES: between November 2007 and the beginning of this year, I’ve been one of many others that were working for ADP, a Fortune 300 company, labeled as "America's Most Admired Companies" by Fortune Magazine…

I love what I am doing, it is both challenging and rewarding so I never had time for anything else.

I am not an Internet Marketer but I am probably your best choice for the techie that stands behind any “set it and forget it” IM enterprise…!