Mr. Cifuentes has a 40 year experience in a wide range of Information Technology areas. He has been involved in Unix Support as well as in the architecture, design and implementation of different types of applications, ranging from messaging systems to data warehouses. His education includes an MS in Engineering, (thesis pending) and a Certificate in Information Systems, from the Universidad de Chile. He has spent the major part of the last 10 years developing applications involving C/C++, sh/ksh, AWK and SQL programing, over Unix/Linux/Solaris environments, throughout Latin America and the US.