Adan has a Masters Degree in Computational Sciences, having specialized in Pattern Recognition and Artificial Intelligence.

Originally working for HSBC (Banking) Group in 1996 as a Web programmer, he also began teaching system’s development.

In 1997 Adan took up residence with the Mexican National IRS as a contributing engineer developing Mexico's National Tax Payment System (code-named DARIO).

Returning to HSBC Group as a Data Warehouse project leader, Adan was tasked with (as no small task) the development of database processes to exploit, clean and standardize the data resident in the banks vast data warehouses.

Joining AIS in 1999 as a Senior Software/Development Engineer (or better known in AIS engineering circles as 'The Machine'), Adan's thumbprint can be found everywhere in Millennia from The Millennia Framework, Security Module, and Core Role Management Facilities to Millennia's Installers, Automated Online Upgrade Controls and Master Data Models.

Also, if you were to take a look inside Adan's personal tool chest, (to start) you'll find C, C++, Java, HTML, JavaScript, CGIs, XML, Web Services, BPEL4WS (Business Process Execution Language for Web Services), ASPX, C#, IIS, Raining Data Omnis Studio, BEA Tuxedo, WISE Installation Systems, not to mention...

DBA experience in SQL, DB2, Informix, SQLServer, Oracle and MySQL, and -

Component Frameworks Design and Development, Neural Networks, Images Processing and Artificial Intelligence & Patterns Recognition research.

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