Long, long ago, in a world without the Internet, during what some call “the before time,” a young boy encountered his first computer. He did not know it then, but that moment would forever change the course of his life. An amber monitor, a BASIC program, and a computer game planted within him a love of technology.

The seed blossomed in 1988, when his father brought home a second-hand computer. It was a 286 IBM compatible clone running DOS 5.0. It had 640 kB of RAM, dual 5 1/4 floppy disk drives, and an 8 MHz Processor that could turbo to 12 MHz. It did not have an internal hard drive, but it came with a 9600 baud modem, for connecting to BBS networks.

Over the years, Ivan has learned more than a dozen computer programming languages, built HTML websites, answered phone calls and questions on a help desk, served as a technology trainer, and helped many of his friends and family solve a wide assortment of computer problems.

Ivan attended UCLA (University of California, Los Angeles), where he began his studies as a Computer Science and Engineering major. During his third year, he changed his major and later graduated with a degree in Cognitive Science.

Today, Ivan is a User Experience Manager at a popular law firm in Downtown, Los Angeles. He also speaks on a variety of technology topics at conferences across the country and around the world.

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