2. Early Overachiever
●Good student! Earned mostly As and Bs at Miramonte
Elementary School.
●In sixth grade I became the fastest kid in school by winning gold
in our school Olympics!
●I was also the most artistic student in school and won classes to
an Art Academy in East Los Angeles in 5th grade.
4. I'm an All-star!
When I started playing baseball at age 9 I barely knew how to catch
and run the bases! Hard work and practice pays off though. In my last
year, I was a starting pitcher for the El Monte All American All-star
team in 1994.
2nd row, 2nd kid
from the right :-)
5. The Artist Inside Me
I was 10 years old when I joined the Academia de
Arte Yepes in East Los Angeles, taught by George
Yepes. I learned so much from Yepes.
Artist George Yepes
Most importantly, he
taught me not to be
scared to take chances
and "mess things up."
After all, it was only
paint.
7. From Student to Teacher
After seven years in the Art
Academy, Yepes gave me the
title of Master Painter.
Every other Saturday, my dad
would drive me to Moffett
Elementary in Lennox, CA and
Miramonte Elementary in El
Monte, CA to teach kids how to
paint murals.
It was a good feeling giving back
to others what I had learned from
Yepes.
8. Most Outstanding Male Student
●In 8th grade I took my English teacher's advice and joined the
Academic Decathlon team. Thank you Mrs. Smith!
●I earned gold for Language and Literature, and Mathematics. I
earned bronze in the Social Science category. Our team earned
silver overall.
●During the 8th grade graduation ceremony I was awarded Most
Outstanding Male Student for the 1995-96 academic school year.
9. Smart Jock
●I earned a 3.7 GPA in high school and started in the Varsity football
team after my freshman year (#70).
●We won three CIF championships from 1997-1999.
●I was awarded All-League offensive lineman my senior year.
11. High School Sweethearts
●I met my beautiful wife when I
was 14 yrs old.
●Since then we have been
inseparable...like two peas in a
pod.
●Our Senior year we won
Homecoming King & Queen
and surprisingly also Prom King
& Queen later that year.
12. The College Years
●I was accepted to the University of
California Riverside in 2000.
●Made the Dean's Honor List several
times and one year I made the
Chancellor's Honor List!
●I was a member of Tau Beta Pi,
Engineering Honor Society, and also
the Society of Hispanic Professional
Engineers.
●I graduated in 2005.
13. After College...
●Accepted to the Computer Science Masters program at UC
Riverside.
●Got a part-time job as an IT Specialist at A&R Tarpaulins, Inc. in
Fontana.
●Was doing great in school and job but decided to take a huge risk
and pursue a personal goal of starting my own IT business...
My future wife dropped off some lunch for
me. I was in the computer science lab all
day!
15. Back to School (Kinda)
Got offered the position of Communications & Technology Specialist
for my alma mater in January 2010.
I was primarily responsible for the strategic development of electronic
communications for the Office of Alumni & Constituent Relations.
UCR Alumni & Visitors Center
16. Notable Accomplishments at UCR
Redesigned the Alumni Association website to make it easier
for alumni and constituents to find information and reconnect
with the University.
19. Improved E-Newsletter
After months of meetings and
trying new ideas, the Alumni
e-newsletter open-rate
increased from 10% to 14%.
Among the contributing
factors were time of delivery,
topics, article placement, and
a simplified layout.
20. All Aboard!
In January 2012, I decided to pursue a new opportunity at
Loyola Law School in Downtown Los Angeles where I would be
a Web Developer.
After three weeks of driving in that infamous LA traffic, I decided to
start taking the train to work. It still takes 2 hours to get to work, but at
least I can just sit back and let someone else do the driving :-)
On the train, I’ll either take a nap,
listen to music, read news, or get
ahead start on my work for the
next day.
21. Baptism By Fire
Before I could get myself comfortable at the Law School, I was
already involved in a major project - the migration of the Law
School website.
It was a huge undertaking but I made it out alive! I worked
closely with the Communications & Marketing team as well as
third party designers and programmers to complete this giant
project.
At the end, after almost 12 months, we launched and it was a
success! The Law School was so proud.
23. A few months after we launched
the new website, the Office of
Marketing & Communications
wanted a mobile site so they hired
a company, Kapow, to create a
responsive design.
I was responsible for
communicating our requirements
to Kapow and making sure they
delivered exactly what we wanted.
Loyola Law School Goes Mobile
24. I also...
● Migrated the Law School blogs
to Blogger
● Migrated the internal Law
School websites to Drupal,
including all web forms
25. Return Of The Entrepreneur
In Early 2013, I started to get business once again from an old
client of mine, Carbon Solutions, Inc. They had me redesign
their old website!
26. Then By Chance...
I got another job from the Judith Weston Studio For Actors &
Directors!
27. One Thing Lead To Another...
Judith Weston was so happy with the work I did for her that
she referred me to her friend Mandi Riggi which was in need
of a website for her new short film starring Jorge Garcia!
28. Which Lead To Another!
Then Mandi Riggi was so happy with the work I did that she
referred me to her friend Tamara Wilson to create a website in
honor of her father and comedian, Flip Wilson.
29. Fatherhood
September 7, 2013 was one of the greatest days of my life. It
was the day my daughter Mia Love Estrada was born :-)
This little person has given life a new meaning for me and has
given me even more motivation to be the best that I can be.
31. More Opportunities
“The BIGGER the challenge, the BIGGER the
OPPORTUNITY” (well that’s at least the way I view it)
• The Law School was looking for a new Dean so the Dean Search
Committee asked for help in building a website so I did.
32. Right of Publicity Roadmap
In April 2015 I was given the opportunity to build a website for
law professor, Jennifer Rothman called Rothman’s Roadmap
to the Right of Publicity, which provides a 50-state survey of
right of publicity laws, breaking news and expert commentary.
33. Admissions Redesign
Because word got around that I built the Dean Search
website, I was given another opportunity to redesign the
Admissions website. I couldn’t say NO. It was a bold move.
34. Life’s Lesson
Just when you think you have everything figured out, you
realize you don’t.
It’s like the more you know, the more you realize you don’t
know.
For me, Life is all about trying to reach your true potential.
I won’t stop until I’m there – if there’s such a thing. Right now,
I’m focused on taking on new challenges that will help me
grow and get better. The rest is still unknown, but that’s ok, it
makes life exciting.
