About

My name is Hugo.  I live in Houston, Texas with my wife of 23 years and two boys.  We are originally from Southern California and moved to Texas back in 2014.  Needless to say, the weather events we've had in Houston since 2014 have been something I think we will never get used to.  From hurricanes to snow, to polar vortex freezes, I think I have seen it all.

I've worked in Oil & Gas for the past 27 years, and all roads in this industry eventually lead to Houston.  I am a senior executive at a midstream company responsible for engineering and operations.  I had a long bout with project management for a while and also obtained my PMP certification back in 2004, but continued to progress through the ranks and though I am still ultimately responsible for project execution, I now lead those that manage projects directly.

I have always had an affinity for technology and even had dual roles spanning into information technology in some form within the oil & gas sector.  From computer-aided design (CAD) to programming those systems to automate design steps, to dabbling in desktop and mobile applications, information technology has been a big part of my focus at work and at home.  In this new age of technology, I felt that the time I have available to invest in higher learning should be in the technology space; so here I am.

I have programming experience dating back to Fortran 77 and dot programming for dBase while in High School.  I then went to the US Army and didn't write a line a code for four years until I started my career in Oil & Gas.  It was then that I learned AutoLISP to program AutoCAD.   As my needs were more advanced, I moved onto C, but ultimately landed on Borland Delphi (Object Pascal).  Which, in my opinion, is (pound for pound) the best programming language out there. Once Microsoft lured Borland's chief architect away to write C# and the CLR for the .NET Framework, I moved away from Delphi and started with C# (which is essentially Delphi using C++ syntax). Years later I dabbled a bit with mobile programming for iPhone using the early Xcode IDE and Objective C, which has come a long way, but still a terrible IDE compared to what is available for other platforms.

As a business professional, I hope to share the technology I use or have come across that makes our everyday at work, home, and on the road more productive.