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A little bit of me

Since my plans to share my profile on my msn space failed I would like to give some details about me.

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I'm Mexican, happily married and my wife's name is Nancy.

I did my bachelors degree at "Instituto Tecnologico y de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey CCM" (aka Tec, ITESM, Boreeeeegooos!!)

I'm currently a Master's student at Carnegie Mellon University graduating on December 2006 (MISM program). As part of the my master, I'm doing an internship with Microsoft Corp for the summer.

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