It's exciting times at the Mach-II Project.  Just after our 7th birthday, we are proud to announce that Jorge Loyo has joined Team Mach-II.  Welcome aboard Jorge! Below is Jorge's bio:

Jorge Loyo - Developer & Resident Mexican (everyone needs one)

Jorge Loyo was raised in the small town of Tuxtepec, Oaxaca, Mexico until the age of 14 when he left Mexico (legally, in case you were wondering) leaving family and friends behind to study at Valley Forge Military Academy & College in Wayne, PA. It was there that he completed his High school and Associate degree in business. He then ran away from the cold and moved to Florida where he attained his Bachelor degree in International Business, Finance and Management Information Systems from Florida International University as well as a Master of Science in MIS from the same institution.

Jorge worked for the University for several years developing various internal systems, some of which in his last year (2005) where written using Mach-II. Since 2006 Jorge has been working with an online retailer helping redesign and rewrite all their databases and online applications.  Also, he has been continuously assisting a Hispanic publishing group with their web infrastructure. Finally, in 2007 Jorge started his own Financial education business trying to help families become properly protected, debt-free and financially independent.

We always like to have a quick interview with new team members so the Mach-II community can get to know them and I've been surprised a few times.  The team even now has a resident skydiver! Here is our interview:

Tell us a little about who you are and what makes you tick...

Well, I like all types of music and really enjoy meeting new people. I love a good wine and spending time with family and friends, the more the better...
What I do not like and try to stay as far away as possible from is negative people that all they do is find something to bitch and complaint about. People that believe some circumstance other than their own actions is not allowing them to succeed at something. People who believe that others are just lucky.

What was the first thing you ever did with a computer that made you proud of your accomplishment?

My first event computer programming class (VB6) I created a small timesheet program to calculate the hours I was working at that time for the computer lab at the university... I felt soooo proud of what I did :-). I showed that little program to some guy who turned out to be looking for a developer and hired me as a programmer for the university...Nice.

What got you started using Mach-II?

At the university there was a team of 4 developer with no prior experience, including myself, in programming so EVERYBODY was developing whichever way they thought was best... Maintaining the systems over the years became a nightmare and I wanted to put a stop to the madness by implementing ANYTHING to help us... I did a little research with another co-worker and found MachII. I haven't looked back since.

Mach-II has matured a lot since its inception. What are your favorite Mach-II features as of today?

Wow, tough one since I like and rely on many features, but time savers/code minimizers have been call-method, view-loaders, subroutines, auto-injection and message-susbscribers. However, currently I am in love with the custom tags let's keep them coming, they are AWESOME. Also, I cannot wait to use the EndPoints.

Everybody brings unique ideas and skills to the table. What one thing you feel you bring to Team Mach-II?

I don't know if there is one unique skill or idea in particular because as all other teammates must do all the time, I like to think of what else could MachII do, what else could make my life easier... I like to think of all possible features that could be included.

One thing I can say, once something is in my head I will not sleep until I have it done. I will ask for help if I need it and won't pretend I can take on the world alone. I don't like to let teammates down and I will do everything possible to contribute to the framework.

It's an impossibility to spend 100% in front of a keyboard. What do you do for fun?

Believe it or not, I am either at my job, at home, training new teammates for my business or meeting with clients.
I am a licensed skydiver and love martial arts, but I haven't practiced in some time, I've resorted to simply running, swimming and boxing whenever I can squeeze in a few minutes in my day.
 
If you were not a programmer, what would you want to do with your life?

If I wasn't a programmer and didn't have my business, which I love. I would be a professional skydiver... I would compete in team jumps and travel to world to do base jumps from everywhere I could.