Self-declared geek, technology-junkie since childhood, Marcel (MCTS: SQL 2005 | MOSS 2007) started jamming his fathers IBM PS/1 when he has 10, and many years after that worked for his university in Lima (USMP) leading his first SharePoint Intranet deployment; then helped managing internet access, services and connectivity for students, professors and employees (20k+) throughout all central and remote campus´; facilities, using Microsoft and Linux technologies.
Former baseball player, BMX rider, and Microsoft Peru's SWAT member, Marcel is getting his Systems Engineer major this year, actually working as an IT Consultant for DATCO (Microsoft business partner), mainly focused on infrastructure topics. Other personal activities include testing many vendor's OS's for learning and fun, ocassionally writing blog posts based on his experiences, getting all the pieces together for his thesis project about Unified Communications, and getting sunflowers for his future wife, Valeria.