Today
Today is now here. And with it has come the opportunity for you to move in the direction you choose.
If you have been knocked off your feet, today is the day to get back up and get going again.
If you have made choices that led to disappointing results, today is the day you can change your direction.
If you have been holding a treasured dream in your heart, you can begin today to make that dream happen. If something has been holding you back, today is your chance to start moving beyond it.
All that you've done and all that you are, has now arrived at today. In this day there are opportunities that have been building for a lifetime.
You've learned what works and what does not, experienced pain, joy, sadness and fulfillment. Today you know, better than ever before, just which way to go.
So breathe deeply, feel the fresh air of real meaning and true purpose as it fills your spirit. And make today the best day yet.
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last updated: 2006-03-10
Welcome!
Welcome to my website. My name is Servando Montero and i'm a Programmer-Analyst.
I was born in the morning of November 8, 1974 and brought up in Spain in a tiny city called Bilbao, a typically spanish city. By all accounts I was a happy baby. I liked people, I didn't fuss a lot, and did silly tricks so that my parents would have more interesting baby pictures than their friends.
At the age of 4, we moved to a slightly larger city called Montreal with my parents and my 3 sisters.
I had a great childhood playing soccer, swimming in the pool during the summer and spending a little too much time with my friends.
School
I first got my hands on a computer in high school. One of the first lines of coding was the simple but inevitable "Hello World!" program in assembler. I was extremely bored and unimpressed. Odds are that I failed the course and promised my self to never touch a computer again!
After high school, I went to college, studied sciences and got my diploma in 1995. I know it's a cliche, but college really did hold the high and low points of my life.
I took a year off to travel back to my roots. That was my full circle moment. When I got back, I decided I would join the computer revolution. I don't know how it happen, but i know it did and i'm happy that it happen.
I graduated from Delta college1 in 1997 and got my diploma in computers as a programmer-analyst.
Lotus Notes/Domino
I started my professional development career in 1998 programming Word macros, Access, VBA and HTML.
In 1999, I was fortunate enough to get a job at a company called VIA Rail Canada. It was there that my life as a Lotus developer and administrator started. I stayed for the next 6 and a half years doing mostly Domino development and learning the subtle mix between Domino, HTML/DHTML, CSS and JavaScript.
Today I am a Principle CLP developer in R5 (for what it's worth) and i work for myself as a consultant providing Domino development and web design consultancy.
Contact
If you'd like to know more about me then take a look around. If you would like to contact me then click on the contact section.