This week, on August 15th, SAPIEN Technologies celebrated its 25th year in business. Yes, 25 years! It is hard for me to believe sometimes that I have spent pretty close to half my lifetime doing something that I love and working with a group of people that never fails to amaze, educate, inspire and entertain me. What a ride it has been!<\/p>\n
I have been involved in this industry since it was a toddler. I still have “fond” memories of editing files with Edlin under DOS. My first computer was an IBM PC with 2 full height\u00a05.25″ floppy drives, 192Kb memory and a monochrome (green) monitor. My second computer was a PC’s Limited (what Dell was called before it was called Dell) 286, with a 5Mb MFM Hard disk (full height) and 2 half height 5.25″ floppy drives with 512Kb memory.<\/p>\n
I was working on my doctorate at the time and as part of that, I was writing a bullet trajectory analysis program (for those of you that don’t know me, I have a Ph.D. in Forensic Science). I had already written one in Turbo Pascal but this new Graphical User Interface had recently been introduced by Microsoft called Windows. I used part of my research grant money to buy the Windows 1.0 SDK and taught myself C so that I could rewrite my Turbo Pascal program as a Windows application. (It’s distractions like these that caused me to take 7 years to finish my doctorate…) In the interim, I had met my first business partners and we started Group Telein on August 15, 1986. A more detailed history of SAPIEN can be found at this Wikipedia article<\/a>.<\/p>\n But even though the technology was ever evolving and mentally stimulating, what has kept me here for so long has been the people that I have had the good fortune of meeting and who have become an important part of my life. So I want to take a moment to single out a few of those people and say “Thank you.”<\/p>\n First a big shout-out to Alex Riedel, my business partner since 1998, creator of PrimalScript and a great friend. It has been a great ride the last 13 years and we have created products and memories that will last beyond us.<\/p>\n To the current staff at SAPIEN, particularly to Margaret Pratt who has been my right (and sometimes my left)\u00a0hand for many years; Maricela Soria for her amazing artistic talents; and David Corrales for his incredible programming skills as displayed in the creation of PrimalForms. And a welcome to the SAPIEN family to Robert Morey as our new Technical Sales Director.<\/p>\n To all of those that came before and helped form SAPIEN into the company it is today. Too many to list, but my thanks go out to all of you.<\/p>\n And to Paul Lamoreux and David Gaertner. You opened my eyes to a world that spoke to the analytical AND the creative sides of my personality. What can be better than that?<\/p>\n Thank you all for 25 years of magic!<\/p>\n Ferdinand G. Rios, Ph.D. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" This week, on August 15th, SAPIEN Technologies celebrated its 25th year in business. Yes, 25 years! It is hard for me to believe sometimes that I have spent pretty close to half my lifetime doing something that I love and working with a group of people that never fails to amaze, educate, inspire and entertain […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[191],"class_list":["post-3369","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-20000-feet","tag-sapien"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t
\nCEO, SAPIEN Technologies Inc.
\nAugust 15th, 2011<\/p>\n