I was born in Mayagüez, Puerto Rico, in 1966. I graduated

from the University of Puerto Rico at Mayagüez in 1988 with

a degree in Mathematics, and pursued further studies in

Political Science at the University of Pittsburgh. There,

I began working at the University Center for Social and

Urban Research (UCSUR) in 1992, where I eventually became

a systems analyst.

With the advent of the Web, I began publishing in 1995 two

election sites, "Elections in Puerto Rico" and "Election

Resources on the Internet", at

and , respectively. My work on

these sites caught the attention of the Commonwealth

Elections Commission of Puerto Rico, and in late 1999 I

left UCSUR and returned home to work for the Commission

as the agency's webmaster, extensively developing their

site. During the years I was in charge on the Elections

Commission's website, it was showcased by Puerto Rico's

Office of Management and Budget (OGP) as the model for

other government agencies to follow.

In 2003 I left the Commission, and the following year

I did some consulting work for Univisión de Puerto Rico.

I have also been working on further development of

my websites, particularly the internationally-oriented

, which now has sections covering

the electoral systems of nearly every country in Western

Europe, the "old" Commonwealth (Canada, Australia, New

Zealand and South Africa), Turkey, Japan, Hungary, as well

as Mexico, Argentina, Brazil and Chile in Latin America.

I've covered election events in other countries on my blog,

"Electoral Panorama" ,

which I publish since 2006, as well as on "Global Economy

Matters" , where

I've been a collaborator since 2007.

In 2008 I collaborated with Dr. Fernando Bayrón-Toro on

his new book, "Historia de las Elecciones y los Partidos

Políticos de Puerto Rico," which merged and extensively

updated several of Dr. Bayrón's previous works on Puerto

Rican electoral politics.