Anthony E. Alvarez is a native New Yorker. His hobbies include photography, singing, and cooking. He is a food activist and a political atheist. He loves the great outdoors and travelling.
Anthony has held positions such as Software Engineer, Webmaster, Unix Administrator, Customer Service Representative, Marketing Systems Manager, and Salesforce.com Database Administrator. He speaks three foreign languages: Chinese, Japanese, and Spanish.
After returning from a study abroad scholarship in Guangzhou, China, Anthony changed his major to Asian Studies. While attending university, he worked at IBM for three semesters where he developed presentation materials for field sales teams. After graduating CCNY with a Bachelors degree in Arts (BA), Anthony was hired as a computer consultant by a Japanese Architecture company. His clients included Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO), IBM Japan, Taisei Construction, Nippon Telephone and Telegraph (NTT), Budweiser Japan, and Polaroid Japan.
After working three years in Tokyo, Anthony returned to the USA and settled in the Boston Metro area. He was employee number 3 of a startup company specializing in e-commerce projects. Anthony taught adult education courses on e-commerce.
Four years later, Anthony moved to Atlanta to become the first webmaster at Panasonic Wireless Research and Design Center (PMCDU). The company was designing a flagship smart phone for the American market.
Moving to New Jersey, he held the position of a web marketing manager at Casio America, Inc.
Currently a director at Pucho Web Solutions, Anthony specializes in marketing and e-commerce projects using Open Source Software. In order to manage business development issues at the firm, Anthony has completed Entrepreneurship training from Workshop in Business Opportunities (WIBO.org) and Kauffman FastTrac (Kauffman.org). Anthony is a Free Culture advocate using open source methods and tools. He is a volunteer copy editor for the Wikipedia project, an online encyclopedia.
One of his specialties at Pucho Web Solutions is video. He is a producer of both web and broadcast TV video. His programs have been broadcasted on stations in Manhattan, Brooklyn, Staten Island, and Queens Cable TV.
In the performing arts, Anthony has appeared on TV shows that are shot on location in New York City including White Collar, Law & Order, Nurse Jackie, Gossip Girl, Blue Bloods, and Girls.
For films, Anthony has played a role as a diplomat in Junji Sakamoto's upcoming financial thriller Human Trust (Jinrui Shikin), which is scheduled to debut in Japan on October 19, 2013. Human Trust, directed by Junji Sakamoto, is a story of an international financial conspiracy seeking to right the unfairness of the world, shot on location at United Nations (UN) General Assembly hall.
Follow Anthony at his blog: http://www.AnthonyAlvarez.us.
Pucho Web Solutions (http://www.PuchoWebsolutions.com) provides web marketing solutions to small businesses in Manhattan by showcasing multimedia-based content on your website using video, web photo albums, and audio. Pucho Web Solutions marketing services help you tell your story, engage your audience, and increase web traffic at your site.
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