Imperium Technology, Inc.


LINKS About Us Management Team Job Opportunities Contact Us		Management Team Team Imperium consists of seasoned experts in systems development, operation, and maintenance with over fifty years of collective experience both in the engineering and marketing sides. Fernando D. Contreras, Jr. President/CEO JR is the President/CEO of Imperium Technology Inc. He leads the company's direction and growth and focuses on the international marketing for the company and was able to grow to US, Japan, Canada and the Australian market. Prior to Imperium, he founded IPhil Communications Network, Inc., one of the country's largest Internet Service Provider, which was later bought by NASDAQ listed PSINet. He held several positions within PSINet including Country Manager for the Philippines and Asia Pacific Head for Product Development. JR also worked with Online Advanced Systems/Hewlett Packard and Oracle. He has been involved with GNU/Linux since 1995 and part of his advocacy work includes spearheading some the country's major IT event including the Philippine Open Source Conference. A graduate of Ateneo de Manila University, he holds a Bachelor's degree in Art on Interdisciplinary Studies. Rafael R. Sevilla Chief Technology Officer Mr. Rafael R. Sevilla, or Dido, is currently the Chief Technology Officer for Imperium Technology Inc. As Chief Technology Officer for Imperium, he has been the primary architect for many of the company's products and services since the company's inception. He has participated as the main Linux consultant for some of the largest enterprise Linux deployments in the country, at the behest of ON Semiconductor, WG&A, Smart Communications, and Globe Telecom. He is the primary designer behind the Mercuri Messaging System, Anubis Network Access System, and the Illuminati network monitoring system. He is the lead system architect behind the company's key international projects, including a large-scale distributed network fault management cluster for Virtela Communications and a multi-protocol interconnectivity platform between the Philippines and Japan. He has been using GNU/Linux since 1996 and remains one of the well-known figures in the Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG). He was previously senior systems engineer at Inter.Net Philippines. He received a Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Engineering from the University of the Philippines, and is currently working towards a Master of Computer Science degree from UP. He was also awarded by The Association for Overseas Technical Scholarship (AOTS), Japan and The Philippine National IT Standards (PhilNITS) Foundation, Inc. for completing the Training Program for IT Professional of Philippines (PHTI) under the support of Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (METI), Japan and The Department of Trade and Industry of the Philippines. Rodolfo M. Ducanes, Jr. Manager, Special Projects Rodolfo "Pong" Ducanes Jr. is currently the Project Manager of Imperium Technology Inc. A pioneer of Imperium Technology, Pong helped developed initial revenue stream for the company. He was the lead manager in the creation of Imperium Sports Statistics System. A system that revolutionized sports statistics gathering in the country. The system generates real-time data gathering and reporting that was previously done on a manual-basis. It is the de-facto standard for statistics recording all major basketball leagues in the country that includes PBA, UAAP, PBL and Champions League. As a project manager he lead a team to diversify development efforts to other horizontal markets such as the first web-based Flight Reservation System in the country. Having good inter-personal skills he works with relationship management with both local and international customers in Japan. As an advocate of good governance he volunteered as a coordinator and technical staff for NAMFREL and is the lead coordinator for the company in participating with the Coalition Against Corruption (CAC). Pong holds a Degree in Financial Accounting from the Far Eastern University. Aldrin R. Valencerina Manager, Creatives & Web Design/Development Aldrin is currently the Creative Specialist and Web Content Manager of Imperium Technology, Inc. As part of his task, he leads the design and development of the Imperium's web content customers. He handles content management for international customers of Imperium in the US and Japan. Being a respected figure in the local design scene, he was chosen as a pre-finals judge for the Philippine Web Awards . He was instrumental in bringing the Alaska Aces Website as a finalist in the 8th Philippine Web Awards. As part of the development of Imperium's Online Sports Statistics System, Aldrin developed the pioneering direct computer to live on-air graphics operation on sports coverage in the country. He has been exposed to sports like boxing, billiards, volleyball, and badminton covering local leagues as well as regional meeting like the South East Asian Games (SEAGames). A self-taught web designer and developer, a web aficionado and a basketball fanatic, Aldrin holds a Degree in Computer Science from the Central Colleges of the Philippines.