About André Milton
I shouldn’t be a programmer anymore.
I started with a company in Ottawa called “Ingenia” in 1992. At the time, I built Gopher, FTP, and Telnet sites for schools across Canada. HTTP had just been invented and we were all pretty impressed by Mosaic because unlike Links, you could put images on the page! :) Ah, how far we’ve come.
I was still in high school at the time and a few years later, started my under grad studies at Waterloo in Electrical Engineering. I didn’t stay long because I started working for Softimage in Montreal a year later which at the time was owned by Microsoft. Needless to say, school didn’t come close to offering what I was learning at Softimage and I felt I was learning much more in the real world. I stayed in Montreal for the next 6 years working for many companies throughout the city in the burgeoning Internet business. By 1999, I was in NYC building one of the largest eCom sites in the world: www.sothebys.com . I had been going non stop (really never more than 3 days off for 5+ years) and came back to Montreal in 2000 burnt.
It took a few years to recover but I eventually started a partnership and ran my own company with a team of 5 employees called “mLore”. I was by that time an expert in “content management” and the company’s core business was to build large scale websites for some of Canada’s biggest companies. We mostly specialized in eLearning projects and survived the crash in 2001 eventually becoming a profitable enterprise by 2004 (while most other web shops were going bankrupt).
In 2007, the partnership ended but I’m still doing what I’ve been doing all these years. I have a new .NET based CMS with a small roster of interesting clients and my company is now “virtual” with a team of about five people working for me when the need arises.
Honestly, after 15 years, I should change careers. And I’m trying. I spend a good part of my week making music and I’ve been doing so since before I started in computers. Check out www.freqboy.com if that interests you…
3 years ago