On the turn
by Benigno Tutor Jr.
 Nothing
is permanent except change. This age-old adage especially
rings true on the technology front.
While our participation in the relentless
surge of technology is mainly as end-users — upgrading
our laptops and other electronic gadgets to the latest
version—Efren E. Antimano, Jr., a senior technical
marketing engineer at the Intel Japan K.K., is involved
in the very process that propels these advances.
He gives design advice to Japanese
original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) in prototyping
their motherboards and platforms with Intel Architecture
(IA) processors and chipsets. His input has contributed
to such successful product launches as Sony’s CoCoon
personal video recorder, Toshiba’s Transcube 10,
Fujitsu’s Eternus 3000 RAID System, Hitachi’s
9900 Series Network Attach Storage (NAS) and Ricoh’s
FB6 embedded motherboard.
This graduate of Masters of Science
in Electronics and Communications Engineering from De
La Salle University is anything but a nerd. In fact,
working on the cutting edge of technology has given
new dimensions to the way he looks at things, enabling
him to draw parallels between circuitries in that world
and in every life.
Life for him has always been on the
turn. A near-death experience in a drowning accident,
in which his last memory was a prayer for salvation,
has made him commit himself to the spiritual nourishment
of his church as well as to volunteer community services.
The Asian Financial Crisis in 1987,
which truncheoned his former employer—Korean company
Samsung—as well as Procter & Gamble Japan’s
job offer to his wife, were also major turning points
for which he and Elma sought divine guidance that eventually
led the family to Japan.
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