Born
in the Philippines and better known by his nickname, Nonong, he had
been developing software packages for commercial and research
institutions for over 20 years. He
has over 17 years of experience
working in fisheries science, primarily developing fish stock
assessment and management software tools. Notable of these is the
publication of the FAO-ICLARM Fish Stock Assessment Tools (FiSAT)
that includes over 100 analytical models; now applied by a number of
learning/research institutions/organizations worldwide.
His work took him to various countries
(New Caledonia, Fiji, The Solomon Islands, Malaysia, Indonesia,
Philippines, Brunei Darussalam, Thailand, Vietnam, India, Singapore, Sri
Lanka, Bangladesh, Mozambique, Denmark, Italy, Canada, USA, Hong Kong,
Peru, Chile, and Mexico) as an
IT specialist/consultant in fisheries science.
Has served as IT and/or fish stock
assessment consultant/expert to international organizations like the
Food and Agricultural Organization of the United Nations (FAO), Mekong
River Commission (MRC), South Pacific Commission (SPC), French Research
Institute for Development through Cooperation (ORSTOM), German Agency
for Technical Cooperation (GTZ), International Center for Living Aquatic
Resources Management (ICLARM; now WorldFish Center), and Fisheries
Centre – University of British Columbia.
He has designed/implemented national IT
programs related to fisheries resource management in various countries
advising government on various aspects of fisheries software/databases
development, fish stock assessment projects, IT strategic planning,
project design and enterprise development [1][2]
as an IT consultant/specialist of Overseas Agro Fisheries Consultants
Co., Ltd. (OAFIC) and Pacific Rim Innovation
and Management Exponents, Inc. (PRIMEX)
on a number of Asian Development Bank (ADB) and/or Japan Bank for International
Cooperation (JBIC) projects in the Asian region.
He has over 30 publications on IT and
fisheries management related topics. Some online documents of interest:
