User:William Santiago Alvarez

This is the story of MSc. William S. Alvarez born in Guayaquil - Ecuador, on june 6th of 1979. His parents are William Alvarez and Janeth Cedeno. he lived his 11 first year of his live in Quevedo, Prov Los Rios. And studied in Escuela America and Academia Naval Guayaquil grad with honors first in his class.. and had the opportunity to play in minor soccer leagues for three years.. Early in the 90's he moved out back to his birthplace city (Guayaquil) and studied in Academia Naval Guayaquil all his high school years.. "I never liked it, I could studied in a better school and had better years" he got his bachellor degree in Math. In 1998 he tried to get in Escuela Superior Politecnica del Litoral (ESPOL) and couldn't make it in the first attempt, he realize he was choosing the wrong career and maybe biggest mistakes of his life.. but after realize what was his truly passion he got into the Economics faculty in the ESPOL. Graduated in Economics with specialty in Marketing and Business Administration. He studied for 5 years to complete his career, and in his last 2 semesters started his Masters.. it was a University Of Chile Economics School and Faculty of Economics from ESPOL joint, "the experience was great I learn a lot from those teachers and from my classmates, they were terrific" in class we were good friends but in class we can show a side nobody wants to see, a lot of personals opinions and brightness ideas in every single topic we had. This masters was suspended for about year and half because of the schedules and financial situations between those countries. At the end not everybody made it, a few quitters and others just fail, it wasn't easy! the level of this professors were high (most of them!)... when this masters stop he went to USA for 6 months to spend time with family and friends came back to finished it and graduate.. Live after wasn't easy either, struggling to get a job, and the one he had shut down due to financial reasons... Days before celebrate his 28th birthday, he took a decision that changed his whole life..