It all started in 1995, when my dad brought our first computer home. I was six, and my favorite game was deleting system folders “to see what would happen.” Windows would crash, and someone had to bring it back, again and again. Instead of hiding the keyboard, my parents kept trusting me. Without realizing it, they were paying for my first lessons in technology with their patience.
Before Reyes Project had a name, it was just me: a sixteen-year-old in Anaco who was not afraid of gadgets. People came back, and not for the repair: they came back because they left understanding what had happened. Word got around: “This kid knows his stuff.” In 2008 that became my first business.
I hail from Anaco, through and through. I went to the Anaco PDVSA School (the Corpoven School when I was a child) and then to Roberto Castillo Cardier High School. At the Universidad de Oriente I started on the Anaco campus and earned my degree in industrial engineering on the Barcelona campus, in Barcelona, Anzoátegui, not the one in Spain. And I never stopped doing what I started with: fixing, reinstalling and updating laptops and desktops, running help desks, solving problems. That help-desk patience is the same patience I put into every website.
Then my world got bigger: industrial engineering, international logistics, systems for factories and hospitals in more than ten countries, from Venezuela to Japan. The language and the currency change from country to country; what people need does not: someone they trust who tells them “Relax, this can be fixed.” And underneath it all there is a foundation I am not shy about: my faith. Reyes Project has a purpose.
Alexis Reyes, engineer, Anaco.