Ivan Pomareda: Former Programmer

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Ivan Pomareda Former Programmer
Ivan Pomareda is a guitar maker who lives and
works in Kansas City, Kansas. He is a former
computer programmer who worked in Silicon Valley
for eleven years before resigning to set up shop
in his native Kansas City. Even as he worked at
HelioCentric, Ivan Pomareda served as an
apprentice luthier for seven years before
establishing his own business. He builds new
guitars and also does repairs and restorations.
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Ivan Pomareda Kansas City Luthier
Ivan Pomareda is a luthier who lives in Kansas
City, Kansas. A luthier is a maker of musical
instruments like guitars and violins, says Ivan
Pomareda, although he says that all he makes are
guitars. Ivan Pomareda is a former computer
programmer at HelioCentric in Silicon Valley who
quit to pursue his dream of making fine musical
instruments. He is a graduate of the University
of California at Santa Cruz, where he earned
degrees in History and Computer Science.
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Ivan Pomareda Wood and Hand Tools
Ivan Pomareda says that after eleven years in the
computer industry, he had had enough. He says
that he had always wanted to quit the
nine-to-five world and work with wood and hand
tools. Even as he worked at HelioCentric in
Silicon Valley, Ivan Pomareda began an
apprenticeship with Vernon Slaughter, the master
luthier who himself apprenticed with Jose Ramirez
III. Ivan Pomareda lives and works in Kansas
City, Kansas.
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Ivan Pomareda His IP Address
Ivan Pomareda places a stylized "IP" in the body
of every guitar that he makes, and as a former
computer programmer likes to joke that this is
his IP address. Ivan Pomareda is a guitar maker
who works in Kansas City, Kansas, and lives in a
small apartment above his woodwork shop. He is a
graduate of the University of California in Santa
Cruz, where he studied Computer Sciences and
History, specializing in operating systems and
the Civil War.
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https//vimeo.com/ivanpomareda