Ivan Pomareda: Former Programmer

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.

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

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.

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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