Smart Triangles was a company that started originally in 1990 in Richmond, VA as U3 UNIX Training by Wayne Estrada. While with U3, Wayne was the primary UNIX training vendor for Capitol One, The Library of Congress, and the State of Virginia, to name a few. Later while at IBM, he additionally had provided ALL of the IBM Cognos training for General Motors, major Federal Government clients such as the Pentagon, CIA, military branches and many other national companies. Additionally he has taught and lectured at the Headquarters of Virginia Tech, Michigan State, Columbia University, Kenyon College, Morehouse College, and Brown University, to name a few. He had also consulted and taught at Goldman Sachs, General Motors, Chryslerg, Hess Oil, Toyota SE, State Ram, Caterpillar, Costco and Blue Cross/Blue Shield of Michigan.

Wayne is a former AT&T software engineer, senior systems consultant, and technical instructor and also was a UNIX and AIX Senior Technical Instructor with IBM who has taught, lectured, and consulted to over 30,000 people over the last 44 years. His undergrad studies in software were from the University of San Francisco, Masters studies at Massachusetts Institute of Technology and numerous classes at AT&T Bell Labs.

As of the end of 2025, Wayne has retired from continuing contract work with IBM and teaching on-line tech classes and is concentrating on spreading the gospel with his wife with their on-line Christian Ministry https://NotesOnLife.org

You can reach Wayne at wayne@Smarttriangles.com or DCTrptPlayer@gmail.com

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