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, the State of Virginia, and many other major companies and organizations. In 1996 Wayne started Richmond.net - the largest independent ISP in Central Virgnia. Unfortunnately like many other Internet startups, RNET as a dial-up Internet provider closed with the advent of higher spped offerings by Southern Bell and cable providers.

After starting SmartTriangles.com while in Washington DC and doing consulting locally and nationally for a few years, Mr. Estrada was hired by IBM as a senior technical instructr working with IBM's Business Intelligence software division - COGNOS. Over a decade at IBM Wayne conducted ALL of the IBM Cognos training for General Motors, Chrysler, major Federal Government clients such as the Pentagon, CIA, military branches and many other national companies.

Over his career of over 45 years Wayne has taught and lectured at many universities including

• Virginia Tech
• Michigan State
• Columbia University
• Kenyon College
• Morehouse College
• Brown University

He has also conducted classes for execututives at Goldman Sachs, General Motors, Chrysler, Hess Oil, Toyota SE, State Farm, Caterpillar, Costco and Blue Cross/Blue Shield of Michigan.

Wayne started his career in Silicon Valley in 1981 as an AT&T software engineer, senior systems consultant, and technical instructor and also taught UNIX classes interanlly while UNIX was still being developed. Over his entire career he has taught and lectured to over 30,000 people and has been glad to contrinute to the sucess and careers of many.

Wayne is a native San Franciscan and holds his undergraduate degree from the University of San Franciscoand did his Masters studies at Massachusetts Institute of Technology as well as completing 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
DCTrptPlayer@gmail.com
Pastors@NotesOnLife.org

THANK YOU