Christian M. Frank Fas

# age 4: first machine

Technology since age 4. A childhood spent taking personal computers apart to learn what made them answer.

# the raw internet

University computer science classes as a teenager. Then telnet, mIRC, FTP, and the web while it was still forming.

# puerto rico: first broadband

Helped bring Puerto Rico its first high speed broadband. Early adopter of every internet technology that mattered, evangelist for most of them.

# law, aimed at technology

Law school focused on technology and the development of online payment systems, straight through to the blockchain revolution.

# 2006: digital notarization

Wrote the first law review article on digital notarization in 2006, years before the profession caught up.

# 2008: the first virtual lawyer

Puerto Rico's first virtual lawyer. Starting in 2008, represented island clients remotely from the US mainland, when remote practice was not yet a category.

# 2008 to 2010: the collapse

Through Puerto Rico's banking collapse, took on WesternBank, UBS Paine Webber, Doral Bank, and RG Mortgage.

# the exit

I left the system. Twenty plus years of commercial law across Puerto Rico, Florida, Costa Rica, and Panama, practiced the way a builder practices: design the structure, test it, ship it.