He received his Ph.D. in telematic engineering from UPM in 2001. From 1993 to 1996, he worked at the National Telecommunications Company in Colombia (TELECOM) where he managed several research projects, and he was the technical manager of his own company, S&H Ltda. His main areas of interest and expertise are new services for wireless sensor networks and internet of things, ubiquitous computing, service management, advanced telecom services, advanced software architectures, component-based distributed applications and telematic services for Internet new generation.