Yoshi DeHerrera

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name = Yoshi DeHerrera
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spouse = Keri DeHerrera
website = [http://www.yoshi.us/ "Yoshi's Website"]
[http://www.twit.tv/ "This Week in Tech"]
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Joshua "Yoshi" DeHerrera (born February 1,1972) is an American television personality and modding enthusiast who resides in Los Angeles, California. DeHerrera is known as the "Mad Modder", due to his works with computers and technology on the technology-related variety television program "The Screen Savers" on TechTV.

Early life

DeHerrera first got into computers in the early 80's with his family's Commodore 64. Deherrera attended California Polytechnic State University in San Luis Obispo, California. [ [http://www.g4tv.com/techtvvault/features/31351/Focus_On_Yoshi_DeHerrera.html Focus On: Yoshi DeHerrera] ]

Career

DeHerrera began working at ZDTV (later TechTV) in 1998 as a Technical Specialist. He later became an on-screen talent and a Segment Producer on TechTV's show "The Screen Savers". He became well known for his computer and electronics mods. One of DeHerrera's most memorable creations was Yoshi's Boxx, a combination of a gaming PC, Nintendo GameCube, Sony PlayStation 2, Microsoft Xbox, and many other older video game systems into one box. [ [http://www.g4tv.com/screensavers/features/37229/Yoshis_Mods_Yoshis_Boxx.html Yoshi's Boxx] ] DeHerrera returned a year after the first Yoshi's Boxx to create Y-Boxx 2k3. [ [http://www.g4tv.com/xplay/features/44163/Yoshis_Mods_YBoxx_2K3.html Y-Boxx 2k3] ]

On March 25, 2004, Comcast's G4 gaming channel announced a merger with TechTV. This move became hugely controversial among loyal fans of TechTV. Around May 6, G4 announced the termination of 250 employees from the San Francisco office by July 10, 2004, allowing approximately 80 to 100 employees to transition to G4's main office in Los Angeles, California if they agreed to relocate there. [ [http://leoville.com/blog/index.php/TLR/comments/comcast_fires_techtv_staff/ Comcast Fires TechTV Staff] ] DeHerrera chose to stay with G4 and moved to Los Angeles.

On November 11, 2004, DeHerrera, along with many other employees at G4techTV, was terminated. G4 had decided to revamp "The Screen Savers" by making it more pop culture, Internet, and gaming-oriented. [ [http://alexalbrecht.typepad.com/alex/g4techtv/index.html Alex Albrecht's blog about the terminations] ]

Deherrera was one of the founders of "From the Shadows" in 2005, an online videozine he created with Tom Rowles and John Hering. [ [http://crew.fromtheshadows.tv/ From the Shadows Crew] ]

DeHerrera is currently a Computer-Aided Digital Designs Engineer at Gentle Giant Studios. With Gentle Giant Studios, DeHerrera has worked on many major motion pictures, including ', "Spider-Man 3", ', "Transformers", "I Am Legend", "Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull" and "The Dark Knight". [ [http://www.imdb.com/name/nm1350134/ Yoshi DeHerrera's IMDB page] ]

Author

DeHerrera is also a published author with "TechTV's Mod Mania with Yoshi: A Guide to Customizing Your Computer and Other Digital Devices". [ [http://www.amazon.com/s?search-type=ss&index=books&field-author=Joshua%20%22Yoshi%22%20DeHerrera Joshua "Yoshi" DeHerrera's books at Amazon.com] ]

Personal life

On March 5, 2005, DeHerrera announced on the technology podcast "This Week in Tech", that he was soon to be married to Keri DeHerrera and was expecting his first child. [ [http://www.twit.tv/4 The TWiT Netcast Network with Leo Laporte ] ] In episode six, he announced that the child would be a boy. [ [http://www.twit.tv/6 The TWiT Netcast Network with Leo Laporte ] ]

References

External links

* [http://www.yoshi.us/ Yoshi DeHerrera's official site]
* [http://www.imdb.com/name/nm1350134/ Yoshi DeHerrera's IMDB page]