Andrew Quintero
{{Short description|American scientist (1963–2014)}}
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| birth_place = Mountain View, California, US
| death_place = Waikiki Beach, Hawaii, US
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| occupation = Entrepreneur
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| known_for = Co-founder of JumpStartFund and patents in Space research
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Andrew Quintero (1963 – May 4, 2014) was an American scientist and entrepreneur. He was the co-founder of JumpStartFund,{{cite web|title=Why we should support Elon Musk's Hyperloop|url=http://www.mnn.com/green-tech/transportation/blogs/why-we-should-support-elon-musks-hyperloop|publisher=mnn.com|access-date=10 June 2014}} a platform which provides crowdsourcing for start-up tech companies.{{cite web|title=A Southern California Startup Is Trying To Jump-Start Elon Musk's Hyperloop|url=https://www.forbes.com/sites/markrogowsky/2013/08/29/a-southern-california-startup-is-trying-to-jump-start-elon-musks-hyperloop/|work=forbes.com|access-date=10 June 2014}}
Early life and career
Born in 1963 in Mountain View, California, Quintero was a member of the St. Thomas Aquinas Parish in Palo Alto in his early years. He graduated from Palo Alto High School and continued on to earn his Executive MBA from Loyola Marymount.{{cite web|title=Memorial|url=http://www.almanacnews.com/obituaries/memorials/andrew-quintero?o=3926|publisher=almanacnews.com|access-date=10 June 2014}}
He was an architect of a Space Systems Engineering Database. Andrew also worked for Hughes Space and Communications, supporting anomaly and failure investigations. He patented a program named Smart Cow, an intelligent search engine.{{cite web|title=It's Patently Amazing|url=http://www.aerospace.org/2013/10/01/its-patently-amazing/|publisher=aerospace.org|access-date=10 June 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131014200838/http://www.aerospace.org/2013/10/01/its-patently-amazing/|archive-date=14 October 2013|url-status=dead}}{{cite web|title=The Aerospace Corporation|url=http://www.soleralabs.com/experience.html|publisher=soleralabs.com|access-date=10 June 2014}}{{cite web|title=Agilent Technologies, Aerospace Corporation to provide new applications for test solutions for aerospace, defense customers |url=http://www.aerotechnews.com/starc/2001/082401/agilent.html |publisher=aerotechnews.com |access-date=10 June 2014 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20030712074836/http://www.aerotechnews.com/starc/2001/082401/agilent.html |archive-date=July 12, 2003 }}{{cite web|title=Andrew Quintero President and CEO |url=http://nacenters.com/html/3_team/team.htm |publisher=nacenters.com |access-date=10 June 2014 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090208172857/http://nacenters.com/html/3_team/team.htm |archive-date=February 8, 2009 }}
Death
Andrew was found unconscious and floating on his back {{convert|30|feet|m|0}} offshore near a Waikiki Beach restaurant. He was taken to the hospital by local lifeguards and died there at about 8:40 AM of May 4, 2014 at the age of 51.{{cite web |url=http://www.staradvertiser.com/news/breaking/20140505_Tourist_dies_in_apparent_drowning_off_Waikiki_Beach.html|title=Tourist who drowned off Waikiki Beach identified|publisher=staradvertiser.com|date=May 5, 2014 |access-date=2014-07-08}}