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, PlayStation 2, Xbox, and many other older video game systems into one box. DeHerrera returned a year after the first Yoshi's Boxx to create 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. 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.
Deherrera was one of the founders of From the Shadows in 2005, an online videozine he created with Tom Rowles and John Hering.
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 X-Men: The Last Stand, Spider-Man 3, Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End, Transformers, I Am Legend, Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull and The Dark Knight.
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