Julian R. Illescas is a Telecommunications Engineer and Consultant for over 25 years, Julian has been a trusted consultant to various tech companies in U.S., including GoDaddy, Inc., LifeLock, Inc., AT&T and CVS, Inc., to mention a few. 

Julian was born in Guatemala City, Central America and he came to live in the U.S. when he was just a teenager; his love of story-telling led him to take various courses in writing at the UCLA Learning Annex, where he honed his craft and further developed his own style, which he describes as edgy and realistic with relevant story lines that aims to put audiences in the middle of the action so they can live, cry and laugh along with his characters. 

Julian is also an award-winning photographer who has used that medium to create photos with a heart that tell a story.  Sicarias as a project that started for him as a photographic essay, where he came up with various photographic concepts that were later turned into scenes within his script for Sicarias and this allowed him to understand and research his characters better for this project.