Roberto Ramirez
grew up in Pico Rivera, CA, and fell in love with fireworks as a kid. His fascination with chemistry and fire naturally led him to an interest in pyrotechnics. Roberto joined the WPA in 2004 and hasn’t missed a Winterblast since! His initial interest was to find out how to work on commercial displays which led him to shoot shows with Fireworks America and the Flying Monkeys Pyro Team. In 2006 he took a 4″ Italian shell seminar led by Steve Wilson and decided to focus on making Italian style shells “the old school way”. Roberto has an A.S. degree in Environmental Technology and is currently working at a staging and production company in Southern California. When not shooting firework shows or cooking (another of his interests) he can be found out and about in SoCal supporting the local punk rock scene.