As a child, emerging technology expert Jason Wang literally had high career aspirations.

“I wanted to be a pilot,” Wang said, “but I found out I’d make $15,000, and school costs $100,000. My math is not that great, but I didn’t need calculus to figure that out.”

The Orange County native opted for the world of high tech, and went on to get a bachelor’s degree in information and computer science from University of California, Irvine.

Wang, 26, recently joined marketing and technology firm Avenue A/Razorfish as technology director of the L.A. office, where he manages the entire technology team. Wang and his team’s job is to create strategies to market customer companies’ products on the Web.

Wang, who was a technology strategist at SpeakTech before joining Avenue A/Razorfish, already has a long history in the business despite his young age.

“At my first IT job, I was still in seventh grade,” he said. “I was a full-time (entrepreneur) already when I was pursuing my degree at UC Irvine.”

Wang got his early start after a chance encounter at school.

“At that time, the Irvine Unified School District information services director believed in the students and gave students a chance to do things,” he said. “So literally one day after school, my friend got interviewed to work part time there. I was just with him, and I guess I qualified as well.

“Eventually, we formed our own company. We were developing VoIP before they were even calling it VoIP.” VoIP, voice over Internet protocol, refers to technology that delivers voice information over the Internet.

The budding tech execs stayed grounded, though.

“Only one of us could drive. At 5 o’clock, our parents would pick us up, like an after-school program,” Wang said.

And that teen experience helped put him on the path to his current sky-high aspiration: “My goal is to come up with the next Google.”

Wang is single and lives in Irvine. In his spare time, he enjoys golfing and flying.

“My dream aircraft is a Javelin. It’s a two-seater,” he said. “I’m not looking to buy a Porsche I want a jet.”

Alicia Barber