“I once negotiated a truce between two rival gangs of 180 inmates inside a federal prison housing unit, but I can’t convince my kids to eat their vegetables.” — Armando Almase. — A Filipino-European American, Armando lives in the United States with his wife and children. He’s worked in food retail, food service, information technology, pre-hospital emergency medicine, consumer electronics retail, federal law enforcement, and insurance advocacy and education.