Official Bio
Since I know myself I've always had a curious and creative mind. My desire to discover and learn new things easily echoed - as indeed happened with much of my generation - on gaming consoles and computers where I’ve spent many hours of my time (luckily I was also using my time with other activities).
Being a proficient student, particularly in the fields of mathematics and science in general, my way into informatics turned out to be the most obvious, thus attending the informatics technology course in high school and the master's degree in computer engineering and computer science in university.
Although a demanding and laborious course, I decided that I should also use what the university offered outside the classroom and so I ended up getting involved in various international student associations, with special focus on Erasmus Student Network, a group of volunteer students whose aim is to promote and facilitate the integration of international exchange students at the university and academic life.
This organization allowed me early contact with very different people, very different cultures and, at the same time, travelling around Europe discovering other countries and promoting my own - Portugal. As I was increasingly involved in the organization I have also gained other responsibilities, thus taking the decision to prolong my studies for another year and become president of the local group in Porto and later the national representative of Portugal.
During this time I also had the opportunity of being an exchange student in Belgium, where in addition to extensive travelling around several European countries I was also able to acquire important skills in the areas of economics and business, marketing and organizational psychology.
With this, at the same time I could develop my leadership, team management, financial and event planning skills, I was also gaining a growing interest in the various industries associated with tourism. This became especially true for the hospitality business, for its contact with different kinds of people and the fine art of providing its customers with a range of experiences, seeking to excel in every aspect of its service.
After returning to Portugal and completing my studies and master's thesis I started my first professional collaboration in an international consulting firm in Lisbon, with a particular focus on the telecommunications and banking industries. Although being a very demanding year, it was also a year of great learning both in terms of technology and project management, but above all in hospitality and tourism, since at the same time I attended the executive master in hotel management taught jointly by two of the most renowned Portuguese schools of tourism and management, in Estoril.
This course was essential not only to acquire some basic knowledge of the sector and establish some important contacts, but also to discuss some advanced topics of hotel management, both in terms of operation and management of the unit, but also the design, development and investment in a unit or hotel group.
My interest in the hotel business was growing and the next step to take became, quite naturally, my career shift to the hotel industry, with the start of my collaboration in a hotel in the Algarve, in the south of Portugal. At the time I considered this a calculated risk - after all I was changing a career mainly focused in the technology industry and with good prospects for a new area where my knowledge and experience were still somewhat reduced. However I think this turned out to be a wise choice as I’ve had the opportunity to solidify and increase my knowledge in the hospitality business, by being involved in the day-to-day operations and management of the hotel.
Throughout this period in Algarve I tried to deepen my knowledge in the areas which interested me the most, obtaining more training and knowledge, which led me to participate in some workshops and seminars and in an international conference.
I am know searching for a new challenge!
October 2011
Unnoficial Bio
Its experience in the world of music does not come of now. He attended for 5 years the conservatory of music, having given up by being misunderstood. The music was not bad, only too ahead of its time. Late member of the Radio Club, at the Camilo Castelo Branco high school, soon he raised the attention of all the ones that heard him, specially when they made it during lesson hours, in decibels above what is generally understood as pleasent. When entering in college he committed the happy error of joining the Tuna de Engenharia da Universidade do Porto, where he became an expert of a Portugal of bigger musical depth than he previously thought, becoming appreciator of fados, tunas, serenades, folklores, pimbalhadas and desgarradas.
Lover of trips, cows, fractals and sofas, it is said that he is a person of uncountable generosity, having himself already offered to end with the hunger in the world. He only awaits the opportune moment.
A legend runs that always that he goes on a trip, even that only for a weekend, he brings along himself an enormous and heavy luggage, where he hides the hearts, still pumping out blood, of the people for whom he fells in love, so that they are distant from himself, destinated to be forgotten.
He is a man full of straight ideas: ideas on what he doesn’t want to do. In the incessant search for his intrinsic being itself exactly in the sphere of its interior person whom it inside processes of the proper one, it looks the fullness of the life in the flame that it consumes the match and it burns the finger, transmitting to the brain through electric impulses the pain sensation.
He appreciates the calm of an end of afternoon of Summer in the Lua rock, glimpsing the ocean 30 km away.
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