Academic bio:

BSc. Electronics and Telecommunications Engineering, Instituto Militar dos Pupilos do Exército (IMPE), Lisbon, 1986. MSc. and post-MSc. in Electrotechnical Engineering (EE), Computer Systems branch, Instituto Superior Técnico (IST), University of Lisbon, 1990 and 1993, respectively.

Professional bio:

Systems and applications programmer, analyst, technical consultant and specialist in IT systems since 1986. Officially certified as a Database Admistrator (DBA) in IBM DB2 OS/390 (z/OS, mainframe) since 1995 and lately, IBM DB2 UDB for Linux, Unix and Windows (LUW) since 2001, this being the main current position.

Linux Audio bio:

Moderately active and enthusiastic participant in the open source and free software community, with special and particular interest in developing audio and MIDI on the GNU/Linux platform, as primary author of qjackctl [1], qsynth [2], qsampler/liblscp [3], qtractor [4], qxgedit [5], qmidictl [6], qmidinet [7], synthv1 [8], samplv1 [9] and drumkv1 [10], with former active cooperation in projects like the JACK Audio Connection Kit [11], LinuxSampler [12] and punctuated on the initiatives of the Real-time Linux kernel [13] and Advanced Linux Sound Architecture (ALSA) [14].

[1] http://qjackctl.sourceforge.net
[2] http://qsynth.sourceforge.net
[3] http://qsampler.sourceforge.net
[4] http://qtractor.sourceforge.net
[5] http://qxgedit.sourceforge.net
[6] http://qmidictl.sourceforge.net
[7] http://qmidinet.sourceforge.net
[8] http://synthv1.sourceforge.net
[9] http://samplv1.sourceforge.net
[10] http://drumkv1.sourceforge.net
[11] http://www.jackaudio.org
[12] http://www.linuxsampler.org
[13] http://rt.wiki.kernel.org
[14] http://www.alsa-project.org