So here it goes, a little bit about me:

If I had to tag myself it would be “workaholic”,”friendly”, “social”, “thought provoking”, “different”

I’m a 31 single guy that decided to open a company two years ago with a few friends.

I ended up being the CEO of Core Factor | IT Consulting & Design - a company with two main focuses: web design – this is my area of expertise … we make it our business to have an emphasis on building standards compliant and accessible solutions – and server management – mainly windows 2k3, my business partner’s area.

I’ve been working on web design for about 8 years now but it was in the past year or so I that was fortunate enough to meet some emblematic guys that shaped the way I see and want to be on the web:

Pedro Custodio (Sapo), Bruno Figueiredo (APPU, Ideias e Imagens), Andre Ribeirinho (adegga.com, avin), Fred Oliveira (WeBreakStuff), Pedro Sousa (Ruby-pt, Re-inventar), Francisco Cabrita (Ruby-pt, Freebsd), Bruno Pedro (Unfolding the web, tarpipe), Alcides Fonseca (Takeoff) and Celso (Sapo)

For me it all started in Barcamp Coimbra in 2007… you really have to be at one of these to understand it’s true power. I liked it so much that we’re sponsoring the Barcamp 2008 in Lisbon organized by João Moreno and João Rico at FCT. If you wanna know more, be there and ask me …

On a side note I’m also co-organizing Shift 2008 (set your calendars: 15 to 18 October) with Pedro Custodio, Bruno Figueiredo and Andre Ribeirinho amongst others. It’s going to be awesome. Be there!

Special thanks:

A final word to thank my business partner: Peter. A workaholic (like me), two years, zero arguments … that’s how good we get along. And to thank Andre Luis, our very first web employee, you paved the way and I learned a lot.

Hope you all enjoy this blog. I’ll write about my company, web design, technology, usability, entrepreneurship and every day issues. Any requests? Feel free to contact me…