County Dublin, Ireland
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Volunteer Experience

  • Student Mentor, Member

    Dublin Java User Group (DubJUG)

    - Present 7 years 11 months

    Education

    I mentored an intern to develop the DubJUG website, decided the technology to be used, integrated TITO API so it's possible to see the past and coming events and Twitter feeds from DubJug and Java.

    I've been supporting DubJug with promotions, ideas, and presentations in order to make the group even stronger.

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    Java Quiz Master

    Oracle

    - Present 7 years 1 month

    Education

    A very powerful way to enhance code quality and creating high-quality software is by goin deep into the programming language we work with. A very handy wayt to do so is by taking the weekly ranked Java quizzes in Oracle Dev Gym!

    For more information, go to http://bit.ly/jumpintojava

Publications

  • Java Challengers

    LeanPub

    The Java Challengers book contains fun exclusive Java code Challenges to help developers to really learn the most important Java concepts. There are more than 70 well-elaborated Java code Challenges to challenge Java developers to refine their Java skills to the very best so they can create high-quality code and get rid of bugs far more easily.

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  • Golden Lessons: 100 Insights to Overcome Life's Challenges and Achieve Your Career Dreams

    Amazon

    What is your dream? What is preventing you to accomplish it?

    Many times in life we need guidance to perform the actions we must take. That’s what this book is all about. It will guide you, open your eyes, and make you believe in your dreams.

    This book has 100 practical lessons from my life's journey that will enable you to achieve your dreams. Whether you want to do like me and get a job as a software developer in another country, create your own business, or any other dream you…

    What is your dream? What is preventing you to accomplish it?

    Many times in life we need guidance to perform the actions we must take. That’s what this book is all about. It will guide you, open your eyes, and make you believe in your dreams.

    This book has 100 practical lessons from my life's journey that will enable you to achieve your dreams. Whether you want to do like me and get a job as a software developer in another country, create your own business, or any other dream you may have, here you will find real lessons from real experience.

    From finding your mentor to taking responsibility for your life and career, you will learn how to believe in yourself, even when the odds are not in your favor.

    These golden lessons that I learned from the very best in the industry, worked for me and will help you take action to achieve your most amazing dreams.

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Courses

  • Algaworks: JPA and Hibernate Beyond the Basics (May - June 2015) - 60 hours

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  • IME-USP: Java Programming (January - February 2014) - 30 hours

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  • IME-USP: Web HTML Interfaces, CSS and Javascript (January 2014) - 30 hours

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  • Impacta: C# Essentials (February - April 2011) - 40 hours

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  • K19: Web Services System Integration, JMS and EJB (May - June 2014) - 18 hours

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Projects

  • Star/BoB - Regulatory Module - Cielo

    Development of the company's taxation module in compliance with government regulations (Sefaz, Bacen, DECRED, DIRF).

    Other creators

  • Mobile Application - Média Faculdades Universidades

    - Present

    Android application that assists students from various major Brazilian universities to calculate necessary scores to fulfill course requirements.

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Honors & Awards

  • Oracle Groundbreaker Ambassador

    Oracle

  • Java Champion

    Oracle

    I had the great honor of being nominated by whom I greatly admire, Venkat Subramaniam and officially accepted as a Java Champion by world wide top developers. With this amazing award, I can expand even more the contributions I am doing to the Java community and make it stronger.

Languages

  • English

    Full professional proficiency

  • Portuguese

    Native or bilingual proficiency

  • Spanish

    Elementary proficiency

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