Bio: Rui Carmo
A geek in a suit - complete with a Systems Engineering degree, a decade and a half of overexposure to the Internet, and (horror of horrors to the uninitiated), Marketing experience in the telco world.
After surviving graduation at IST in '94 and deciding that a life in the graphics design and multimedia industry wasn't nearly enough fun as computer networks, he became immersed in Wi-Fi, 3G/UMTS and IP-related stuff at a major multinational telco for several years, going through five consecutive generations of ISP and mobile services either acting as a solutions architect and interfacing with Marketing, or as a product manager and interfacing with Engineering.
Besides mobile data, fixed broadband and convergent services, his interests include navigating business processes, delivering innovative services, crisis management, graphics design, branding, mass media, dealing with long, big, extremely convoluted projects that span national borders and have to be split across yearly budgets, and doing apparently simple things that "just work" for the average person on the street - often all at once.
Windows user by day, Mac user (by choice) by night, he's still wondering why all the fuss about Linux when BSD has been around forever, works just fine (or even better) and neither of them managed to change the world - or have a sizable impact on personal computing for "regular" people.
Besides, neither of them runs PowerPoint properly.
Blog: The Tao of Mac
http://the.taoofmac.com
Sobre o Blog:
The Tao of Mac is an experimental single-user Wiki disguised as a conventional web log. Article topics range from Apple-related issues to overall IT and telco industry commentary with occasional forays into the fields of mobile data, assorted gadgetry, coding (mostly Python) and quick dips into the innards of just about any kind of operating system you care to name, interspersed with the occasional rant on usability (or lack thereof) of random pieces of technology.