Álvaro M. Rocha

Current

• Owner at Alvaro M. Rocha - Enterprises (Sole Proprietorship)
• Audiocourses - Audio Engineering Faculty Staff at Audiocourses
• Professional Musician / Author at AMR - Advanced Audio Productions

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Past

• Systems and Network Engineer at COFINA
• Audio and Recording Engineer at Voicesignal
• Webmaster at Investec

• Expert Writer / Opinion Maker at PC Guia
• Systems and Network Administrator / Webmaster at Ferreira & Bento
• Director / Editor in Chief at Personal Computer World
• Software Engineer at Estereofoto
• I.T. Instructors Teacher at Instituto Tecnologias Avançadas
• Robots programming / Assembly lines design / Helpdesk at Philips
• Manager at Incêndio Café
• Physical and Psychological Instructor at Fire-Department Elite Unit - BVE

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Education

• American Express, Crédit Agricole, Fidelity, Schroders, Mellon & Pictet
• Marketware
• Dynargie

• Several Martial Arts schools
• Microsoft
• Universidade de Coimbra
• Music Academy - Several Institutions
• Red Cross
• Colégio Liceal de Sta. Maria de Lamas
• Esmoriz: Relva Primária, Preparatória, Secundária

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Websites

• My Website
• My Blog
• My Company

Álvaro M. Rocha’s Summary

Strong minded diplomatic achiever, charismatic personality, natural born leader and achiever. Started learning music at age 4, first music work written at age 6, contact with computers from age 9, learned Z80 assembly before puberty.

Electronics and I.T./C.S. academic university background. Audio and Recording Engineer. Created a pioneering physical and mind course for an elite core of a firedepartment unit.

Charming, passionate, but with a conforting irradiating "peacefull calm" feeling, transmited by his persona, assertive and self-confident. Can offer inspiring leadership, natural sixth-sense resonant empathy, art and good taste, offers solutions/the way there, creativity/speed/accurate fast problem solving and realtime contextual optimization.

Provides an enjoyable pleasant time, adapted to the working team's personality and/or corporate culture, formal as is enough but quickly appeals to deeper professional relationships in order to use emotional sinergy (believes that properly guided and trained gut feelings work much faster than rational linear thought).

Does not believe in hipocrisy, just in minor speech adjustments.
Very creative and very resourcefull.

Author of countless IT media, music and leading papers opinion articles loves gran touring cars, skilled driving and continuous learning and education.

Business and result oriented, avoids "bad stress" inducing scenarios/alters them from start. A world-wide stock-market agressive daytrader, an investor with good instinct, who has great passion for negotiation, for all cultures, economics, high finance and politics, always tuned in to the world in realtime, information seeker, always trying to understand why things are the way they are, when they are, predicting, explaining and always standing one step ahead.

Well conected, knows "most" of the world.
Trust worthy, man of principles, values and honour - and lots of fun.

Álvaro M. Rocha’s Specialties:

Wide Area / Metro Area / Local Area Network Design
Wired/Wireless (WiFi/Mobile) secure VPN design
Windows/Unix Administration
IT Security (Encryption/Firewalls/Intrusion Detection)
Programming (Standard languages, can learn (m)any more fast)
Software engineering: project management and systems design
Music - composing, arranging, producing
Audio design and engineering (surround/advanced resolution)
Opinion Making
Martial Arts
Neurolinguistics

Álvaro M. Rocha’s Experience

• Owner

  Alvaro M. Rocha - Enterprises (Sole Proprietorship)

  (Sole Proprietorship; 11-50 employees; Management Consulting industry)

  November 2007 — Present (1 year 9 months)

  Business Angel services
  
  Worldwide investments
  
  Achievement
  
  Coaching and Mentoring
  
  Networking
  
  Audio and Written Media Production
  
  IT Engineering

• Audiocourses - Audio Engineering Faculty Staff

  Audiocourses

  (Privately Held; 51-200 employees; E-Learning industry)

  2004 — Present (5 years)

  http://www.audiocourses.com/sections-viewarticle-39.html
  
  Faculty staff invited member.
  Audiocourses is an audio engineering school.

• Professional Musician / Author

  AMR - Advanced Audio Productions

  (Privately Held; Myself Only; Music industry)

  1990 — Present (19 years)

  Professional music composer and performer.

• Systems and Network Engineer

  COFINA

  (Privately Held; 1001-5000 employees; CFNAE.LS; Newspapers industry)

  January 2001 — June 2007 (6 years 6 months)

  Designed, implemented and maintained high-speed, high-availability, secure world wide network. COFINA Media is one of the leading printed and online media international group, based in Portugal, belonging to the Cofina Holding - CofiHold.

• Audio and Recording Engineer

  Voicesignal

  (Privately Held; Computer Software industry)

  May 2005 — June 2005 (2 months)

  Audio samples optimization and colection, sub-hired.

• Webmaster

  Investec

  (Public Company; 501-1000 employees; Media Production industry)

  2001 — 2003 (2 years)

  High-availability secure systems engineering, optimized coding of mass trafic portuguese leading media web sites.

• Expert Writer / Opinion Maker

  PC Guia

  (Privately Held; 501-1000 employees; Media Production industry)

  1998 — 2002 (4 years)

  Author of inumerous articles about technology, imposing a diferent and actractive style on the portuguese quite formal written periodic literature status quo.
  
  Resident author of a section, which became a cult one, written in pure fun british style (but in portuguese), answering readers questions about computer hardware and software problems, with an inteligent political and social twist parallel to it.

• Systems and Network Administrator / Webmaster

  Ferreira & Bento

  (Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Media Production industry)

  1998 — 2001 (3 years)

  Designed and managed most company's information systems and IT infra-structure.
  
  Programmed websites which had over a million pageviews (a lot for the that time and resources), making the most of caching systems and high-availability.
  
  "Created" content-management and framework proprietary software in a time there was not even that buzz word yet, to allow internal journalists to publish to the web with backoffices with no concern for HTML, just content, designers had only concern for form.
  
  "Created" exporting javascript feeds long before XML was a standard and RSS syndication a reality.
  
  Created ZDNet's and Gamespot's proprietary and fully supporting web-software in Portugal.

• Director / Editor in Chief

  Personal Computer World

  (Public Company; 201-500 employees; Publishing industry)

  1998 — 2000 (2 years)

  Editor in Chief of Portuguese leading IT magazine, with license from VNU Labs.

• Software Engineer

  Estereofoto

  (Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

  1997 — 1998 (1 year)

  GIS - 3D georeference systems.
  Database and GUI design and implementation.

• I.T. Instructors Teacher

  Instituto Tecnologias Avançadas

  (Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Primary/Secondary Education industry)

  1995 — 1997 (2 years)

  Teached future mid-level IT professors to teach.
  Also teached students about PC/OS/Productivity Software basics and more advanced use of the former.

• Robots programming / Assembly lines design / Helpdesk

  Philips

  (Public Company; Industrial Automation industry)

  June 1993 — October 1993 (5 months)

  Post-degree internship at Philips. Worked with robots and assembly lines design (sensors, microcode) and helpdesk diagnosing assembly line problems.

• Manager

  Incêndio Café

  (Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Food & Beverages industry)

  July 1993 — September 1993 (3 months)

  Manager, summer.
  Ocasional bar tending.
  Profitable, in a hard competitive niche market, positive income due to wise management and mostly a visionary daring spirit.

• Physical and Psychological Instructor

  Fire-Department Elite Unit - BVE

  (Non-Profit; Myself Only; Program Development industry)

  June 1993 — September 1993 (4 months)

  Created a high-end top course to train an elite team of man for leadership, confidence growth, croud control, stress management, instinctive correct evasive action, breath and movement optimization, clear headed high-pressure decision making and surround aware survival techniques in extreme scenarios.
  
  Heavy use of meditation and breath techniques, paradoxes, very soft dinamic stretch exercices and conditioned reflexes training.
  
  Attended by students from 18-60 years old. None ever had a hint of feeling bad nor too tired, all left ready for heavy action.
  
  The course did not rely on achiving top physical form, nor doing so through food/life habits, but rather on adapting the current body fitness to the context in the best way possible, without thinking, with the least energy possible, focusing it with great power whereas needed, reflexes keeping a sharp prepared mind and minor injuries focused scenario, helped with a subliminar training of a responsive "beyond body" awareness.

Álvaro M. Rocha’s Education

• American Express, Crédit Agricole, Fidelity, Schroders, Mellon & Pictet

  Investment Funds Management 2005 — 2006

• Marketware

  Advanced Applied Computer Systems and Networks Hacking 2004 — 2004

• Dynargie

  Leadership and people management techniques 2003 — 2003

• Several Martial Arts schools

  Black Belts , Internal and External styles , 1985 — 2003

  New trend martial arts course creator, focusing on life arts, not war (martial) arts - keeping the survival instinc and defense/attack pretty high, but not demanding that much physical discipline - focus kept on mind sets, brainwash imunity, language and psycological/strategical powergames, history and inteligence development (culture, reasoning, problem solving).

  Activities and Societies:

  Internal and External styles.
  
  International professional athlete, competitor. Foreign (far east) internships with top world masters. Inspirational speacher/pro trainer. Known for training one a time, fast, does not train for fighting - assures one's prepared for the proper action though.
  
  Most students are top company managers, VIP's and relatives, security enforcers and plain curious people, all pre-selected. Most training is in psycological games, history and only few physical techniques.

• Microsoft

  Tech Ed, Amsterdam 2000 — 2000

• Universidade de Coimbra

  CS/IT Software and Systems Engineering 1993 — 1997

  Instituto Superior de Engenharia de Coimbra
  Departamento de Engenharia Informática e de Sistemas
  [Instituto Politécnico de Coimbra]

  Activities and Societies:

  Academic Tunas: guitar/voice/writing/orchestration, ethilic quality standard analysis to required hidratants, female 'props' testdrives.
  
  AKA: AMR, Blade, Silêncio, Génio, DrBaldas, JC, Stallone, Bruce Lee, Mochila sacos Continente (not rich then, never used tradicional notebooks), ténis cor-de-rosa (unfortunate washing accident & not yet rich by then), Rapaz chamado Álvaro, capa ondulante (from frequent sightings of waving cape action underneath during "Queima das Fitas"), DrBohemia, etc.
  .

• Music Academy - Several Institutions

  Music 1979 — 1995

  Awarded most creative piano player and best entertainer in 1992.
  
  Awarded best composer, several times, in several countries, in independent concerts premiering young writers.
  
  Awarded with special prize for the most outstanding acoustic using musician "experimental works prize" (used a lagoon echoes - measured and convoluted by computer by himself - to write a dedicated theme, played on boats, with many of the phrases written on score reliying solely on the lagoon sound poly-reflexion in the night of the concert - 1994).
  
  Very controversial musician: believes in the audio pleasure above melodical mathematical writing, however, recognizes JS Bach as one of the best ever composers, considering the technical limits of the time.

• Red Cross

  First Aid 1993 — 1993

• Colégio Liceal de Sta. Maria de Lamas

  Técnico Profissional , Analog and Digital Electronics , 1990 — 1993

• Esmoriz: Relva Primária, Preparatória, Secundária

  1981 — 1990

  Straight A 's Student, little effort.
  Consecutively proposed for special teaching for over-gifted childs.
  
  Self-taught in many aspects due to library in the family and total freedom of thought. A considerably non-conditioned happy child in a culturaly rich and diversified neighborhood.

  Activities and Societies:

  Reading Club: best reader.
  Member of the "Maths and Physics" schools representation team.
  
  Considered the best student ever around (there), until that time (at least) - not a geek though, very rarely ever, if ever, "studied hard", neglected to do homework and had a nasty habit of arriving always (and this means every time) really late (he always thought he just needed time enough, and enough was way inferior to that which he was made to endure).

Additional Information

Álvaro M. Rocha’s Websites:

• My Website
• My Blog
• My Company

Álvaro M. Rocha’s Interests:

Learning; Fun; Living; Gran Touring Cars; High-end top gear, New Technology; 3D positional audio (Surround: Dolby / DTS / WMA / Lossless); Meditation and mind-opening paradigm shifts; Skilled fast driving; Movies, DVD, High-Definition TV; Playstation;

Álvaro M. Rocha’s Groups:

SPA - Sociedade Portuguesa de Autores:
http://www.spautores.pt/PageMembros.aspx?UserCod=1&UserID=16279, Jean Michel Jarre, Gonçalo Figueiredo

•    Blue: The DallasBlue Business Network (25,000+ members)
•    Green
•    Yachting Industry Networking Group

Álvaro M. Rocha’s Honors:

School's (3) overall's best and most outstanding average and top grades record. (1980-1987)

Physics district "Olympics": winner. (1986)

LeGrand best Electronics projects awards: project selected for final phase and financed. Never completed due to lack of funds, demanded strict demanding R&D test scenarios and was too ambitious due to being too advanced for its time, it would work though. (1991)

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