Microsoft Most Valuable Professional since 2009, helping Microsoft's customers adopt the latest technologies, and helping shape the future of Microsoft products.

Founder of the "NetPonto" user group (http://netponto.org), the most active technical community in Portugal, where is a regular speaker and organizes monthly events since 2009. NetPonto hosted over 200 technical sessions presented by community members and MVPs on more than 80 events in different cities in Portugal, including Lisbon, Oporto, Coimbra, and others.

Featured Speaker at the Microsoft Innovation Week | Windows 8 Dev Day 2012 event in Portugal, presenting three sessions on Windows 8 Metro Style Apps development.

One of the main speakers of the Microsoft WebDay 2010 event in Portugal, presenting the session "What’s new in ASP .NET MVC 3", presented both in Lisbon and Oporto in October of 2010;

Speaker at the Microsoft TechDays 2010 Portugal event, presenting three sessions: "What’s new in Entity Framework 4", "What’s new in ASP .NET 4", e "Inversion of Control and Dependency Injection in the .NET world";