Paulo has a bachelor degree in Electronics and Telecommunications (Digital Systems) by the Instituto Superior de Engenharia de Lisboa and a degree of licentiate in Informatics by the Faculdade de Ciências da Universidade Nova de Lisboa and na MCSD for Microsoft .NET certification. Paulo works at Espírito Santo Informática, ACE (http://www.esi.pt/) as a developer/software architect. Paulo contributes in the Microsoft Portuguese newsgroups answering questions about software development (with special focus on the .NET framework) which earned him the Microsoft MVP Award (https://mvp.support.microsoft.com/profile/Paulo.Morgado) since 2003. His growing interest in software architecture drives his participation in the Portuguese Group of Software Architecture – GASP (http://www.arquitecturadesoftware.org/). Blog: http://msmvps.com/blogs/PauloMorgado/