Paulo has a bachelor's degree in Electronics and Telecommunications (Digital Systems) from the Instituto Superior de Engenharia de Lisboa, and a degree of licentiate in Informatics Engineering from the Faculdade de Ciências da Universidade Nova de Lisboa. He's passionate about C# and the .NET framework and is an MCSD for Microsoft .NET as well as an MCTS for .NET Framework 2.0 Windows Applications, and .NET Framework 2.0 ASP.NET Applications. In addition, Paulo is a Friend of Redgate and has been awarded Microsoft MVP thirteen times.