Pedro was born in 1977 in Portugal and currently works as BI consultant at Novabase. He’s also an invited teacher in a Master and Postgraduate BI degrees, by IUL-ISCTE (Lisbon) and UPT (Porto) respectively. He’s a co-founder of a BI community: BIResort, and recently received from Microsoft the award “Microsoft Most Valuable Professional” (MVP) for all the dedication and contribution helping theoretical and practical issues in the various communities on the area of BI
He has a degree in Information Systems (IS) by Universidade Portucalense (Porto/2001) and also has a master degree in Decision Support Systems/BI by IUL-ISCTE (Lisbon/2009). After finished his IS degree at Birmingham (UK/2001) and an experience in the European Commission Research Centre (Italy-Milan/2002) as an analyst/programmer, he currently works at Novabase as consultant since 2003 working in the BI area since 2005.
He has several Microsoft certifications including MCP, MCSD, MCTS-Web, MCTS-BI and MCITP-BI and also worldwide certifications in the area of BI provided by TDWI/CBIP (The Data Warehouse Institute – www.tdwi.org).
He’s currently preparing his PhD degree on BI. For further details you can also visit his personal blog at www.pedrocgd.blogspot.com
"Só as pessoas inteligentes procuram, para auxiliá-las, pessoas mais inteligentes do que elas"
(Baltasar Gracián)