Hello and welcome to my corner;

I am Rom Sathler and I was born in Brazil in a galaxy far, far away. Well, maybe not that far, but indeed I've crossed the Atlantic to come to Europe in 1994, intially for a gap year. But then, before that year ends, and thoroughly enjoying the bath of culture, I've decided to complete my higher education in Europe. English was the only language I could speak other than Portuguese, and I did not want to go to Portugal, so a choice was easier, and it was to progress my education in UK. My family has Europeans roots and I always wanted to explore the old continent, so I suppose it all made sense at time, and as they say, the rest is history.

Anyway, this is mine personal site and being Brazilian and all, living abroad and being home sick from time to time, I've thought it would be a good name to give to it. As well as that, it should provide my long lost friends a way to contact me, and a portal where to get hold of my CV.

I am a graduated Bachelor in Electronics and Computing Engineering from Brunel University situated in the great city of London since 2000. Once completing that I've started working for an American multinational, Teradyne Ltd as a Software Applications Engineer, in which combined the electronic and software skills, creating software to control computerized modules to move mechanized devices present in cars. This first job directed my career towards more software and less electronics, which was a great thing in hindsight. It's a bonus I can dismember a machine guts, check out its electronic components, but I've decided to purse, as a career, the complexity of the driving force behind the machine, its artificial intelligence, I mean, its source code. When I've recognized what I wanted to do, I've completed a Master in Computing focused in OOP and software from Manchester University in 2003 and things got a lot more fun afterwards.

My next job was at Malvern Instruments Ltd working as Software Engineer. My role involved developing, testing and releasing high quality software for analytical instruments used in the characterization of a wide variety of materials at molecular level. Those instruments are conceived and developed in house for various industries such as Rheological purposes, pharmaceutical, Adhesive, Aerospace, Asphalt, Biotechnology, Chemicals, Nanotechnology, Proteins, etc. We used to develop on .NET platform on C#, making use of various third part components for the presentation layer and the code was heavily abstracted and OOP focused, envisaged by Mathematicians.

My current job is at Toumaz Technology Limited as Senior Software Engineer. My job involves managing the whole development life cycle for the SensiumSoft technology software platforms, which are the new generation of non-intrusive body-worn wireless devices to monitor vital signs in real-time. Those devices include data logging as well as real-time transmission to a PC and PDA devices. Again the development is .NET platform using C#, for PC and PDA using Windows Mobile libraries as well as WPF, VS2008, .NET 2.0 and 3.5.

That's a byte of me. If interested, please get in touch and/or get my CV below. Take care.
Rom

Seed for thought:

  • "The dictionary is the only place that success comes before work." - Vince Lombardi

  • O que sabemos e uma gota o que ignoramos e um oceano. Isaac Newton

  • Experience is not what happens to a man; it is what a man does with what happens to him. Aldous Huxley (1894-1963)

  • Only those who risk going too far can possibly know how far they can really go. T.S. Eliot

  • Solvitur ambulando. (It is solved by walking.) - (Saint) Augustine of Hippo

  • There may always be someone better, but never let that stop you from being your best.

  • A imaginacao e muito mais importante que o conhecimento. Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955)

  • Life does not offer you what you deserve; life offers you what you demand.

  • We have to do the best we can. This is our sacred human responsibility. - Albert Einstein

  • You have to accept whatever comes and the only important thing is that you meet it with the best you have to give. - Eleanor Roosevelt

  • Life does not require us to make good; it asks only that we give our best at each level of experience. - Harold Ruopp

  • Uma coisa faco: esquecendo-me das coisas que para tras ficam e avancando para as que diante de mim estao. Filipenses 3:13

  • Don't waste your time on jealousy. Sometimes you're ahead, sometimes you're behind. The race is long and, in the end, its only with yourself. - Mary Schmich

  • A life is never ended until all the lives it has touched have ended too. - Chinese proverb

  • Make a point of connecting with someone new every day. And re-acquaint yourself with anyone you have not spoken to for some time by going through your address book.

  • Indulge yourself by being generous help someone out, perform an act of kindness, offer a compliment. The person who will feel most uplifted by you having done so is you.

  • "Ha duas maneiras de viver a vida: Uma, e como se nada fosse milagre. A outra, com se tudo fosse milagre." Albert Einstein

  • Nossas duvidas sao traidoras e nos fazem perder o que, com frequencia, poderiamos ganhar, por simples medo de arriscar. William Shakespeare

  • Ninguem pode fazer com que voce se sinta inferior sem o seu consentimento. Eleanor Roosevelt

  • O pessimista e aquele que reclama de barulho, quando a oportunidade bate a sua porta. Michael Levine

  • Voce e aquilo que voce faz continuamente. Excelencia nao e uma eventualidade e um habito. Aristotoles

  • A mente que se abre a uma nova ideia jamais voltara ao seu tamanho original. Albert Estein

  • Os fracassos estao divididos em duas classes: aqueles que fizeram sem pensar, e os que pensaram sem fazer. John Salak

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