User:Beto

I am a Senior IT Auditor at ABN AMRO's Internal Audit Department in Brasil. I am mainly focused in auditing the client/server infrastructure and strategy of the Bank and related companies in Brasil.

Audio compression and related technologies are one of my hobbies, and I've been dedicating some time that I have to learn about this issues now. That's how I came across hydrogenaudio forums in early 2003.

The hydrogenaudio wiki comes to meet one more of my goals, that is to learn about the mediawiki technology and I am glad that Dibrom chose to change the old wiki to this new one. Now I feel more motivated to contribute.

Personal Profile

I was born in São Paulo in July 1975. I've also lived some time in a small town in São Paulo state countryside called Marília where I went to high school.

After high school (in 1994) I moved back to São Paulo to continue my studies at the local university. During that period my main interests were:

• Wired and wireless telecomunication systems
• Digital coding for wired and wireless solutions
• Analog and digital filters
• Antennas and signal propagation
• Discrete and continuous transforms

After some personal frustrations in the engineering field I received a proposal to join ABN AMRO's Internal Audit Department in 1998 as an intern. This decision brought a great shift in my professional focus and I decided to face engineering more as a hobby from that day forth.

So, I went to learn Economics at another local university and got my degree in 2002, where my main academic interests were:

• National and international banking
• Keynesian economics
• Inflation targeting in emerging market countries
• Econometrics
• Value at risk
• Economic policy and central banks

Recently my interest in digital audio has grown and I started to investigate the subject. Certainly I am not as savvy as most of hydrogenaudio regulars, but I am learning and hope I may add some value to this community.

Educational Background and Titles

• BE in Electrical Engineering from the Polythecnic School at the University of São Paulo
• MBA degree in Economics and Administration from Fundação Getúlio Vargas
• Recently I achieved the CISA (Certified Information Systems Auditor) title from ISACA

Other Interests

• Soccer
• Running
• Reading
• Information warfare
• Strategy
• Peer to peer technologies

My Setup

AMD Athlon XP1800+ 512MB 120GB IDE HD

SY-K7V DRAGON Plus! CMedia 8738 6-channel hardware audio

64MB Nvidia GeForce4 MX440

LG Electronics - DVD-ROM (DRD-8160B)

HL-DT-ST - CD-RW GCE-8320B

Rio Karma

Net-MD NZ505 (for a limited time only!!)

Links

Please, beware that most of the external links in this page are in portuguese. For some of them you may find an english version.

Contact

You may reach me by e-mail at grfi@uol.com.br