It’s about time I set up a blog, so let me introduce myself. It all started at a hospital in Rio de Janeiro just as man was about to land on the moon. Felippe Bartholo joined the world and soon became an avid soccer fan. OK, I know you’re bored, let me skip about 40 years, I’ll write my memoirs in some other forum.

My daughter Abby was born in 2008, and that continues to be the experience of a lifetime! That, together with the fact that my step sister just found a secret book written by my father before he passed away, is the primary reason why I was inspired to finally start a blog. My father’s book, which is a mixture of his memoirs and a fictional politial satire, was such a gift to me, that I hope my daughter can get a chance to enjoy my writings when she’s older.

My wife Vicky and I have been married since 1996.  We worked, travel, and played for over a decade before Abby came along, and I couldn’t ask for a better companion for those adventures.  Now with Abby here, life has of course changed.  We still play, but instead of picking a new Caribbean island for vacation every year, we opt to scope out the best baby playgrounds around.  It sounds corny, but it’s even more fun!

I currently work at Sun Microsystems as a Project Manager and Software Engineer. While Vicky has stayed at the same company for over a decade as a Program Manager for Cisco Systems, I’ve worked for several companies. Sun, however, has been a theme in my career, as this is my second stint at the company, and I often worked with Sun as a partner in various capacities while employed by other companies. My focus has been Java and Web technologies.