My first IT related job (intern) was in 2003. Started working on the IT company of the municipal government of Belo Horizonte. Started working with PHP intranet systems and had my first contact with Linux servers.  My second job (intern too) was in the Bank of Brazil in 2004. Working with more experienced developers we built a big system used by the bank's team. After that, I worked in a small web design company (about 5 employees) in 2006. In this job, I went deeper in PHP development where we've created our own PHP framework which we used to build systems for our clients.  By that time I was finishing my graduation course in Computer Science. My final paper was really exciting. I built a code generator to remotely call PHP methods using Javascript with Ajax. This paper was presented at a conference of a federal university in Brazil. Then I joined IBM in a worldwide team. Worked in the development of a big internal system of IBM in Java with WebSphere server. After IBM I worked for Accenture. This job was challenging because we developed and supported systems for huge metal factories. That support was critical because a production machine stopped in a factory means a lot of money loss per minute. Then I came back to IBM and worked there for more 3 years. I had the opportunity to join a top team and worked with trending technology stuff like cloud management and devices to support IBM conferences.