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<span class="text-primary">João</span> <span style="display:none">Carlos Negrão</span> <span class="text-primary">Ventura</span>
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<p class="lead mb-5">Software engineer with a strong background in ground segment and mission control systems for the European space industry. Highly experienced in backend web development, specifically in Drupal. Expert in Portuguese genealogy, even if I keep learning every day. Oh, and also a scuba instructor.</p>
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<p>I am a father of two amazing young men (Leonardo and Rafael - named after the Renaissance artists, not the TMNT cartoons!), and husband to Alexandra.</p>
<p>Away from work, I enjoy exploring places unknown to me, especially if they are places full of culture. In the winter, I enjoy skiing in the Alps. When it is warmer, I spend a lot of time scuba diving.</p>
<p class="mb-0">At home, I enjoy sci-fi either as books or TV shows, and playing video games. I am a collector of retro computers, especially the ones I had in my teenage years: the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ZX_Spectrum" target=”_blank”>Sinclair ZX Spectrum</a> and the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atari_ST" target=”_blank”>Atari ST</a>. Also, I am an avid genealogist, enjoying <a href="/familytree/">my family history research</a> and enhancing <a href="https://tombo.pt" target=”_blank”>tombo.pt</a>, a site I built to facilitate access to Portuguese parish records.</p>
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<h3>III Algarve [ZX] Spectrum Tournament - 1987</h3>
<p class="mb-3">Back in November 1987 I participated and won a video-gaming competition that was held in my hometown of Faro, Portugal. The tournament was held in knockout format, using <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ZX_Spectrum" target=”_blank”>ZX Spectrum</a> games, some of which were <a href="https://spectrumcomputing.co.uk/entry/617/ZX-Spectrum/Bomb_Jack" target=”_blank”>Bomb-Jack</a>, <a href="https://spectrumcomputing.co.uk/entry/1686/ZX-Spectrum/Exolon" target=”_blank”>Exolon</a> and <a href="https://spectrumcomputing.co.uk/entry/3316/ZX-Spectrum/Ms_Pac-Man" target=”_blank”>Ms. Pac-Man</a> (which was used in the first leg and in the 2 finals). I won a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timex_Computer_2048" target=”_blank”>Timex TC 2048</a> computer which I traded up for a brand-new <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ZX_Spectrum#plus2" target=”_blank”>ZX Spectrum 128K +2</a>.</p>
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<h3>SIC TV news spot on the Spanish general election - 2008</h3>
<p class="mb-3">The following news clip was transmitted on SIC on 2008-03-07 at around 20:42 local time (UTC+0). SIC is one of the three national broadcasters in Portugal, and this news piece is about Portuguese working in Spain. This was the last of 5 similar clips transmitted that week in the run-up to the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spanish_general_election%2C_2008" target=”_blank”>2008 Spanish General elections</a>.</p>
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