René Antúnez – Personal Thoughts

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Rene Antunez

Lessons I Learned at Pythian

I want to start with the news that on Monday Mar 1st, I presented my resignation letter at Pythian, and after reading an article by Dave Rensin on his lessons learned at Google, I wanted to write my version of what I have learned at

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Rene Antunez

Parece Impossível but it wasn’t thanks to you 🙂

Yesterday as I was running  here in  Lisbon, I found a sign outside the Teatro Nacional D. Maria II in Rossio Square that read “Parece Impossível” (Seems Impossible)  and I thought that I couldn’t have found a better sign on the day that marked an anniversary

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Rene Antunez

La Macchina Va Dove Vanno Gli Occhi – Part 2

These past few years have been such a rollercoaster of emotions , of good and not so good things, but they have also been years of hard core learning experiences and I won’t go here about them, as some of you already know about them

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Rene Antunez

Yes, I understand that every life must end…

Ever since I listened in my ‘teens to the song “The Impression that I get” by The Mighty Mighty Bostons, I have always been hoped that a situation like that stays as far away as possible from my life, but as is life, you don’t

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Rene Antunez

My Road on Becoming an Oracle ACE

If you have been following or reading my blog, I wrote back in May the first part of this road, and thankfully we are now in the second part of this three part road. In early February I received the news that my Oracle community

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Rene Antunez

What is photography to me?

Today a good friend  tagged me in a post regarding how she is going to be reaching for new heights in photography, and in a non-related note ; Last night ,for me, was a rough night, but these 2 things got me thinking into 3

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Currently I am an Oracle ACE ; Speaker at Oracle Open World, Oracle Developers Day, OTN Tour Latin America and APAC region and IOUG Collaborate ; Co-President of ORAMEX (Mexico Oracle User Group), Web Events Chair for IOUG Cloud Computing Special Interest Group (SIG) ; At the moment I am an Oracle Project Engineer at Pythian