Meet Caio Mancini | IT Consultant Manager, musician, creative

We had the good fortune of connecting with Caio Mancini and we’ve shared our conversation below.

Hi Caio, what is the most important factor behind your success?
I like to see myself as an unlikely personal entrepeneur. I’m an IT Developer, a person, a musician, a nerd, a RPG player, a swimmer. Out of a poor, but hard working family, I always knew that to make improvements on my life conditions I would have to study, to differentiate myself from others and find my place in a better position.
And so I went on and on, studying, learning, getting myself not only graduations and titles but also important skills that can be used in many circumstances.

I moved, my live is being on the move. I got out of a small town country side of Brazil, to the big city of Sao Paulo. There I faced the hussle to live in the middle of a 22 million people, every day, non stopping. Then, there were the travels, everywhere in Brazil, everywhere in South America. Ending up there in Cleveland, Ohio. Nowadays I see myself here in Phoenix, Arizona.
Adaptation, open mind to different cultures. See life with other people’s eyes. This is one of the traits that I try to cultivate within myself to keep moving up, to keep my head above the water.

I believe that a modern professional, who that wants to be ready for the current and future challenges should not only be good at one thing but be able to high perform in multiple fields. That what’s been known as a “T Shape professional”.
With that in mind, everything I do I mean it with purpose.
From the things I learned while working with people on plays, or the organization and personal skills to maintain a musical group with gigs, egos, customers and audience, all the way up to work with high level CEOs of multinationals running projects worth millions of dollars.

All these skills are used, everywhere, every time, whether at work or with my family and friends.
In summary, resilience, determination and hunger of knowlegde describes me.

Can you open up a bit about your work and career? We’re big fans and we’d love for our community to learn more about your work.
From the 2 above questions, I couldn’t pick one. I’m a employee in a big firm here in USA and that’s been my entire life. Always working “internationally”.
Since I was living in Brazil, I started to have interactions with people coming from many countries. I remember working in a coffee farm where people from Italy, China and USA would come with their computers asking for help, and I was the only brave soul to offer help, even though I didn’t speak any English at all.
So I learned English, then Spanish. Not because I wanted a raise or do my job, but because I wanted to talk to those people, know more about them.
My friends always said that I talk a lot and I like to show off… but that’s what they say. What I say is that the moment I was learning languages, new worlds were opening to me.

Meanwhile, I was carrying on with my studies and trying to make some money playing with my band on restaurants, night clubs and bars.
With that I learned how to deal with customers, team work, respect time agreements.
Play in a band is harder than what most people think of.

Today I can put 3 hours talking in front of an audience, read the room (even virtually) and understand where I’m going, what’s the feedback, what’s going on.
Also from the band practice, I can understand other people’s strengths and limitations. We’re not equal, we do not think as everyone else. Each one of us have our own goals and requirements, and we need to respect them if we want to achieve something.

If you had a friend visiting you, what are some of the local spots you’d want to take them around to?
Definitely I’d go first up to Camelback for a hike, show the city from above, so then after hit some bar at Old Town Scottsdale for a brunch. Later, we might go to Tempe downtown, around the office’s buildings area to enjoy the surroundings with followed by some drinks.
For sure, over the weekend we would be traveling to Sedona, to catch the sunset accompanied by some glasses of wine.
If there’s a place that I take all of my friends that visit me, is the Devil’s Bridge trail in Sedona. I love the experience and all the amazing sights we can have along the way.

Shoutout is all about shouting out others who you feel deserve additional recognition and exposure. Who would you like to shoutout?
I couldn’t be where I am without family support. But, mostly without the support and key people who saw a young guy coming through an office door and promptly showed up to help. Whether to teach how to do the job or show case a new city, a new country. When we are far from home, we end up having 2 families. One there and a new one, with people who received us and are a fundamental part of our lives. True friends that become family.
In this case, I would mention Wagner Oliveira who received us here in Phoenix when we moved out of Cleveland, Ohio and today I can say, is my brother in life.
It’s worth to mention the resilience and will power of my wife, Rafaela let everything back in Brazil to join me in this adventure and only she knows the every day struggle to live in a country with such a different language and culture than hers.

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