Highlights:Experience in manufacturing process improvement, process control and process development; quality assurance/control, customer liaison, supplier development; metals processing, project management, program management, business strategy acumen, EPCM projects, feasibility studies, greenfield, engineering, procurement, construction commissioning management, operations management, facilities management, research and development project management, materials characterization research, open innovation to promote emerging technologies, energy efficiency, industrial waste minimization, value-added by-products. GMP related manufacturing environment experience.

Skills:Process Engineer, Metallurgist, Metallurgical, Project Manager, Metals

Goal:At this point, I am interested in exploring professional opportunities that will leverage my engineering, project management, and consultancy skills in a global player industry company.

Membership:PMI - Project Management Institute Chartered Engineer - Brazilian Engineering Council - CREA/RJ

Certification:PMP® Project Management Certified (PMP® Number: 1960989)

Honor:Ph.D. Scholarship from the Brazilian Research Council - CNPq, 1991-95

Senior Consultant 09/2019 - current
Cimbria Consulting, Caxias do Sul, Rio Grande do Sul Brazil
Industry: Consulting
Cimbria Consulting is a technical, scientific, and management consulting firm offering pragmatic tools to capture economic value for small-to-medium enterprises in agribusiness, renewable energy, and water technology.
Responsibilities: ? Work independently to provide transformational advice for executives and managers on Cimbria Consulting´ industrial projects Achievements: ? Identified opportunities to maximize industrial process efficiency, including opportunities to improve future business performance.--
Independent Consultant 01/2015 - current
Independent Consulting, Caxias do Sul, Rio Grande do Sul Brazil
Industry: Consulting
Industrial project development with a variety of industrial sectors such as metallurgy, metalworking, agribusiness implements, biofuels (ethanol), agribusiness and value-added waste.
Responsibilities: ? Develop Internal consulting activities in industrial operational areas by developing quantitative and qualitative process analysis and identifying opportunities for technological optimization with stakeholders. Identified process and technology-related solutions determining benefits associated with the company's strategic project portfolio. Prepare feasibility studies, CAPEX and OPEX estimate. Achievements: ? Developed projects for manufacturing process optimization, value-added industrial solid waste, and by-products, for managing technological projects portfolio to achieved target operating model with a focus on process and technology.--
Operations Manager 04/2012 - 11/2014
Intersurgical, Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul Brazil
Industry: Manufacturing - Medical devices
Intersurgical is a Respiratory support company based in Wokingham, Berkshire, UK founded in 1982 http://www.intersurgical.com/about
Responsibilities: ? EPCM project design and management; feasibility studies; GMP process engineering, procurement, plant design, and construction, commissioning, facilities control, quality/assurance control, production, and operations management, high-level manufacturing staff hiring, licensing and regulatory affairs. Achievements: ? Developed the basic design and the corresponding Project Execution Plan (PEP) and Capital Expenditure (CAPEX) estimate of a USD 20M medical device manufacturing project in Brazil. Recommended changes to the company global quality system, including quality assurance, and contributed to continuous compliance improvement to ISO13485, FDA, and CE Mark standardization--
Innovations Manager 05/2011 - 12/2011
Unisinos University, Sao Leopoldo, Rio Grande do Sul Brazil
Industry: Technology Management
The UNISINOS´Innovation Office enables individuals, researchers or companies to proactively engage with patent and technology transfer requirements and seek early guidance on technical or scientific issues that need to be considered during the development of a new product or process.
Responsibilities: Manage the university innovation committee to design, implement and maintain the university´s innovation program by establishing procedures to support R&D developments from research teams, patents granted efforts and to promote the technological transfer of the innovative research results to private and public stakeholders. Act on innovations management; patents portfolio management; technology transfer; open innovation initiatives; international Innovation workshops and forums; support laboratories and research groups to achieve funding to support R&D projects. Achievements: Implemented a new University´ intranet innovation management system to help the organization to gather ideas from all researchers’ team and laboratories, and to evaluate them and bring them to market faster than ever before through technological partnership with private companies and startups. Acted as a trusted advisor to IP granted process and technology transfer for the university community.--
Planning Manager 10/1999 - 12/2006
Acqua Manager Automation, Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro Brazil
Industry: IT
Information Management System for utilities companies
Responsibilities: ? Act as CFO for managing the company's finances, including financial planning, management of financial risks, record-keeping, and financial reporting. oversees ongoing business operations within the company. Collaborate to manage stakeholders' communications, third-party supplier, logistics and operations. Achievements: ? Supported business development teams in the winning of new domestic and export contracts that support 70% YOY revenue growth . Set up and managed an office in Portugal, managed contracts and stakeholders communications--

Flumiense Federal University 03/1981 - 12/1986
Volta Redonda, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Degree: Bachelor's Degree
Major:Metallurgical Engineering
B.Sc. Metallurgical Engineering

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