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Parts management for Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Finland and Iceland.

Inbound / Outbound operations, Storage Management, Cost Optimization, Logistics and Supply Chain Management.

Warehousing, Inventory control, Data Analysis, Quality control, Project management

Research on next-generation technologies with focus on 5G and industrial applications. User experience in the Start IoT research project: Elaborate surveys, interact with other specialists, support the participants, follow the activities in the website, plan events, stimulate new business and developments within IoT - Internet of Things.

Use of techniques from Lean Manufacturing to organize the space, files and optimize activities. We moved to another office with new layout, new work methods and the same team. Cost reduction in US$20.000/year.

- Research leader at SENAI Innovation Institute for Logistics, that aims to develop the Industries in Brazil through innovative projects in logistics.- Consulting and teaching in Logistics, Production Management, Six Sigma, Lean Manufacturing, Quality Management and Sales and Operating Planning.

Visited the Intelligent Systems group at the Department of Computer and Information Science, NTNU. Performed a research collaboration aiming to apply techniques from multiagent system research to production management in oil and gas companies.

- Supply Chain Management, Inventory Control, Production and Distribution Planning.- Implementation and development of S&OP( Sales and Operation Planning) process.- Interaction with commercial, logistics, production and supply areas in order to define the best production plan and new business opportunities.- Worked with product pricing support through the analysis of contribution margins, and strategic planning for medium and long term.- Definition of Key Performance Indicators (KPI) for measuring the performance of Supply Chain Division.- Responsible for Quality Management (ISO 9001, ISO 14001) of the production planning process, including process mapping, definition of KPIs, and quality audits.

Responsible for production planning at caprolactam site, including activities such as technical indicators monitoring, supply chain planning, inventories and cost control. Monitoring of automatic measuring systems and mass balance in order to estimate losses.

Calculation of equipments for capacity expansion at the cyclohexanone and cyclohexane plants at Braskem Caprolactam site. Process monitoring of catalyst performance, key process indicators, project modifications, and monitoring of quality process.

Cetrel is an Odebrecht Group company – Brazil’s fourth largest private group – that develops solutions to preserve natural resources and improve people’s quality of life through its operations in the segments of water and sewage, utilities and waste.I worked in consortium with the Federal University of Bahia, to develop a computer based solution (a neural network) to simulate and anticipate events in waste treatment stations.

This study was conducted within the field of Nonlinear Physics. This self-organized critical rainfall model was presented in conferences and published in Physica A in 2002.