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New York, United States

• Managing project and partnerships pilot initiatives for a significant USAID-funded public-private partnership grant led by CDP.
• Actively engaged in addressing deforestation driven by commodities, promoting global climate and biodiversity goals, and encouraging inclusive development investments in key tropical landscapes, with a primary emphasis.
• Provide periodic progress through technical and financial reports for the USAID Executive Committee.
• Participates in international meetings to oversee project deliveries.

Brazil

• CITES Scientific authority;
• Monitored, identified and raised attention of the Management Authority regarding trade impacts on Brazilian ecosystems (including Amazon Rainforest) and specie’s populations;
• Generated multifaceted technical content, synthesizing complex environmental data analyses, with R and Excel, and contributed to documents and web pages on various subjects including public policies, international.
• Conducted comprehensive research and analysis of biological data, providing strategic insights to support program delivery and enhance proposals for CITES' Appendices amendments

• Led and oversaw the creation of advanced platforms integrating quantitative analysis, data visualization, spatial analysis, and report generation for the Brazilian Timber Traceability System (Sinaflor).
• Led the development and implementation of an e-learning platform to facilitate virtual capacity building on the Brazilian Timber Traceability System (Sinaflor) for companies, forest engineering professionals.
• Provided intellectual leadership, guidance, and operational support to multidisciplinary teams for result-oriented policy assistance, forest governance, and timber trade at both national and global levels.
• Led and oversaw international projects on climate change (GEF), foreign trade (KfW), and conservation (GEF) in a combined portfolio of over USD 4.5 million;
• Contributed to discussions and panels regarding REDD+ in Brazil;
• Engaged national and sub-national government institutions, international institutions, private sector, NGOs, and universities to promote IBAMA’s projects to stop deforestation and conversion on Brazilian ecosystems.

Brasília E Região, Brasil

• Coordinated, supervised, proposed standards, guided, monitored, elaborated, and executed action plans, projects, and meetings with the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD), and other international biodiversity.
• Led coordination efforts for bilateral and multilateral trade agreements with Brazil, emphasizing forestry and forest compliance for trade.
• Monitored and alerted the Ministry of the Environment and IBAMA's President to crucial policy and strategic issues, including congressional bills and enhancements in private sector processes, facilitating their.
• Led diverse, multidisciplinary teams in successfully implementing forest and biodiversity conservation programs of varying complexity and scale.

Brazil

• Led the design and implementation of the Brazilian Timber Traceability System (Sinaflor) in 26 states and the Federal District;
• Led capacity building with stakeholders from subnational governments, civil society organizations, and companies regarding the Brazilian Timber Traceability System (Sinaflor).
• Responsible for establishing and nurturing partnerships with a wide range of private and public institutions, to facilitate the nationwide deployment of the Brazilian Timber Traceability System (Sinaflor).
• Provided leadership, guidance, and briefings to technical officers (IT personnel) on operational aspects related to the development and updates of SINAFLOR.
• Responsible for advancing the agenda of sustainable forest management and ecosystem restoration in Brazil.
• Managed the Forest Restoration and Water Production Technical Chamber (Interfederative Committee of the Samarco Disaster) and the Brazilian Group of Technical Support in response to the environmental disaster in.

• Led a team of 15 forest specialists, overseeing data analysis for compliance and permit issuance related to forest management plans in the Amazon rainforest.
• Updated Brazilian forest management plan regulations and developed innovative timber value chain models.
• Implemented Big Data Tools to analyze data gathered by IBAMA’s environmental systems.

Porto Alegre Area, Brazil

• Developed and reviewed technical documents on public policies, international agreements, and institutional publications.
• Pioneered an innovative framework using timber data to develop a novel model for timber traceability.

Brazil

• Performed data analyses to ensure compliance with forest management plans and support the issuance of permits.
• Conducted fieldwork to analyze sustainable forest management plans and restore degraded areas.
• Created technical reports to guide public policies.
• Formulated technical requirements for both national and international timber trade.

University Graduate, Forest Engineering

Postgraduate, Ecosystem Restoration

Management capacity of state environmental organs in the post-decentralization scenario for forestry management and the challenge for the.

Google Data Analytics Professional Certificate