A strategic decision maker, very senior engineer and manager with wide ranging defence and industrial experience including the management of international engineering programs and projects, and a professional mechanical engineer and naval architect with a well balanced record between research, academic, industrial and design experience. Key career highlights include:- Deputy Director, Directorate of Ships, Portuguese Navy– Director, Business Development & Project Management, Arsenal do Alfeite, SA– Program Manager for the Mid-Life Upgrade Program of MEKO 200PN and M-Class Portuguese Navy frigates. – Deputy Program Manager, Naval Architect and Systems Integration Manager, Follow-On-Support Program Manager, for the M-Class frigates transfer program between Portugal and The Netherlands.– Management of international cooperative projects, structure, developed and executed between Defence organisations, industry and other stakeholders– Management and Engineering of the Portuguese Navy surface vessels fleet maintenance.– Management and technical leadership of high value engineering projects for the defence and naval industry.– Research in naval architecture and offshore engineering leading to a number of publications. – Professor of Naval Architecture and Mechanics of Solids at Escola Naval (Portuguese Naval Academy), in the Marine Engineering Department.– Lecturer at the Technical University of Lisbon (Instituto Superior Técnico), in the Naval Architecture Unit, in ship and marine structural design.– Extensive research into the structural mechanics of corroded steel plates, and the influence of general and pitting corrosion on the buckling and post-buckling behaviour.– In-depth research into the structural mechanics of uncorroded and corroded steel tubes subject to external pressure and bending loadings, assessing the influence of cross-section ovalisation, wall thickness variation, general corrosion severity and surface profile, and load path sequence effects on the ultimate strength of the tube, including buckling and post-buckling behaviour.