• Currently leading accessories development for large SUVs new programs, North America market.• Responsible for managing new accessories design requiring complex system interactions by leveraging global skill teams and develop processes & tools to support accessories integration within new model year programs.• Led accessories development/integration for a new model year Mustang, North America market.

• Led product design improvement actions focused on cost reduction for various vehicle segments, North America market.

• Led the structuring of a Pilot Plant implementation project according to program management disciplines.• Managed project resources, facilitated key processes definition, created confidentiality guidelines, developed key project & plant documents and reports for senior leadership/management reviews.• Led the build planning and coordinated the assembly of the first prototype vehicles at the Pilot Plant.

• Responsible for the governance of B-Car major projects’ scope change management forum and cross-functional team integration.• Led project’s engineering budget-actuals tracking and developed reports for strategic reviews and efficiency improvement YoY.

• Responsible for prototype vehicles’ build planning and execution, prototype health chart assessment & leadership reviews, governance meetings, cross-functional team integration (across countries), scope change management, build resources planning, prototype catalogues definition & bill of material structure, vehicle assembly scheduling, prototype parts tracking and quality sign-off prior to testing.• Led prototype ground up vehicles’ assembly and retrofits at different Pilot Plants (Cologne-Germany, Dearborn-USA and Tatuí-Brazil).

• At service for Ford Motor Company, received on-the-job training on prototype engineering tools and processes.• Led B-Cars' prototype assembly & retrofits with focus on cost reduction actions.

• Responsible for the maintenance of various down-hole tools used during reservoir test jobs - Drill Stem Testing (DST) and Tubing Conveyed Perforation (TCP).Key Accomplishments:• Developed and implemented a quality improvement project that fostered the proper use and caring of the maintenance equipment at the workshop, which resulted in a 46% cost reduction on the purchasing of replacement tools.

• Responsible for experimental data collection and analysis using Excel graphs and MATLAB / Simulink simulations (Solar Energy Laboratory at UFPB).Project Brief Description:• Title: "A hybrid solar-gas air conditioning system based on adsorption and chilled water storage":• The project aims the development of a 20 kW (ideal) central air conditioning prototype, based on adsorption (carbon-methanol pair) and hybrid regeneration (solar/natural gas), designed to operate with maximum available solar energy (high efficiency solar panels) and supplementary heat regeneration provided by a natural gas heater.Key Accomplishments:Research was documented & presented on relevant scientific congresses:• RIBEIRO, C. M. C., SARMENTO, D., BELO, F.A., RIFFEL, D.B, ZEGHMATI, B., LEITE, A. P. F. ,2011. Air conditioning system of 20kw based on solar-gas adsorption. ISES Solar World Congress 2011, Kassel - Germany, August 28 – September 02, 2011.• LEITE, A.P.F., RIFFEL, D.B., RIBEIRO, C.M.C., BELO, F.A., DOMINGOS, P.V.S.R., SARMENTO, D., SOARES, M. B., NASCIMENTO, L..J. L., 2011. A hybrid solar-gas air conditioning system based on adsorption and chilled water storage. World Renewable Energy Congress 2011-WREC 2011, Linköping, Sweden, May 8-13, 2011.

• Research on steel heat treatment technology at Mechanical Engineering Department, UFPB.• Assist undergraduate students.Key Accomplishments:Article submitted & presented at UFPB:• SARMENTO, D. Analysis of hardness in heat-treated SAE 1045: annealing, normalizing, quenching and tempering, along with monitoring. XIII Meeting for the Teaching Initiation, João Pessoa, Paraíba, Brazil, 19 - 21 October 2010.

Responsible for (Mechanical Engineering Department at UFPB):• Components & system design and prototypes fabrication.• Bill of Material development - new parts and surrogate components selection.• 3D modeling of the brake system using SolidWorks.• Project scheduling & budgeting development.Project Brief Description:• The Baja SAE is an international competition among higher learning institutions in which undergraduate engineering students are challenged to develop (design and build) off-road type vehicles, with the goal of creating a commercially attractive product.