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Guimaraes, Pt

Guimaraes, Pt

Türkiye

Sales representative for Portugal and Spain, providing new business opportunities and relevant information for the composites industry in the market fields of automotive, aviation, energy, industrial products, marine, medical, sports and construction's reinforcement and restoration.

Portugal

Development of concepts based on innovative materials and technical textiles.Development of strategies for innovation.Development of sustainable strategies / products based on circular economy concepts.

Portugal

Denizli, Turkey

Contract number: TR14C1.1.13-04/001in the scope of the Competitiveness and Innovation Sector Operational Programme (CISOP) in IPA II.The overall objective of the project is to transform the Denizli textile manufacturing industry to technical textiles and increase SME competitiveness, moving them up in the regional and global value chains.The purpose of the project is to build the capacity of Denizli manufacturing industry on technical textiles through common use area and cluster approach, establishing a Technical Textiles Centre, delivering services for the Transformation of the SMEs to the Technical Textiles, developing a Cluster initiative for Technical Textiles, building capacity of SMEs/Potential SMEs/Entrepreneurs in the transformation to technical textiles and improving the awareness of the SMEs.

The Portuguese Textile Cluster

The Portuguese Automotive Cluster

Porto Area, Portugal

ERT is an Automotive Supplier. I was in charge of a Strategic Agenda of Innovation, integrating the strategies, narratives and plans across a broad spectrum of innovation priorities. I established an approach of industrial innovation based on strategic marketing and strategic alliances, and networking with creative industries. My main research interest explored models that incorporate flexible electronics into flexible materials for the application of ICTs and Material Intelligence concerning Smart Comfort Systems and Smart Assisted Driving. Besides R&D on Smart Textiles and cooperation with designers, I also worked on R&D under Bionic concepts and concepts of re-use of materials for the Circular Economy. This way of organizing and managing innovation was behind the recognition of ERT as the winner of the most prestigious innovation prize in Portugal in 2016, awarded by COTEC a Business Association for Innovation, and delivered by its honorary president, the President of the Portuguese Republic.

Porto Area, Portugal

The evolution on sciences is creating new opportunities for new materials in order to react to external influences, like extreme temperature, humidity, chemicals and bacterial, light, radiation, fire and electrical discharges, for multifunctional clothing manufacture, used in sports, work and protection. This article intends to highlight the breakthrough in recent years, in terms of advanced materials in sports, improving comfort, improving efficiency, being lighter, producing positive impacts in athletes’ performance. Athlete’s performance is defined by issues like their physical and physiological condition, but also depends on his/her equipment. Therefore, sports clothing must be designed in order to promote comfort and deal with large amounts of perspiration release during competition. This article highlights the role of textile materials on sports clothing, as advanced materials contributing to improve physiological performance, and also the role of suitable sports clothing, focusing in particular on thermal stress.Key-Words: Intelligent textiles, multifunctional clothing. Garments and perspiration, textiles and UV protection, textiles and IR radiation, thermal stress.

Geneva Area, Switzerland

Adviser of the WHO (World Health Organization) in Geneva, in charge of technical consultation on specifications and quality control of netting materials and mosquito nets. The role involved designing and executing a quality system, besides the leadership of technical staff working with legal technical requirements and standards.

Portugal

In charge of setting up the technology & market intelligence department of Citeve, the technological centre for the textiles and clothing industries of Portugal, the department was established in order to identify and evaluate critical factors of success that might support strategic decisions. The work done was based on qualified and specialized information about trends of consume behaviour, potential partnerships for business based on technological skills, business events, benchmark of products, markets and competitors, market attractiveness and business opportunities. It also aimed to analyse qualified and specialized information about technical and scientific developments, concerning materials, products and technologies impacting the competitiveness of companies, but also identifying emerging technological opportunities.

The main activity was to advise the company on the definition and implementation of guidelines for an innovative strategy, on the aim of advanced materials and innovative technologies. This strategy should lead the industry towards future concepts in high competitive clusters such automotive, health and habitat. The position also required developing contacts at an industrial level (B2B), as well as consumer oriented (B2C), with producers of textiles and incorporators of textiles in its products, for the application into clusters like fashion, health, habitat and automotive, boosting technological and scientific advances.

In charge of setting up the technical department of Citeve, the technological centre for the textiles and clothing industries of Portugal. The department was established in 1998 in order to support the productive areas of textile companies with technical assistance, but also in complementary areas such as energy, safety and environment. Examples of activities are the efficiency analysis of productive areas, but also the technical specification of raw materials, processes, technologies and products. Prototyping and support to product development also was provided. The position required close contacts with customers in order to developing partnerships among companies, but also the implementation of strategies, including identification of new services, promotion of operational effectiveness development, towards services quality optimization and the achievement of commercial goals. This position was based on the leadership of technical and scientific teams and in terms of management and also included the negotiation of contracts, budget preparation and its monitoring, evaluation and optimization.

Mini Mba, Business Culture, Marketing, Strategics, Management, Finances, Logistics, Leadership.

Msc, Marketing & Strategic Management

Dissertation Thesis "Technological innovation as an entrepreneurial boosting element".

Erasmus, Technical Research On Industrial Fields And Sustainabel Development

at INTEXTER – Institut d’Investigació Tèxtil i Cooperació Industrial Terrassa – Barcelona – Spain.

Engineering, Textile