Translating customer’s pains into technical and business solutions.Focused on Automotive, Electronics and Biotech manufacturing systems.

Implementation of the strategic plan.Development and implementation of the Marketing Plan.Coordenation of the sales team.Coordenation of the technical service team.Development of the Engineering Department.Report of results to the board.

Business Unit Manager / Key Account Manager: Development and implementation of marketing plan, develop of business opportunities new customers and new. Elaborate proposals and commercial approaches up to contract signature. Operations Management of the Factory Automation team (10 people). Responsible for sales of about 1.5 M€ /year.Project Manager: Management of human and material resources to meet project requirements using PMI, Agile, Scrum and Kanban methodologies. Negotiate with suppliers and customers. Profit and loss responsibility.Mechanical Design and Product Development: Technical support to the industrial automation engineering team to define and implement technical solutions.

- Business development- Recruitment of consultants- Team management

Operations Planing from 1/12/2002 to 30/12/2003: Responsible for planning and production control of the Metro do Porto vehicles. Co-ordination of a multidisciplinary team (Purchasing, Logistics, Technical Services, Quality, Engineering and Production). Development and implementation of continuos improvement projects using 6-sigma, Lean Manufacturing e JIT.Project Manager and Manufacturing Manager (Light Rail Vehicles Nantes and Nottingham) from 1/07/2000 to 30/11/2002: Contract negotiation with internal client and external suppliers, contract execution, P&L responsibility (4+3 M€), operations management and customer relationship management. Management of a team of about 40 people.Product Development Engineer from 14/10/96 to 1/07/2000: I&D and product development (railway vehicles), structural calculations using FEM and systems integration. “Product Safety Engineer”, Crashworthiness and FMEA.In Sweden from 1/8/97 to 30/11/97 developing the front structure of an high-speed train to complying with new crashworthiness requirements.