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São Paulo, Brazil

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São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil

Intuit in Brazil offered the company's flagship product for small and medium business: QuickBooks Online. It's a cloud based financial management platform to help entrepreneurs stay organized and let them focus on what's most important, which is growing their business. Led the creation of the Data Analytics team for Intuit Brazil. As an internal consulting role, our team helped the Brazilian leadership, go-to-market and product teams be more data driven and achieve better results.During my tenure, our analysis and tools helped Intuit Brazil improve several customer metrics, reduce CPA and drive changes to the product strategy.

Greater Denver Area

Energy Analytics and Modeling, based in Boulder CO. Examples of engagements include:- Led the development for the company’s electric vehicle analytics tool, for forecasting electric vehicle use and impact, with the tool used in over a dozen client engagements per year, driving over $1M in revenue.- Implemented an agile software development framework for the energy analytics team, expanding the use of Kanban boards, continuous integration, and sprint-based project management for the development in new analytics tools. Led to a reduction in code error and time to project completion, improving project margins. - Beneficial electrification: Created a tool for the California Energy Commission for calculating the energy impacts of beneficial electrification in the state of California. The tool is currently guiding the commission's development of policies for replacing residential and commercial natural gas consumption with electric alternatives.- Electric Vehicles (EV): Developed a tool for calculating energy and load impact of electric vehicles. This tool is being used by multiple regulated utilities in the Western United States for assessing generation and distribution grid impact of high electric vehicle adoption, improving distribution planning and integrated resource planning.

Greater Denver Area

Energy Analytics and Modeling at Navigant, in Boulder CO. Navigant was acquired by Guidehouse Consulting in 2019

Greater Boston Area

REsurety is a mission-driven organization focused on enabling more profitable clean energy through better risk management. At the intersection of physical science, big data and financial engineering, our products and services enable our clients to better understand and mitigate the risks inherent to reliance on the weather as a fuel source.As a Power Markets Research Scientist, I develop analytical models to simulate electricity markets and forecast energy prices. In 2017-2018 I developed a fundamentals based model from scratch that increased the accuracy of our price forecasts.

Greater Boston Area

Member of the Trancik Lab, where we build data-informed models to evaluate the economic and environmental impacts of energy technologies over time and space. Our research aims to accelerate clean energy development by informing decisions made by engineers, policy makers, and private investors.

Greater Boston Area

MIT’s System Design and Management is a program jointly offered by the MIT School of Engineering and MIT Sloan School of Management for experienced professionals.Wrote my thesis on the long term effects of variable renewable energy on the electricity grid.My focus was in sustainability courses, such as industrial ecology of materials, sustainable strategies, sustainable supply chain, life cycle assessment, and clean energy.Also in 2016 I was the Teaching Assistant to the Sustainable Energy Course, and in 2017 to the Strategies for Sustainable Business course.

Washington D.C. Metro Area

Summer Associate for the Sustainability Research divisionStudied the strategic use of Life Cycle Assessment in the automotive industry, including working with multiple stakeholders such as think tanks, regulatory agents, and financial standards organizations.

Belo Horizonte Area, Brazil

Startup on innovative metallurgical equipment.• Led a six-person team from business development to final testing of innovative mineral processing technology• Planned and executed lab deployment, meeting cost and schedule requirements• Led post-sale client relationship with a major mining company, successfully completing a supply contract for multi-million dollar equipment.

São Paulo Area, Brazil

Engineering design and consulting for natural resources clients.Multidisciplinary engineering design, project management, scheduling and cost.Examples of projects: - Executive engineering for an iron-nickel plant in Cuba for Ferroníquel Minera S.A.- Conceptual engineering of a bauxite residue filtration plant for Norsk Hydro ASA in Brazil.

São Paulo Area, Brazil

Environmental consulting for natural resources companies, development of environmental impacts assessments. Responsible for both technical aspects of the study and project management and contact with clients.Examples of clients include Vale, Votorantim, as well as small private companies

Jundiaí - Sp

São Paulo E Redondezas, Brasil

Mine Planning, Pit Design, Environmental Reports. Using Data Mine, AutoCad and others.

Votorantim - Sp - Brasil

Two months internship in a limestone mine and cement factory.

Master’S Degree, System Design And Management

Activities and Societies: MIT Sloan Sustainability Certificate; Member of the team that organized the 2016 MIT Sloan Sustainability.

Engineer’S Degree, Mining And Mineral Engineering

Activities and Societies: CMR, Student Representant

Certificate, Sustainability Studies

Sustainability Degree from the MIT Sloan School of Management.

Graduate Certificate, Project Management

Exchange Student, Mining And Mineral Engineering

Six months exchange program in Australia.