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São Paulo, SP, BR

São Paulo, Brazil

São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil

• Leadership of high performance interdisciplinary teams, composed by consultants from different countries, in order to deliver strategic and technical advisory services to multilateral organizations, investment banks.
• 7th round of airport concessions in Brazil (pre-bid studies and PMO for the operation takeover of 11 airports).
• Greenfield airport infrastructure and air traffic procedures design in a site with challenging orography in a multi-airport system with congested airspace.
• Master plan reviews to assist concessionaires in negotiating with the regulator for the exclusion of obligatory (by contract) but unnecessary (by demand) capex investments.
• Strategic evaluation for a potential M&A operation in the air traffic sector.

Rio De Janeiro, Rio De Janeiro, Brazil

• Strategic planning in regulatory and competition agendas.
• Master planning, capacity development and slot management.
• Operations data curation, resource planning and performance monitoring.
• Advanced analytics (stochastic simulations, predictive modeling and business intelligence).► Main achievements:
• Defined a minimum contingent infrastructure due to the demand fall caused by covid-19 and coordinated the reopening plan, defining express modeling tools and triggers that integrated inputs from Operations, Engineering.
• In an institutional agenda, worked with municipal, state and federal authorities on projects to improve access, air traffic management and planning of Rio de Janeiro's multi-airport system.

Rio De Janeiro, Rio De Janeiro, Brazil

• Airport master planning, capacity management, capex projects structuring and engineering design;
• Leadership of a team of 12 engineers, architects and technicians.
• Implementation of agile methodologies (scrum) for the engineering design team, improving the quality through better focus and reducing response time to internal and external stakeholders.

São José Dos Campos, São Paulo, Brazil

• Capacity planning studies for the 22 airports of the sixth round of concessions in Brazil, including Manaus (MAO), Curitiba (CWB) and Goiânia (GYN).
• Technical due diligence of Viracopos Airport (VCP) to support a potential investor.
• Feasibility studies and preliminary design for 400Hz and PCA implementation in Porto Alegre (POA) and Fortaleza (FOR) airports.

Guarulhos, São Paulo, Brazil

• ► Master Plan ReviewCoordination of GRU's master plan review project, leading the analysis and working in cooperation with the Operations, Airline Business, Retail, Real Estate and Engineering teams:
• Runway capacity plan review.
• Review and detailing of passenger demand forecasts (peak hours, design day flight schedules).
• Facility requirements calculations (IATA ADRM, ANAC’s minimum parameters, CAST Simulation).
• External consultants procurement and management.
• Evaluation of alternatives (main focus on capex optimization and hub development).► Strategic Project Management

Guarulhos, São Paulo, Brazil

• ► Stochastic Simulation & Operations ResearchLeader of the airport operations simulation and optimization studies for the main resources:
• Passenger Terminal (level of service and customer experience).
• Aircraft stands (requirements per category).
• Contact gates (measuring the ability to process passengers in boarding bridges).
• Check-in (allocation tactics by airlines and alliances).► Data Analytics
• Data curation of the official airport operational database;

São José Dos Campos, São Paulo, Brazil

• Engineering design integration in infrastructure and real estate projects.
• ERP implementation, automating the supply chain and financial processes.
• Quality management system implementation, obtaining ISO 9001 certification.Besides the process improvement in terms of efficiency and reliability, the QMS certification was a requirement to more favorable lending.

São José Dos Campos, São Paulo, Brazil

• Brazilian Air Force military education and training.
• Engineering studies for the the airports managed by COMARA (Amazon Region Airports Commission).

Bachelor'S Degree, Aeronautics/Aviation/Aerospace Science And Technology, General

Master Of Business Administration - Mba

Postgraduate Program, Project Management