KANOA works on projects that have a positive economic and social impact in our community. Our clients include non-profits, municipalities, academic institutions, cultural organizations, and venture-backed startups.

Guest lecturer, invited to present to Gordon Institute Masters Seminar, covering topics in data, marketing, and ethics.

- Helping to develop and deliver curriculum for a series of Digital Business Survival courses in collaboration with Entrepreneurship For All.- Providing mentorship for course participants. **EForAll is a non-profit which provides entrepreneurship training free of charge, and has had great success in spawning businesses in Massachusetts and across the US.***I also work with EForAll as a volunteer mentor for entrepreneurs.

Consultant and coach for the Tyler Street Lab non-profit community center. This work continues on a volunteer basis.

Worked with the world's leading digital production company on a series of internal and external (client) projects. Provided creative and consulting services including copywriting, screenwriting, translation, creative development, and training curriculum development.

- Consulted with agency Creative Directors to make their traditional ad campaigns effective in the digital environment. Through these engagements we were able to get upstream to the people and moments that decided ad budgets for over 100 of Brazil’s best-known brands, while helping our clients to get better results and our agency partners to win industry awards.- Created and partnered to produce original programs developed by Google, like the internationally awarded All of Brazil Plays, a 2016 Olympics project with multi-million dollar sponsorships by Visa, Nissan, Skol (InBev) and Claro (Telefonica). This project included original games, maps, social, and video content, produced in real-time by programmers, animators, and YouTubers on 3 continents.- Collaborated to develop, and presented to the market innovation-focused projects using Google technologies, with the objective of establishing Google as a leader in creative advertising innovation. These included Estradamus, a Machine Learning project that predicts traffic patterns from São Paulo to the beach with 98% accuracy, and Look For Me, AI-powered glasses used to identify clothing to give consumers with visually disabilities more independence to shop on their own.- Acted as Google Brazil's expert evangelist on data-driven creative advertising, authoring and delivering presentations to C-Level executives in both private strategy meetings and large public events, in Portuguese and English.

- Collaborated on the creation and presentation of white label and bespoke ad programs for top brands across Latin America, specializing in tech-forward executions that position Google as industry leader in creative innovation. Among these was the adidas All In Or Nothing Challenge, which featured a first-of-its-kind interactive Street View-based game inside ad units.- Acted as the LatAm regional lead for ZOOx, a project to create prototypes with the latest technologies (AR, VR, Interactive Video, etc), then partner with production companies to customize them for brands.

- Established and grew the YouTube Tech Production team in Latin America, starting as a lone producer in the US and later hiring and managing 5 team members in 3 countries.- Directed the production of large-scale livestream YouTube programs for Latin America's top brands. These included week-long transmissions of Brazil's Carnaval festivities, during which I directed the production work of over 100 professionals from companies in Los Angeles, São Paulo, Salvador and Rio de Janeiro.- Worked with production teams in Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, and Mexico to guide their development of our clients’ custom branded projects, and approve the code to be embedded within YouTube’s platform.