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Almada, PT

Lisbon, Portugal

Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands

Led the NL office as Interim Director, including operational management, hiring responsibilities, team management, and the strategic alignment of the procurement and supplier quality teams with company objectives.Cumulated responsibilities with Global Category Lead

London, United Kingdom

Managed end-to-end supplier relationships and procurement for key vehicle components, overseeing contracts worth over €300M with major Electronics Manufacturing Services (EMS) providers and leading electronic component companies. Led comprehensive supplier audits and performance evaluations, ensuring compliance with industry standards and Arrival's quality.

Harwell, United Kingdom

• Lead responsible for 90% of the company commodities and procurements totalling ~1M€ annually
• Responsible of most commodities 3rd party spacecraft subsystems (ADCS, Solar Panels, Communications) to raw parts and materials as well as services (contracting, facilities, Ground Segment).
• Responsible for supplier sourcing and relationship building.
• RFQ generation and release, Tender point of contact and evaluation lead, being responsible for the internal processes of review, selection and decisions making meetings.
• Management of Internal and external stakeholders relations and expectations.Supplier and Subcontractor Management compromising relationship establishment, selection, negotiation, contract allocation and management.

Global

Melting and Reprocessing Metal in Space to Supply On-Orbit Manufacturing

Global

Astropreneurs.space Making space entrepreneurship information accessible, connecting space entrepreneurs with their needs.

Harwell

• Bid Management of a successful proposal on optical communications service making use of high altitude platforms and communication relays. Activity of ~5 M€ funded under ESA ARTES C&G.
• Responsible for bid consortium management, including Open Cosmos and Archangel Lightworks, as well as major suppliers identified for the project.
• Internal team tasks definition and management for the bid execution.
• Main proposal contributor and complete project management definition of the proposal.
• Main Responsible for external communications including with ESA officers that lead to proposal successful submission and acceptance by ESA.

Lisbon Area, Portugal

• Project Management - Technical and Project Management of space related projects with multiple international interfaces, in a SME environment:
• Responsible for the project management of 5 ESA and space industry projects valued in a total of 3.5 M€ in EEE, AOCS and GSE areas. Consortium leader of 3 multinational projects with 3+ parties.
• Successful realignment and rescheduling of activities agreed with the main stakeholders, including CCN implementation, saving the company 100 K€ while driving the project to successful technical execution.
• Complete project management life cycle experience from initiation to closure and Quality and Product Assurance first-hand experience in project management (Responsible for future ECSS TM). Business Development.

The Hague Area, Netherlands

C Component Engineer in the TEC-QTC section (Quality, Technology and Components): Engineering support - Technical support of ESA R&D activities related with Micro Electro-Mechanical Systems technologies performing as support technical manager. Laboratory techniques and failure analysis - Execution of functional and environmental testing for MEMS devices.

Lisbon Area, Portugal

Research and Programming - Implementation of image classification algorithms using Support Vector Machines based on Histogram Oriented Gradient (HOG) features and Implementation of feature selection algorithms in the frame of the project ANIMAR – Automated identification of sand dunes on high spatial resolution images from the surface of Mars.

Space Studies Program

Master Of Science (M.Sc.), Aerospace, Aeronautical And Astronautical Engineering

Bachelor Of Science (B.Sc.), Aerospace, Aeronautical And Astronautical Engineering