Executive Summary
• Project Manager with managerial experience.
• Strong strategic-planning and people-management skills.
• Background in food industry and in the equipment manufacturing industry.
• Budget development for new customer’s projects.
• Cross-functional team management skills.
• Hand on experience in the development of company strategies, providing directions influencing top directors and team workers.
• Continuous improvement and strategic thinker.
• Experience overseas in Brazil, Germany, France and Spain.
• Award-winning - Aseptic Packaging Project.
• Bilingual English / Portuguese and Intermediate Spanish.
Education
• Master in Bussiness Administration
Webber International University, Babson Park, Florida
• B.Sc. in Chemical Engineer
Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ) Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
• Master in Science
Courses: Thermodynamics; Operations Research; Differential Analysis (at Mathematical Institute}; Projects and Planning; Kinematics of Fluid Flow; Process Analysis and Industry Pollution Control. All these were course work only and they were taken at COPPE – UFRJ, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
• Professional post graduate courses.
• Published technical papers in Europe and US.
Professional Experience
PROJECT MANAGER 2003 – 2012
• Reported to the Engineering Manager, responsible for managing and overseeing all activities related to the engineering of citrus processing automation projects, general citrus projects and projects in the aseptic area.
Key Accomplishments:
• Successful managed, planned and coordinated all phases of engineering work for customers' citrus aseptic projects related to tanks aseptic loading and unloading; calcium on-line aseptic addition to orange juices, aseptic pulp addition, etc.
• Responsible for turn-key projects from $ 500,000.00 to 1.5 million related to the citrus industry. These projects included engineering, purchasing, manufacturing, control systems, shipment, installation, and commissioning. The main turn-key project was the management of the Garcia Carrion facility in Spain. The engineering was developed between JBT Brazil, US, Italy and Spain. Facilitate communication between team workers.
• Supervise and review performance of a staff composed of mechanical Engineers, Electrical Engineers, Computer Technicians and Software Programmers
• Conducted technical management meetings with customers in US, South America and Europe related to future projects.
• Participated in the development of company strategies.
• Developed engineering and purchasing standards. These standards saved 25% engineering time of projects.
• Implement PERT/CPM control for projects saving time and having a better control of vendor’s delivery time.
• Finalize projects 10% under budged.
• Established good working relationships with team workers, customers and suppliers.
• Developed Aseptic Engineering projects for several customers with improvement on their production capability.
• Generate Equipment Manuals for Aseptic Area.
• Transferred to United States as Project Manager after 9 years working for JBT Brazil.
PROJECT ENGINEER 1994 - 2003
Key Accomplishments:
• Responsible for citrus processing machinery design including material selection, instrumentation & control systems, engineering drawings, technical reports, analysis and calculations, process and equipment specification, manuals and management documents.
• Started at FMC FoodTech in Araraquara, Sao Paulo, Brazil as a Senior Engineer.
• Worked at all citrus customer's facilities in Brazil implementing new projects and updates.
• Control over a budged in the amount of $ 1.1 million. These projects were related to the successful automation of the biggest orange juice production in Brazil.
• Work with AutoCAD, Excel, MS Project, MS Office.
• Developed a Brazilian Automation Department for JBT.
• Improved customer production in 10% per adding process automation.
Prior 2003 – BRAZIL:
MARKETING AND TECHNOLOGY TRANSFER DEPARTMENT MANAGER
• Reported to the Marketing Director, responsible for all technology technical contracts; responsible for keeping all existing technologies and for bringing new technologies to Brazil related to any kind of industry. Responsible also for all papers published on...
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