Innovative e-commerce upselling, cross-selling, and trade marketing capabilities delivered double-digit sales growth for a national food retail chain.
I'm a technology leader with an international track record of achievements in business transformation initiatives.
I might deliver more value to your strategic transformation plans. I have a lot of scar tissue from driving projects to actually meet expectations and from diplomatic but persistent dialogues with leadership and stakeholders. This isn’t always glamorous, but the superior results are respected by everyone involved.
I've been leveraging my expertise in Enterprise Applications (Oracle and SAP), Cloud Computing, Machine Learning, and Lean Manufacturing to deliver actual business outcomes.
My employers, clients, and business partners have recognized me as a determined, resourceful, and adaptive leader:
High-Performance Teams
I lead by building team confidence in the goals, solutions, alignment with the plan, and governing processes.
Early in my career, I learned that it’s not power and authority that makes a leader, and high-performing teams do not form on their own. This involves gritty exchanges with unrealistic planning and stakeholder self-interests with the objective of building trust and confidence in the project that will be needed during the project execution.
I have demonstrated the ability to recruit, hire, train, and motivate high-performing teams that value transparency and accountability.
It's critical to be sensitive and respectful of the unique differences woven into the fabric of intercultural communications. I speak multiple languages and have managed enough cross-cultural teams to know how important this is under stressful conditions.
It’s not about being right or wrong, good or bad. It’s about understanding how culture and language shape how people from different cultures think, act, react, and do business.
Business Outcomes from Technology Innovation
The only constant is change. There is no dominance by birthright for any company.
Innovation is creativity in action, and innovations often fail, usually impaired by technology debt.
Companies must navigate a complex and changing matrix of technologies, product possibilities, markets and segments, and competitors.
I’ve been helping my employers and clients modernize their technology stacks, accelerate their digital transformation initiatives, and become lean and learning organizations. Some notable examples are:
Innovative e-commerce upselling, cross-selling, and trade marketing capabilities delivered double-digit sales growth for a national food retail chain.
Cloud computing-based solution (SaaS) with Internet-of-Things (IoT) and Edge Computing devices reduced freight, fuel, and fleet maintenance costs for a global leading fast-moving consumer goods company.
Global supply chain modernization leveraging Strategic Network Optimization (SNO), Advanced Supply Chain Planning (ASCP), Manufacturing Execution (MES), and Warehouse Management (WMOS) capabilities delivered multi-million dollar savings and efficiency gains.
Innovative e-commerce upselling, cross-selling, and trade marketing capabilities delivered double-digit sales growth for a national food retail chain.
Cloud computing-based solution (SaaS) with Internet-of-Things (IoT) and Edge Computing devices reduced freight, fuel, and fleet maintenance costs for a global leading fast-moving consumer goods company.
Global supply chain modernization leveraging Strategic Network Optimization (SNO), Advanced Supply Chain Planning (ASCP), Manufacturing Execution (MES), and Warehouse Management (WMOS) capabilities delivered multi-million dollar savings and efficiency gains.Technology Platforms for Sustainable Growth
An enterprise technology platform is a company's operations and customer engagement backbone. When designing, building, and adopting a technology platform, make-or-buy decisions are frequent, i.e., whether to develop components internally or to acquire them from external sources. These decisions hold strategic significance, impacting factors like cost, resilience, scalability, agility, innovation, and competitive positioning.
I've been privileged to partner with business leaders to design and implement technology platforms that deliver business growth (M&As) and enable continuous improvement programs in the U.S., South America, and Europe. Some notable examples are:
Technology modernization of a Pulp and Paper industry leader with an integrated platform based on enterprise SAP and Honeywell manufacturing execution technologies.
International expansion acceleration of a leading global, fast-moving consumer goods company with an enterprise technology platform based on Oracle technologies.
Accelerating Time-to-Value
Successful technology adoption requires clarity on business outcomes, a sharp focus on value realization, and balanced cultural changes.
I’ve been helping my employers and clients to accelerate their innovation agenda across their value chain. It starts with organizing teams around customer value, removing the divide between digital programs and traditional Information Technology delivery, and evolves by continuously improving value streams.
I've accelerated value capture and productivity gains in mergers, acquisitions, and divestitures with a realistic application portfolio rationalization. Complexity equals cost and accumulates tech debt.
I've leveraged IT Sourcing as a practical competitive advantage to drive business growth, reduce costs, and improve service levels with a competitive multi-supplier technology sourcing program.
I've driven operational efficiencies and mitigated risks with a Lean Supply Chain transformation program integrating S&O Planning, Logistics, Manufacturing, and Food Safety value streams.
I've balanced realistic strategy with execution, leveraging technology and talented people to accelerate a business carve-out and minimize transition services risks, costs, and underperformance of the final result.
Life-long learning
I’ve been continuously pursuing and taking advantage of opportunities to improve my personal and professional skills in various activities and settings. As a lifelong learner, I've developed the passion of an explorer and a solid academic background in Computer Engineering, Computer Science, and Business Administration.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Professional Certificate Machine Learning & Artificial Intelligence
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
M.Sc. in Computer Science University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Universidade de São Paulo
Master of Business Administration
Universidade Estadual de Campinas
Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Engineering
Sapere Aude
The original use of the phrase Sapere Aude appears in the First Book of Letters (20 BC), written by the Roman poet Horace. The term is the moral of a story in which a fool waits for a stream to cease flowing before attempting to cross it.
In saying, "He who begins is half done. Dare to know, begin!" Horace suggests the value of human endeavor, persistence in reaching a goal, and the need for effort to overcome obstacles. My intellectual curiosity has been propelling me to endeavor into a broad range of studies and practices such as:
