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Last Updated: Sunday, June 13, 2010

· Chemical engineer D.Sc, working last 10 years as process engineer in petroleum upstream and downstream plants.
· Experience in the coordination of FPSO production department and planning topside shutdown schedule for maintenance activities.
· Monitoring oil well properties and plant parameters
· Process simulation and equipment design
· Troubleshooting, commissioning and plant star-up
· Application of economic evaluation analyses to automation projects
· PMI membership – continuous learning of project/operations management topics: organization, planning, costs, team leadership and risk management.

Period: April, 2010 – Current
Company: Projectus Consultoria Ltda
Position: Senior Process Engineer
Activities
Design Sulphate recovery plant for Brazilian refinery. The activities comprise simulation, equipment specification, piping calculation and elaboration of all documents from process discipline (datasheets, calculation summary, process description, etc.). The main equipments in this process are: blower, heat exchangers, reactors, vessels, pumps and valves.


Period: July, 2008 – March, 2010
Company: Saipem do Brasil Ltda
Position: Process Engineer
Activities:
Job activities: coordination and technical support for production department in FPSO platform. The main activities for coordination of production department were:
- Production performance monitoring using key performance index (operational efficiency, production costs, production loss)
- Management meeting with OIM and superintendents
- Operational meeting with client (Petrobras)
- Team leadership (coordinate activities and selection of personnel)
- Identification and report of loss of production
- Reporting to Operations Manager and Platform manager

The main technical support activities were:
- Process troubleshooting (oil separation, produced water treatment, gas dehydration and compression, water injection systems)
- Follow technical jobs onboard when vendors are called to investigate equipment problems
- Technical support during plant startup
- Plant modification proposals
- Monitoring Fiscal metering system performance
- Asset performance management

The coordination and technical activities were carried out in cooperation with production superintendents and supervisors from different countries (Croatia, Canada, India, Holand, Italy, UK) and also with personnel from other disciplines such as maintenance, cargo and safety.


Period: April, 2004 – June, 2008
Company: Chemtech - A Siemens Company
Position: Technical consultant in automation and advanced process control
Activities:
- Project management of advanced process control projects implemented in petroleum refineries
-Software implementation for advanced process control
- Acting as process engineering in petroleum refinery (follow daily parameters for all units, tuning control valves and participation on process design for new units)
- PID control loop tuning – improvements on plant stability in petroleum refineries
- Advanced process control training for production operators
- Alarm management projects consultant
- Harzard analysis (HAZOP) for platforms units
- Economic evaluation for automation projects
- Offshore unit process simulation and process control strategies development


Period: August/1999 to February/2004
Company: Fundação de Desenvolvimento da UNICAMP – FUNCAMP/UNICAMP
Main activities
Research projects for university/industry partnership during doctor thesis development:
- Heavy oil characterization through molecular distillation
- Design of distillation column used to remove light organic compounds from waste water.
- Process simulation courses to ethanol dehydration plant using process simulator ASPEN.Hysys (Aspentech, Inc.).


Period: August/1998 to July/1999
Company: Soteica do Brasil, Ltda
Main activities:
- Technical support for users of ASPEN.HYSYS (Aspentech,Inc) process simulator
- Chemical and petrochemical process modeling and simulation
- Process simulation training courses to engineers

Doctor in Chemical Engineering
University: Universidade Estadual de Campinas - UNICAMP
Conclusion: March/2004
Thesis Subject: Real-time optimization of product recovery section of catalytic cracking unit and operator training using dynamic simulations.

Master in Chemical Engineering
Award from Associação Brasileira de Engenharia Química ABEQ – Master category, 2000
University: Universidade Estadual de Campinas - UNICAMP
Conclusion: June/1998
Thesis Subject: Simulation, optimization and control studies for ethanol dehydration. Plant design modifications were proposed to reduce energy consumption.

Chemical Engineering graduation
University: Universidade Federal de Uberlândia
Conclusion: December/1995

Training
· Risk management in petroleum platforms operations – March, 2010 – Milan/Italy.
· Project Management - August to November 2009, Chemtech, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
· Leadership in safety – May 2009, Saipem, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
· Alarm management – November 2006, Chemtech, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
· Advanced Process Control – August to December 2000, UNICAMP, Campinas, Brazil.
· Statistic methods applied to process optimization – August to December 1997, UNICAMP, Campinas, Brazil.

· Project Management: MS Project
· Engineering: AUTOCAD (Autodesk), MATLAB (Mathworks), Statistica (Statsoft),
· Process Simulators: ASPEN.HYSYS (Aspentech), ASPEN (Aspentech), PROII
· (Simulation Science), Chemcad (Chemstation).

- PMI Membership
- Leam leadership
- Work in cooperation with other disciplines (maintenance, safety)
- Production operators training