Oct 2016 - Jan 2018
http://www.5asec.com.py

In this job position, I have assumed the management of a local company acquired by 5àsec, which was the owner of 7 dry cleaning store. I focused my efforts on these outlets because the original 5àsec store already had skilled employees to run the business.

I have assessed these stores to create an analysis, which allowed me to study and discern how to proceed. I identified a low Gross Margin of 36%, due to an overstaffed payroll. So, I decided to downsize the staff to raise the company health. As a result of this decision, I boosted the Gross Margin to 56,75%.

Another problem was the unprofitable commercial points due to high rents, logistics, and overheads. For this reason, I also decided to downsize the stores’ number, and the result of this action was an SG&A decreasing from 23,69% to 15,81%.

As a result of my decisions, the EBITDA Margin raises from 12,24% in 2016 and reach 40,94% in 2017, even more, the revenue had increased 5,10% in this same period due to a well-trained staff. Consequently, I revamp 3 (three) stores and rebrand to 5àsec from this savings.

Responsibilities

• Project Management: Overseeing the revamp of old stores works and keeping it on time.
• HR Management: Employee Record, Payroll, Hiring, Training and Evaluating.
• Accounting Management: Tracking the Accounts Payables and Receivables, Economic Analysis, Reducing the SG&A costs.
• Supply Chain: Developing Local suppliers, Machinery and Consumables Importation, and Inventory control. Operational Management: Quality Management, Productivity Evaluation, Process Enhancement, Planning, Organizing, Supervising the production area, Logistic, and Reducing the COGS.
• Legal Issues: Business License, Environmental License, Municipal Taxes, etc.
• Technical Support and Assistance.

Jun 2016 - Oct 2016

My objective in the store’s beginning was to compound a good team as soon as possible. As an outcome of my commitment, I have assumed the franchise operations management, some HR’s activities, and a close relationship with the accountant.

As a foreign, I was obligated to start to study the local accounting and administration to understand the Paraguayan’s tributary system and the local labour law.

Responsibilities

• HR Management: Hiring, Training, Evaluating, Payroll, and the Employee record.
• Operational Management: Quality Management, Productivity Evaluation, Process Enhancement, Planning, Organizing and Supervising the production area.
• Accounting Management: Tracking the Accounts Payables and Receivables.
• Legal Issues: Business License, Environmental License, Municipal Taxes, etc.

Jan 2016 - Jun 2016

In this full-time job, I was the person in charge to introduce the 5àsec brand in Paraguay. My activities in this first moment were to oversee the works premises located in a Shopping Mall and to ensure the store’s specifications preconized by the Franchise. Whilst the construction, I had been training in Madrid and Genebra stores to become the specialist in dry cleaning and laundry for 1-month.

After my formation, I have trained all my team and installed the machinery to be ready for the store roll-out (23 May 2016).

Responsibilities

• Project Management: Overseeing the premises construction and ensure the deadline.
• Supply Chain: Developing Local suppliers, Inventory Control, Machinery and Consumables Importation.

São Paulo, Brazil
Mar 2009 - Jan 2016
http://www.daimon.com.br

As an Electrical Engineer, I have worked performing researcher and applications in R&D Projects. Due to the nature of my job, all my activities relied on learning new methods, approaches, algorithms, optimisation, statistics, mathematical modelling, etc., and later how to apply it in engineer solutions usually delivering software and technical reports.

As a consequence, my team and I have had 5 (five) papers published in the CIRED’s Biennial Conferences and many other in local conferences.

I will point out the main fields of my activities in this job:

Activities:

• Developing a DMS’s tool to aid the DSO’s decision-making easier in case of programmable outages or fault.
• Developing a DSA’s tool which aids the operator’s decision making. This tool outcome provides an optimized place to install Capacitor Banks or/and Voltage Regulator.
• Power Flow enhancement by the use of a Load modelling and customer interviews.
• Developing a DSA’s tool which allocates automatic switches.
• A proposition of an alternative method of technical losses calculation based on an evaluation of the Regulatory Agency method results.
• Creating an Action Plan to Joinville Agency (15 substations and 82 feeders) based on Network Data Analysis, Market Analysis, Forecasting growth taxes (82 feeders), Technical Economic Study, and Reliability Study.

Responsibilities:

• Mathematical Modelling: I was in charge of finding out a way to translate a real-life problem into a mathematical problem (Chinese Postman Problem, Set Covering, Assignment Problem, Knapsack Problem, etc.).

• Problem-Solving: After defining the mathematical problem, I have to investigate which variables are available, then set a strategy to solve it using algorithms.

• Research: My task was to search by PhD thesis, Master Dissertation, or Books which could help my team and me to find out a solution proposition, mathematical modelling, algorithms, or a new technique.

• New Projects Proposal: Keeping updated from new technologies of Power Distribution and overseeing new clients’ demands to future proposals.

• Consultancy: Elaboration of Technical Studies (Reliability, Assets, Power Quality, Market, etc.) and Creating Action Plans.

• Regulatory Affairs: Application of the Regulatory method of technical losses.

• Prototyping: Testing the model and algorithms chosen to find any inconsistencies before the Development step. Sometimes, I also have programmed this prototype in R.

• Technical Report: Writing reports to the clients with an explanation of methods, algorithms, user manual, data analysis, and outcomes from the R&D projects. Also, applying paper to conferences.

• Economic Analysis: Evaluation of any action on the grid to measure the trade-off between Investment/Action and Gains (Reliability, Power Quality, etc.).

• Project Management: Keeping the expenses under control, deliverables on time, client contact to receive its feedback, and assisting the Development team.

2004 - 2011

https://www.poli.usp.br

• Major in Electric Distribution Systems.

Undergraduate Thesis: Development of Offshore Ocean Waves Power Generator Prototype.

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• R Language.
• Project Management.
• DSA (Distribution System Analysis), DMS (Distribution Management System) and OMS (Outage Management System).
• Mathematical Modeling, Optimisation, Econometrics, Data Analysis, and Forecasting.
• Technical Economic Studies.

• Management and Accounting.
• Planning and Operational the Electrical Distribution Systems.
• Knowledge Management.
• Network Optimization.
• Regulatory Affairs.

Apr 2018

I was a volunteer at an event hosted by the Japanese Community from Mogi das Cruzes called Akimatsuri. I have aided the elders for 4 days (each day for 4 hours).

https://www.akimatsuri.com.br

Jan 2006 - Dec 2007

I was a volunteer, and I worked 20 hours a week.

Responsibilities

• Campi Newspapers Editor
• Academic Center Maintenance and Organization
• Event Organizer with Alumni and Students
• Technical Lecture Organizer