1. Professional Activities:

• Mechanical Engineer (University of Bahia, Brazil).
  
• Certified Quality Engineer, N.23662, American Society for Quality - ASQ/USA.
  
• Examiner of Brazilian Quality Award - 1992.
  
• Member of ABNT (Brazilian Association of Technical Standards).
  
• Senior Member of American Society for Quality Control.
  
• Coordinator of Quality Commission of Petrochemical Pole (50 petrochemical companies) - 1990.
  
• Coordinator of Quality and Productivity Nucleus of Business Management School at Bahia University (18 consultants), 1994-1997.
  
• Member of ISO 9000 FORUM, Switzerland.
  
• Member of Executive Committee of Bahia Quality Program - 1994/96.
  
• Member of Quality Committee of Chemical Industry - 1995/96.
  
• Responsible for implementation of a Quality system for POLITENO (a petrochemical company that produces 300.000 ton/year), certified according to ISO 9001 by BVQI - 1976/1997.
  
• Director of Qualitas, a training/consultancy firm on ISO 9000.

2. Technical papers presented abroad:

• "BARRIERS TO QUALITY DOCUMENTATION IN DEVELOPING COUNTRIES", 9th World Quality Congress, EOQ/ASQC/JUSE, 1993, Finland.
  
• "DOCUMENTATION FOR ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS", 4th International Conference on ISO 9000, EC/ISO9000, USA, 1996.
  
• "DOCUMENTATION FOR ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS, 10th World Quality Congress, Japan, 1996.

3. Publications abroad:
Click and read the articles:

• LITERACY BARRIER TO QUALITY DOCUMENTATION, published in the newsletter ISO9000NEWS, vol.3, nº3, may/june 1994, edited by ISO, Switzerland.
  
• BRAZIL'S ISO 9000 SURGE IS "NUCLEAR POWERED", published in the newsletter QUALITY WORLD, vol XIII, nº4, oct. 95, by International Chapter of ASQC.
  
• INTEGRATING ISO 9000 AND TQC FOR GREATER COMPETITIVENESS, published in the newsletter ISO900NEWS, vol. 6, nº6, november/december 1997, edited by ISO, Switzerland.

4. References in other publicatons

• PARTICIPATION ICQ 96, published in TOTAL QUALITY MANAGEMENT, by JUSE, december, 1996 - Japan.
  
• Resum of paper BRAZIL'S ISO 9000 SURGE, published in the book APPLYING ISO 9000 QUALITY MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS, published by International Trade Center, UNCTAD, World Trade Center, Switzerland.

5.. Teaching Experience:

• Instructor of "Quality Information Systems" in the preparation course for CQE/ASQ and "Quality Documentation" in Quality Management Course at CETEAD at Bahia University.
  
• Instructor of "ISO 9000 Requisites, "Documentation for ISO 9000" and Implementing ISO 9000.

6. Books Published:

• Quality in small and medium companies - published by QUALITYMARK - 1993.
  
• Documentation for ISO 9000 - published by QUALITYMARK - 1995.
  
• Implementing ISO 9000 in small and medium companies - published by QUALITYMARK - 1996. These books, written in portuguese, can be get from QUALITYMARK -- Phone: 55-2121-567-3311/22, Fax: 55-2121-204-0687.

7. Consultancy Experience:
Consultancy to forty medium size companies in order to implement a quality system according to ISO 9000 standards (more than 2.000 hours of work).