Mechanical Engineer by Faculdade de Engenharia Industrial - FEI/UNIFEI. Graduate studies in Business Administration by Escola de Administração de Empresas de São Paulo da FGV - Fundação Getúlio Vargas. University extension course in Industrial Engineering in the Federative Republic of Germany. Specialization courses in Strategic Planning in the Institute for Management Development, IMD, in Switzerland and in Advanced Planning in Manufacturing Systems at AOTS – Association for Overseas Technical Scholarship, in Japan. Specialization courses in Metal Machining in the companies Sandvik (Sweden) and Iscar (Israel), and in maintenance in DaimlerChrysler in Germany.

Lecturer and works published in the United States of America, Canada, Portugal, Spain, Brazil and in almost all the countries in South America.

Technical visits to the United States of America, Japan, Germany, China, Italy, Portugal, Spain and Brazil.

Some of the foreign companies visited : Boeing, Toyota, Nissan, Hino, Mitsubishi, Fuso, General Motors, Ford, Caterpillar, Brunswick, Gleason, Arvin Meritor, Rockwell, Tap – Air Portugal, Fiat, Metco and Bentler.

Worked for Mercedes Benz do Brasil until 2006 as Director of Production of the Unit of Axles and Transmissions. Responsable for planning, logistics, maintenance and production. With staff group of that area, turned the production unit that would be closed or sold into a world benchmarking in the manufacturing of axles and transmissions. Such unit became a model to the other plants of the group. In 2004, the unit got a prize as the unit with the best manufacturing system of all units of the world division of commercial vehicles.

Adding to the improvements of the manufacturing system, new products were industrialized without the addition of another area, with optimized investments, such as transmissions, gears for exportation, a new family of axles for trucks and buses, axles for A Class automobiles, axles for Sprinter vehicle and the return of the internal industrialization of the heavy two-speed axles. The costs of the products were reduced in 17% and the importation of parts and sets eliminated.

University professor of Strategic Planning in Maintenance – Graduate Course –FEI/UNIFEI; Metal Machining - course on Processes – FATEC / UNESP.

National Director of Associação Brasileira de Manutenção - ABRAMAN (Brazilian Association of Maintenance).

Member of the Conselho Regional de Engenharia, Arquitetura e Agronomia - CREA .