The document provides a resume for a senior executive with over 30 years of experience in automotive sales, engineering, and management roles in North and South America. It details his work history leading sales, business development, and engineering teams for several automotive suppliers producing wheels, chassis components, and other structural parts. The executive has a proven track record of growing business, improving quality, reducing costs, and developing talent across multiple regions and companies.

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Senior Executive
PROFILE
A global enterprising, results-oriented, reliable executive with Sales, Strategy and Engineering back-
ground with significant global automotive experience for Light and Commercial vehicle.
Strong leadership and walk to talk management discipline, leads by example, team work approach with
good interpersonal skills to engage, motivate and encourage others to achieve traceable objectives.
EXPERTISE IN:
Sales and Marketing
Engineering Management
Business Development
Business strategy
Commercial and Light vehicles
Regional management
Program Management
Application Engineering
Product Engineering
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Maxion Structural Components – Maxion SC produces side members, crossmembers and complete chassis for
commercial vehicles and structural stamped items for CV and LV segments in Mexico; Brazil and Argentina. MSC is
part of the Ioshpe-Maxion Group – about US$ 1 Billion company.
Director of Sales and Mkt, South America, Sao Paulo, Brazil Jan. 2014 - PRESENT
 Led the South American sales re-organization (16 employees) resulting in about 10% sales growth.
 Established customer intimacy responsibilities with clear targets and performance metrics.
 Accomplished a growth of 25% sales revenue increase in 2 years.
 Led the sales team during the economic negotiations resulting in 6% cost recovery.
 Led the diversified strategy to development components for agricultural equipment.
Director N America Sales and Business Development, Novi, USA Jan. 2012 – Dec. 2014
 Led the business development and sales and marketing group in the NAFTA market.
 Led projects with Military equipment industry generating additional Sales imported from Brazil.
 Develop a strong relationship with the Asian OEMs to identify opportunities in the NAFTA region.
 Led the business growth strategy through alliances supported by the Asian OEMs using a greenfield invest-
ment; JV or acquisition investment.

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ARVINMERITOR WHEELS - The former ArvinMeritor Wheels (now Maxion) use to produce mainly Light Vehicle
and Commercial Vehicle Wheels in Brazil and Mexico. ARM Wheels was part of the ArvinMeritor Group – about US$
1.2 Billion global company.
Director Global Sales and Marketing, Troy, USA Aug. 2005 – Dec. 2012
 Led the Wheels Division business development and sales in NAFTA resulting in a 35% sales growth.
 Empower, define carrier goals and motivated the global sales team (Mexico, USA, Japan, Brazil).
 Led the raw material contract negotiation resulting in more than 12% operating profit growth.
 Led a multi department task to reduce 20% the cost of the final product as part of the strategic plan.
Director of Engineering and Technology, Troy, USA Jan. 2001 – Aug. 2005
 Responsible to lead Product Engineering; Application and Program Management; Tooling shop.
 Played a significant role to develop and retain talents; re-energize the Engineering with introduction
of team work activities; implementation of new development technologies to reduce time to mar-
ket.
 Led the global standardization through the global sites.
 Enforce and empower the Catia data as an unique platform for tooling development; product devel-
opment; process development reducing the development time in 25%.
 Promote the intense Concept to Customer training as a platform for every Engineering activity/de-
velopment resulting in 32 programs with flawless launches and perennial recognition by Honda in
Brazil, Toyota Global, Nissan North America, Chrysler, Ford and General Motors for Quality and De-
livery with ZERO PPM.
 Implemented long-term plans using the key performance measures for the Engineering team.
 Led the Innovation Workshop, as a tool to promote new ideas and technology. This initiative gener-
ated the Patent reward program that resulted in 8 new patents per year- About US$ 30 Million busi-
ness opportunities.
 Enforce and promote the Technology Road Map activities – Establishing an aggressive technological
plan to support the company Business Strategy plan.
 Re-energized the Product Engineering, Application Engineering, Tooling shop, Manufacturing Engi-
neering through leadership initiatives – Six Sigma, White Shirt, C2C.
 Implemented the Engineer of the Year Award to motivate the creativity and integrate the different
regions to the new strategy.
NA Manager, Application, Quality and Logistics, Troy, USA Jan. 1998 – Dec.2000
 Responsible for the North American Engineering; Quality and Logistics Management.
 Initiated as local Leader, the inventory reduction - Resulting in 3 less Warehouses an 11% reduction
in inventory ($4 million)
 Integration of the local North American Office to the Quality System program - Resulting in 50 %
fewer customers complain and about $1.2 million inventory reduction.
 Led the MRP implementation in the North America Logistics System – Resulting in a better control
and inventory turnover – Cost reduction of about US$1 Million/year.
 Customer liaison and coordination for an investment of US$30 Million in a new plant in Mexico. Re-
sulting in a US$ 45 Million /year new sales.

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ROCKWELL INTERNATIONAL – FUMAGALLI WHEELS DIV. - The former Rockwell Wheels (now Maxion) use
to produce mainly Light Vehicle and Commercial Vehicle Wheels in Brazil. Rockwell Wheels was part of the Rockwell
International Group that was over US$ 5 Billion global company.
North America Engineering Manager, USA Jan. 1995 – Dec. 1998
 Develop the strategic studies to understand the market trends – Resulting later in the Technology Road
Map plan and Business Strategy Review plan.
 Enforced and supported the implementation of the global “electronic drawings”. Reducing the lead time
to answer to the North American customer.
 Led the C2C and Program Management system implementation introducing the program control docu-
ments such as DFMEA; timing chart, critical analysis, design verification, test planning and reports.
 Introduction of a quotation process improvement in order to reduce the time to market and meet the
market necessities – Resulted in 7 days’ reduction.
Product Engineering, Brazil Jan. 1986 – Dec. 1994
 Led the Local Manufacturing Engineering to establish a new technical standard more aligned with the
North American customers, improving the Engineering activities and standardization.
 Coordination of the first Weld Standard for Wheels and manufacturing procedures.
 Process optimization program. This program results in a tighter specification to acquire raw material. Re-
sulting in a steel optimization program that generate US$1 M savings.
 Pioneer to introduce the Structural evaluation for Wheels through the FEA in Brazil + real life correlation.
EDUCATION
University of Detroit Mercy, Detroit, USA Master of Engineering Management 1997-1999
University of Piracicaba, SP, Brazil Bachelor of Mechanical Engineering 1981–1986
University of Sao Paulo Finite Elements Analysis 1994
ASQC (Brazil), Campinas, Brazil Quality Engineering 1998
University of Campinas, Brazil Six Sigma Aug 1997