A career shaped by engineering, distance, and curiosity.
The career began in naval architecture in Rio de Janeiro — classrooms at the Federal University, fluid mechanics labs, and early hands-on experience in structural surveying at Bureau Veritas and yacht design at DM Náutica. That foundation, combining engineering rigour with shipyard fluency, has shaped every chapter since.
From Rio, the path moved to Peru, where a field supervisor role at SIMA Shipyard, Peruvian Navy, grew into general superintendent responsibilities covering modular tanker construction and floating dock projects. It was the first experience of leading large technical teams — and of teaching naval architecture to company personnel and merchant marine students. A JICA scholarship then brought a first posting to Japan in 1985, with graduate training at the Overseas Shipbuilding Cooperation Center in Yokohama and at Ishikawajima-Harima Heavy Industries in Aioi — the start of a long relationship with this country.
An MBA from Grand Valley State University in Michigan followed, opening the door to industrial business development. The next chapter ran through Chicago and then Nagano with Miyano Machinery — a CNC machine tool manufacturer — where the work spanned planning and building a new factory in Iwate, international procurement and OEM negotiations across Asia and Europe, and sales engineering for the Latin American market. Many years in corporate Japan built both the technical depth in factory automation and the cultural fluency that still underpins the practice today.
A Canadian chapter followed, with independent consulting in Vancouver — including shipbuilding project management for Vancouver Shipyards — and change management work at Suncor Energy during a large-scale corporate reorganization. CMACH International was founded in Tokyo in 2011 to consolidate this trajectory into a standing consulting presence for maritime and industrial clients across the Americas, Asia, and Europe. CMACH Consulting continues that work today as a focused independent practice.
Recent executive education has sharpened the forward-looking side of the work: Blockchain Technologies: Business Innovation and Application and Internet of Things: Business Implications and Opportunities at MIT Sloan Executive Education in 2021, and Circular Economy and Sustainability Strategies at the University of Cambridge Judge Business School in 2023. These are not credentials on display — they are the frameworks used day to day to help clients make sense of what comes next.