Operations, Technology and Innovation
Senior Teaching Fellow
graduated in Civil Engineering from the Instituto Superior Técnico – Universidade de Lisboa in 1990, the year in which he began his professional career. In 1997 he completed the 13th Company Management Program at AESE Business School. Since 2001 he has held a Master’s degree in Civil Engineering with a specialty in Construction Sciences from the Faculty of Sciences and Technology of the University of Coimbra and since 2009 a PhD in Civil Engineering from the same university, having specialized in the subject of Value Creation in Organizations.
In the course of his professional career, he has accumulated experience in the Construction and Public Works sector, working as a Director in the areas of Production, Quality and Human Resources. As Works Director, between 1991 and 2001 he was responsible for the construction of various building, road and rail projects. In 2008 he was a member of the Honorary Committee of the International Construction Management Forum. He has been responsible for various structuring projects in the areas of Quality Management Systems and Systems Certification, Skills Development and Vocational Training. He is an IEFP Certified Trainer and responsible for various training programs developed in a consultancy context. He has been a guest lecturer at various university and polytechnic higher education institutions since 2001.
He was responsible for various curricular units in the areas of economics, management and civil engineering at the University of Coimbra and at the Leiria School of Technology and Management. Since 2008 he has been a Senior Teaching Fellow in Operations, Technology and Innovation at AESE Business School. In the Global Awards 2024/2025 (CLW, UK) he was awarded “Business Management & Education of the Year”.
Between 2010 and 2016 he was Technical and Scientific Supervisor at the Institute for Research and Technological Development for Construction, Energy, Environment and Sustainability (ITeCons, University of Coimbra). He has lectured on master’s and doctoral dissertations at higher education institutions, has been a member of the scientific committee of several national and international conferences, and is a scientific reviewer of published articles. He has been Chair of several national and international conferences. He carries out applied research in areas related to value creation in organizations, namely organizational models, skills management and process optimization. He is the author of several scientific papers presented at national and international conferences, including publications in journals. The articles he has presented at international conferences have won the “Best Paper Award” and the “Best Presentation Award” on several occasions. He has designed several Serious Games that simulate different organizational realities [Using Serious Games within Simulation Living Labs for Capacity Building and Value Creation in Modern Organizations. ISBN 978-1-5361-8602-4. – 2020, p. 99-127]. In 2021 it created the brand BIGAMES© – Business Interactive Games, Management Simulators used in Executive Training. For two consecutive years, BIGAMES© has won the “Innovation in Managerial Education Solutions” award (UK).
He is a founding partner and, since 2010, CEO of Bigadvantage Consultores, where he provides consultancy services to public and private entities from different sectors of economic activity, in industry and services. He has been responsible for dozens of consultancy projects. For two consecutive years (2023, 2024) his company has been considered one of the 5% Best Portuguese SMEs, and was recently distinguished as “Multidisciplinary Consultancy of the Year” and “Best Technical and Management Consulting Firm” (distinctions awarded by two independent entities based in the UK), as part of the Global Excellence Awards
Programs in which holds lessons
Executive MBA AESE
GMP – General Management Program
PADIS – Programa de Alta Direção de Instituições de Saúde
GAIN – Direção de Empresas Agrícolas e Agroindustriais
GOS – Gestão das Organizações Sociais
