Engineering Manager

João Carlos Zerbini

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12-997**-**** • **.*******@*****.***

São José dos Campos • https://www.linkedin.com/in/joao-zerbini-213b7a1/

Objective – Director / Executive Senior Manager – Technologies and Systems Development

Summary

Executive Senior Manager with 23 years of industrial, engineering and information technologies experience, with proven success leading multi-skilled/inter-site teams in 4 countries, responsible for:

Global strategy and planning for Engineering Vice Presidency.

Management of large recurrent and non-recurrent CAPEX/OPEX budgets.

Management of large teams on complex aerospace development environments.

Engineering and manufacturing technologies business plan definition and implementation based on automation, digitalization and IT.

Engineering and manufacturing large systems and applications development and support.

Short, medium and long-term development and support strategies for CAE, CAD, CAM, Digital Manufacturing and Industry 4.0 Solutions.

IT infrastructure, licenses and support contracts management and maintenance.

Information Technology x Operation Technology convergence.

Relationship with academy, ICTs and government agencies to prospect investments and foster innovation and development of new technologies.

Experience

Sr. Manager, Strategy, Process and Digital Engineering – EMBRAER S.A. - Apr 2019 to Aug 2020.

Direct reports: 6 managers / Team: 135+ engineers/technicians.

• Strategy and planning of Engineering Vice Presidency based on scope, workload capacity and financial analysis.

• Participation in the corporate committees for risk analysis, investments and innovation.

• Engineering analysis for new business and new products.

• Methods, processes and systems for configuration control of Product Structure (Bill of Material and Bill of Information).

• Definition and management of integrated process for product and manufacturing development.

• Engineering Specialization Program and knowledge management program, more than 32 technologies connected with aerospace engineering and manufacturing.

• Engineering Vice Presidency carve out due the M&A process with Boeing Aerospace.

Sr. Manager, Manufacturing Technologies and Digital Engineering - EMBRAER S.A. – Apr 2015 to Aug 2020.

Direct reports: 5 managers / Team: 68+ engineers/technicians.

• Strategic, budgetary and risk management of areas related to Engineering and Manufacturing technologies.

• Definition and execution of the Master Plan for Manufacturing and Engineering Technology - Industry 4.0 (Robots, cobots, automated and autonomous machines, Digital Twin, Augmented Reality, Virtual Reality, Machine Learning, Drones, Additive Manufacturing thermoplastic and Metal, systems integrations, Big Data, Analytics and IOT)

• R&T Industry 4.0, composites and metals. Company representative in CNI's Innovation Ecosystem Immersion programs in USA and Europe.

• Prospection of industrial government incentives and industrial strategy implementation.

• Corporate representative in the relationship with government agencies (CNI, MCTI, EMBRAPII and MEI) for matters of Industry 4.0.

• Development, support and evolution of Engineering IT for PLM, CAD, CAE, CAM and Digital Manufacturing solutions.

• Integration of engineering and manufacturing systems with corporate systems (ERP, SCM, QMS, etc.)

Manager, Industrial Automation and Digital Manufacturing - EMBRAER S.A. / Feb 2009 to Aug 2020.

Direct reports: 5 engineering managers / Team: 60+ engineers/technicians.

• Cost, time, quality and risk management of projects for automation solutions and manufacturing systems implementation, applied to structural assembly, final assembly, Machining, sheet metal, surface and heat treatments, composite material fabrication, electrical harnesses, tubing and painting.

• Development and support of automation solutions in Brazil, United States, Portugal and China sites.

• Development and support of aircraft automated test stations in Brazil, United States, Portugal and China sites.

• Development and support of industrial IT solutions (Systems Integration, MES and Digital Manufacturing) in Brazil, United States and Portugal sites.

• Implementation of IOT solutions in Brazil, United States and Portugal sites.

• Team structuring for technology solution development projects.

• Project management based on theory of constrains and agile methodologies.

• Process optimization based on lean manufacturing and engineering, TPM, cycle reduction/optimization, industrial flow, pull system.

Aircraft Manufacturing Specialist and Industrial Automation Systems Analyst - EMBRAER S.A. / Jan 1998 to Feb 2009.

• Aircraft test station development, implementation and support.

• IOT/Machine integration solutions for robots, milling machines, monument machines.

• Digital factory implementation.

• Applications development for data analysis and validation of special production process.

• Manufacturing projects management.

• Aircraft tests process development and support to guarantee requirements adherence and product safety.

Certifications and Trainings

• Entrepreneur Leadership Program – Embraer 2009 to 2010

• Advanced People Management – Amana-Key 2015

• Executive Education, Entrepreneurial Leadership – Fundação Dom Cabral 2015 to 2016

• Value Co-authorship – Escola de Marketing Industrial 2016.

• Master and Professional Coach – Sociedade Brasileira de Coaching – 2012.

• +150 courses along 23 years in EMBRAER.

Education

• MBA Executive Program - Universidade de Taubaté – 2010.

• Graduation Course – Computing Vision - EMBRAER/SENAC/USP – 2003.

• Data Processing – Information Systems – FATEC/SP - UNESP - 2000.

Languages

• English – Advanced Level

• French – Intermediate Level for reading and listening

• Chinese – Basic Level

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