Dipl.-Ing. Rafael Gouveia Perez

With the goal not to avoid cultural shock within the business environment but to minimize it as well as to increase awareness about certain cultural differences, I can help and support You and Your organization by offering seminar and training on how to better comprehend a bit of the Brazilian Culture in the working environment.

• Development of business partners in Latin America - distributors and/or representatives; • development of customer strategy as well as market entry; • dealing with both markets: aftermarket & OEM; • intense interface with other departments: back office; production; logistic; engineering / laboratory; quality; • working on a complete multicultural environment; • participation of business trade fairs.

Part of the job consisted of: • Coordination of after sales and local representative’s activities; • Performing the communication between the German technical assistance and customers / representatives; • Business development in South America, Spain & Portugal - direct and indirect sales channel; • Technical-commercial support on the business development in Asia and India; • Attending trade fairs in Germany, Brazil, Taiwan, Thailand & India.

Engineer responsible for the Conveyor Solutions line, which consists of: • performing technical visits in the field in order to support technically customers and Key accounts; • accompaniment of assembling and ministering training to customers; • keeping in touch with branches all over the world and reporting technically to Sweden, which is the head office of some products which I have worked with.

This function has been developed exclusively with: • international customers, located in Russia, Poland, USA, Korea and China; • daily contacts with such customers in order to clarify technical questions and also supporting them regarding failures found in their assembly lines; • strong and close contact with a dealer based in Russia. I had the opportunity by participating in a training in Germany - Passau about transmissions and axles for construction machines.

Trainee at Conveyor Accessories line, working specifically in: • product support at scrapers, belts, rollers, idlers and all components applied in a conveyor belt; • supporting technically our representatives in the field and keeping in touch with others plants around the world as Norway, Germany, Sweden, China etc.; • performing several visits to customers in the field for mining, construction and sugar cane segment.

• Trainee at Quality Engineering acquiring knowledge in measurement methods; • quality control and its tools; • accompaniment of the start up of new assembly lines, like Power Window and Engine Cooling.

• Working as an administrative assistant at engineering department; • performing the cadaster of the machine structure, documents in general, bill of material, notices of changes coming from Sweden; • working also in the technical archive.

* Individual coaching sessions; * Workshops: - Lean basics; - Design Thinking basics; - Agile Management.

• How to Become a Brand-driven Organization; • Innovation in Successful Organizations; • Entrepreneurship and New Venture Creation; • Stock Compensation in Silicon Valley: Past, Present and Future; • Site visits at Google, Align Technology, Plug and Play Technology Center and TechShop.

Master thesis: Possible cultural shocks when a German organization decides to operate in the Brazilian market.