Diogo Rodrigues

Responsible for business development of machinery and industrial automation solutions for the pharmaceutical and cosmetics industry.

Creates and performs training for students and professionals in technical areas, developing soft skills that are essential to flow their knowledge, transforming the potential of a professional into effective results for their career and for companies in the form of high value perceived products and solutions, as well as delivering professional differentiated services and experiences.

Manages and leads sales team with the mission to create and provide services and machinery solutions for the pharmaceutical and consumer industries. Responsible for providing pharmaceutical filling and packaging solutions in Brazil and other Latin American countries with focus on: - Sterile filling solutions for syringes, vials, cartridges and bottles with sterile (Tub/Nest packaging) or non-sterile (bulk packaging) primary packaging; - Non-sterile packaging solutions (syringes, bottles and nasal spray); - Containment technologies (oRABS, cRABS and Isolators); - Lyophilization systems; - Machine solutions for filling and processing reagents and suspensions.

Guiding his customers and partners in the process of defining the ideal packaging type and production process to ensure successful projects, which rely on highly efficient production lines, flexible enough to quickly absorb new product launches and complex shapes, and high level of technology to ensure the final quality of the product at the point of supply.

Responsible for develop and create business opportunities all over Latin America market in the following industries: - Pharma: Aseptic filling, Isolator / RABS, Freezy drying, Diagnostics, Non-sterile filling; - Consumer: Beauty care, Food and Chemical; Define the most suitable technical scope of supply and elaborate technical and commercial quotation according to User's Requirement Specification (URS) and participate on the definition of the commercial strategy approach (sales and negotiation process). Organize and carry out technical meetings and visits in order to define and align customer's expectations, needs and goals. Provide technical budget presentation, propose and design production layout with the specification of the complete solution and carrying out alignment with customer. Develop and validate sales partners all over Latin America countries, being responsible for elaborating and provide technical trainings, defining the strategy of approach in the market, providing technical, commercial and administrative support for developing business in LATAM. Discuss, define and present the strategy and quotation for installation, commissioning, validation process (IQ/OQ, SAT), trainings and production ramp-up. Responsible for defining the solution and providing fully automatic filling and closing machines for 2 production lines of cosmetics for the US market. Responsible for creating the solution, elaborating technical and commercial quotations of 2 pharmaceutical production lines. One line was designed for the production of a pharmaceutical powder and the other one was designed for filling of eye drops.

Group leader of mechanical engineering team developing packing, filling and closing solutions for rigid and flexible packaging materials for cosmetic, food, chemical, pharmaceutical and Nonwovens industry based on the client's requirements (URS - User's Requirement Specification), leading from the manufacturing phases (parts manufacturing, mechanical and electrical assembly) to validation internal tests with client (FAT - Factory Acceptance Test) as well as client' siet (SAT - Site Acceptance Test). Continuous knowledge exchange with headquarter facilities (Germany) with the aim to consolidate german technology and know-how in packaging machinery solutions in the brazilian subdisidiary according to the local industry needs.

Mechanical designer developing solutions for filling and closing machines for rigid and flexible packaging materials for cosmetic, food and chemical industries. Continuous knowledge exchange with headquarter facilities (Germany) in order to improve and develope know-how, learn and implement new technologies, methods and manufacturing process in order to provide solutions for local market according to local industry needs. Softwares: Creo Elements Direct Modeling (2D and 3D Modeling Software), Model Manager (Drawings and Projects Data Base) and SAP (Software ERP - Enterprise Resource Planning).

AutoCAD 2008 instructor including 2D (advanced level) and 3D (basic level).

Mechanical development of forging tools for hot and cold forging process in vertical and horizontal mechanical and hydraulic press. Software: AutoCAD 2007 2D and 3D.