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CURRICULUM VITAE

PERSONAL DATA:
NAME : Carlos Pinto.
ADDRESS : Doha, Qatar
TELEPHONE / MAIL: +97466469190 (mobile) / chpinto@sapo.pt
NATIONALITY: Portuguese. European Union Citizen.
CIVIL STATE : married.
DRIVERS LICENCE: Portugal / Oman / Qatar.

ACADEMIC QUALIFICATIONS:
1973 - Salazar High School graduation (Mozambique).
1974 - Agricultural University (first year attendance).
1978 / 1983 3 year National Diploma in Metallurgical Engineering (Witwatersrand
Technical College, known today as University of Johannesburg, South Africa).
I felt the need to broaden my knowledge in quality, management and accountancy
and enrolled for short courses:
1984 - A pass on the subject Quality Assurance (Production Management Institute,
South Africa).

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1985 - A pass on 4 subjects of the Accountancy Diploma (South Africa).

1987 - A pass on 4 subjects of the Quality Engineering course (South Africa).

KNOWLEDGE OF LANGUAGES:
Portuguese and English (read, speak and write fluently). I lived in South Africa for 14
years and in Oman / Qatar.
French (basic).

I understand Spanish well and they understand me also so that we can communicate
with each other.

WORK EXPERIENCE:
July to December 1974 - 6 months as a high school teacher (Mozambique).
January to December 1975 - 1 year as a telecommunications trainee technician
(South Africa).
1976 / 1978 - 3 years as an inspector of the quality department of Haggie Steel
Ropes (South Africa).
1979 / 1982 - 4 years as a trainee metallurgist in the process control department of
Haggie Steel Ropes.
1983 - 1 year as a metallurgical engineer of the process control department (Haggie
Steel Ropes).
1984/8 5 years as quality control manager of the non ferrous foundry, rolling and
extrusion Mckechnie Brothers (South Africa).
1988/94 6 years, as a Manager of the technical / quality department of Companhia
Portuguesa de Trefilaria (Wire drawing).
May 1994 / 2008 14 years as a Supervisor and Technical Manager of the ISQ
mechanical and concrete laboratories in Lisbon, carrying out testing of materials at
ambient, low and high temperatures (tensile, impact, fracture, bending, fatigue,
CTOD, creep). Carried out replica and metallographic evaluations for the power,
construction, petrochemical and oil and gas sectors during maintenance shut downs.
Also measurement of residual stresses by x ray diffraction methods in welds and
metals.

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October 2008 / June 2009 Technical Sales engineer for the company Tecrane (Sales
of high torque hydraulic tools to the oil and gas sector).
April 2010 / January 2011 Manager of the metallurgical laboratory of Exova
(Bodycote), Muscat, Oman offering technical services (replica, metallography and
destructive testing to the chemical, petrochemical and oil and gas sector).
2011 / 2014 Technical Manager and Deputy Quality Manager at present, but also
carried out the function of Quality Manager when first joined the metallurgical
laboratory of AIRBUS GROUP (EADS) Doha, Qatar, offering technical services (replica
and destructive testing to the chemical, petrochemical and oil and gas sector).

2014/present Hitek Group QHSE Manager, QC inspector for Hitek Contracting and
Laboratory manager Hitek Services WLL

RESPONSIBILITIES (Hitek Group, Hitek Services, Hitek Contracting):

Management of metallurgical laboratory offering services to the oil and gas sector and
responsible for all QHSE activities of the Hitek Group.
Responsible for the on site QC inspection during building construction (Hitek
Contracting).

RESPONSIBILITIES (Exova, AIRBUS Group, EADS Middle East):

Management of metallurgical laboratory and to keep the library standards and
specifications up to date.
To ensure that the mechanical, metallurgical tests and failure analysis are carried out
and the respective reports produced.
To plan, organize and supervise all metallographic replica activities to be carried out
on site. To interpret replica results and produce the relevant reports.
To ensure that all equipment used in inspection and testing is calibrated.
To ensure all samples are received be it for testing, be it equipments or consumables.
To maintain up to date the laboratory Quality System / EN ISO 17025.

To elaborate and revise the laboratory technical procedures.

To ensure that all administrative and commercial activities related to customers

(market research, customer enquiries, contract review, order acceptance, invoicing,
tracking payments and debts, etc) are carried out.

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RESPONSIBILITIES AT TECRANE (Lisbon, Portugal):

To keep and maintain the actual scope of national clients and to carry out market
research in order to bring in new ones.
To carry out direct sales of the product to the customers and to track performance of
product sold.
To attend to complaints and technical needs of the customers in order to keep them
satisfied.
To monitor customer payments and debts.

RESPONSIBILITIES ISQ Welding and Quality Institute (Lisbon,

Portugal):
Management of 2 laboratories with 5 technicians (mechanical and concrete
laboratory).
To keep the library standards and specifications up-to-date.
To carry out the mechanical, metallographic and residual stress tests and to produce
the respective reports (replica, metallography, tensile, bend, fracture, charpy, CTOD,
fatigue, creep tests using optical microscopes, Instron, Mayes and X ray diffraction
equipment).
Carried out on-site replica metallographic preparation and creep measurements of
tubing during plant shutdown.
To ensure that all equipment used in inspection and testing is calibrated.
To receive all samples for testing, equipments and consumables.
To install and maintain up-to-date the laboratory Quality System / EN ISO 17025.

To elaborate and revise the laboratory technical procedures.

To carry out all administrative and commercial activities related to customers (market
research, customer enquiries, contract review, order acceptance, invoicing, tracking
payments and debts, etc).

To participate in European project work and to act as an inspector in national and

overseas contracts (Tagus Bridge, metro rail, rail welding certifications).

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To carry out internal technical and quality audits to other laboratories of ISQ.

To participate in the inspection on site of power plant, petrochemical components and

to install data acquisition systems (power plants, expo 98, bridges, cement plants).

RESPONSIBILITIES AT THE COMPANHIA PORTUGUESA DE TREFILARIA

(Steel Wire drawing) Lisbon, Portugal:
To install and maintain a Quality Assurance System (ISO 9000 / 9001 /9002).
To produce and maintain the specifications used in the manufacture of the company
products.
To calculate and define the industrial costs of all products manufactured.
To carry out failure analysis, metallurgical investigations and process development.
To design and develop new technologies, prototypes and products.
To give technical support to the sales department (queries and visits to clients).
To analyse and evaluate internal scrap, customer complaints and product returned.
To define incoming material and final product specifications.
To help the Technical Director with quality audits to foreign suppliers (Algeria).
To supervise 3 workers.

RESPONSIBILITIES AT THE NON FERROUS MCKECHNIE BROTHERS

FOUNDRY / EXTRUSION / ROLLING (South Africa):
To install and maintain a Quality Assurance System (ISO 9000 / 9001 / 9002).
To carry out inspection of incoming raw materials, goods and manufactured product
(extruded bars, flats, strips, sections, tubes, ingots, cast tubes, slabs, billets and
drawn wire).
To carry out failure analysis, metallurgical investigations and process development.
To design and develop new technologies and manufacturing processes.

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To analyse and evaluate internal scrap, customer complaints and product returned.
To carry out process control activities in order to improve yields.
To supervise 23 inspectors and 2 chief inspectors.
To Manage the Quality Control Department.

RESPONSIBILITIES AT HAGGIE STEEL ROPES (WIRE DRAWING, ROPE

MAKING) South Africa:
To carry out inspection, testing and certification of manufactured product (wire, strand
and cable).
To carry out process control of all the fabricating processes (galvanising, patenting,
wire drawing, pickling, rope making and welding).
To carry out failure analysis, metallurgical investigations and process development.

To analyse and evaluate internal scrap, customer complaints and product returned.
To define the technologies to be used in the production of wire.
To design and develop new products.
To represent the company during the inspection of steel ropes at The Council for
Scientific and Industrial Research.

EXPERIENCE IN COMPUTERS AS A USER:

Spreadsheets (lotus 123, excel, quatro pro, VisiCalc, supercalc).
Databases (paradox, DbaseIV, access, ).
Dos and Windows
Word processing (word).
Win project and PowerPoint.
Commercial software (SAP, Mapics)
Statistical and graphical software (statistica, origin).

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Testing software (Series 9 , Blue hill, etc)

LIMS (laboratory information management systems)

Theorethical and Practical Training:

1986 In House People Management and problem solving training course.

1994 Uncertainty in mechanical testing.

1995 Databases ( ACCESS ) , WINPROJECT, MS POWERPOINT.
1995 High temperature tensile testing / Creep testing.
1999 Creep testing, and acquisition data systems like UPM 100.
2000 High temperature extensometry.
2002 Quality auditing EN ISO\IEC 17025.
2003 Fracture Mechanics at High Temperatures.
2004 Data Analysis.
2004 Crack Behaviour of Components.
2004 Quality management, and uncertainty calculations in laboratories.
2006 Training in the database system SAP for commercial management.
2006 Health and Safety course.
2008 Technical Salesman course in Hydraulic Tools (England).
2009 Courses in Telesales of Financial Products and Entertainment Products.
2010 Courses in Customer Care, G48 corrosion testing and Ferrite counting.

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2011 Course in Corrosion.

2012 Courses in Micro and Macrostructures of Metals and Alloys, Corrosion Resistant Alloys.
2012 Courses in Uncertainty calculations for laboratories and ISO 9000 quality awareness.
Carlos Pinto, 01-juin-2015
Doha, Qatar.