Oi, I’m Mauricio

I’m an experienced engineer ─ a maker who brings possibilities into reality and an executor who builds dynamic teams to get big jobs done. But at the core, I’m an avid thinker ─ curious, imaginative, creative and adventurous.

Let’s build together!

About me

  • Staff Product Operations Manager, AI Research

    • Designed mission critical ML model validation pipelines and cloud infrastructure
    • Led data operations on input training data and model output performance measurement
    • Directed tooling development for Human-in-the-Loop data labeling
    • Overhauled SQL code base, drove best practices and established a data pipeline implementation playbook

  • Director of Business Operations and Product Development

    • Nurtured product roadmap for continuous improvement, life cycle and NPD projects

    • Led department’s transition to integrated ETL’s on DOMO

    Manager of Business Operations and Financial Planning

    • Led comprehensive product line overhaul including redesign of SKU’s, customer service, procurement, fulfillment and billing processes with end-to-end Oracle implementation

    Manager of Business Development

    • Integrated Internet-of-Things, B2B API’s and sustainability reporting across platform

  • SC Johnson College of Business

    • Master of Business Administration with Distinction - General Management and Sustainable Global Enterprise Tracks

    Civil and Environmental Engineering School

    • Master of Engineering - Water Resources and Renewable Energy Systems

  • MBA Summer Intern

    • Conducted kaizen on Phenom 100/300 assembly line’s bottleneck for 20% cycle time reduction

    • Implemented a new team structure to optimally align incentives and internal client relationships

  • International Project Manager, Switzerland

    • Executed without delays security recall of the rack-and-pinion locomotive fleet by managing infrastructure, logistics and personnel for the Brazilian warranty services

    • Received extensive training by senior leadership on Swiss-precision Project Management

  • Engineer and Project Manager

    • Led technology transfer team for high-tech, US$60M, Swiss-made, rack-and-pinion locomotive fleet

    • Supervised product manufacturing, maintenance plan development, commissioning and a 60-week training program for a 40-employee workshop

    • Modeled operational simulations to plan and validate the truck-to-rail shift, responsible for removing 2,000 freight trucks daily off the streets

  • Bachelor of Mechanical Engineering, Brazil

    • 25-dim state space, real time flight simulator written in Matlab Capstone Project

    • SAE Aero Design Competition, Flight Modeling - Champion in Brazil 2006, 2008 and World Champion in Marietta, GA 2009

    Exchange Program at Universität Stuttgart, Germany

    • Internship at BOSCH GmbH in Advanced Materials Lab

    • Special and General Relativity, Astronomy and Neural Networks electives

After finishing a dual degree program at Cornell University, MBA in Sustainability and M.Eng. in Water Resources and Renewable Energy Systems, I joined Grind2Energy, an entrepreneurial group within Emerson Electric Co., to offer food waste recycling services for biogas and electricity generation. Now, I’ve started a new journey at Cruise!

  • Sustainability

    What does food waste and renewable energy have in common? I want to answer some of humanity's biggest questions!

    See what I'm doing

  • Advanced Manufacturing

    I enjoy solving complex problems to bridge the gap between a vision and thousands of moving parts.

    See what I've done

  • Emerging Technologies

    One of the most defining features of reality (which one?) is the infinity of possibilities. What’s next?

    See what I want to explore
 

Geeking out on

Passions, projects and big ideas.

  • The Workshop

    Fair to call it my favorite place where I spent most of my time growing up. It has been the setting of colorful redox reactions, explosions, massive short-circuits, dissections and several other experiments conducted by an extremely curious kid.

  • Grandma's Memoire

    One of the most rewarding experiences, as a present to my grandma on her 99th birthday, was hiring a ghost writer who interviewed her for a year to collect her memories, and a graphic artist who polished the manuscript into the most beautiful book.

  • Think Critically

    I like to bring my ideas to paper (even when the paper is digital). A few years ago I started a small blog to share a few controversial reflections on human existence, but also to focus on elaborating my hunches about what the future has in store: TheWorkShop88, a FutureForging Initiative

  • The Expanse

    Solar System Colonization is in my opinion a matter of time, but… Will we propel ourselves to ascend to the stars by a light and adventurous spirit or by a desperate last breath from a dying Earth?

  • Passion of Math and Physics

    Learned to notion of an integral at the age of 10 after asking my grandpa what was the length a hammock should have given the position of the hooks. Really curious these days about spacetime as an emergent phenomenon.