Cantanhede, Coimbra, Portugal
Agronomist graduated in The Netherlands with wide experience in implementing and managing horticultural production facilities at international level. • Fluent in Portuguese, English, Spanish and Dutch. Good conversation in French, • Greenhouse design and setup, • Extensive knowledge in horticultural production and plant physiology. • Knowledge of plant production in high-tech greenhouses, • Down to earth strategic decision-maker, • “Teamwork” leader style, • Succesfull in sales of horticultural supplies. • Customer support giving technical advise. • International Project Manager in Morocco, Tunisia, Mexico, Spain, Egypt, Dominican Republic. • Experience with Microsoft Office (Word and Excel). • Pharmaceutical Cannabis cultivation in hight tech greenhouse. • Tomato production in greenhouse. • Optimization of the production process, reducing costs. • Production of horticultural young plants, grafted tomatoes and water melons, lettuce and cabbage. • Bachelor degree. • Flexibility for travel.
Managed and trained a team of 7 agronomists and 40 technicians to assure the quality and productivity of cannabis flowers through: crop management, climate control, irrigation, GMP certification and IPM (Integrated Pest Management) . Responsible for strategy planning regarding the automation of production and improvement of processes to reduce labor costs. In charge of production planning and labor organization. Key achievements: • Increased plant’s productivity due to a considerable decrease in pests and diseases. • Improved IPM techniques and the prevention of botrytis through better climate control. • Improved harvesting efficiency lowering labor in 12%. • Improved irrigation methods decreasing 27% water and fertilizer consumption. • Trained agronomists using Priva. • Delivered GMP quality cannabis flowers for medicinal processing.
Site manager of 3 ha lettuce propagation nursery. • Restructuring of technical maintenance procedures from the greenhouse and machines, • Increase productivity by further automation, • Investigate product diversification, • Promoted better communication with head office in The Netherlands, • Improved transport and logistics of the plants. • Assist the head grower in irrigation and climate control. • Introduced improvements in sowing line and peat moss humidification. Key achievements: • Increased labour efficiency in delivery procedures by 10% • Improved internal technical maintenance and lowerd costs from third parties. • Successfully improved irrigation water quality.
Consultancy to greenhouse growers in tomato, pepper and cucumber production • Climate control, • Layout of new greenhouses, • Labour management, • Integrated pest management, • Young plant nursery.
Sales of rock-wool substrate from Cultilene, sowing machines from Flier and plastic horticultural trays from Ina Plastics. My responsibility as comercial management included the areas of: sales, logistics, inventory, marketing, business relationship building, technical advice and post-sales follow-up. Key achievements: • In 2015 sales performance increased in 30% for rock-wool substrate from Cultilene due to direct customer approach. • Delivered FlierSystem’s first automatic sowing machine in Mexico to Plantanova’s plant nursery. • Introduced trays from Ina Plastics at 5 new customers.