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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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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
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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).
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To carry out internal technical and quality audits to other laboratories of ISQ.
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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.
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.
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Testing software (Series 9 , Blue hill, etc)
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