Bernardo is addicted to tennis and fishing, and a proud father of three very energetic boys.
He has been a source of inspiration, trust and advice in advanced business analytics to practitioners, senior managers and leaders/entrepreneurs for the last 20 years, mainly in FMCG, Retail and Process Industries & Manufacturing.
He is also a Full Professor of Industrial Engineering at Porto University, and a Member of the Board of Trustees of Fundação Belmiro de Azevedo.
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Pedro loves playing tennis and golf. His main goal at LTPlabs is to see the work of the team making an impact on customers. Over the past years, he has guided clients in taking the advantage of advanced analytics to unlock the value hidden between the operations and marketing. Pedro has extensive expertise in retail, and fast-moving consumer goods.
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Luís is passionate to create and deploy advanced analytics to transforms decision processes. He has worked across several industries such as retail, consumer goods, process industry and utilities. Recent projects range from demand and operations planning to targeted marketing. Luís is a professor at FEUP’s Industrial Engineering and Management Department which helps him to stay up to date with the state-of-the-art in several areas.
He is an enthusiastic fan of football, cycling and Formula 1 and enjoys exploring financial markets.
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Teresa has a PhD in Industrial Engineering and is currently Partner at LTPlabs. She has extensive experience in managing consulting projects and developing decision support systems to solve complex business analytics problems in operations management. She is also an invited assistant professor at FEUP and CAP certified. Teresa is an addicted traveller and loves non-typical sports such as skiing and kartings, but her free time is now mostly dedicated to her young children.
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Paulo guides the development of data-driven advice and solutions to enlighten business decisions. He unleashes the power of analytics in retail, FMCG or Telco, by combining strategic flair, stimulated by his previous experience at McKinsey, and an analytical mindset. Paulo also leads the People area, which fosters the growth and well-being of LTPeers.
Outside the office, Paulo enjoys eating a Francesinha while watching his favorite football team. As a music fan, he loves to explore record shops. Still, nothing beats a good concert!
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Adelino has nearly thirty years of experience in designing fact-based strategies for clients in the CPG and Retail verticals. From his early career with Andersen Consulting (now Accenture), Adelino transitioned to Dell and Omnicom, after which he managed the Analytics team for IRI. More recently, he retired from McKinsey and joined the Advisory Board of LTPlabs. He lives partly in Southwest Colorado (USA) and partly in Lisbon (Portugal).
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André Duarte is a Production Engineer from the Federal University of São Carlos (UFSCAR), with a Master’s and PhD in Business Administration from the Getulio Vargas Foundation (FGV-EAESP), as well as courses and specializations from schools such as Washington University, Harvard Business School, and the University of Cambridge.
He has been a Professor and Researcher at Insper since 2002 in the areas of Operations Management, Logistics, and Supply Chain. He served as the Program Director of the Executive MBA and the Undergraduate Course in Business Administration.
He currently heads the Operations and Logistics Studies Center and partnerships with MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) and LSE (London School of Economics). He conducts research in the areas of Operations Strategy, Supply Chain Management, Urban Logistics, Digital Transformation, and Industry 4.0. He received the PRME Recognition Awards from the UN for the development of the Campo-Favela Project.
With prior experience as an executive in multinational companies, he now works on developing consulting and training projects for various companies, including Saint Gobain, Votorantim, Itaú, Santander, Bradesco, Cielo, Ambev, Gerdau, Bayer, Roche, Johnson & Johnson, O Boticário, and Braskem.
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Miguel Seixas had a 25 years successful career at the pioneering retail Company in Portugal – SONAE, assuming important roles in areas, such as Commercial, Operations, Marketing, International Development and Global Management, from food retail to fashion and to banking.
He held C positions for 10 years, having been a member of Executive Boards in several SONAE companies. As well he was Vice Chairman of APED.
Today his own consultancy firm is specialized in M&A and Real Estate, and also has non-executive and advisor roles in different companies.
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Raja got over the popular misconception that Chemical Engineering has something to do with ethanol, chemistry, iron oxidisation or building water pipelines, realizing that it is actually a deadly tangle of hyper-convoluted math designed to melt young brains just before the end-semester exam. His skills (?) won him key roles at Wall Street firms, emerging tech firms and old-fashioned global financial services firms.
The University of Chicago and IE Business School and his senior leadership roles helped him morph from an engineer and technology strategist to a consultant armed with a lethal armoury of cliched frameworks (5C / 4P / 7S / 9Z … whatever) and threaten mankind’s sanity. Advised insurance, banking and hi-tech firms, even led a couple. A few years later he ended up as a slave to PowerPoint, without hope of liberation in this lifetime.
In his industry addresses, Raja is often tempted to say something profound such as: “Visionary leader with XX years experience of saving humanity”. But he usually spares folks the agony… The truth is that after many detours and experiments in life, he finds himself an entrepreneur! For the fifth time! Most importantly, Raja has survived getting educated at four global institutions, backpacking across the Amazon jungles, climbing some seriously tall peaks, and bitten by a few snakes and piranhas
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Alícia’s main goal is to leverage this opportunity to improve her knowledge and analytic skills by addressing a variety of complex challenges.
Outside the office, Alícia enjoys doing craft projects, entering fictional worlds through books or movies, and being surrounded by nature.
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Álvaro studied Biomedical Engineering and he’s passionate about technology and innovation. He has a background in Artificial Intelligence, namely computer vision, natural language processing and deep learning applications. Álvaro is constantly trying to stay curious and learn about as many new topics as he can. When he’s not working, he is probably playing basketball or shooting some street photography.
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With background in industrial and management engineering, Ana has worked in projects related to market modelling and stock management. Her passion for analytics and programming motivates her every day to learn more and apply her knowledge on the field.
After work, Ana can be found playing volleyball or spending time with her family, playing cards or just enjoying the moment.
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André has always tried his best to find ways to repay what people and institutions have given him. At LTPlabs he believes he can continue to make a positive impact on a larger scale, applying analytics to help all our clients grow and improve and empowering them to make better decisions. In his free time, he will be trying to keep up to date with what is happening in the world around him, searching for news, consuming sports, movies, or tv series. If the weather is good, then you will definitely find him on a beach nearby.
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With his optimization expertise and intent to impact businesses’ decision-making, André is developing solutions to further advance LTPlabs’ analytical proficiency in diverse managerial problems, such as inventory management or production scheduling.
André obtained his master’s degree from FEUP and had the opportunity to study abroad, namely at Ghent University and the University of Twente.
Outside work, you can find him watching sports, listening to his favorite bands, or trying to learn a new musical instrument.
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André has a profile that combines the areas of communication and strategy as well as an analytical background. He is always ready for new challenges, and he is passionate about understanding how the world functions and helping businesses succeed.
Before joining LTPlabs, André worked in a retail company where he developed machine learning models and helped analyze the financial position of the company.
Outside the office, André enjoys his time drawing cityscapes (urban sketching), going to the gym and watching tennis matches.
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Andreia’s main goals as project manager are to be an enabler to make her teams perform in their maximum potential and deliver value to the client. She has a vast experience in retail and process industries, particularly in forecasting, assortment optimization and data visualization. Before LTPlabs, Andreia worked in a management consultancy firm, participating in several projects in media and telecommunications industries.
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António strives to develop unique solutions by leveraging analytics to meet clients’ needs and goals. He particularly enjoys optimization problems, with a focus on metaheuristics. Besides LTPlabs, António loves playing football and padel and he is also the co-host of a podcast.
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With a Master’s Degree in Mechanical Engineering at FEUP and an internship in the semiconductor industry, António takes advantage of the skills developed in the data analytics field, both throughout the course and the first-hand experience in the industry. As an LTPeer, his main goal is to further improve these skills, get involved in exciting projects and learn as much as possible from the LTP’s team. Outside the office, António enjoys his time playing rugby for a local team.
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As an enthusiast of machine learning and optimization, Bruno has been working on several projects from strategy to operations with a technical management role. Among the projects he participated in, Bruno highlights his experience in demand forecasting, promotional planning, assortment management, customer analytics and marketing analytics. His main goal at LTPlabs is to stimulate and coordinate the use of advanced data models with the highest efficiency possible.
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A data driven person is his best description. Bruno combines his engineering background with business knowledge to develop insightful data-based solutions, which may be anything from machine learning modelling to dashboarding. He is an Artificial Intelligence enthusiast and, prior to joining LTPlabs, he was part of the data science team of a tech startup.
Bruno is passionate about travelling to any part of the world or just having a beer with his friends in the sun.
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Catarina is enthusiastic about data analytics, critical thinking and innovative solutions, and loves to use data to draw insights and solve problems. At LTPlabs, she has found a challenging and creative environment where she believes she can learn and grow professionally and personally.
Outside the office, Catarina loves to create handmade accessories and she is passionate about fashion.
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Daniel has been working in several projects in retail, process industries, and manufacturing companies, with an emphasis on supply chain and operations planning topics (e.g., network design, purchasing & inventory management, production strategy).
Daniel holds a PhD in Industrial Engineering and Management at FEUP. Daniel has previously worked as a consultant at a lean management consultancy firm for 2 years.
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David started his academic journey as an aspiring electrical engineer, following his strong interest for both software programming and hardware development. Midway his degree, he discovered a passion for the fields of operations research and operations management.
Combining all these interests with an engineering mindset, David joined LTPlabs to help companies, large and small, improve their processes and bottom line.
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Diogo is in his final year of his master’s in Industrial and Engineering Management at FEUP. He is hard-working, very competitive and eager to learn new things every day. His main goal is to develop those values even further by participating in challenges and projects that are hard to solve at LTPlabs.
Diogo has a great passion for sports and on Sunday evenings you can most certainly find him in a football pitch defending the colors of his team.
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As a Business Analyst, Diogo is a focused, assertive, and objective person. He is an optimization enthusiast, particularly of metaheuristics approaches.
Being aware of society’s current problems, he aims to leverage his analytical skills in social and sustainable projects.
Outside the office, Diogo enjoys exploring the world through the lens of cinema and literature.
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Having built vast know-how on forecasting and inventory management, Diogo is able to bolster companies on how to set up analytical models to anticipate demand uncertainty, and, further on the chain, use these forecasts on state-of-the-art inventory optimization algorithms. When not working on optimizing things, Diogo is a sports fan, with special emphasis on anything that is played with a racket. Before LTPlabs, Diogo has concluded a Master’s degree in Industrial Engineering and Management at FEUP and has been with us ever since.
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Diogo has been working on several projects in retail, process industries, and consumer packaged goods companies, with an emphasis on supply chain and operations planning topics (e.g., sales forecast, assortment management, routing, production strategy, production planning).
Among the projects he participated in, Diogo highlights the cultural transformation LTP has carried out in the sales and production divisions of a wine-producing company.
In his spare time, Diogo is a competitive gamer and a jigsaw fanboy.
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Diogo enjoys driving transformational change and create an environment of growth with whomever he works with. He has experience with a variety of challenges, from forecasting and inventory management to supply chain simulation and general predictive analytics. Regardless of the problem, the disruptive thinking mindset is always present.
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Passionate about investing and business management, Eduardo found in LTPlabs an amazing opportunity to expand both his knowledge and skillset by taking on complex challenges in a wide variety of companies and industries. He aims at obtaining business improvement gains through the incorporation of advanced analytics and technological tools (and some creative thinking!)
Eduardo started his professional career working in M&A for a large investment bank.
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With her experience in office managing, Ema helps assuring our continuous improvement. She supports administrative and financial workflows and manages our team’s daily needs.
In her free time, Ema is the mother of three amazing kids and loves playing with her dogs. Her greatest passion is music and loves singing when nobody is listening.
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Filipe is always on the lookout for processes that can be improved and be made more efficient. During any project, he’s interested in gathering as many ideas as possible to understand what works best in that environment.
As previous work experience, Filipe led the efforts to automate core operations and reporting tasks at a midsize London-based hedge fund.
When not navigating data, he’s a prolific Forró dancer and has a great interest in Portuguese indie music.
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Francisca studied Informatics and Computer Engineering and she’s passionate about programming and analytical problems. Her training and expertise helped her to develop skills in Business Intelligence, Cloud Analytics, Machine Learning, and reporting solutions.
In her free time, Francisca likes to practice sports and discover new cities and countries.
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Passionate about physics and data usage in decision making, Francisco helps to developing and implementing mathematical models to empower decisions with analytics. He has experience in industrial processes optimization and in business development.
Before joining LTPlabs, Francisco worked in a pulp and paper mill as a process engineer and for the sales department of a renewable gases’ purification systems company.
In his free time, you can find him playing sports, reading, travelling, or simply tasting a glass of wine.
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Gonçalo is very results-driven, as he strives to develop analytic solutions with visible impact for the clients, and is particularly interested in strategic management.
He’s an enthusiast of football and Formula 1, and dedicates his free time to reading about economics and philosophy.
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Horácio started his professional journey by developing a passion for optimization methods, that he used with grate success in areas such as production planning, network design and inventory management. Throughout his career he also improved his knowledge on descriptive and predictive analytics.
Currently, his role is more focused on project management, always looking to find opportunities for the team to grow.
Horácio was the main responsible for LTP’s annual snow trip and in his free time he is a beer enthusiast.
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Passionate about analytics and looking for an opportunity to learn more about it, Inês joined LTPlabs in the context of internship to develop her master’s dissertation. She helps developing data analytics solutions working in monitoring dashboards and data engineering processes, for example. Here, Inês found a challenging and enthusiastic environment, and a great opportunity to grow professionally and personally. In her free time, she enjoys exploring new places and cultures, playing volleyball, or just going to a great concert.
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Inês has a great passion for combining people and business. Her main goal at LTPlabs is to foster our talent culture focusing on areas such as recruitment, training, performance, and well-being. Before LTPlabs, Inês worked in the tourism industry.
In her free time, you can find her developing her baking skills, reading about miscellaneous topics from fitness, astrology, psychology to cat behaviour, and enjoying a sunset.
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Bioengineering has made Inês a versatile person with an interest in a lot of different areas. The need to challenge brought her to LTP, where she is learning and growing both professionally and personally.
Inês is a true travel enthusiast, who loves to know different places and cultures while having fun. For her, it is one of the best ways to grow as a person and to fully understand the complexity of our world.
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Joana is one of the sports enthusiasts from the office, having already contributed to the creation of the beloved VolleyLabs events.
Since finishing her master’s degree in 2020, she has been helping LTPLabs developing several projects in inventory management and predictive modelling fields. Her main hopes for the future are to continue to discover new industries and to earn some experience in optimization and simulation areas.
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João is passionate about technology and making things happen. His time in LTP is divided between managing the Tech and Data Science teams, the development of our analytics platform AIR, our IT operations, and counseling project team with best practices to deliver robust solutions to our clients. After working some time in INESC, João joined LTPlabs as it was starting operations.
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João studied Electrical and Computers Engineering, and halfway through his academic journey, he started developing an interest in the fields of operations research and operations management.
João never says no to a good challenge and he found in LTPlabs an inspiring working environment and an excellent opportunity to grow and improve his analytical skills.
Outside the office, João enjoys spending his time playing a few chords on his guitar, devouring all kinds of books and podcasts, or hitting the gym after a full day of work.
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Due to his curiosity and willingness to explore different areas, João chose to study Bioengineering, specializing in Biomedical Engineering. During his course, he found an interest in analytics and programming. He joined LTP to keep evolving in these fields in an immersive and stimulating environment, bringing his skills and determination to deal with the challenges he may face.
Outside the office, you will most likely find João planning his next trip to explore the world or simply spending time surrounded by family or friends.
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With his optimization and simulation expertise, Jorge helps developing models to solve problems in several areas, such as production planning and scheduling, workforce planning or routing problems, and the necessary reports or dashboards to explore results/data.
Before joining LTPlabs, Jorge joined INESC TEC to investigate online retail inventory management policies.
In his free time you can find him devouring TV shows and playing console games, particularly, driving simulation games.
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José is an enthusiast of using available information to make data-driven decisions. With that in mind, he has worked with techniques like simulation and forecasting to help companies solve complex problems.
Before joining LTPlabs, José worked in retail and banking firms, bringing with him different insights that help him understand businesses and leverage data.
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José has been working in several sectors such as retail, process and manufacturing industries, tackling problems related to inventory management, supply chain and production planning, procurement and marketing analytics.
José likes comedy shows and hiking on the innumerous unforgettable trails available in our country. He is now starting to explore the financial and investment world.
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José studied Mechanical Engineering at FEUP specializing in Production Management for his master’s degree. He is a great enthusiast of leveraging data analytics to solve real-world problems and he is eager to keep learning every day. At LTP he is motivated by the challenging projects and is very committed to helping clients reach their goals.
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Klaus was born and raised in Spain, but has been living in The Netherlands for the past four years. He graduated from an honors BSc program in Economics & Business Economics with a minor in Data Science. He is finishing a MSc program in Business Analytics, where he learns to critically implement advanced data analytics techniques to business challenges. He is gaining practical industry experience while writing the MSc Thesis with LTPLabs.
Fun fact: he loves tapas, and even though he was born and raised in a landlocked region of Spain, he has always been drawn to the ocean. Klaus learned to surf in the Algarve region of Portugal and has been hooked on the sport ever since. In fact, he tries to make it back to Portugal at least once a year to catch some waves and recharge batteries.
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Leonardo believes knowledge is the power to better decision-making. With an analytical mind and a diverse background in mechanical engineering, data science, economy and business administration he aims to contribute with different perspectives to tackle multidisciplinary challenges.
Before LTPlabs, he worked extensively on the digital transformation of businesses at DTx CoLAB. In his free time, he studies personal finance, wonders about astronomy, plays with his cat, and enjoys biking.
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Leonor found in LTPlabs her first job and an opportunity to grow both personally and professionally, in a very challenging environment. From day one she’s been actively involved in developing data analytics solutions.
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Luís started as an electrical engineer, pursuing his interest in both software and hardware development. Throughout his degree, the fields of operations management and data analytics started to grow for him.
Luís joined LTPlabs to further improve his skills, learn everything he can from his amazing LTPeers and help develop data-based solutions to any of the required challenges.
In his free time, he enjoys playing sports, watching the next big hit on Netflix, or just sharing a beer with friends.
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Luís has a great passion for optimization and machine learning. At LTPlabs he is capable of making the most of his knowledge in several areas, such as promotional planning, production planning, and predictive modelling. However, what he praises the most of working at LTPlabs is our culture and team spirit.
Besides being a consultant, Luís is also a handball player. During the day you can find him working on one of our projects and at night playing on a handball court or on the television! Can you find a better duo?
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With an academic background in Industrial Engineering and also in Innovation Management, Luís developed a passion for learning new topics and facing challenges. He believes that advanced analytics delivers added value to processes and industries.
Moreover, Luís has diverse interests ranging from photography to debating. Overall, one of his main drivers is to positively impact the world and organizations around him.
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Marília is the LTPeer that spends more time in social media networks, updating our Linkedin or Instagram with the latest news and events. As marketing and communications manager, she is in charge of developing and implement a marketing and communications strategy across a range of strategically planned opportunities.
If she is not writing, taking photos or shooting videos, you may find her hiking on the mountains or camping with scouts.
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With past experience in Logistics and Supply Chain Management, Miguel believes in the power of data and analytics to make organizations thrive. At LTPlabs, he is eager to develop the best analytics solutions to help our clients overcome their challenges and empower them to make better decisions, improving the efficiency of their operations and growing their business.
In his free time, you can find him engaging in a multitude of activities: trying the newest restaurant or bar in town, playing sports, travelling, engaging in politics, or even chilling with a book, Netflix, or a video game.
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Nuno helps companies achieve better performance by using data and analytical models to understand consumers and processes, with the end goal of enabling action.
Prior to joining LTPlabs, Nuno was focusing on operational excellence and continuous improvement across several industry sectors.
Out of the office (and whenever possible), you will likely find Nuno travelling abroad.
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Pedro’s passion for problem solving and analytics challenges has fueled his work at LTPlabs ever since he joined from an academic research position. He has lately managed the development and deployment of analytical solutions for marketing, sales, and logistics departments across several industries.
While helping businesses improve decision-making, Pedro also enjoys travelling, playing chess, and organizing internal events.
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A deep background in structural R&D and a focus on industrial operations help Pedro in boosting LTP’s expertise on retail sectors, with a strong focus on inventory management techniques and forecasting models. Before LTP Pedro worked extensively on Structural Design, Composite Materials and Renewable Energy.
His free time is split between enjoying and discussing music, cooking and playing sports.
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Pedro feels at home in the role of business translator, making the bridge between business needs and analytical capability. Before jumping on a problem, he likes to dive deep into the data and to understand it like the palm of his hand. Forecasting, machine learning and simulation are his favourite techniques to apply. Pedro dedicates his spare time to martial arts, politics and music.
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Rafaela has a special passion for behavioral economics, she is always reading about this topic. Before LTPlabs, she worked in industries of the technology sector, in the supply chain management area.
At LTPlabs, she is exploring her interest in data science and working on projects to help clients with their prediction and monitoring processes.
In her free time, she likes to play board games and dominoes. She is also a fan of horror movies, and she enjoys watching reviews about them on youtube.
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Rodrigo divides his time between two fronts: the data science team, where he delves deep into cutting-edge technology and data analytics techniques that improve the quality of work developed here at LTPlabs, and consultancy projects, where he combines his technical skills with business sense to fulfil our client’s needs and goals.
He loves music, plays the guitar and occasionally jams with friends. Additionally, he enjoys sports, especially football, and you may see him playing with a few other fellow LTPeers on Thursdays 🙂
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Teresa joined our tech team for a full-stack adventure. Before being an LTPeer, she worked with design, project management and creating websites for city halls.
In her free time, Teresa loves to take care of her plants, read books about everything, and travel to new places.
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With his datawarehousing and ETL expertise, Vasco helps developing data analytics solutions working in several areas, such as data engineering processes, monitoring dashboards and predictive modelling.
Before joining LTPlabs, Vasco worked in a business intelligence consultancy firm and in structural engineering R&D at FEUP.
In his free time, you can find him devouring sports, particularly football, and playing classical guitar in a “fado” group.
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