Ongoing Projects
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Period: October 2022 – PRESENT
Company: Portugal A2Z Walking & Biking – Ytravel, Lda
Key activities: Group Leading, Briefing, Day-by-day logistical planning, Team coordination
Summary: Have 239 days of guiding (189 as Tour Leader) in 34 tours for 3 different programs/tours the main one beign a Bike Tour on the Atlantic Coast (Porto to Lisbon) operating for EXODUS Adventure Travels in this case. Participants are mostly senior (average 60 yo) from USA, UK, Canada mainly. I have the responsability of confirming all reservations and logistics, manage the guiding team, brief to clients, communicating with back office, lead the ride, do cultural and natural interpretations of destinations.
E-MTB Tour Leader
Period: April 2025 and September 2025
Company: Somewhere Center Lda
Key activities: Group Leading, Briefing, Day-by-day logistical planning, Team coordination, Troubleshooting
Summary: Did 10 days of Tour Leading in 2 different E-bike routes in central Portugal. The Duties and responsibilities are the same written for the experience above. Had more work on troubleshooting the tour on the go regarding logistics, bookings, route and navigation, tour schedule and cultural/natural interpretations. Added responsability on riding technical terrain and adapting the route to the clients' capabilities (also 60+ yo, similar nationalities)
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Period: January 2025- PRESENT
Key Activities: Personalised curriculum design, Music Transcription, Schedule Management, Backing Track Production, Service advertisement.
Summary: Set up and promoted private classes for Guitar, Ukelele and Portuguese Cavaquinho for 10+ students (from kids to adults) in local community held in their private homes and in a local school.
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Period: October 2025 – PRESENT
Key activities: Activity Planning, Group management
Summary: Organise weekly bike skills lessons in different locations in my current area with kids and teens (5-12 yo). Every class has from 5 to 12 participants and is adapted to their skills (riding games on the flat and/or riding on easy trails). Participants are from different nationalities and classes are in English.
Things i’ve worked on
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Period: May 2026 – August 2026 (3 months)
Company: International Camp Suisse Limited
Key Activities: Activity Leading, Mountain Bike Instruction, Group Leading, Outdoor Education, Bike maintenance, Airport Transfers, Logistical support.
Summary: Planning, Preparing and Leading in Camp activities for young campers aged 5-17 years old from Mountain Biking and Outdoor Education to Team Building games and other games. Had the freedom to manage the storage room organising, maintaining and reparing all sorts of gear (Sorting and ordering bike parts for repairs, do regular inventory for balls, archery gear, etc). Drove different vehicles (transfering staff, campers, driving gear around on site for activities, etc)
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Period: January 2026 – April 2026 (4 months)
Company: Quinta da Madrugada
Key Activities: Tree planting, Landscaping, Erosion control, Firewood processing.
Summary: Taking in directions for different jobs on the site in preparation for the high season. Extensive use of Power tools and heavy physical work. Strong international environment among the staff.
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Period: May 2025 – August 2025 (4 months)
Company: Cma Pro - Espetáculos, Unipessoal Lda
Key Activities: Rhythm and Lead Guitar, Backing Vocals, Music Direction, Backing Track integration for live shows, Stage setup and logistics.
Summary: Implemented backing tracks for a 3,5h (70+ songs) live performance in a 9 piece band under tight deadlines for 11 booked gigs. Handled the tracks live through REAPER as the working DAW and coordinated it with the sound engineers.
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Period: May 2023-August 2025 (2 years and 3 months)
Key Activities: Rhythm and Lead Guitar, Backing Vocals, Music Direction, Songwriting, Producing Demos, Booking, Tour managing, Providing Tech riders, Stage setup and logistics.
Summary: Founding member of a Big Band with 11 musicians. Songwriting and arrangements in a collaborative band environment. Co-directed band rehearsals, providing demos and song maps for guidance and strucutre. Handled all communication and logistics with event organizers and venues and managed the finances, including budgeting and passing receipts (for 8 concerts around Portugal). Responsible for the technical riders and coordination with the local sound team.
Links: https://idiotheque.com/
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Period: May 2023 – June 2024 (1 year 1 month)
Association: Grupo Senna em Palco
Key Activities: Live sound design, Live looping, Effects processing, Stage setup
Summary: Colaborated with director and actors to create soundscapes and musical moments using guitar, bass, voice, noises, traditional and percussive instruments, supporting the narrative of the play for a project that had 3 public performances in local auditoriums.
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Period: January 2023- August 2024 (1 year and 8 months)
Association: Companhia
Key Activities: Artist booking, Tech and Promo Material Handling, Schedule Coordination, Stage Setup Support, Interdepartmental Briefing, Social Media Posting,
Summary: Contacted and communicated between artists and festival crew and was the stage runner for the whole of a small 3 day Festival with 25+ acts and +300 tickets sold. (live bands and Dj’s) organised by a local non-profit organization with strong international atmosphere. Also managed social media posting for one of the editions.
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Period: October 2022 – January 2023 (3 months)
Location: Electro Juncal - Comércio de Material Eléctrico e Electrodomésticos Lda
Key Activities: Off-grid solar power system design, DC and AC electrical systems, Aluminium framing, Modular structural design, Fresh and grey water system design, Thermal insulation design, Full project lifecycle ownership, Materials sourcing, On-site troubleshooting and optimization.
Summary: Full (2000 Mercedes Sprinter) campervan conversion designed and built from scratch for own personal full-time off-grid living in Portugal. Built in a local electrical company’s workshop space with a lot of knowledge sharing.
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Period: January 2022 – December 2023 (2 years)
Association: Clube de Montanhismo de Seia
Key activities: Briefing, Presentations, Administration and Documentation, Guiding, Social Media posting, Flyer design
Summary: Involved in directing the local mountaineering club where we went to schools to teach and climb indoors/Sport Climbing with kids and organised hikes, climbing and rappel activities in the Serra da Estrela Mountain for the general public.
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Period: December 2021 to May 2022 (5 months)
Company: SPMAQ Soluções Projetos e Máquinas
Key Activities: Mechanical Design, General Metalworks, Laser Engraving, Manual Machining and Mechanical Assembly. Solidworks® software skills: CAD modelling, CAE simulations, Rigid-Body Dynamic simulations, 2D Sketches, Large assemblies and Bill of materials listings.
Summary: Short but intense experience as a project designer for an industrial automation manual station for a automotive production line. Took on the project from scratch until the final product and wrote my masters thesis about it.
Link: https://www.spmaq.pt/
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Period: November 2017 to July 2018 (9 months)
Company: Decathlon Amadora
Key Activities: Bicycle maintenance, metal engraving for trophys and medals, Textile printing and stamping.
Summary: Development of the basic skills for fast diagnosis and component changes/fixing as well as face to face costumer service skills.
Link: https://www.decathlon.pt/store-view/loja-de-desporto-amadora-alfragide-0070027800278
Bike Mechanic at own Workshop (Fix2Ride)
Period: June 2018 – September 2022 (4 years 2 months)
Key Activities: Bicycle maintenance.
Summary: Opened a small workshop in my garage at my local hometown to do bike maintenance services for the public. Was also autonomous for bike maintenance during my racing years (except for servicing suspensions).
Education, Certifications and Training
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2023 - Present - Certified in Basic First Aid Training by the Portuguese Red Cross. Took part in two training events (2023, 2026)
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Erasmus + and International Mobilities. Youthpasses and Europasses. In addition to the ones mentioned in the previous section
Euroscola 2014
Comenius School Partnership 2014
KA2 Erasmus+ exchange 2016
OpportuNEETys Youth Exchange organised by United Youth for Educational Development - Vatra Dornei, Romania - 25/10 to 05/11 2019
foodLAND: Lifting Attitudes for Neutrilizing the discrimination Youth Exchange organised by Youth Organisation Veles - Baske Ostarije, Croatia - 12/08 to 20/08 2020
ReCreative Rural Youth Exchange organised by Ticket2Europe - Pontevedra, Spain - 7/11 to 16/11 2022
Social Impact Lab: From Empathy to Leadership Training Course organised by Youth Human Impact - Tykocin, Poland - 19/11 to 28/11 2025
New Generation Paper Youth Exchange organised by Rising Youth Alliance - Évora, Portugal - 8/12 to 15/12 2025
Stress to Strength 2.0 Training Course organised by Move to Be You – Neu Nagelberg, Austria 17/08 to 26/08/2026
These helped greatly in improving confidence in large group environments and to lead activities and energizers in those scenarios (17-30 yo participants). Beign on an international enviroment became second nature.
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Period: 9-11 July 2024 (3 days)
Institution: Associação de Jazz de Leiria
Key activities: Electric Bass playing, Sight-reading, Improvisation
Summary: Participated on a 3 day workshop with final performance of 5 jazz standards in a big band setting.
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Period: September 2016 to June 2022 (5 years and 10 months)
University: Instituto Superior Técnico (2016-2019)
Departamento de Engenharia Mecânica, Campus Alameda
Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia da Universidade de Coimbra (2019-2022)
Departamento de Engenharia Mecânica, Polo IISummary: Average score of13/20 over a total of 280,5 ECTS worth of subjects. Includes Masters Thesis on mechanical design.
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Period: 2012-2016 (4 years)
Institution: RSL Awards
Summary: Enroled in yearly exams held at local Rockschool representative in Portugal completing grades 1, 3, 6 and 8 with Distinction (over 90/100) totalling 72 RSL credits.
Short experiences
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Period: July – August 2025 (2 months)
Company: Trans Serrano - Aventura, Lazer e Turismo, Lda
Key activities: Group management, Safety Briefing, Material logistics
Summary: I freelanced for local outdoor company to support on river hikes (with cliff jumping, slides and rope swings) and canyoning activities. It was usually in very busy days with groups of 60+ kids/teens (scouts, summer programes, etc) and usually would help lead groups of 20+ in the river with 3 other guides, safety briefing different sections and making sure everybody was confortable and safe. There was a lot of gear maintenance and logistics involved.
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Date: 27 October – 1 November 2020
Association: Montanha Clube
Key activities: Track Marshall
Summary: Was the marshall for a road gap section and was responsible for ensuring the safe flow of the runs when accidents happened.
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Period: September 2019, 2020 and 2021 (3 Seasons, 10-15 days per season)
Company: Adega Cooperativa de Vila Nova de Tazem CRL
Key Activities: Hydraulic machinery operation, Industrial equipment handling, Process optimization support.
Summary: Operated hydraulic machinery to extract grape juice from incoming harvest trucks in order to measure the sugar content of the sample.
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Period: July 2019 – February 2020 (8 months)
Company: Montanhas e Rios Turismo Lda – Quinta do Crestelo
Key activities: Group management, Briefing, Activity Logistics
Summary: Worked regularly for a venue that held summer camps and weekend events for schools and other organisations. On site, they had rappel, slide, climbing wall, canopy/tree climbing circuits, bridges, and all sorts of games (archery, treasure hunts, night raids). Out of the site, in the mountain, we organised trips to lakes (canoeing), hikes and picnics. I was mainly the support monitor but also led activities, safety briefings and actively supported the planning, drove with participants and troubleshooted when needed. I was a monitor for the full duration of 1 summer camp (15 days) with kids aged 7-14 (the usual age range in this venue).