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Felipe Cass

Felipe Cass

Portfolio Manager - Electrical Engineer
Jundiaí

Summary

Electrical Engineer with more then five years experience as BID engineer for medium voltage GIS switchgear. Also, experience as Project Manager and currently working as Product Manager. Strong record in consolidating the medium voltage GIS business for the company in Brazil, with technical knowledge, relationship with customers, and team working. Also worked as BID team leader from Nov/19 to Sep/22.

Overview

11
11
years of professional experience
6
6
years of post-secondary education

Work History

Portifolio Manager

Siemens Infraestrutura e Indústria Ltda. - Energy Automation
1 2019 - Current

Portfolio manager, medium voltage switchgears and solutions

Responsibilities:

  • Ensure portfolio availability, localization, homologation, standard compliance, etc
  • Support strategic decisions for the portfolio
  • Execute portfolio promotion and define sales argumentation
  • Execute market intelligence and portfolio growth projections
  • Identify, report and manage portfolio gaps
  • Manage portfolio's competitiveness and sales channeling
  • Support annual business budgets/targets in terms of quantities and margins
  • Execute portfolio homologation in strategic customers
  • Support procurement and quality management teams in homologation of new suppliers and portfolio localizations
  • Prepare, execute and manage portfolio trainings

BID Team Leader

Siemens Infraestrutura e Indústria Ltda. - Energy Automation
11.2019 - 09.2022

Responsibilities

  • Planning Front and Sales offer requests with the team, checking portfolio availability, necessary response times, priorities, rescheduling, etc.
  • Technical Support and senior reference for BID team
  • Execute periodic order intake reportings and forecasts
  • Forecasts product quantities for the factory/logistics
  • Revision and approval of technical offers

Sales Engineer / BID Professional

Siemens Ltda. - Distribution Systems
04.2014 - 01.2019

Responsibilities:

  • Lead the preparation of quotations, bids, tenders, frame agreements, etc. to customers
  • Analyze customer documentation, execute scope clarification with the customer
  • Identify technical and commercial optimizations for increasing margins and competitiviness
  • Design technical documentation, e.g Single line diagrams, bill of materials, services descriptions/specifications
  • Work together with product engineers, project managers, factory, etc to guarantee technical and commercial optimizations which will lead to a winning position. Lead bid teams for white elephant projects
  • Understand the position of the competitors, to ensure the most suitable strategy for the tender
  • Manage purchase orders registration, in order to guarantee fast and clear handover process to the execution team
  • Promote the portfolio, be a technical reference for front and sales team

Project Engineer - Medium Voltage Switchgears

Siemens Ltda. - Distribution Systems
01.2014 - 03.2014

Responsibilities:

  • Responsible for managing and planning projects, based on contractual conditions and company's guidelines
  • Scope clarification and support
  • Scheduling, execution, control and closing of projects
  • Follow up with project team and external partners in order to guarantee project's milestones
  • Opportunity, change, claim and risk management
  • Cost, revenue and profitability management and reporting
  • Ensure adequate client's expectation management

Project Engineer Intern

Siemens Ltda. - Distribution Systems
01.2013 - 12.2013

Responsibilities

  • Support Project Engineering team
  • Learn and understand main project management activities and skills
  • Interaction with customers
  • Understand business unit portfolio and their application
  • Learn and understand project management internal procedures and offer preparation
  • Be prepared to start managing projects

Education

Bachelor of Science - Electrical Engineering

Sao Paulo State University - UNESP
Bauru - SP, Brazil
05.2008 - 05.2013

No Degree - English Proficiency Course

ELS Universal English College
Sydney - NW, Australia
05.2011 - 05.2012

Skills

  • MS Office (Word, Excel, Power Point, Visio, Access, etc)

  • AutoCAD 2021

  • MS Project

  • Portuguese

  • English

  • Spanish

Timeline

BID Team Leader

Siemens Infraestrutura e Indústria Ltda. - Energy Automation
11.2019 - 09.2022

Sales Engineer / BID Professional

Siemens Ltda. - Distribution Systems
04.2014 - 01.2019

Project Engineer - Medium Voltage Switchgears

Siemens Ltda. - Distribution Systems
01.2014 - 03.2014

Project Engineer Intern

Siemens Ltda. - Distribution Systems
01.2013 - 12.2013

No Degree - English Proficiency Course

ELS Universal English College
05.2011 - 05.2012

Bachelor of Science - Electrical Engineering

Sao Paulo State University - UNESP
05.2008 - 05.2013

Portifolio Manager

Siemens Infraestrutura e Indústria Ltda. - Energy Automation
1 2019 - Current
Felipe CassPortfolio Manager - Electrical Engineer