Self-employed. Rendered consulting to medium-sized companies, multinationals and industries, working both alone and sometimes under the names of micro-companies (with partners), such as Midsol and LC Consultoria. Clients included TNAX Tecnologia, PS Contax, Hidromania, 1001 Madeiras and others.

Directed business management, providing consulting services to medium-sized companies, multinationals and industries. Managed staff, marketing, financial planning, bookkeeping and payroll. Supervision of subcontractors.
Projects: Diverse small corporate projects in Strategic Planning, Bus. Analysis, Process Improvement, Change Mgt., Systems and Marketing Planning.
• Spearheaded strategic plans and tactics, project and program planning, structure, budgeting, scheduling & logistics.
• Analyzed potential business opportunities, assessed and improved organizational performance, overall efficiency, readiness, productivity, competitiveness and processes. Did change management, recommending optimal approach and change management program.
• Analyzed business processes, making optimization proposals, including structural reorganization, infrastructure redesign and alignment with objectives, new processes, and systems design, development and testing.
• Managed projects, process improvement and production optimization programs, marketing plans.
• Expanded market share and gross margin (140%) for a software/hardware reseller, improved productivity, processes and competitiveness of several companies, cut costs, did O&M, started-up an international law office.
• Sub-contractor management.
• Acted as teacher in night management courses at Fundação Getúlio Vargas University, RJ for 1.5 years.