My job.

I build systems, shape teams, and turn ideas into scalable output.

● Currently @ Worten Lisbon
— Manifesto / vol. 04

I'm not interested in output alone. I'm interested in building the conditions that make great output inevitable.

⊞ — Capabilities · the four corners
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Design systems and frameworks that allow consistency, speed and quality across everything we ship — without flattening the work into sameness.

⊟ — Milestones · not a CV
from execution → to system thinking
01 Worten Scaling a high-volume e-commerce platform through systems and team structure now 2016 →
02 Internal Tools Creating applications that turn repetitive work into scalable processes in progress 2023 →
03 UX Systems Connecting design, development and business into coherent systems practice ongoing
04 Multinational Experience IBM, Vodafone, Vizzavi, Telecel — complex digital ecosystems, large teams, high expectations foundation 2000 — 2016
05 Foundations From execution to system thinking origin 2005 — 2008
— role
Lead, Web Design
— now @
Worten
— shipping for
10+ years
— thinking in
systems
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