Maria Armanda Mónica Monteiro Alexandre

CURRICULUM VITAE PERSONAL DATA Name Address Cellular phone e-mail LinkedIn Nationality Marital status Citizen card ALEXANDRE, Maria Armanda Mónica Monteiro 17, 1.º Esq.º, Calçada do Poço dos Mouros,- Lisboa, Portugal --https://www.linkedin.com/in/armanda-alexandre-/ Portuguese Single- – PORTUGAL PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE • Dates (from – until) • Employer's name • Type of company or sector • Occupation or position held • Main activities and responsibilities August 2015 – February 2019 LBC - Leadership Business Consulting (https://lbc-global.com/pt) Management consulting Content editor Responsible for coordinating/editing and reviewing the communication pieces/content created in Leadership Business Consulting (from press releases to internal information, projects presentations, brochures, training courses, etc., in Portuguese and in English); Responsible for coordinating/editing, constructing and reviewing the content made by Leadership Business Consulting for client’s projects (such as institutions/foundations books, handbooks for institutions, corporate websites or portals for public administration organisms, in Portuguese and in English); Responsible for coordinating/editing, writing and reviewing content in the Portuguese-speaking leaders' webclub, Portal da Liderança (http://portaldalideranca.pt), as well as for managing this platform on social media (LinkedIn, Facebook, Twitter). • Dates (from – until) • Employer's name • Type of company or sector • Occupation or position held • Main activities and responsibilities October 2013 – February 2014 Oficina de Psicologia (www.oficinadepsicologia.com) Private practice of psychotherapy Content editor Edition (on a monthly basis and in after labour time schedule) of the content made by the company’s psychologists (about 60 professionals who write a minimum of 2 articles per month), subsequently published on the Oficina de Psicologia’s website, blog and Facebook page. • Dates (from – until) • Employer's name • Type of company or sector • Occupation or position held • Main activities and responsibilities May 2009 – March 2015 WeFind (https://www.facebook.com/WeFind1) Company specialized in tendencies/new business Writer Research and writer, creating content, in after labour time schedule, for special projects (on topics as diverse as the latest innovations in renewable/alternative energy and energy efficiency, telecommunications or even social networks), working closely with the head of the company. Página 1 - Curriculum Vitae de ALEXANDRE, Maria Armanda Mónica Monteiro • Dates (from – until) • Employer's name • Type of company or sector • Occupation or position held • Main activities and responsibilities May 2006 – July 2015 Megafin Daily newspaper specialized in economy Journalist/writer/editor at OJE – O Jornal Económico Journalist/reporter in the daily edition (writing and editing interviews, in depth articles/analysis); Responsible for “feeding”/writing, coordinating and editing the news in the journal’s website (https://jornaleconomico.sapo.pt/), as well on OJE’s Facebook page; Coordinator/editor/journalist of two weekly supplements – “Espaços de Negócios” (“Business Spaces”, which addresses real estate issues, from commercial to logistics, with articles, studies, interviews, opinions…) and “Residencial e Lazer” (“Residential and Leisure”, addresses residential and leisure real estate, with articles, studies, interviews, opinions…), while working close/coordinating the art department – contributing to visuals and layout; Coordinator/editor/journalist of the daily pages on markets (information about stock markets), in close coordination with 3 investment companies’ workers; LogIn’s coordinator/editor/journalist – “LogIn” is page’s 2 title, which makes the connection/link between the paper edition and the journal’s website, where I work in coordination with the chief editor and the newspaper’s director; Coordinator/editor of weekly supplement “Emprego e Formação” (Employment and Training) – 8 to 16 pages – where, besides writing articles, interviewing (management, HR, marketing, outsourcing, companies, careers, education...), I also coordinate 5 to 6 columnists and external collaborators, and coordinate the art department – contributing to visuals and layout; Coordinator/editor of daily section “Lifestyle” – 4 to 8 pages – interviewing, writing pieces on subjects like health, wellbeing, science, design, architecture, fashion, cultural events..., translating content from the English newspaper City AM (http://www.cityam.com), while coordinating the newsroom (2 trainees, 3 to 4 co-workers, including the director), 10 to 15 columnists and external contributors, and working close/coordinating the art department – contributing to visuals and layout. • Dates (from – until) • Employer's name • Type of company or sector • Occupation or position held October 2002 – May 2006 Figure’s Specialized monthly magazines Journalist/writer, becoming editor and, posteriorly, editorial director of magazines Gestão Pura, Economia Pura, Diplomacia Pura, Pestana Lifestyle, Hotéis de Portugal, Psicologia Actual and special projects like Guia do Outsourcing or SAS’s internal magazine Responsible for coordinating all editorial projects, which I edit and also write for (on different subjects such as management/economy, lifestyle/leisure, wellbeing); translating content from foreign magazines such as Harvard Business Review (https://hbr.org/magazine); coordinating these project’s columnists and external contributors (most of them college professors, whose papers I edit and re-write to be published); also responsible for the art department – contributing to visuals and layout, while working close with the commercial department. • Main activities and responsibilities • Dates (from – until) • Employer's name • Type of company or sector • Occupation or position held • Main activities and Página 2 - Curriculum Vitae de ALEXANDRE, Maria Armanda Mónica Monteiro May 2002 – October 2002 Media Capital Exteriores Weekly newspaper specialized in media and advertising Collaborator/journalist/editor at briefing newspaper Writing in depth articles/analysis about advertising/media/marketing in Portugal. responsibilities • Dates (from – until) • Employer's name • Type of company or sector • Occupation or position held • Main activities and responsibilities • Dates (from – until) • Employer's name • Type of company or sector • Occupation or position held • Main activities and responsibilities • Dates • Employer's name • Type of company or sector • Occupation or position held • Main activities and responsibilities April 1998 – April 2002 Media Capital Monthly magazine specialized in marketing, management, media and advertising and a weekly newspaper specialized in media and advertising Journalist/editor at Marketing & Publicidade magazine and journalist at briefing newspaper Writing articles about advertising/media/marketing/management in Portugal; editor of Fax Net.Marketing, a daily newsletter about new businesses online, internet marketing and online ad campaigns – a publication of Marketing & Publicidade magazine. October 1997 – March 1998 Grupo Forum Specialized monthly magazines Clients’ manager in Unibanco and Casas de Portugal Basically I sell ad space. Summer of 1993 / Summer of 1994 / Summer of 1995 / Christmas of 1995 / Summer of 1996 / Christmas of 1996 Opala Traditional commerce (interior design store) Seller/shopkeeper Front office, articles management and window dressing during school holidays. FORMAL AND PROFESSIONAL EDUCATION • Dates (from – until) • Name and type of organization of education and training • Professional skills • Qualification • Dates (from – until) • Name and type of organization of education and training Página 3 - Curriculum Vitae de ALEXANDRE, Maria Armanda Mónica Monteiro 1994 - 1997 College Degree in Advertising and Marketing at Escola Superior de Comunicação Social, Instituto Politécnico de Lisboa The course prepares communication professionals, providing work opportunities in the areas of advertising, marketing and public relations. Bachelor of Advertising and Marketing 1993 - 1994 12.º Ano do Ensino Complementar, Área D – Humanísticas, Escola Secundária de Camões (Lisboa) PERSONAL SKILLS AND COMPETENCES FIRST LANGUAGE PORTUGUESE OTHER LANGUAGES • Read • Written • Spoken ENGLISH Excellent Excellent Excellent • Read • Written • Spoken FRENCH Very good Very good Good • Read • Written • Spoken SPANISH Very good (Instituto Cervantes de Lisboa) Good Good SOCIAL AND ORGANIZATIONAL SKILLS TECHNICAL SKILLS AND COMPETENCES Great organizational and teamwork skills, more than 15 years of experience coordinating newsrooms (interns and colleagues), as well as several columnists and external contributors, always working closely/coordinating the graphic departments (contributing to the publications’ layouts). Windows; MS-DOS; Excel; Access; PowerPoint; Paint; Illustrator; Photoshop; QuarkXpress; Scriptor Server; WordPress; Joomla; MailChimp; SharePoint. Professional Training Course in SEO by Flag ADDITIONAL INFORMATION Página 4 - Curriculum Vitae de ALEXANDRE, Maria Armanda Mónica Monteiro Hobbies/special interests: reading, cinema, theater, music, photography, outdoor activities, gardening, travelling.