Pedro Aparício Pereira Magalhães Alves

PEDRO MAGALHÃES ALVES Contacts:-_-__https://www.linkedin.com/in/pedro-magalhaes-alves/ SHORT BIO _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ ➢ Life enthusiast and optimist by nature, hard-worker, performance-driven, determined, ambitious and fast learner, as well as perfectionist, out-of-the-box and intuitive thinker, honest, disciplined and focused. Enjoys intellectually stimulating challenges and strives for own best and continuous improvement when having a genuine interest for something. Has always had a strong entrepreneurial mindset and wants to be self-employed, creating his startup/business preferably overseas. As flaws, struggles with being patient, following orders (particularly ones he does not understand and/or agree with) and performing monotonous and/or highly repetitive tasks. ACADEMIC _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ ➢ Finished high-school at Escola Secundária da Portela in 2009 with a final grade of 18.1/20. Took a 1-year break in 2010 to try to enter a Medical University and in 2011 attended the integrated Masters of Pharmaceutical Sciences at Faculdade de Farmácia da Universidade de Lisboa and was a Navy Medicine Candidate at Escola Naval de Lisboa. ➢ Graduated from NOVA School of Business & Economics Undergraduate Degree in Management in 2018 with a GPA of 13/20, after admission in September 2012 with an application grade of 188.0/200 (6th highest), delay and performance solely explained and constrained by severe and prolonged personal issues, now finally surpassed. ➢ Will presumably be admitted at ISCTE Business School Master’s Degree in Management, as of Fall-. ➢ Future: Plans/intends to take an MBA, hopefully overseas, either right after finishing his Master’s Degree or at least before launching his first startup business. PROFESSIONAL _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ ➢ Currently: Getting started as a Professional Freelancer in Management Consulting, Writing, Translation, Proofreading & Editing, as part of his entrepreneurial mindset, on several websites, such as Upwork, PeoplePerHour, Freelancer.com, Guru, Fiver and Truelancer. ➢ Completed 103 online top-quality certified courses on Entrepreneurship & Freelancing, Strategy, Management, Marketing & Sales, Finance, Operations, Leadership & Public Speaking, Organizational Behavior and Accounting on Coursera, Udemy and Smartly, totaling over 275 hours of highly practical and insightful complementary formation. ➢ Certified enumerator at the national program Censos 2011, as the highest paid on such position in his council, showcasing high professionalism, dedication and flexibility, besides receiving great customer and supervisor feedback. Pay scheme was totally variable and almost only dependent on individual performance PERSONAL _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ ➢ Experienced and talented amateur writer, to highlight 9 books of a tenth fantasy saga, which has started in 2010 and will publish after completion and revision. Wrote first book at age 12 and started writing since 1st grade (6) ➢ Twice certified listener (volunteer helper of people in mental distress) at 7 Cups of Tea, since November 2017. ➢ Certified volunteer catholic catechist since 2010 at Paróquia de Nossa Senhora do Carmo, Lumiar (ages 6-9). ➢ Amateur intermediate self-taught chess player, soon to be federated and aiming for mastery in 10-15 years. ➢ High international exposure: travelled to 11 countries, notably Spain, France, Italy, Czech Republic and Austria. ➢ Previous volunteering experiences: Academia do Futuro -), as a tutor; ReFood -); Missão País (2011 and 2012) as a missionary; and Banco Alimentar Contra A Fome -). ➢ Previous stand-out extracurricular activities: 25+ times medalist Judo player for over 10 years, Catholic Scout (3), Tenor Choir Singer (5), Yoga Practitioner (2), Half-Marathon Runner (1) and Swimmer (2). LANGUAGE AND TECHNOLOGICAL SKILLS _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Porutuguese: Native____________English: Fluent___________Spanish: Conversational___________French: Basic Microsoft Excel, PowerPoint & Word: Advanced__________________________Windows & Android: User-Advanced N.B.: No programming or developing experience yet but is going to start learning (as is extremely tech-oriented).