Ricardo Barroso

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EDUCATION

ABOUT RICARDO BARROSO

Skilled in developing international partner relationships and achieving collective results leading multidisciplinary teams, with a demonstrated history of increasing quality, manufacturing, and safety indexes, and reducing production costs using Lean Six Sigma tools like DMAIC, 5W2H, DOE, Fault Three, Ishikawa diagrams, statistical analysis softwares for process control like, Minitab® and OriginLab®, SMED (applying imaging and timing analysis of each manufacturing task), and Manufacturing Cells. Proven ability to uncover improvement opportunities, design solutions, and execute projects in both a corporate and academic research laboratory environment using product development tools like JIRA, as demonstrated in the development of a new weld-on steel connector for fatigue applications for Exxon Mobil, and a new surface hardened H13 steel used as anti-rotational lock for Petrobras. Expert in mechanical, impact, fracture toughness, and corrosion tests of metals and their standards ASTM, ASME, SAE, API, DNV, NACE, BS, as well as failure analysis tools like microstructure characterization of materials via optical and electron microscopy, and X-ray diffraction. Experienced technical leader offering expertise in developing and improving steel chemistries for fatigue and sour service applications using Thermo-Calc® and DICTRA, and several manufacturing process, such as pipe forming, welding, and heat treatment, forging, 3D printing, via experimental simulation by gleeble and dilatometer, and statistical analysis tools such as Minitab® and OriginLab®. Scholarships and Grants awarded from US Department of Energy at Auburn University, from Colorado School of Mines, and from the Brazilian National Agency of Petroleum, Gas and Biofuels. Hold a M.S in Materials Engineering from Auburn University and M.E. in Metallurgical Engineering from Colorado School of Mines. Tri-lingual speaker (English, Spanish, and Portuguese).