Academic Qualifications:
Degree in Law from the Faculty of Law of the University of Coimbra.
Professional activity:
Basic Education and Secondary School Teacher of Accounting and Economics in the 1990-1993 school years;
- Trainee lawyer from March 1990 to October 1991;
- Practicing lawyer from 1991 until October 12,1993 - suspended registration at the Portuguese Bar Association since that date;
- Inspector attached to the Special Inspection Staff - Terceira Island of the former Regional Administrative Inspectorate (IAR), currently designated as Regional Public Administration Inspectorate (IRAP) since October 12, 1993;
- Delegate of the Regional Secretariat for Housing and Infrastructures on the Island of Terceira from January 1, 1997 to December 9, 2004 - appointed on secondment;
- Regional Inspector of IRAP since December 10, 2004;
- Member of the Access Commission to Administrative Documents (CADA), an independent administrative entity under the supervision of the National Assembly, by appointment of the Regional Government of the Azores since October 13, 2005.
Training:
- Attendance to the Philosophical-Theological course at the Higher Institute of Theological Studies of Coimbra;
- PAGE - Advanced Management Programme for Executives, conducted by the School of Postgraduate Studies of the Faculty of Economics and Management at the Portuguese Catholic University with the collaboration of professors from the department of Economics and Business Management of the University of the Azores in the academic year 1997/1998;
- Attendance to Postgraduate course on Regional Law, conducted by the University of the Azores in collaboration with the Faculty of Lay of the University of Lisbon:
- Attendance to the Seminar on Public Administration (SAP), promoted by the Azores Public Administration Training Centre (CEFAPA) in May 2006;
- CAGEP - Advanced Course on Public Management, organised by CEFAPA with the participation of professors from the Faculty of Social and Political Sciences of the Technical University of Lisbon in 2007;
- Attendance to several courses and seminars on administrative law, management, organisation, modernisation and promotion of quality in public administration, conducted by CEFAPA and by the National Institute of Administration (INA), currently designated as INA - Directorate-General for the Qualification of Civil Servants.