Overview

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As Vice President of Engineering, Paulo leads Boulder Wind Power’s engineering and development teams, with responsibility for the design of BWP’s innovative axial gap permanent magnet generators, and variable frequency power converters for wind turbines.

Paulo joined BWP after working for 7 years for FMC Technologies - Direct Drive Systems, and 13 years for Indústrias Villares (now Gevisa, a GE company), and after holding various operation and engineering positions at Creo Products (now Kodak) in Canada, JDSU in Canada and in the US, and GE Canada in a career extending over 33 years.

Paulo graduated from the University of São Paulo in 1979 with a BSEE, majoring in electric machines and also pursued post-graduate studies in power systems and quality engineering. He is a registered professional engineer in Ontario, Canada.

Paulo has over 20 years of experience in the design and manufacture of medium voltage AC motors, large DC motors, high speed DC traction motors, motors and generators for locomotives as well as high speed permanent magnet motors for subsea and land applications. He holds six patents related to permanent magnet machines and carbon composite structures applied to those machines.