Raphael Santos Cavalcanti
Senior Urban Mobility & Rail Consultant
Salary / Daily rate
55 Mainz, Germany
Freelance
Can come onsite
Skills
Languages
About me
Intro
Urban mobility strategist with 15+ years of international expertise across rail, transportation, and smart cities. Former BCG Lead Analyst and Bombardier Strategy Manager, now advising global clients on mobility tech and infrastructure. Multilingual consultant (5 languages) specialized in product development, strategic planning, and sustainable transportation solutions for the future of urban mobility.
Work experience
Urban Mobility Strategic & Technology Advisor
Nova Mobility ConsultingFreelance
Sep 2019 - Present
7 years 2 months
- Provide strategic advisory in smart cities & urban mobility to startups, corporate, academic & government bodies - Aid the development of product & service roadmaps - Member & contributor to expert speaker panels & reports - Associate & project manager for Apollo Rail and Digitalentu (two mobility-focused startups) - Strategic advisor to Route Reports, a promising London-based transport tech startup - Business development advisor to RazorSecure, a promising UK-based cybersecurity SME - Business development and technical advisor to Humatics, a unique sensor fusion SME hailing from the USA
Chief Product Officer
Hack Partners
Nov 2018 - May 2019
7 months
London, UK
- Responsible for leading development of tech product line for the railway industry including machine learning, machine vision and cloud-based solutions - Manage tech team with developers and data scientists in agile project development - Develop business leads from opportunity to negotiation to project delivery - Enabling the transition from start-up to scale-up
The Boston Consulting Group (BCG)
Oct 2016 - Oct 2018
2 years 1 month
Düsseldorf Area, Germany
Lead Analyst
Feb 2018 - Oct 2018
9 months
Düsseldorf Area, Germany
- Global expert for rail & transportation - Team leader of rail- and urban mobility specialists - Co-founder of Smart City & Urban Mobility interest group - Advised rail operators, infrastructure managers, OEM's & transit authorities in operational, strategic & technology projects across the globe
Senior Knowledge Analyst for Rail
Oct 2016 - Jan 2018
1 year 4 months
Düsseldorf Area, Germany
- Global technical & market expert for rail & transportation: coordination with sector leaders, content development, publications, internal & external interactions, technical sparring-partner, client workshops & presentations and onboarding of new team members - Worldwide technical and commercial expert point-of-contact for rail and urban transit, supporting projects from opportunity development up to delivery - On-site project team deployment in highly technical rail projects
Bombardier Transportation
Oct 2010 - Oct 2016
6 years 1 month
Région de Cologne, Allemagne
Bid Manager & Sales Lead
Nov 2014 - Oct 2016
2 years
Région de Cologne, Allemagne
- Manager for bids to externals, Western Europe (FR & BE) and Americas (within company) from opportunity identification, business development, bid & proposal preparation, offer generation and negotiation - Financial leader of development of low-cost train platform - Sales lead for third party opportunity
Strategy Analyst
Apr 2012 - Dec 2014
2 years 9 months
Berlin Area, Germany
- Responsible for the strategic planning of 2500+ employee division spanning the globe (Americas, EMEA, Asia-Pacific and Australia) - Lead behind new strategic option investigations and strategic execution - Helping track the performance of the division through in-house governance tools
Global Graduate Trainee
Oct 2011 - Mar 2012
6 months
Montreal, QC, Canada
Rotation 3 - Montréal, Canada (Bombardier Aerospace) --------------------------------------------- - Strategy analyst in Bombardier Aerospace Customer Services helping develop strategies for market entry and exit in commercial and business aviation aftermarket.
Global Graduate Trainee
Oct 2010 - Oct 2011
1 year 1 month
Berlin Area, Germany; Bangkok, Thailand
Rotation 2 - Bangkok, Thailand --------------------------------------------- - Project management for an international railway project based out of Bangkok, Thailand with software development and hardware from Europe and Thailand being delivered to Malaysia and China. Rotation 1 - Berlin, Germany ------------------------------------------ - Designed and launched a new division-wide sales tools now being used by the entire Sales & Bids team worldwide for potential project tracking and analysis. - Headed international bid team in Brazil to develop 2.0 BUSD railway turnkey opportunity from scratch to submittal of first offer - Developed innovative business cases. See examples
Junior Product Manager (internship)
General Electric Healthcare
Aug 2008 - Aug 2009
1 year 1 month
Paris Area, France
- Worked in EMEA CT Marketing and responsible for the development and accompaniment of the marketing content for the European launch of GE Healthcare's flagship CT scanner, a multi-million dollar engineering development. - Performed competitive analysis and market research regarding the high-end CT scanner market.
Education
INSA Lyon - Institut National des Sciences Appliquées de Lyon
Master in Mechanical Engineering
2007 - 2010
3 years 2 months
Universidade Federal do Paraná
Bachelor of Science
2004 - 2010
6 years 2 months
International School of Curitiba
1991 - 2002
11 years 2 months
Licenses & certifications
Smart Cities – Management of Smart Urban Infrastructures - MOOC
Issued: Mar 2017
Introduction to Dynamical Systems and Chaos (Summer, 2016) - MOOC
Issued: Jul 2016