PRESENTATION  
     
 
Luciano was born on May, 22nd 1973, in Catanduva, São Paulo State, Brazil, where he had his fundamental and middle education. At 16, he went to live in Worthington, Ohio, USA, to attend his senior year of high school. Back in Brazil, he started business administration college at Mackenzie University in São Paulo city. During college he took an internship with an American pharmaceutical company in the sales/marketing department. After graduating he went back to Catanduva to help his family in their business, a coffee roasting company. He also worked as an English instructor in educational institutions in that city.

In December, 2000, Luciano moved to Rio de Janeiro, where he continued to teach private English lessons. In 2004 he became a marketing specialist through Candido Mendes University with the thesis work, The quality of the services in the Rio the Janeiro Tourism sector - Implanting an Internal Culture in Operators and Agencies. Since then he has been working in the tourism area as an incoming operator and more recently, since 2005, as a tour guide with English-speaking clients from all over the world. He has been to Argentina, Canada, Colombia and the United States, where had the opportunity to visit about 30 American States.
 
     
 

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1. Academic Background:

  • Marketing – Post-graduation, latu sensu (Candido Mendes RJ – 2004)
  • Business Administration – Graduation (Mackenzie SP – 1996)

2. Courses:

  • Travel Agent (Marc-Apoio 2005)
  • Tourism guide and national tour (Marc-Apoio 2005)
  • International tourism guide (Mar-Apoio 2008)

3. Professional Experience:

Since January 2005 – Tourism – Free-lancer, at international incoming tour operators. As operator (giving support to clients of different nationalities) and as tour guide giving support to foreign, English-speaking clients. Private groups and individual.

Since 1998 – English teaching, instructor – Free-lancer, had worked in institutions such as Wizard, Fisk, Real Time and, mostly, private classes for groups and individual.

2004/2003Marius Carnes DegustareHost, with the function to welcome the guests and explain to them about the restaurant. Most of the clients were foreign.

1998/1997 – Consulting, Consult Us Empresarial Ltd.trainee, helped the partners with the analysis of the clients current situation and with the drawing up of the possible solutions for the problems found in the analysis.

1997/1996 – Administrative/Commercial, Maria C. M. Rodrigues – ME – as administrative manager, was responsible for the whole company, from buying of row-material to the distribution of the manufactured product, passing by the production and negociating with clients. It was a family company of coffee roasting business.

1996/1994 – Administrative/Commercial, Allergan-Lok Pharmaceutical Products Ltd. American multinational. 6 months as an intern at the sales sector (office work), one year as sales representative at the surgical sector giving support to ophthalmologists and 6 months as market researcher and analyst.

4. Additional Information:

4.1. Fluent English, has lived in Worthington, Ohio, USA;
4.2. Post-Graduation Thesis: The qualilty of the services in the Rio the Janeiro Tourism sector – Implanting an Internal Culture in Operators and Agencies.
4.3. Brazilian and Portuguese citizen, having the European Union passport.