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• Aerospace (passenger safety instructions)
  Inmetro employee, since 2002 – support on the accreditation of aerospace quality management system certification bodies (NBR ISO 15100).
• Food – Soft drinks (Brazilian orders relative to soft drinks manufacturing, processing technical manuals, production equipments, microbiological tests, sanitization, quality control, hold procedures, operational practices)
  Inmetro employee, since 2002 – support on the accreditation of hazard analysis and critical control point management system certification bodies (HACCP) (NBR ISO 14900).
• Architecture (gardening projects)
• Maritime law (maritime accidents and arrest of ships)
• Civil engineering (bidding for building construction, structures)
• Electrical engineering (alternating current generator, spark arrester, warranty for electrical equipments, pressure washer, vertical induction motor, generator sets, transformer transport)
• Forest engineering (logging costs); Wood sector (wood processing)
  Inmetro employee, since 2002 – support on the accreditation of native and planted forests management system certification bodies (NBR ISO 14789 and 15789).
• Mechanical engineering (equipment description: roller table, sliver sizer-remover, vibratory conveyors, integrated tuning system, optical inspection system, butterfly valves installation manual, pipeline flanges, anchors)
• Pharmacy (procedures for pharmaceutical testing and technical information on the tramadol hydrochloride)
• Tobacco (visual inspection equipments, electromagnetic shakers, box sealers, optical sorters, cigarette packers, barcode printing)
• Geology (call out agreement for geophysical services)
• Information Technology (SAP R/3 online documentation, software for speakers, fraud management)
• Instrumentation (manuals of equipments for physical chemistry of surfaces, HP gas chromatographs, gas analyzers)
  During the Master and Doctor Science theses, I have worked with the optimization of mineral extraction processes, such as pyrochlore and colloidal gold. The techniques employed were: analytical chemistry techniques (atomic absorption, X-ray fluorescence, UV/visible spectrophotometry and so on); techniques for structural evaluation (X-ray diffraction, scanning electron microscopy – SEM); techniques for the evaluation of physicochemical properties (Langmuir balance, surface tension, pH and conductivity measurements, contact angle measurements, zeta potential, and so on); techniques for the evaluation of textural properties (nitrogen adsorption).
• Legal (contract and power of attorney for oil exploration, divorce contract)
• Marketing (opinion survey)
• Environment (environmental impact studies due to oil exploration, environmental consulting services contracts)
  Inmetro employee, since 2002 – support on the accreditation of environmental management system certification bodies (NBR ISO 14001) – lead auditor.
• Metallurgy/ Materials (Cogumelo´s homepage, copper mining [crushing, flotation, safety, grinding, belt conveyor])
  Doctor Science degree in Metallurgical and Materials Engineering conferred by the Metallurgical and Materials Engineering Program from COPPE/UFRJ in 2000, in the field of Extractive Metallurgy, with emphasis in Physical Chemistry of Surfaces and Colloids;
  Master Science degree in Metallurgical and Materials Engineering conferred by PEMM/COPPE in 1994, specializing in Extractive Metallurgy and Petroleum.
• Petroleum (exploration, drilling, completion, artificial lift and explotation)
  Employee of CENPES/PETROBRÁS from April/1987 until March/1996 - elaboration of technical reports, test performance at laboratory scale and support in the coordination of the laboratories of physical-chemistry of surfaces and colloids from DIPLOT (Explotation Division).
• Quality (floor cleaning, soft drink manufacturing)
  Inmetro employee, since 2002 – support on the accreditation of quality management system certification bodies (NBR ISO 9001) – lead auditor.
• Chemistry (safety and handling chemical data sheet, emulsions, inks, solvents)
  Chemical Engineering degree conferred by the Chemical School of the Brazilian Federal University of Rio de Janeiro in 1990.
  Chemical Technician degree conferred by the Brazilian Federal Technical School of Chemistry - Rio de Janeiro, in 1984.
• Religion (Buddhism)
• Telecommunications (software localization for Qualcomm telecommunications, ITXC telephony)
• Water treatment (relative to soft drinks)

• Soft drinks (operational practices [absence of sugar, undercover gassing])

• Spanish course at CCAA (from August 2001 to December 2004).
• "Forest auditors on the forest management Brazilian standards", Xerém, RJ, November/2004 (40 hours).
• "Training on hazard analysis and critical control point management system – Food Safety", Xerém, RJ, August/2004 (24 hours). 
• "Quality System Topics on the Accreditation of Product Certification Bodies", Inmetro, Xerém, RJ, April/ 2004 (14 hours).
• "Identification and Assessment of Environmental Aspects and Impacts", HGB/ Stat-A-Matrix Institute, Rio de Janeiro, RJ, April/ 2004 (16 hours).
• "Interpretation and Implementation of NBR ISO 14001", HGB/ Stat-A-Matrix Institute, Rio de Janeiro, RJ, October/ 2003 (16 hours).
• "Training Bodies Auditing", Inmetro, Rio Comprido, RJ, August/ 2003 (6 hours).
• "Environmental Legislation and the NBR ISO 14001", HGB/ Stat-A-Matrix Institute, Rio de Janeiro, RJ, August/ 2003 (24 hours).
• "Accreditation of Quality Management System Certification Body", Inmetro, Xerém, RJ, Feb/ 2003 (34 hours).
• "Auditor Leader Training for Quality Management Systems – NBR ISO 9001:2000", HGB/ Stat-A-Matrix Institute, Teresópolis, RJ, Nov/ 2002 (40 hours).
• "NBR ISO 9001:2000 Interpretation", HGB, Inmetro, Xerém, RJ, September/2002 (16 hours).
• "Quality Concepts", HGB, Inmetro, Xerém, September/2002 (16 hours).
• "Accreditation of Aerospace Quality Management System Certification Body (NBR 15100)", Inmetro, Xerém, RJ, August/2002 (16 hours).
• "Introduction to Trados" – Prof. Danilo Nogueira – Dec/1999.
• Workshop on Translation of Legal Documents – Inlingua International Rio de Janeiro - Mar/1999 (18 hours).
• Translator specializing course – Prof. Daniel Brilhante de Brito – Mar-Dec/1999.
• Course on Sworn Translations – Prof. Daniel Brilhante de Brito – Jan-Feb/1999.
• ‘Techniques of Technical Translation’, Language Management International, December/1998 (10 hours).
  

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• Saraiva, S.M.; Oliveira, J.F., Colloidal Gold Particles Adsorption onto Silanized Glass Surfaces, Journal of Dispersion Science and Technology, 25 (2), 229-237 (2004).
• Saraiva, S.M.; González, G.; Lucas, E.F.; Souza, M.A.; Electrokinetic characterization of asphaltenes and the asphaltenes resins interaction, Energy & Fuel, 17 (4), 879-886 (2003).
• Saraiva, S.M.; Oliveira, J.F., Control of Particle Size in the Preparation of Colloidal Gold, Journal of Dispersion Science and Technology, 23 (6), 837-844 (2002).
• Saraiva, S.M.; Oliveira, J.F., Oliveira, A.P.A.; Pimenta, J.S.; Kinetics of Pyrochlore Flotation from Niobium Mineral Deposits, Minerals Engineering, 14(1), 99-105 (2001). 
• Saraiva, S.M. (2000); Adsorção de Ouro Coloidal em Substrato Silanizado (Colloidal Gold Adsorption on Silanized Substrate), Doctorate Thesis (PEMM/COPPE/UFRJ).
• Saraiva, S.M.; Ávila, L.V.N.; Oliveira, J.F. (1999); Stability and Collapse of Monolayers of Stearic Acid and the Effect of Electrolytes in the Subphase, Colloids and Surfaces A: Physicochemical and Engineering Aspects, 154, 209-217.
• Saraiva, S.M.; Rosário, F.; Louvisse, A.M.T.; González, G.; Oliveira, J.F (1996); A Model System to Study the Precipitation and Migration of Colloidal Particles in Porous Media; Journal of Colloid and Interface Science, 181,1-10.
• Saraiva, S.M.; González, G.; Oliveira, J.F.; MacRitchie, F. (1996); Studies on Asphaltenes and Related Petroleum Fractions at Interfaces; in Surfactants in Solution, Chap. 14, Marcel Dekker, Inc., edited by Arun K.Chattopadhyay and K.L. Mittal.
• Saraiva, S. M. (1994); Estudo das Propriedades Interfaciais das Frações Polares de Petróleo e sua Influência na Estabilização de Emulsões de Água em Óleo (Study of the Interfacial Properties of the Polar Fractions of Petroleum and their Influence on the Stabilization of Water in Oil Emulsions). Master Thesis, PEMM/COPPE/UFRJ. 96 p.
   

• Preparation and recovery of colloidal gold;
• Contact angle measurements;
• Surface tension of solids;
• Surface and interfacial tension of liquids;
• Langmuir monolayers of fatty acids;
• Electrophoretic mobility of minerals.
   

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