My name is Aristides Costa. I am an engineer graduated in 1981, from the Rio de Janeiro Federal University (UFRJ), in Brazil [1]. I live in Oslo, Norway and I work in Aker Solutions [2]. This page is part of the assignment in Technology Management class of the Executive MBA program 2009-2010, at the Norwegian School of Management-BI in Oslo, Norway link.
Career highlights: I started my career in a shipyard in Brazil in 1982 and worked further for 2 Classification Societies (Det norske Veritas [3] and Bureau Veritas [4]) before I moved definitively to Norway in November 1987. Thereafter I entered the Oil and Gas industry, working for Kvaerner Engineering in Stavanger, Norway, later Aker Solutions. I had several engineering and construction management assignments in Norway and abroad, including England, Georgia, Angola, Brazil [5] and Malaysia.