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Project delivery
End-to-end leadership across design, procurement, manufacturing, testing, installation, and closeout.
Integrated schedules, cost and cash visibility, change control, risk management, and customer alignment.
Project & PMO leadership
Complex projects.
Clear systems.
Reliable delivery.
With 10+ years across engineering, operations, automation, and project leadership, I lead technical programs where teams and business priorities must move as one. I then build the PMO systems that keep the work visible and executable.
Credential
PMP®
Leadership scope
Projects · Operations · PMO
Graduate study
MBA · Lean Mfg.
Based near
Houston, TX
Leandro Trindade Freire, PMP®
Senior Project Manager / PMO Manager
01 · CAREER EVOLUTION
Engineering foundation
Electrical design, industrial automation, estimating, and disciplined technical delivery.
02 · CAREER EVOLUTION
Manufacturing leadership
Production, quality systems, people leadership, supply chain, and business-unit operations.
03 · CAREER EVOLUTION
Complex project delivery
Customer-facing execution across automation, modular manufacturing, suppliers, and project sites.
04 · CAREER EVOLUTION
PMO & portfolio direction
Practical governance and connected systems that turn project information into coordinated action.
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PMO systems
Practical governance that makes schedules, risks, actions, changes, and decisions visible.
Lightweight standards and portfolio routines that help teams act, not merely report.
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Digital enablement
Connected workflows built with Power Apps, SharePoint, Power Automate, Power BI, Microsoft Project, and practical AI assistance.
One source of truth, clearer ownership, stronger knowledge capture, faster follow-up, and decision-ready reporting.
My operating model
Make the path visible. Then help the team move through it.
Strong project systems do not replace leadership. They create the shared clarity that lets leadership happen earlier and at the right level.
- 01FrameDefine success, boundaries, assumptions, and decision rights.
- 02AlignConnect scope, schedule, cost, resources, and stakeholders.
- 03ControlManage risk, change, commitments, and forecast movement.
- 04CommunicateTurn project data into decisions at the right altitude.
- 05LearnConvert delivery experience into a stronger operating system.
Career throughline
Engineering rigor, manufacturing reality, and executive-level visibility.
My career connects electrical engineering, industrial automation, modular manufacturing, and the operating systems that help project teams deliver with confidence.
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Projects, people & PMO
Leading pharmaceutical and life-science cleanroom projects, developing PMs, and building practical portfolio systems.
PROJECTS
Automation & engineering
Delivering multimillion-dollar industrial automation through disciplined field execution.
OPERATIONS
Factories, teams & P&L
Progressing through production, quality, and P&L leadership at Essentra PLC provided a foundation in how complete operating systems perform.
Insights
Ideas built for real project work.
PMO design
01The light PMO: minimum viable governance for complex delivery
Enough structure to create control, without turning project managers into administrators.
6 min readRead article
Power Platform
02From scattered trackers to a connected project operating system
How Power Apps and SharePoint can connect project work without creating another reporting burden.
7 min readRead article
Project controls
03Connect the schedule to cash, not just completion
A practical way to make invoice triggers, payment terms, and cash timing visible in the project plan.
5 min readRead article
Leadership principle
“A project manager’s job is not to make the work look controlled. It is to create the conditions in which the team can control it.”More about how I lead