§ About

Construction practitioner.
Open-source builder.
Community of practice founder.

I'm a Senior Cost Manager at Linesight, supporting hyperscale data-center delivery in Northern Virginia. Civil engineer by training, project-management practitioner by trade, and an open-source builder by inclination — most of what I make is on GitHub under MIT, AGPL, or GPL.

The thread that connects everything I've worked on for the last 15+ years is the same: data-driven project controls applied to capital programs. From R$338M in residential developments in Brazil through the 2016-19 housing crisis, to $15B+ in real-estate AUM at Trinus Co (where I led integration of 50+ portfolio companies into a Databricks lakehouse and cut financial close from 45 to 20 days), to a $1B U.S. higher-education bond program at AECOM California, to the $6.7B Amtrak Frederick Douglass / B&P Tunnel Replacement Program at AECOM Maryland (active member of the AI Working Group), to hyperscale data centers at Linesight today — the work has always been about turning messy program data into cost decisions you can defend.

In parallel, I founded the AI & PM Research Hub (Núcleo IA & GP) at PMI Brazil in 2024 — what started as a pilot in PMI Goiás is now a structured alliance of five federated chapters with 52 active researchers across 7 research streams, 209 events held, and an MCP-enabled platform with 266 tools. I also maintain MeridianIQ (open-source schedule intelligence, 48 analysis engines, 1,490+ tests, traceable to AACE / DCMA / SCL / GAO standards) and Panorama (open-source IT asset + fleet management, successor to Snipe-IT, multi-tenant, trilingual). And I designed and developed sarahrodovalho.com for my wife Sarah, a sustainable-design and construction-management researcher at Harrisburg University.

Now

Active anchors
  • Senior Cost Mgr Linesight · Sterling, VA · April 2026 – present. Hyperscale data-center cost delivery.
  • Founder AI & PM Research Hub (Núcleo IA & GP) at PMI Brazil · since 2024 · 52 active researchers · 5 federated chapters.
  • Author MeridianIQ — open-source schedule intelligence · v4.2.0 in production.
  • Author Panorama — open-source IT/fleet management · pre-alpha pilot prep.
  • Founder Orenu — family fintech (4 pillars · AI-anchored) · private platform.

Career arc

Five phases · 2007 – present
  1. 01.
    2007 – 2010

    Foundation

    Started as an assistant project manager at EMISA Incorporadora (Anápolis-GO, Brazil) during my Civil Engineering studies. Field coordination on the $1.9B Barro Alto Nickel Mine Project (Anglo American / SNC-Lavalin-Minerconsult consortium) at FR Incorporadora.

  2. 02.
    2010 – 2019

    Building scale

    Procurement Manager at Direcional Engenharia (Brazil's largest homebuilder) — R$89M across 412 contract packages, 10.3% below budget. Then back to EMISA: Construction Manager → Project Manager → Project Manager. Across these roles delivered 1,300+ housing units, R$338M GDV, 1.8M sq ft of construction. Navigated the 2016-19 Brazilian housing-market downturn while keeping projects profitable.

  3. 03.
    2020 – 2023

    Digital transformation

    Business Process Specialist at Trinus Co, part of TG Core Asset ($15B+ AUM real-estate investment platform). Built a 10-engineer PMO validating budgets and schedules across 300+ invested projects. Integrated data from 50+ portfolio companies — each with its own ERP/CRM stack — into a centralized Databricks lakehouse with unified cost-center hierarchies. Reduced monthly financial close from 45 to 20 days (~55%) and improved reporting efficiency by ~70%. Promoted to Partner in the BPO subsidiary within 3 months.

  4. 04.
    2024 – early 2026

    U.S. infrastructure

    Project Controls Lead at AECOM California for a $1B college-district bond program (4 colleges + district office). Then Digital Solutions Business Analyst at AECOM Maryland on the $6.7B Amtrak Frederick Douglass / B&P Tunnel Replacement Program (Northeast Corridor modernization for 12M+ annual passengers; AECOM-Jacobs joint venture as Delivery Partner). Active member of the AI Working Group. Led PMIS data migration at Great Lakes Water Authority (Kahua); additional exposure on Metrolinx, FEMA USVI, and United Airlines programs.

  5. 05.
    2026 – present

    AI-infrastructure economy

    Senior Cost Manager at Linesight, supporting hyperscale data-center delivery in Northern Virginia. Working at the cost-management layer of the physical infrastructure that powers AI and cloud.

Parallel research thread

2023 – present

Since 2023, in parallel with my employment, I've been building a community of practice and a stack of open-source tools at the intersection of project management and AI:

  • 2023 — Joined the Study and Research Center for AI and Project Management at PMI Brazil Goiás.
  • 2024 — Founded the AI & PM Research Hub (Núcleo IA & GP) as a pilot within PMI Goiás. Microsoft Global Hackathon participant.
  • 2025-2026 — Núcleo IA & GP grows into a five-chapter federation (PMI-GO, PMI-CE, PMI-DF, PMI-MG, PMI-RS) with 52 active researchers and an MCP-enabled platform. MeridianIQ ships from v0.1 to v4.2.0 as production-grade open-source schedule intelligence. Panorama bootstraps as the unified successor to Snipe-IT plus a fleet-scheduling overlay.

Education

  • Feb – Mar 2022
    Executive Program in Innovative Project Management & Business English · College of Business, The University of Akron, Ohio · LAIOB Scholarship recipient
  • 2012 – 2016
    Executive MBA in Real Estate Business & Construction Management · Fundação Getulio Vargas (FGV), Brasília · Direcional +Educação Scholarship recipient
  • 2004 – 2010
    Bachelor of Civil Engineering · Pontifícia Universidade Católica de Goiás · diploma awarded 2010 (started at Universidade Estadual de Goiás and transferred mid-program; community work and student-government experience all from the UEG years — see movimento-estudantil-ueg archive)

Certifications & memberships

  • Project Management Professional (PMP®) · PMI member
  • Construction Management Association of America (CMAA) member
  • Licensed Civil Engineer in Brazil (CREA-GO / CONFEA)
  • AI courses: PMI Talking to AI: Prompt Engineering · PMI Generative AI Overview · Generative AI Prompt Engineering Basics · AI-Driven PM Techniques (Ricardo Vargas)
  • Cloud / sustainability: Microsoft Cloud for Sustainability · Career Essentials in Sustainable Tech · Including Sustainability in Cloud Strategy
  • Construction Scheduling · Business Analysis Foundations · Data Analytics

Languages

Portuguese (native or bilingual) · English (professional working) · Spanish (elementary)

Personal

Linux user since 2006 (Slackware roots — old-school rebuild-it-yourself ethos). Open-source as both ethics and economics: almost all of what I make ships under MIT, AGPL, or GPL. Films I revisit: Hackers, Margin Call, The Big Short, The Wolf of Wall Street, Rocky. TV: Silicon Valley. Believer in builders who keep going long after the camera stops rolling.

Contact

Based in Leesburg, VA · Washington DC – Baltimore region.