Bernardo Mendonça

Manager, Analytics & Market Intelligence · TC Energy · Houston, Texas, USA · hybrid

Oct 2025 – now

• Selected through a competitive internal process to lead a team of business analysts; set direction and priorities and manage budgets, forecasts and resource allocation.
• Built a market-intelligence capability that tracks global supply trends, risks and opportunities, informing sourcing strategy and risk mitigation.
• Delivered a first-ever enterprise spend view on a tight timeline (Gold award, 2026); own data governance, dashboards and KPIs for leadership.

AI systems architect & builder, B1Brain · Independent (own work)

2025 – now

• Architected an ecosystem of 20+ AI solutions (about two dozen repositories) in just over a year, in five layers: gateway and governance, agent orchestration, memory, optimization and knowledge, and industry verticals.
• Designed for enterprise governance: open standards throughout (MCP, OpenAI-compatible APIs, A2A), spend receipts on every model call, deterministic components where reproducibility matters.
• Built and operate a private six-machine AI lab for local models, agent fleets and evaluations, with no data leaving my control.

Lead Supply Chain Business Analyst · TC Energy · Calgary, then Houston (from Oct 2023)

Dec 2020 – Sep 2025

• Translated Supply Chain needs into data, systems and metrics on enterprise-wide programs; defined digital solutions with technology teams and mentored junior staff.
• Trusted to supply SAP data for enterprise transformation programs and a corporate separation; built business cases (cost-benefit, TCO, value capture).
• Delivered invoice-backlog visibility to leaders across all business units; restored a failing Power BI purchase-order pipeline.

Supply Chain Procure-to-Pay (Canada) Business Analyst · TC Energy · Calgary, Alberta, Canada

Jan 2020 – Nov 2020

• Delivered Canada's first SAP mass purchase-order closure: 56k POs with more than 100k lines, closed with zero business impact.
• Led business requirements as main point of contact on a PO-closure automation project; built the purchasing approval flow in Microsoft Power Automate.
• Produced an Accounts Payable on-time-pay (OTP) history 2014–2020 and a new, client-focused view of the PO cycle-time KPI.

Senior Buyer · TC Energy · Calgary, Alberta, Canada

May 2016 – Dec 2019

• Cleaned up material and vendor master data, removing inactive materials and vendors.
• Focused vendor reviews with a PO volume and frequency report and ABC analysis; ran a spend analysis of print-services agreements.
• Nine peer recognitions in 2018–2019 for speed, detail and SAP knowledge.

Buyer · Vista Projects · Calgary, Alberta, Canada

Jan 2016 – Apr 2016

System & Business Intelligence Coordinator · ThyssenKrupp CSA · Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Nov 2010 – May 2015

• Consolidated procurement performance, spending and savings data into the reports and KPIs used for strategic planning.
• Led long-range warehouse development planning across the ThyssenKrupp Group; built cost/benefit cases for process and system improvements.
• Supply Chain's point of contact for audits; recognized in 2015 by the Legal Vice-President for performance during a crucial internal audit.

Senior Procurement Analyst · ThyssenKrupp CSA · Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Dec 2007 – Oct 2010

• Managed purchasing for more than 15,000 items; set up the first purchasing KPIs and long-term contracts.
• Established long-term agreements that cut procurement lead time and covered more than 15% of materials purchases in their first year.
• Supported the SAP ERP Materials Management (MM) implementation.

Senior Purchase Analyst (outsourced) · Vale · Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Sep 2007 – Nov 2007

• Analyzed, equalized and negotiated commercial bids and contracts from international suppliers.

Logistics Analyst · AmBev · Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Jul 2006 – Sep 2007

• Motivated a 60-person distribution team. Managed the package-loss budget and the movement of assets between the factory and the distribution center.

Purchase Analyst · Gerdau S.A. · Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Mar 2002 – Jul 2005

• Negotiated and supported materials contracts. Key user of SAP MM, supporting end users and system improvements.

SAP Certified Application Associate – Procurement with SAP ERP 6.0 EHP4

SAP · issued Nov 2011

Business Intelligence · Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro (PUC-Rio)

Bachelor in Business Administration · Universidade Federal Rural do Rio de Janeiro