Director of the Organizational Development Planning Department at the Shared Services of the Ministry of Health, E.P.E., where she began as the coordinator of the Recovery and Resilience Plan Unit. Currently, she oversees the Recovery and Resilience Plan Unit, the Cybersecurity Unit, and the Management Control and Contracting Unit. She is also an international consultant specializing in Smart Cities, EGOV, Cybersecurity, and Defense, with a focus on Cybersecurity Risk Management from Harvard University. She is soon to be certified in Ethical Hacking and Countermeasures and is preparing to defend her PhD. In addition to her PhD studies, she has been a Guest Lecturer at the University of Minho, teaching courses on Cybersecurity, Computing Systems, and Operating Systems, and holds a Harvard BOK Higher Education Teaching Certificate. She also completed a short course in Diplomacy at the Autonomous University of Lisbon.