Simone Alves is a senior business analyst at Vale, where they have been since 2021. Previously, they worked as a data science consultant and analyst at Accenture from 2020 to 2021, and as a statistician at StatSoft South America from 2017 to 2019. Their educational background includes a bachelor's degree in statistics from the Escola Nacional de Ciências Estatísticas - IBGE, a master's degree in industrial engineering from PUC-Rio, and a recent specialization in railway engineering from the Instituto Militar de Engenharia.