He also serves as a professor with aggregation in strategic studies at the Social and Political Sciences Institute, and at the Portuguese Naval Academy.

He also served as the commanding officer of the NRP Andromeda (A5203) and as deputy of the chief of the Department of Strategic and Military Studies at the General Directorate of National Defense Policy.

[1] He also became the head of the Forces Planning Section at the Planning Division of the Naval Staff, became an adviser at the National Defense Institute, director of research and operations at the Strategic Defense and Military Information Service, and served as the commanding officer of the NRP Almeida Carvalho (A527).

He also became the superintendent of material, the general director of the Hydrographic Institute, the deputy vice-chief of the Naval Staff, the secretary of the Admiralty Council and also served as a member of the Consultative Commission on Search and Rescue.

He also served as the chief of the Naval Staff of the Portuguese Navy, before he was appointed by President Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa as the Chief of the General Staff on March 1, 2018, replacing Army General Artur Neves Pina Monteiro.