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San Diego, Ca, Us

• Assess the inclusion of marginalized groups in GEF-supported projects with attention to fragile and conflict at global scale• Design a methodology to map over 1,000 project sites and monitor the impact of climate-related investment projects

• Lead and operate the digital transformation of clients' service platforms to improve the quality of their products• Create two econometric models to forecast the performance of 8 economic indicators and 2 dashboards for their monitoring

• Lead the research on macroeconomic and fiscal analysis under conflict and fragility context for government clients• Automated monitoring and visualization of over 100 economic and social indicators on the macroeconomic framework, climate, natural resources, spatial inequality, governance, fragility, productivity, and human capital

• Executed and automated a novel statistical methodology to estimate the value of 10 national wealth assets for 151 countries• Coauthored three chapters and more than 100 data visualizations that analyze the wealth sustainability of 151 countries

Washington, District Of Columbia, United States

• Led engagement strategies to build a network of economists as part of a 20 million US dollar flagship multi-partner trust fund that builds a bridge between chief economic advisors and policy impact in African countries• Produced more than 200 pages of high-quality economic analysis and over 500 data visualizations for two flagship reports, three journal articles and working papers focused on natural resources management, governance, economic growth, and fragility• Automated the monitoring/reporting of more than 50 economic indicators integrated into a database of 100,000 observations

Washington, D.C.

• Developed a method to monitor the effectiveness of 4 natural resource conservation programs using a low-cost methodology based on remote sensing, offline data collection, survey data processing, machine learning, and GIS• Designed strategies to disseminate my work and research results in 3 seminars at the World Bank, UC Berkeley and the Esri User Conference

La Jolla, Ca

• Contributed to develop a new methodology to measure and map environmental impacts, economic activity, urban growth and energy generation suitability in different countries using remote sensing, machine learning, regression analysis, statistics and GIS

La Jolla, Ca

• Cleaned and prepared panel datasets with more than 10 million observations of economic and demographic data produced by the Mexican Statistics Institute and evaluated the effectiveness of public policies targeting poverty alleviation in the country;• Participated in selecting and assisting incoming students with a special focus in Latin America, while helped to establish long-term relationship between the school and foreign academic institutions

Greater San Diego Area

• Coordinated and conducted a comprehensive survey in major Mexican cities to evaluate existing public policies and the innovation environment oriented to support the stage of proof of concept of the creation of new technologies; helped to design the maritime and water technology asset map of San Diego, California and Ensenada, Mexico for their marine spatial planning

Mexico City Area, Mexico

• Design the tools and help students with different backgrounds and computer literacy to learn through a Moodle-based platform and a web-based broadcast software. Evaluate online participations of the students on the e-Learning platform and provide feedback to improve their learning experience

Greater San Diego Area

• Helped to design the maritime and water technology (BlueTech) asset map of San Diego’s BlueTech cluster and used ArcGIS StoryMaps to diagnose the size and importance of the ocean economy in San Diego, California

Shanghai City, China

• Helped to identify the business model of Chinese aluminum auto parts companies and evaluate the current central government policies designed to support the aluminum and automotive industries

Mexico City Area, Mexico

• Participated in academic discussions and contributed to coordinate more than ten international meetings including: 2011 Meeting “TPP Agreement Negotiations” held in Mexico City for 50 professionals and ambassadors; 2012 US Elections Observatory held in Washington, DC for 30 Mexican specialists; 2012 Meeting “Why, What and How to study the United States today in Mexico and Latin America” held in Mexico City for 30 professors; 2013 Meeting “The Future of Latin America: the Vision of Young Leaders” held in Mexico City for 60 Latin American young professionals and some Development Bank of Latin America representatives; 2014 Regional Workshop “Immigration Policy Alternatives in North America and Mesoamerica” held in Houston, TX for 40 migration specialists- Managed eight different projects related to migration, Latin America development and US-Mexico relationship- Collaborated on creating reports, memories, agendas for meetings and created slide presentations for professors in the International Studies Department

Mexico City Area, Mexico

• Helped to design and managed e-Learning tools for virtual professional courses: Migration and Governance Professional Course 2011, 2012 and 2013 editions each broadcasted for more than 150 students in 10 different Latin American countries and US cities; 2013 Negotiation, Mediation and Consensus Building Professional Course for more than 100 Mexican students

Beijing City, China

• Conducted on-site research in universities and research centers in Beijing China in order to design a proposal to train Mexican professionals to become translators and interpreters Spanish-Mandarin; completed a government-funded project that has been proposed to the Mexico-China Bilateral Permanent Commission

Mexico City Area, Mexico

• Managed the payroll for more than 800 employees using specialized payroll and finance systems; paid on time biweekly payroll managing taxes, benefits and deductions with 100% accuracy; solved diligently social security (IMSS and INFONAVIT) inconsistency claims to keep American Airlines Mexico in strict accordance with Mexican labor law• Conducted customer service strategies for the baggage claim, frequent flyer, ticket office and sales departments to improve service quality in the U.S. and Latin America market; solved passenger inquiries in English, French and Portuguese while being an employee of the month several times

Mexico City Area, Mexico

Master’S Degree, International Business, Economics, China, Latin America, Data Science

Activities and Societies: Online Content Manager at the Journal of International Policy Solutions, Vice president of Finance at the Latin.

Bachelor'S Degree, Economics, Graduate With Honors; 9.08/10

• Major: International Economics; Minor: Chinese Studies, Graduated with honors • Thesis presented: The Port of Lazaro Cardenas.