Directly led the effort that launched Puerto Rico’s first electric cooperative, including managing efforts to educate the community, engage the public, organize the operational team and raise seed capital to realize first-to-market benefits for the electric cooperative.Key Achievements:• Founding Board Member. Developed local leaders, including mentoring women for selection into non-traditional key positions to promote corporate diversity of thought and address social injustice… Show more Directly led the effort that launched Puerto Rico’s first electric cooperative, including managing efforts to educate the community, engage the public, organize the operational team and raise seed capital to realize first-to-market benefits for the electric cooperative.Key Achievements:• Founding Board Member. Developed local leaders, including mentoring women for selection into non-traditional key positions to promote corporate diversity of thought and address social injustice, enabling the creation of Puerto Rico’s first-in-class community electric cooperative.• Program Manager. Responsible for the development, in parallel, of three complimentary energy projects for residents of five low-income municipalities: a 50-megawatt hydroelectric acquisition, rehabilitation and management project; a 10-megawatt photovoltaic resiliency project and Puerto Rico’s first intermunicipal microgrid that represents a transformative approach to energy for rural residents.• Project Manager. Planned and led a consortium of energy industry leaders through a Request for Qualification process that resulted in the Puerto Rican government qualifying the hydroelectric consortium into the next Request for Proposal phase. This unprecedented achievement places the electric cooperative as the only community organization participating in Puerto Rico’s energy transformation and privatization process.• Team Chief and Program Champion: Led team through a sequence of collective wins resulting in receiving five Department of Energy prizes or grants and a USDA grant valued in total at over $1.3 million. Managed team effort that developed Puerto Rico’s first community-based microgrids that operated before, during and after Hurricane Fiona. Show less

This opportunity represents an unexpected detour in life as a result of Hurricane Maria striking Puerto Rico in 2017. Since the hurricane, I have dedicated myself full-time+ to help the residents of Puerto Rico with a focus on the residents of Utuado and other surrounding municipalities in the rural central mountain range of Puerto Rico. I am responsible for helping establish the vision for the organization and focus my efforts on leading the management team.After Hurricane Maria… Show more This opportunity represents an unexpected detour in life as a result of Hurricane Maria striking Puerto Rico in 2017. Since the hurricane, I have dedicated myself full-time+ to help the residents of Puerto Rico with a focus on the residents of Utuado and other surrounding municipalities in the rural central mountain range of Puerto Rico. I am responsible for helping establish the vision for the organization and focus my efforts on leading the management team.After Hurricane Maria struck Puerto Rico, I shifted focus to assist one of the worst hit municipalities in Puerto Rico. Creatively connecting a wide range of volunteers and resources while leveraging 21st century technology, innovatively brought aid to one of the poorest municipalities in Puerto Rico touching the lives of thousands.Key Achievements:• Founding Board Member. Recognized technical and managerial authority. Provided extensive support to local, state and federal Government agencies maximizing taxpayer resources. Personally raised over $410,000 with 100% of those funds going to development of community programs.• Disaster Response Project Manager responsible for coordinating resources to bring a wide spectrum of aid and recovery support to thousands of people.• Directed diverse, cross-functional, interdisciplinary teams, of up to 40 personnel, coordinating across government agencies at the federal, state and local level to deliver direct aid to residents. Show less

Principal responsible for developing: a Business Continuity Management program using ISO-compliant standards; a technology implementation roadmap; and a project management implementation process to drive projects to completion.Key Achievements:• Founding Board Member and Intelligent Automation evangelist.• Identified new business opportunities for Robotic Process Automation and Intelligent Automation to improve businesses until Hurricane Maria changed my life.Advanced… Show more Principal responsible for developing: a Business Continuity Management program using ISO-compliant standards; a technology implementation roadmap; and a project management implementation process to drive projects to completion.Key Achievements:• Founding Board Member and Intelligent Automation evangelist.• Identified new business opportunities for Robotic Process Automation and Intelligent Automation to improve businesses until Hurricane Maria changed my life.Advanced Quality Systems de Puerto Rico offers 21st century Knowledge Process Outsourcing for the Americas. Advanced Quality Systems is focused on assisting high-growth, medium-sized businesses scale by leveraging technology like Robotic Process Automation.I am responsible for helping establish the vision for the organization and focus my efforts on leading the project management team while we develop best-in-class business processes focused on delivering superior customer service for our stakeholders. Show less

Served as Chief Operations Office, Instructor and Board Member. Operationally, my focus was on ensuring the Fundación Borincana team had the resources to allow them to exceed our clients' expectations. On the schoolhouse side, I endeavored to maximize the learning experience for our students in the PRECAP and Solar IT programs.

Tokken was leading a revolution in banking. Tokken was a digital banking platform that extended banking services to cash intensive, un-bankable businesses and people. Tokken provided sustainable digital banking solutions leveraging three product lines: TokkenPay - a mobile wallet; TokkenSell - a fully integrated Point of Sale and supply chain management system; and TokkenLend - a B2B lending solution.Responsible for making the Chief Executive Officer's vision a reality and leading the… Show more Tokken was leading a revolution in banking. Tokken was a digital banking platform that extended banking services to cash intensive, un-bankable businesses and people. Tokken provided sustainable digital banking solutions leveraging three product lines: TokkenPay - a mobile wallet; TokkenSell - a fully integrated Point of Sale and supply chain management system; and TokkenLend - a B2B lending solution.Responsible for making the Chief Executive Officer's vision a reality and leading the executive management team while we developed best-in-class business processes focused on delivering superior customer service for Tokken's four primary stakeholders: end-users of our mobile application; businesses; financial institutions; and industry regulators. Show less

Functional Excellence Program Manager for the Energy Assurance and Operations division focusing on improving process, procedure and standardization for the Operations & Maintenance team.Project Manager for Project ROCC - a $1.3M NERC-compliant Remote Operations Control Center. The project scope included civil, mechanical, facilities, information technology and process development elements. The project was delivered on-time, slightly underbudget while seamlessly incorporating a… Show more Functional Excellence Program Manager for the Energy Assurance and Operations division focusing on improving process, procedure and standardization for the Operations & Maintenance team.Project Manager for Project ROCC - a $1.3M NERC-compliant Remote Operations Control Center. The project scope included civil, mechanical, facilities, information technology and process development elements. The project was delivered on-time, slightly underbudget while seamlessly incorporating a significant increase in project scope to prepare the Operations Center for higher security requirements and capability anticipated in future years making best use of current spend.Workshop facilitator, team lead and project manager for several business process improvement efforts: including Maximo maintenance software business process integration; Utility Interconnections and Incentives improvements; EPC Project Life Cycle improvements; Distributed Generation Commercial business process improvements; Commercial Customer Care process improvements and SharePoint implementation. Many of these initiatives involved coordination with the global project teams working across multiple time zones.Global Process Manager for Issue to Resolution (I2R) issues focusing on improving commercial customer service and issue resolution processes. Show less

Business Process Manager responsible for leading the implementation of a Project Lifecycle (PLC) framework to include the Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK).Trained over 275 SunPower personnel on the PMBOK, PLC and other company processes.Managed international team that developed Project Management tools and resources, including Project Plan templates and project life cycle related documentation used on EPC projects.

Budget and compliance analyst.

Manager and leader, including two assignments as a Naval Aviator

Junior level electronics technician for communications and cryptographic equipment.