I work with homeowners to help them bring life to their home outdoor living spaces. Our firm specializes in designing, help budget, and installing functional yet beautiful, long-lasting, outdoor living spaces for all types of functions, aesthetic preferences, and occasions. With hands-on experience in the installation process, I bring both an eye for design and knowledge of the challenges of the terrain providing solutions and alternatives through the use of different materials, forms, shapes, and elements that will complement your home architectural style and help you marry your home to the land.

At Value Builders we help home and business owners design and build high-quality, functional, and aesthetically pleasing sunrooms and patio covers. In our showroom, we have something for everyone and will accommodate all types of needs, wants, home styles, and budgets. With over 50 years in the business and 75 years of combined experience within our team, we're so confident in ourselves we offer you a lifetime warranty on all of our products and craftsmanship. Ultimately if you are happy with your choice in the long-term, we're happy. Call us to schedule a Design Meeting at our showroom or a visit to your place and we'll help you bring the outdoors inside.

NeuBlue helps small business owners run their ventures on high tech. We cover all three vital areas of marketing, management, and money, with technology integration. Our goal is to advise, teach, and coach our clients on how to increase efficiency, productivity, and sales, by identifying, choosing, learning, implementing, and optimizing the use of tech tools, platforms, and systems at work. We offer one-on-one consulting, group trainings, curated technology picks, articles, and other resources. After working with NeuBlue, entrepreneurs can then go on vacation!

Designed, launched, and managed a Technology Acceleration Program.Sold $420K+ ARR of mixed SMB software, acquiring 350+ companies in one year. Consulted 250+ individual business owners to identify, learn, implement, and optimize technology in their ventures, with 92% reporting revenue increases averaging 20% yearly. Designed, launched, and managed a Small Business Incubator with 30+ companies in the portfolio, and $300K+ combined ARR. Managed the sales cycle from attraction to acquisition, onboarding, implementation, and growth. Co-designed, and co-managed an Open Work-Space Program (OWP), providing 100+ emerging small business owners with a co-working space, parlayed with professional consultations, and office services to support their day-to-day operations and growth.Projected deliverables through strategic planning, and designed leaner execution processes in collaboration with staff members and outside consultants. Oversaw work of five small teams in remote sites. Managed communications to ensure partner and client satisfaction. Reported to stakeholders. Assessed all programs’ effectiveness in collaboration with superiors, staff, and clients. Reported outcomes on the organization and federal levels to ensure compliance and funding.

Trainer: Researched and co-created bilingual curriculum. Taught 100+ workshops on small business basics including entrepreneurial mindset, agile planning tools, legalities, marketing, management, and financials, plus basic website design and development, SEO/analytics, and intro to cutting edge smb technologies. Conducted curriculum assessment and re-development. Adviser: Provided 500k+ hrs. of one-on-one advising on all topics above. Identified businesses critical issues, potential solutions, and next steps. Matched owners with other advisers, mentors, resources, products and services, where I could not offer help. Certified SBDC adviser.Interviewed and assisted in recruiting new instructors and advisers. Generated proposals, reports and related documents on the organization level.

Marketing & Outreach: Conducted market research and communicated found needs to the team. Identified, reached out, established, cultivated, and managed direct strategic relationships with 500+ stakeholders, including smb owners, micro-enterprise development organizations, partner companies, non-profits, smb groups, financial institutions, donors, sponsors, government agencies, instructors, mentors, and advisers. Fostered a referral system with 30+ of them. Performed public outreach at community, donor and media events. Created promotional materials including website, and printed and digital collateral.Event Planning & Management: Co-organized 40+ access to market, capital, and technology events. Managed program speakers, workshops, presentations, outreach, sponsorships, volunteers, venue set-up, and follow-up with all stakeholders. Contributed to program development and evaluation.

Founded, and co-owns a five-star catering company, based in Oakland. Chef and jack of all trades on and offline. Grew revenue from $0 to $150K in year one. Needles to say we cook delicious, traditional, Cuban food. Co directs sales, customer service, and event planning. In charge of delivery, company and website. Hosts annual pop up restaurant events in the Bay Area.

Teach micro urban farming workshops for UpindeROOTS showing attendees how to grow organic produce by using the EarthBOX, a self watering container, that saves water while yielding great crops, and removing the problem of soil contamination found in many urban sites.

Facilitated 4 of the 12 week-long UrbanFIRE Entrepreneurship Program in West Oakland, CA covering topics ranging from understanding the concept of multiple intelligence to marketing and advertising, website design and build, fitness and diet in the workplace, and how to attract, communicate and retain customers.Designed banner, printed materials, and worked as part of the marketing committee organizing the 2010 and 2011 Ignite! Annual New Business Expos where dozens of new local businesses launched.

ESL teacher. Spanish language teacher. Montessori teacher.

Served diplomatic personnel in three departments. Dealt regularly with the public as a Visa Assistant. Maintained and updated various databases, sent, received and delivered all diplomatic correspondence, and completed general office tasks, including phone calls, and recording and filing of official memorandums of understanding, official letters, and other key documents. Translated for diplomats and visitors on a regular basis.

Hosted, co-hosted, and commentated on weekly radio shows increasing ratings by 36%. Interviewed 300+ individuals and groups from across the globe. Researched on local and regional issues, covering topics such as trade, tourism, culture, education, history, youth, science and health care. Selected to cover 9 special events across the country over 3 years. Translated regularly from Spanish into English and vice versa.