Florante Cruz Email & Phone Number

Uplb, College, Laguna, Philippines

Over-all in-charge of the Museum's Biodiversity Communication and Education Program which has the following areas: Integrated Biodiversity Exhibits, Training Programs and Short Courses, Seminar Series, Information Portal, Social Media, Science Communication, Volunteer and Internships.

As coordinator of the Information Management and Technology Utilization Section, Office of the Vice-Chancellor for Research and Extension, oversees the gathering, consolidation, processing, analysis and reporting of research and extension-related data in the university.Provides technical support the Vice-Chancellor and to university committees created to craft research and extension project proposals, recommend policy recommendations, and conduct university-supported events.Directly manages the production of the UPLB RDE Digest, a semi-technical newsletter. Writes and edits the articles, shoots photographs and layouts the publication. Coordinates with the printing service provider regarding printing concerns.Administers (personally-developed using Joomla!) six university unit websites and their contents, including the development of multimedia and other content. Provides training and managerial support to content managers of websites under the supervision of the office. Manages all office social media platform accounts and contents to be delivered.

Provided technical support the Vice-Chancellor in the day-to-day operations of the office, including but not limited to information dissemination, project development, management and evaluation. Rendered secretarial and coordination support to university committees created to craft research and extension project proposals, recommend policy recommendations, and conduct university-supported events.Served as university representative to the Network of CALABARZON Higher Education Institutions, Inc. and sat as official in some of the organization's committees.Also served as contributing writer to the UPLB Link, a university fortnightly newsletter and contributed photographs. Also assigned to several documentation committees which covered various university events.Administered the various office websites and their contents, including the development of multimedia and other content. Also became member of the UPLB Web Development Team which implemented the university website in Drupal. Created the information structure for the research and extension component of the website.Supervised the maintenance of the OVCRE's Integrated Research Information System, as well as conducted the periodic validation of data put in by encoders.

Provided technical support the Vice-Chancellor in the day-to-day operations of the office, including but not limited to information dissemination, project development, management and evaluation. Rendered secretarial and coordination support to several university committees created to craft research and extension project proposals, recommend policy recommendations, and conduct university-supported events. Served as university representative to the Regional Management Information Service of DOST-PCARRD-Southern Tagalog Agriculture and Resources Research and Development Consortium.Coordinator of the UPLB Information, Education and Communication Program which produced and published more than 25 sets of information materials promoting university services, programs and technologies.Created database applications for use of the office in order to collect, process and report data on the university's research, extension and professional staff, publications, and developed technologies, among others.Assisted in the maintenance of the OVCRE's Integrated Research Information System, as well as conducted the periodic validation of data put in by encoders. Also part of the encoding team which entered the bulk of the data during the information system's data-building phase.

Project coordinator of the Ugnayan ng Pahinungod - UP Los Baños for the provinces of Cagayan, Albay and SorsogonProvided training, guidance and logistical support to 5 volunteers which were assigned to various agrarian reform communities supervised by the Department of Agrarian Reform.

Volunteer-facilitator for the National Azolla Action Program - UPLB Ugnayan ng Pahinungod Program for the province of Albay and other sites.Facilitated 2 season-long Farmers Field Schools for 30 farmers of Brgy. Masarawag, Guinobatan, Albay in cooperation with the Extension Unit of the Bicol University College of Agriculture and Forestry, the Agricultural Training Institute-Albay, Municipal Agriculturist's Office, DA-Region V, and the various units of UPLB.

Research assistant for the project on "Annotated Bibliography of Researches on Animal Science" done by Acad. Leopoldo S. Castillo for the Philippines' National Academy of Science and TechnologyConducted literature review on and indexing of researches related to animal science from various libraries of universities which offered competitive courses on animal husbandry, animal science, and veterinary medicine.

Mdc, Development Communication, 1.10 Gwa

- Given the Silver Medal and Certificate of Excellence in Communication for being the top graduate of the MDC program - Given the Gold.

Diploma, Computer Science

- Last student to take and graduate from the Diploma course's residential mode before shifting to fully online.

Bs, Agriculture, Major In Animal Science

Activities and Societies: Business manager of the UP Animal Science Society, Councilor and Vice-Chairman of the College of Agriculture.