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Bogotá, Bogota, Co

Bogotá D.C. Area, Colombia

Bogota, Colombia

As head of the Buildings and Places business line, I:• Designed B+P's growth strategy, effectively doubling the team size in two years• Managed customer relationships and conducted business development: secured more than ten design contracts worth over one million Dollars.• As project manager, I lead interdisciplinary teams and coordinated with teams abroad to successfully deliver the following design and planning projects across Colombia:o Chia*: A 50 Ha entertainment district that includes offices, hotel, concert arena, and R&Do Bogota*: Two 58 Ha master plans in the northern part of the city (housing, offices, and retail)o Medellín: Estimation of revenue Land Value Capture tools for a 4000-acre urban renewal projecto Barranquilla: Conceptual design and preliminary budget for a new 30 Ha military base o Bucaramanga: Real estate market study for mixed use development (150,000m2)o Puerto Salgar*: A 250 Ha logistics area and river port on the Magdalena River.* master plans included real estate market analysis, urban design, and conceptual engineering

Bogota, Colombia

As land information expert for the Parques del Rio Medellin Project (13 mile long urban renewal, road infrastructure, and public space project encompassing 4.000 acres in the heart of the city), I:• Developed an innovative methodology to estimate revenue generated by land value capture techniques to assess the feasibility of the project as a whole: econometric modeling of real estate market dynamics at the macro and micro levels (prices and square footage produced) using cadastral information (mapping and data on the physical characteristics of parcels) and real estate market data. • Interacted with local officials to present the proposed methodology and results in order to facilitate data sharing for the project.As Planning Manager of the Gramalote Urban Resettlement Project (new town for 1000 families—budget: USD150 million), I:• Developed the project management plan, which includes details of its different components, namely: land acquisition, ongoing social support, interagency coordination, water and road infrastructure design, urban planning, architecture design, construction, management, and contractor oversight.• Led the team in charge of developing the Resettlement Plan, which defines the housing restitution, risk management, and economic development measures that will benefit the resettled families. • Structured the follow-up and monitoring scheme of the project • Drafted, reviewed and adjusted documents for tenders and contracts.

Bogota, Colombia

As senior advisor to the Tax and Customs General Commissioner, I:• Was part of the technical team that designed and drafted the tax reform passed by Congress in December 2012. Within the team, I: o Developed models to assess the impact of the proposals for the Personal Income Tax in workers at different income levels and with varying degrees of tax planning. o Developed a cash flow model to assess costs of compliance with tax and social security regulations for small businesses. The model defined new annual turnover concessions for VAT registration and collection to foster. o Calculated adjusted thresholds for the small lottery sector (chanceros) of cash transactions eligible to be presented as costs before the tax authority. o Developed graphic representations for non-expert audiences of the main concepts, proposed changes, and expected outcomes of the tax reform project. See for example: http://www.fedesarrollo.org.co/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/Juan-Carlos-Echeverry.ppsx• Manage the implementation of an agreement I structured between DIAN and the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime to reduce corruption and to counter smuggling.• Structured and negotiated an agreement of technical cooperation between the World Bank, the Ministry of Finance and DIAN (signed in August 2013) to simplify the tax system and reduce costs of compliances for small enterprises to promote business formalization.• Attended sessions of the OECD’s Working Party on Tax Policy Analysis and Tax Statistics (WP2) as the Colombian Delegate. I delivered presentations on Colombia’s fiscal and tax policy and was responsible for drafting and editing answers to several questionnaires and surveys over tax statistics and policy.

Bogota, Colombia

As an advisor to the Director of the Cadaster of Bogota, I acted as the manager of the agency’s Real Estate Observatory, a unit responsible both for collecting field data on real properties for sale or rent, and analyzing real estate dynamics and urban development in the city. In my two year tenure I:• Designed and implemented the Real Estate Observatory and its methodology to obtain real estate market data from impoverished informal neighborhoods where the market tends to be opaque. I was responsible for all its business and management aspects and the public servants and contractors under me (a team of over 15 people). • Became an integral part of the team responsible for the COB’s technical and institutional redesign, which since 2010 allows the city to update its cadastral database on a yearly basis (instead of every four to six years).• Was invited by the World Bank’s 2010 Land Conference to present the COB’s accomplishments.• Oversaw a quarter million dollar contract with the Urban Studies Institute of the National University of Colombia to evaluate the city’s street numbering model that resulted in improvements to its number assigning methodology and signpost design and allocation.• Promoted the strengthening of the relation between Cadaster and the Urban Planning Department, which used cadastral data to evaluate the city’s land use master plan (POT).• Developed a scheme to finance infrastructure and public space investments using development rights which was ultimately included in the city’s revised version of the POT.• Conducted an in-depth study on the city’s betterment levy upon which a bill for its restructuring was drafted.• Co-edited the book "La ciudad vista desde el Catastro" (The city as seen from the Cadastre) with articles written by Real Estate Observatory staff on real estate dynamics, price formation of real properties, and urban settlement patterns within Bogota.

Bogota, Colombia

Participated in the project “Bogota, takes on an urban transformation” as an assistant researcher. The research aimed at understanding the keys behind the city’s notorious transformation in the late 1990s. This FPC project was co-funded by the Chamber of Commerce of Bogota and resulted in the book "Bogotá, de la construcción al deterioro 1995-2007" (Bogota, from construction to decay 1995-2007). I co-authored the book, which was published by the Rosario University Press in 2009.Within the project, I:• Conducted interviews with relevant actors such as public servants, former mayors, and politicians• Reviewed the academic literature on the subject.• Drafted sections on public finance, public transport and political culture• Edited advanced draft versions of the book

Bogota, Colombia

I was part of an interdisciplinary team of four professionals that successfully implemented two projects:• Design and implementation of the monitoring and evaluation model for the Reintegration Program of the Office of the High Councilor for Former Combatants’ Reintegration (ACR for its acronym in Spanish). The proposed model allowed the ACR to quickly evaluate the needs of former combatants entering their Program, as well as detecting individuals in high-risk of falling back to violent activities.• Design of the Unified Collection System of Bogota’s integrated transportation system. The proposed system provided institutional and technological solutions that enabled the fare collection integration of the city’s different modes of public transportation.

Bogota, Colombia

• Represented ADP before the Midas project—one of two USAID alternative development operators in Colombia.• Advised the ADP on the feasibility of a cero-coca-municipalities policy and attended negotiation meetings with USAID and MIDAS representatives for its implementation.• Structured a sanitation pilot project in Tumaco (Nariño) and two productive projects for communities in regions prone to illicit economies: handcrafts in Otanche, Boyaca and in Sibundoy, Putumayo, and beekeeping in the Uraba region.

Bogota, Colombia

Wrote speeches delivered by the Vice-President before a wide range of audiences and wrote and edited texts signed by the Vice-President.

Ahmedabad, India

Was part of a team of twelve MIT interns that developed the project “From Promise to Performance: Ecological Sanitation as a Step Toward the Elimination of Manual Scavenging in India”. The project received further funding from the Rockefeller foundation for a second phase.

Bogota, Colombia

• Produced PowerPoint presentations and wrote speeches delivered by the Mayor before a wide range of audiences• Handled information and analyzed data on the policies and results of over 40 city agencies, in order to articulate it cohesively with the Mayor’s rhetoric• Advised the committee responsible for the Administration’s final report.• In this three-year period, I also served as assistant researcher in an investigation on civic coexistence in teenagers conducted by Mr. Mockus and Prof. Jimmy Corzo, head of the statistics PhD program at the National University of Colombia. This research resulted in the book Cumplir para convivir (Comply in order to peacefully coexist) published jointly by the National Department of Science, Technology, and Innovation (Colciencias) and Norma Publishing Group.

Bogota, Colombia

Surveyed homes of informal neighborhoods placed in high-risk zones to be relocated for the project ‘Recovery of twenty riverbanks in South-east Bogota’ of the Water Supply Company of Bogota.

Maestría En Planificación Urbana (Mcp), Desarrollo Internacional

Focused on informality and development: informal urban development (Peru), informal economy and taxation (Colombia), and cultural.

Ba, Architecture

Baccalauréat, Scientifique