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New York, NY, US

El Salvador - Central America

Project management on a firm specialized in competitive development, with experience in design, implementation, monitoring and evaluation for projects supported by government institutions, NGOs and international donors such as the European Union, IADB, GTZ, etc. (Trade, Private Sector Development, business environment)

Latino América

Consultant for “Lot 4 Results Oriented Monitoring Review of Implementation of Projects and Programmes Financed by the European Union for the Latin American and Caribbean Regions, including Cuba and OCTs”, and also in Latin America working with program/projects in design, evaluation and technical advice for competitiveness and global value chains.

New York, USA

• Program for Support Productive Development for International Insertion. (BID 2583/OC-ES-L1057). Set up a business promotion office of El Salvador in New York in order to promote exporting-offer, foreign investment and.
• TICs/BPO. Development of a mechanism to link Startups of El Salvador with the innovation ecosystem in NYC and Boston, including incubators/accelerators, venture capital and universities (MIT). In addition to promotion.
• Food sector, working export promotion, market intelligence for development of novelty products oriented to market niches as functional foods, gourmet, health, and ethnic groups (Hispanic).
• Creative Industries, promoting export services in fashion and design, film industry, video games, including licensees and direct selling, using digital marketing strategies with segmentation supported by leaders of.
• Tourism promotion in partnership with media, airlines and government, with market segmentation working with eTourism, digital influencers and big data analysis.
• Foreign investment promotion, mainly for infrastructure sectors, energy and tourism, also including specialized investment funds working with angel investors, impact funds, and venture capital.

Central America

GOPA Consultants / European Union.- Support and Studies for SICA Institutions, in the framework of PAIRCAII Program. Special attention to technical support for the improvement of results-oriented monitoring and the strengthening of SICA Institutions.

Argentina

Improvement of regional economies and local development, technical assistance for the promotion of associativiness and business cooperation. Training and awareness to different groups of SMES in 10 regions in the north area of Argentina, with different formulas of cooperation and business association. Included the evaluation of differente associativiness.

El Salvador

SNC LAVALIN coordinator in El Salvador for the Productive development Program with funds of Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC), with a team of 9 experts for the evaluation of 13 projects with a total budget of $6.5 million, and 12 business plans for the agribusiness and tourism sectors. Including design and monitoring of implementation in activities.

El Salvador And Nicaragua

The challenge grant fund for small and medium enterprise competitiveness for Central America and the Dominican Republic. Consultant in charge of monitoring the fund’s operation for MSMES in El Salvador and Nicaragua using business development services with gender and environment as cross-cutting issues with a budget of $2,500,000 for 7 projects.

El Salvador

National exporting strategy of El Salvador. Conceptualization of the national export strategy of El Salvador, providing support in competitiveness and local productive capacity analysis of sectors with export potential, including the creation of co-financing and technical assistance instruments. (Private Sector Development, business environment)

El Salvador

Technical assistance for the improvement of competitiveness (Loan 3946 ES)". Competitiveness development specialist using cluster methodologies supporting entrepreneurship working with cross-cutting issues in gender and environment. (Private Sector Development, business environment)

Mexico

Development of graduate level programs. Executive MBA Program. Participated in the design and launching of an executive graduate-level program implemented jointly between ITESM and the University of Texas at Austin. Worked in the development of the Master’s Degree in International Management for Latin America with the University of Thunderbird, and managed.

Business Administration Program In International Business, Negocios Internacionales

Master In Business Administration, Administración, Mercadeo Y Finanzas

Activities and Societies: Specialization in marketing and finance

Chemical Engineering, Quìmica