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Salem, Or, Us

Salem, Oregon, United States

Salem, Oregon, United States

Salem, Oregon

Analyst for the E-Government Program and the Statewide QA Program at the State of Oregon.

Salem, Oregon

Oregon’s E-Government Program helps government provide online services to residents and businesses over the internet. Our most well know service is Oregon.gov and we manage over 250 different services and are growing at a rate of about 15-20 new government services per year.Within state government, we are the largest enterprise provider of websites, online payments, Internet applications, transparent government data and collaboration​. We have contracted with private industry partners to deliver the services we have managed for over 10 years.

Portland, Oregon Area

Project lead for over 11 projects from the estimation phase to deployment. We focus on full Stack LAMP development, CMS website building and online marketing, ensuring that our clients reach their full online potential.I have experience with PHP, JavaScript, CSS and HTML, developing CMS sites such as WordPress or Drupal, and custom development (including PHP, Node.js and C#/asp.net sites). On the marketing front, I've worked on numerous clients, improving their SEO and setting up AdWords, Bing campaigns, Google Analytics, Conversion Tracking and A/B testing.

Arlington, Virginia

Providing current news and opinion pieces to the Hispanic community in the United States and abroad. As the Editor-in-Chief I have worked with a team of developers to increase our global footprint, expanding our readership through quality content and SEO tools. As a relatively new enterprise, we have achieved great success and continued growth. Our Facebook followers have almost hit the 50k milestone and continue to grow day by day. For the past year I have been working principally in an advisory capacity.

Arlington, Virginia

As the Opinion Editor of USA Hispanic Press, I edited and translated content written by our writers and external collaborators in order to bring up-to date and interesting news to our readers. I have also written, and continue to write, my own opinion column on political and economic issues that affect Hispanics.

Bethesda, Maryland

Created professional training materials for the International Baccalaureate in order to assist their expansion into Spanish speaking countries. In particular, I translated, edited, and created PowerPoint presentations as well as storyboards and supporting materials for IB training workshops.

Worked on a variety of projects, from research to teaching. I gained valuable experience with social sciences data collection protocols, data analysis and evaluation. I studied and employed both quantitative methods (econometrics, game theory, descriptive statistics and multivariate regression analysis utilizing SPSS and STATA) as well as qualitative methods (case studies and small-N research). I also taught a variety of classes including American policy, foreign policy and political theory.

Bethesda, Maryland

Designed and created the volunteer training platform for the International Baccalaureate. The platform consisted of a Moodle deployment on a self hosted LAMP system. This multi-year project involved designing, customizing and maintaining an e-learning platform that served hundreds of users.

Taught writing skills to fellow undergraduate students, in particular essay planning and grammar.

Taught Spanish conversation and provided tutoring to fellow students.

Master'S Degree, Political Science

Focus: International Relations and Political Theory Related coursework: International Finance and Political Economy

B.A, English Literature & Spanish As A Heritage Speaker

Activities and Societies: Sigma Tau Delta HistorianMajors: English Literature & Spanish as a Heritage Speaker Minors: International.

Certificate, Latin American Studies