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La Serena, Coquimbo Region, Chile

In addition to still carrying out the role of head of communications as part of the transition from Construction to Operations I am now responsible for Program Operations, this includes a variety of responsibilities such as budgets, scheduling, reporting, event planning and administration management.

Tucson, Arizona Area

Achievements include:• Annual funding agency review organization and participation. Document pack & presentation preparation.• Within one month of joining successfully chaired Organizing Committee for Project and Community meeting.• Communications Office management, developing & motivating staff, strategic direction, brand ambassador.• Organizing presence at AAS, IAU & SPIE and National Science Foundation Workshop.• Timely bi-lingual Internal/External messaging & talking… Show more Achievements include:• Annual funding agency review organization and participation. Document pack & presentation preparation.• Within one month of joining successfully chaired Organizing Committee for Project and Community meeting.• Communications Office management, developing & motivating staff, strategic direction, brand ambassador.• Organizing presence at AAS, IAU & SPIE and National Science Foundation Workshop.• Timely bi-lingual Internal/External messaging & talking points production, diversity & inclusion planning.• Drive performance through processes: annual planning, site visits, task tracking, weekly meetings.• Participating in risk meetings, various working groups. Manage Chile-US coordination & partner interfaces.**Constantly looking for ways to increase diversity at Rubin Observatory and to create an inclusive environment to achieve increased retention** Show less

Madrid Area, Spain

Assigned to BepiColombo and Rosetta missions within Science and Robotic Exploration.• Responsible for Configuration Management, Quality Assurance and Risk Management tasks.• Managing ten contracts in place with Instrument teams across Europe, includes progress meetings and reporting.• Responsible for all stages of reviews, liaising with IG Office, post review RID response management.• Management of ten service contracts with Principle Investigator teams across Europe ~ €5m.•… Show more Assigned to BepiColombo and Rosetta missions within Science and Robotic Exploration.• Responsible for Configuration Management, Quality Assurance and Risk Management tasks.• Managing ten contracts in place with Instrument teams across Europe, includes progress meetings and reporting.• Responsible for all stages of reviews, liaising with IG Office, post review RID response management.• Management of ten service contracts with Principle Investigator teams across Europe ~ €5m.• Organization of work through creation and maintenance of schedules and milestone tracking.• Introduced team techniques for planning and tracking of person power and work packages.• Requirements management, action & issue tracking and reporting, end to end review planning.• Maintenance of Cost at Completion (CaC) of ~€60m.Assigned to MetOp B and EarthCARE missions within Earth Observation.• Logistical coordination of ESA and industry launch campaign teams for MetOp B launch. • Liaising with supplier for MetOp B launch campaign logistics (LCL) system delivery.• Testing of LCL against original requirements.• Defining the LCL workflow processes to incorporate system functionality.• Writing LCL user manual and training industry in system usage.• Re-engineering of EarthCARE space component schedule according to requirements gathered.• Defining and creating views of re-engineered schedule to provide improved management information. Working specifically for Herschel DP and Gaia SOC.• Using advanced knowledge of office automation tools reduced reporting effort by 50% (Excel).• Project Schedule maintenance in liaison with team (in MS Project).• Team member meetings for workload coordination against schedule (using Agile XP approach).• Reporting on issue resolution, problem and change tracking.• Participation in weekly update/progress meetings.• Additionally reviewed and refined BepiColombo Cost at Completion. Show less

Madrid Area, Spain

Responsible for full project lifecycle and on-going service delivery of turn-key digital media infrastructure installation and marketing content delivery projects into retail bank branches across the globe. Managed multiple multi-million euro projects running simultaneously all in different phases. Worked with global teams based in different countries, across cultures, language barriers and time zones. Coordinated pilots and rollout for UniCredit Bank Italy & Ukraine, Nordea Bank… Show more Responsible for full project lifecycle and on-going service delivery of turn-key digital media infrastructure installation and marketing content delivery projects into retail bank branches across the globe. Managed multiple multi-million euro projects running simultaneously all in different phases. Worked with global teams based in different countries, across cultures, language barriers and time zones. Coordinated pilots and rollout for UniCredit Bank Italy & Ukraine, Nordea Bank Scandanavia, OCBC Bank Singapore and Malaysia.• Worked with clients and designers to deliver timely on message marketing content across channels.• Schedule creation and maintenance (tasks, resource balancing, dependencies, milestones)• Planning of all resources (screens, PCs, equipment, personnel, vendors)• Sourcing and procurement of all resources according to schedule• Managing vendors, installation teams, route plans, installation schedules, surveys• Interpreting and checking autocad technical drawings.• Production of placement guidelines, installation manuals, survey forms, exit docs, POs• Project control, monitoring and reporting • Budget and cost tracking including financial status reporting, milestone payments, penalties• Contract negotiations, SLA negotiations• Creation and issue of documentation (project progress reports, problem/change reports) • Introduction of project planning processes• Participation in project meetings with clients and vendors and giving presentations• Coordinated pilots and rollout for UniCredit Bank, Nordea Bank, OCBC Bank. Show less

Baltimore, Maryland Area

Worked specifically on the National Virtual Observatory (NVO) project organising the summer school events.•Event project planning, budget planning and monitoring•Constant communication and updates with responsible scientist•Venue research, selection criteria, recommendations report•Onsite day to day organisation and problem mitigation•Post event improvements report.

Gibraltar

Responsible for managing IT projects with new clients and building client relationships.• Capturing project requirements• Schedule creation and maintenance (task breakdown, time & resources planning)• Budget and cost tracking, project profitability reporting• Contract negotiation, invoicing and collection, procurement• Planning client acquisition events and Return on Investment (ROI) reporting• Introduction of business processes (Marketing, Sales, HR, Accounts).

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Mba

Four year distance learning course. Subjects followed were: Market Analysis, Financial Accounting, Organisational Behaviour, Quantitative.

B.Sc., Computer Science

Subjects: Computer Systems Design, Systems Design and Development, Data Organisation and Programming, Computing Environments, Business.