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Houston, Texas Area And San Jose/Escazu, Costa Rica

• Designing Latin America’s first major national real estate database soon to be implemented to assist national property registries, real estate agents, and domestic and international real estate markets.• Creating a complex and in-depth architecture design for programmers to transfer into code requiring two dashboard controls to manage database.• Coordinating and managing the SQL database programmers and web site developers.• Assisting in the Beta testing of the comprehensive database.• Directing and Implementing marketing and sales strategies.

Houston, Texas Area

• Applied Benefit Cost Analysis, Environmental & Historic Preservation Compliance, Residential Coastal Construction, Retrofitting Flood Prone Structures, NFIP, and Floodplain oversight to assist in the rebuilding of coastal Louisiana and preparation of FEMA 404 Hazard Mitigation Grants.• Wrote $5,730,000 of FEMA Disaster Grants to assist flood and hurricane damaged communities throughout the United States.• Provided engineering damage analysis and sub-grantee applications for funding for reconstruction of state, county, and municipal roads and facilites for five natural disasters.• Assisted in the implementation of safety and mitigation measures in Louisiana after Hurricane Katrina and in Texas after Hurricane Ike to help mitigate future flooding and coastal erosion.• Provided area planning for security, safety, and coordination of emergency housing sites for Hurricane Katrina evacuees in Louisiana.• Assisted the State of Louisiana in the planning and funding of the FEMA Hazard Mitigation Grant Program for the State’s Road Home Program.

Houston, Texas Area

Developed management control systems to aid in financial planning and cost analysis, improved production planning, and implemented project management to coordinate activities and improve quality control. Improved distribution systems of goods and services.• Implemented Project Management, Job Costing, Time Tracking, and Inventory Control to maximize production.• Initiated cost savings procedures saving the company $524,000 annually.• Designed marketing program opening up new industrial market segments.

Bachelor Of Science (B.S.), Industrial And Systems Engineering

Minor in Civil Engineer.

Education record