A short sketch of my profesional career:
My current work at Boston University
I currently facilitate the online courses AD 648 Introduction to eCommerce with Prof. Kip Becker, and AD 737 with Prof. Vijay Kanabar and Avanti Pandit at Boston University. I help as online teacher assitant / facilitator since 2007.
My studies and first career steps!
In 1985 I graduated as Industrial Engineer from Instituto Tecnologico de Buenos Aires ITBA, completing a 6 year academic program. I was one of the 9 best students in of the about 200 that graduated that year.
I started working in 1986 for a railway company, Materfer, (ex FIAT) and then in a Textile Industry called Textil San Marco. I managed industrial engineering, production support systems (Gerber AM-5), and production planning and control for 8 years. The company had about 300 employees.
First great success:
Top results were the design and implementation of manufacturing cells so that the different parts of each garments were sewn together in the shortest possible time. With an equal number of machines and personnel, production rates went from 200 garments per day to 800 – 900 garments per day three months after the roll-out of the new production method that we co-designed with the employees. Production rates topped to 1000 garments on favourable days! This 500 % of production improvement changed how the whole company worked. In 1986 had only a faint theoretical knowledge of these manufacturing techniques that are now widespread, which gives this achievement a special significance.
What illness taught me 🙂
In 88 I suffered a severe illness, and went through a bone marrow transplant. I was unable to walk from 1990 till 1999, and rehab still continues in 2013. The need for personal change has helped me coach people needing to solve the issues that I had to cope with.
How I recovered!
In 1995 I started working at ITBA’s Alumni Association, first as Secretary, and then as Director de Asuntos Laborales, and I created and developed human resource services for leading companies in Buenos Aries, Argentina. I also developed Career Planning Workshops for ITBA’s graduates in 2001 and later for students in 2005.
With the human resource experience that I developed in more than 10 years helping ITBA graduates with career related issues, in 2007 I presented an original working paper: The Career Simulator in a workshop format at 2007 System Dynamics Conference at Boston.
The goal of this 2005 working paper was to teach engineering students at ITBA the systemic structure of career success. Engineering students typically love mathematics and a system dynamics model with more than 100 equations seemed the right thing to do!
The Career Planning workshops were a great success, I was interviewed by local newspapers, for example: “Career Planning Tools” an interview published in the local leading newspaper called “La Nacion” (The Nation, in Spanish). More than 20 % of ITBA graduates participated in these Networking and Career Planning Workshops, in the 2001 till 2008 period.
Human Resources consulting services in Buenos Aires, Argentina:
In 1998 I learnt to search and select engineering professionals for companies at Buenos Aires, Argentina. I had to develop, market, sell and deliver executive search services to companies who wanted top engineering talent. ITBA is very well known and highly respected in Argentina and its professionals are highly sought after.
From 1998 till now I have worked with more than 70 local and multinational enterprises in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Work in current website:
In 2004 I started a website, but had trouble with the programmers and artists. So in 2007 I started building myself my new website about the consulting services that I offer coding it myself in html in Kompozer, an open source web authoring tool. I could not use dreamweaver because I had no access to this software. Today I am planning to migrate the site to html 5 and css 3 for a responsive design allowing the site to be easily browsed in smartphones. I also included a Spanish wordpress blog for which I plan to add bilingual capacity to make my blog English – Spanish.
I will update this page with more information!
Now I am working on several ecommerce projects:
These three websites need urgent improvement, and I am working on it!!!! My apologies.
Climate Change Awareness at ITBA, Buenos Aires.
I currently lead a team of 9 ITBA students that help creating climate change awareness in Buenos Aires. Climate Interactive has recently designated me its “Ambassador” in Buenos Aires.
In December 2012 we participated in X Latam System Dynamics Congress, I heard a keynote presentation by Professor John Sterman, stating that the IPCC had confirmed that global warming is happening, and he showed using the C-ROADS simulatar the urgency to reduce GHG emissions to reduce climate change.
Since 2013 I have organized and facilitated more than 30 World Climate Exercise workshops and together with Fabian Szulanski and Claudia Castro Kuriss we are writing an article for the Simulation & Gaming peer reviewed journal.
Here are more details of the story in Climate Interactive’s blog
Participating in the Paris, France, COP 21 Climate Change UN Conference:
ITBA’s student center proposed to ITBA’s authorities sending a student and a professor to the COP21 Paris climate conference, and sent student Marco Ordonez and me. We met the Climate Interactive team and they suggested that we participate in the MIT Climate Colab competition.
Building the Kiri Team and Winning the Industry category in the MIT Climate Colab Category:
We wrote a proposal for the MIT Climate Colab competition and won the MIT Climate Colab competition in the Industry category.
Here is a link to our proposal in the climatecolab.org page:
http://climatecolab.org/plans/-/plans/contests/2016/industry/c/proposal/1329804
In the following link are more details of the story:
https://www.climateinteractive.org/blog/world-climate-simulation-sparks-a-climate-solution-win/
We were received by Argentina’s Minister of the Environment, Sergio Bergman:
Meeting the Argentine Minister of the Environment Sergio Bergman
We also met the Argentine President Mauricio Macri
ITBA Kiri Team meets the Argentine President Mauricio Macri
