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Knowledge and Learning Management Specialist with more than fifteen years of experience promoting in person and online knowledge, developing training and workshops and disseminating lessons learned in developing countries. Successful international project coordination and implementation for more than ten years with the IADB and other Multilateral Investment Banks. Master’s degree in Environmental Engineering. Fluent in Spanish, English, and Portuguese with intermediate-level proficiency in French. Overall, a well-rounded professional that can bring action and be successful from the start.

• Orchestrating, facilitating, and promoting international events, awareness campaigns, e-learning, outreach activities, presentations, and workshops staying within or under budget. Evaluation of events was “excellent experience: great organization, top speakers.”

• Extracting lessons learned from project experience and using the results to develop knowledge management products.

• Administering tools, methodologies, and instruments to collect and assess information, indicators and performance standards to monitor project targets and compliance.

• Transforming lessons and experience from WB activities into high quality, evidence-led information, peer-reviewed science, and knowledge products.

• Preparing various written outputs (draft background papers, analysis, sections of reports and studies, and inputs to publications).

• Troubleshooting, analyzing, and resolving emerging issues by collaborating with staff in field offices and team leaders at headquarters through missions, technical reports, and workshops.

• Managing the production and dissemination of high quality and evidence-based materials in a variety of formats (flyers, articles, reports, brochures, and online and video outputs).

• Implementing efficient reporting and editorial control systems (e.g. peer review, workflow management, web analytics and metrics).

• Fostering cooperation between experts, stakeholders and counterparts by coordinating and delivering learning activities, reviewing evaluations, and fine-tuning accordingly.

• Promoting expert-led webinars to allow stakeholders in remote locations to access state-of-the-art knowledge and technology.

• Maintaining relationships with staff of other international and regional organizations by working collaboratively on relevant issues.

• Disseminating Bank’s work product by promoting and leveraging cross-support activities and boosting South-South cooperation through conferences, workshops, and field technical visits.

• Leading projects and providing technical assistance products including capacity building, sector reports, and partnership development for clients ranging from rural beneficiaries to governmental agencies.

• Ensuring timely submission and compliance with program and donor reporting requirements by reviewing, documenting, and assessing quality of periodic, annual, and end-of-activity reports.

• Encouraging communication within the team, ensuring all necessary information is available and up-to-date, and improving project coordination by championing cloud based sharing systems.

• Identifying unique and successful projects, and developing case studies for knowledge sharing.

• Developing, tracking, and monitoring budgets, procurement, and consultant contracts.

Working closely with technical team leaders in field offices and at headquarters to implement complex programs meeting deliverables under tight deadlines and limited budgets.

 

Knowledge Management. Environmental and Water Specialist. Counsultant
The World Bank Group. Latin America and Caribbean Region
2010-present
Languages

Spanish Native

English Fluent

French Advanced
Portuguese Advanced

Technical skills

MsOffice, AutoCAD, Arquimedes, HEC-RAS, Presto, Project, Lotus notes, Mat-Lab, and Chac

GIS: ArcView, ERDAS imagine.

Resume

Work

experience
 

Water Resources and Irrigation Project Manager. Agriculture Engineer. Knowledge Management
Water Resources and Irrigation Project Manager. Agriculture Engineer. Knowledge Management
Water Resources and Irrigation Project Manager. Agriculture Engineer. Knowledge Management
Water Resources and Irrigation Project Manager. Agriculture Engineer. Knowledge Management

Professional 

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Syngenta Agro S.A. (Spanish Branch of multi-national Agrochemical company). Regulatory Manager. Madrid, Spain
2009-2010
  • Reduced new employee training needs by building a new cataloguing system for products and by writing a short welcome manual covering registration procedures.

  • Met tight deadline for the re-registration of pesticides whose active matter approved under newer and stricter legislation (EU directive 91/414/CEE).

  • Liaised between the company and regulatory agencies, solving technical requests and consultations on firm products, by compiling technical reports from diverse research data.

  • Registered compounds in the European biocide database (R4BP) by setting and monitoring timelines for license modifications and renewal approvals.

PLANASA (Plantas de Navarra SA); Nursery/developer of plant varieties. Licensing and Variety Development Manager. Madrid, Spain
2005-2009
Water Resources and Irrigation Project Manager. Agriculture Engineer. Knowledge Management

Knowledge and learning Specialist. Online Course Coordinator

Inter American Development Bank. November 2016-present
  • Designing a Knowledge Management and Capacity Building Strategy by incorporating analysis and findings from specialists and in-house workshops.

  • Coordinating the design, development and implementation of online courses by selecting participants, identifying monitors, hiring suitable instructors, and coordinating with the KNL team.

  • Delivering quality knowledge products by applying universally accepted standards to capacity building.

  • Identifying knowledge and skills gaps within clients to propose training programs.

  • Supporting the creation of virtual communities of practice and managing the design and planning of the content delivered in coordination with field experts.

  • Providing technical support to Subject Matter Experts regarding the development of online courses.

  • Promoting courses delivered by writing case studies and blogs and through direct mailing.

  • Continuously improving courses delivered by applying curse participants’ and tutor’s suggestions.

 

  • Oversaw the marketing, communications, and advertising strategy for key products, by monitoring its impact and adjusting overall strategy as needed.

  • Strengthened company’s reputation and increased its visibility by publishing regularly in industry journals with new and improved marketing strategy.

  • Maintained company’s client database and help in the distribution effort of knowledge products.

  • Pioneered the opening of a local branch in Chile, which resulted in a continued and thriving investment.

  • Organized local and international professional trade fairs and events.

  • Co-designed and implemented communication products, by providing visual and written content for corporate advertising, product development and marketing (web sites, pamphlets, media articles, blogs).

KPMG, Global Sustainability Services; Consulting Firm. Environmental Specialist. Madrid, Spain
2004-2005

• Wrote annual Corporate Social Responsibility Reports for several client companies (BBVA-bank, Repsol-petrochemical).
• Compiled climate change related projects (GHG Emission Reduction Projects and Clean Development Mechanism under the Kyoto Protocol Context) in Brazil to be approved and financed by the European Union (Endesa-petrochemical).
• Analyzed environmental management and carry out audits for due diligence (Panrico-food industry).
• Compiled Environmental Management Plans according to international standard ISO 14.001/EMAS (Transportave-auto transport) and performed internal audits of the Environmental Management System.
• Advised clients on environmental performance indicators, including complying with law requirements and quantifying GHG emissions.

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