Work Experience:

Spanish Instructor. CUSLAR-Cornell University. Ithaca, NY.
Teaching Spanish classes to Cornell students and the Tompkins county community.

Translator. Franzeska Racker Center. Ithaca, NY.
Serving as translator between psychologist, speech pathologist and Hispanic
families of children with disabilities within the early intervention program.

Web Master. The Latin American Book Store, Ltd. Ithaca, NY.
Designing and updating, company’s web site. Researching new publications. Acquisitions, entering book’s bibliography and description, shelving, stocking and developing data base structures.

Cable Access Provider, PEGASYS- Time Warner Cable. Ithaca, NY
Serving community members by providing training in public access television courses, community’s outreach and public relations person, documentary class instructor, producer of various local documentaries, programming, playback, and broadcasting tasks, 
equipment maintenance and repairing. Designing of promotional material, graphics and posters, organizer of various public events and developing data base structures.

Video Instructor. Ithaca Youth Bureau. Ithaca, NY
Teaching video production classes to youth enrolled in the summer camp. 

Technical Assistant. Media Services at SUNY at Cortland College.
Assisting in the installation of the long distance education system and portable media teaching assistant units. Maintaining and repairing media related equipment.

Producer.  Promotional video for career services SUNY at Cortland College.

Producer. Promotional video documentary for Cortland College study abroad program in Merida, Venezuela.

Organizer and Promoter. First Latin American film festival at the State University of New York at Cortland College.

Disk Jockey. W.S.U.C. 90.5 “Latin Issues” a weekly show reviewing Latin America news events and the latest hits in the Latin music chart.

Set Designer. Set designing and decoration for soap operas (Promec Television and R.C.N. Television, Bogotá-Colombia)

Voluntary work
Web Master for the Latino Civic Association of Tompkins County.
Web Master & Events Organizer for the Colombian Students Association at Cornell University.
Story telling. “Hora del cuento” in Tompkins County Public Library
 

Computer Skills
Proficiency with Photoshop 6.0, Paint Shop Pro 7, Adobe Page Maker, Adobe File Maker, Macro Mind Director, Excell, Power Point, dBase, Lotus 1,2,3; HTML developing, Web Page design, Eudora, FTP, Media 100, Adobe Premier 6.0, Final Cut, Inscriber CG, Scala CG, Amiga 3000. Familiarity with Flash, Illustrator, Boris FX.
Skilled with a wide variety of video, audio, and testing equipment. Worked with formats that include; BetaSP, DVCAM, MiniDV, SVHS, and Umatic
 

Awards:
PEGASYS Award, Best Professional Program.
North East Regional Video Festival: First Prize Professional Documentary.
Recognition for Outstanding Achievement in Media Law & Ethics.
Recognition for Outstanding Achievement in video production.
Recognition for Outstanding Achievement in Television production.
Recognition for Outstanding Service to CSTV. Cortland College.
Recipient of the Cy Koch Memorial Award
Nominated Outstanding Student Leader by the Student Leadership Committee.
Awarded Cortland Minority Honors Scholarship.

Languages
Spanish. English and proficient in Portuguese.

Extensive knowledge of the world through traveling.