Experience

Scala Developer

• United Kingdom
• IT Services and IT Consulting
• 100 - 200 Employee

• Senior Organizational Learning & Evaluation Consultant

  • Mar 2009 - Present

  Provide evaluation and organizational learning consulting services to research projects aiming at influencing public policies for reducing social inequalities. Main tasks: • Evaluate international research projects and facilitate organizational learning processes. • Provide strategic advice to organizations involved in international development research. • Document learning and maintain online knowledge bases. Organizations I have provided consulting services to: • International Development Research Centre (Ottawa). • Munk School of Global Affairs (University of Toronto). • Dalla Lana School of Public Health (University of Toronto). • Universidad Nacional de San Martin (Buenos Aires). • Universidad EAFIT (Medellin). • Inter American Institute for Cooperation on Agriculture (Guatemala). • Law Society of Ontario (Toronto). • Organization of American States (Montevideo). • New Economy Development Group (Ottawa). Show less



Concordia University

• Canada
• Higher Education
• 700 & Above Employee

• Officer - International Projects

  • Mar 2021 - Apr 2022

  To lead or support projects that contribute to the positioning of Concordia University internationally. To lead or support projects that contribute to the positioning of Concordia University internationally.



Nutreco Canada

• Food and Beverage Manufacturing
• 100 - 200 Employee

• Business Systems Analyst

  • Feb 2005 - Oct 2008

  • Work with internal business partners for collecting and analyzing business requirements and system enhancements. • Produce detailed functional specifications documentation for internal business partners and development teams. • Participate in the review or technical design specifications to support the development process based on Standard Development Life Cycle (SDLC) methodologies. • Demonstrate effective project management skills. For instance, led team efforts to: ► Conceptualize, design and deploy Perfo-Beef® – a proprietary software that allows beef producers to optimize profits through highly sophisticated predictive models. ► Develop a complex solution for automated medicated-feed tags requiring regulated claims, which was purchased by major software vendor to implement across Canada. • Facilitate implementation of new software among territory managers and salespeople. Show less



Maple Leaf Foods Inc

• Canada
• Food and Beverage Manufacturing
• 700 & Above Employee

• Quality Assurance Analyst

  • Feb 2002 - Feb 2005

  • Manage quality assurance processes from inception to post-implementation using Standard Development Life Cycle (SDLC) and Six-Sigma methodologies.• Plan, develop and implement testing strategies and procedures for web-based software, including functional, regression and acceptance testing.• Successfully pioneered the implementation of automated load testing in the company using Load Runner. • Make recommendations for improvements or modifications to applications based on findings to ensure the highest software quality.• Submit reports to managers for release sign-off.• Keep track of bugs (identification, fixes and release) using software similar to JIRA.• Train other testers on how to follow test scripts and report results.• Tested and helped deploy Workbench®, one of the first .NET applications in Canada and one of the most advanced animal nutrition platforms in the world. Show less

• Helpdesk Support Specialist

  • Mar 2000 - Feb 2002

  • Set-up and ran a bilingual (English/French) helpdesk for providing technical support of proprietary software that aimed at transferring the latest technologies from R&D team into the salesforce of the company. • Prepared training material and deliver training sessions to software users.• Helped the R&D team understand user needs and troubleshoot a wide variety of issues. • Contributed to software testing. • Translated software – user interface captions and databases.



Independent agricultural consultant

• Colombia

• Independent agriculural consultant

  • Mar 1994 - Dec 1999

  Provided consulting services to beef and dairy farmers in Colombia. Provided consulting services to beef and dairy farmers in Colombia.