María Carolina Fernández

Docente Diplomado Vinculación con el Medio, Innovación y Territorio at Universidad San Sebastian
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Santiago, Santiago Metropolitan Region, Chile, CL
Languages
  • Español -
  • Inglés Full professional proficiency

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Marcus Gitau

Caro is well versed in the field of innovation management. She is able to form relationships with any team member and motivate them to bring the best out of themselves. Caro has a varied assortment of skills that she brings to the table which allows her to understand a problem from multiple perspectives. Her background in design paired together with her ability to understand systems thinking places her in an ideal position for leadership/mentoring roles especially in newly formed organisations/projects as she is able to configure her resources to achieve a specific goal.

Níckolas Laport Aldunate

I have known Carolina professionally for about 7 years, and during that period she has demonstrated to have an impeccable work ethic, standing out not only for the quality of her delivery but also for the ability to lead interdisciplinary teams in order to achieve objectives. I recommend Carolina without hesitation, not only to develop projects on high complexity and uncertainty context, but also to solve any kind of problem related to innovation, given the courage she has to approach, complex problems in difficult contexts.

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Credentials

  • Agile Project Management
    Google
    Apr, 2021
    - Oct, 2024
  • Brand Management: Aligning Business, Brand and Behaviour
    London Business School
    Apr, 2021
    - Oct, 2024
  • Data Science: R Basics
    HarvardX
    Mar, 2021
    - Oct, 2024
  • Semilla Inicia
    CORFO | Chilean Economic Development Agency
    Nov, 2020
    - Oct, 2024
  • Certification of the Educator Training Program for Entrepreneurship
    Wadhwani Foundation
    Aug, 2017
    - Oct, 2024
  • Microsoft Excel Certification
    World Trade Center Santiago
    Jun, 2017
    - Oct, 2024

Experience

    • Chile
    • Higher Education
    • 700 & Above Employee
    • Docente Diplomado Vinculación con el Medio, Innovación y Territorio
      • Jul 2022 - Present

    • Community and Organizational Engagement Director
      • Jun 2022 - Present

    • Head of Innovation & Development
      • Apr 2022 - Jun 2022

    • Innovation & Development Director
      • Jul 2021 - Apr 2022

      Novo USS National Director of the Innovation and Entrepreneurship Department.

    • Chile
    • Market Research
    • 1 - 100 Employee
    • Co-Founder | CEO
      • Oct 2020 - Present

      Skeemit | www.skeemit.com PaaS company that seeks to democratise access to cutting-edge knowledge delivering it through digital infographic format. • Business Development: Responsible for identifying new business opportunities – secured 2 clients in first 3 months. • Product Innovation Management: Conducting in-depth interviews with clients and key stakeholders to understand users’ needs and identify new products and services Skeemit can develop that are both technically and commercially viable. • Cross-functional Team Leadership: In charge of IT development and design interface team, including defining KPIs of the team to ensure timely progress of the product development. • Customer Experience Management: Trained teams of 20+ people on how to use Skeemit to make their research tasks more time-efficient. Achievements: • Secured Seed Capital Award od £15k from Chilean Economic Development Agency in 2020 • Invited to the #1 Mentor Network 2021 – Incuba UC Chile Show less

    • Chile
    • Professional Training and Coaching
    • 1 - 100 Employee
    • Service Designer
      • Jan 2021 - Aug 2021

      Innovation in Educational Leadership Centre, Santiago, Chile | www.ciled.udd.cl Led a team of 2 to design and develop the Technical Professional Leaders website, supported by the Ministry of Education of Chile. • Design Development: Conducted the diagnosis of the centre’s platform, identified areas for improvement visually and conceptually, including developing the design of the website and then building it on WordPress platform. • Project Management: Generated creative timeline, mapped out all key initiatives and deliverables for the development of the new platform and ensured the timely delivery of the project. • Client Management: Continuously evolving design processes and tools to adapt to the centre's and stakeholders needs, and effectively delivering operational improvements based on feedback. Achievements: • Selected to implement the highest budget project in the history of the University awarded by the Chilean Ministry of Education. Show less

    • Chile
    • Higher Education
    • 700 & Above Employee
    • Innovation and Design Consultancy
      • Oct 2020 - Jan 2021

      Designed and developed inspirational online content for online library, which consisted of 25 infographic cards to introduce various frameworks and tools to boost the implementation of innovation initiatives amongst more than 37,000 students and lectures. • User Analysis and Content Development: Researched users’ profiles and identified implementation obstacles and explored opportunities to reinforce the position of the innovation department of the university in the internal and national ecosystem. • Innovation Consulting: Brought a fresh perspective of innovation and user-centred methodologies and contributed to creating great user experiences by implementing the strategy of the project supporting the strategy for the execution, including diffusion plan. Achievements: • The platform attracted 270 entrepreneurship partnerships, 2,500 downloads and 20,000 views in 3 months. Show less

    • E-Learning Providers
    • Co-Founder | Stakeholders Experience and Design
      • Oct 2019 - Oct 2020

      PaaS company aimed to connect senior citizens from the UK with potential international students who wanted to study in the UK and look for reliable information. In charge of senior’s support and platform management, ensuring a good experience delivering an outstanding service. Working in collaboration with different UK charities in order to identify user’s needs, developing customer success strategies that addressed customer churn, increasing consumer participation and thus renewal. PaaS company aimed to connect senior citizens from the UK with potential international students who wanted to study in the UK and look for reliable information. In charge of senior’s support and platform management, ensuring a good experience delivering an outstanding service. Working in collaboration with different UK charities in order to identify user’s needs, developing customer success strategies that addressed customer churn, increasing consumer participation and thus renewal.

    • Chile
    • Education Administration Programs
    • 700 & Above Employee
    • Innovation Project Manager - Semana i
      • Jul 2016 - Aug 2019

      Development and Innovation Department, Universidad Del Desarrollo, Santiago, Chile Managed large-scale initiatives, such as innovation incubator and innovation accelerator programme to boost innovation amongst undergraduate and postgraduate students, researchers, and other staff from other departments. • “Semana i" - interdisciplinary innovation programme• Project Management: Developed and managed the interdisciplinary innovation programme “Semana i” enabling students to get work experience and boost their employability, which included managing end-to-end project life cycle, budget, and team management. • Project Assessment: Performed data analysis, monitored, measured the impact of the programme and communicated the potential risks or improvement opportunities to senior management. • Cross-functional Team Management: Partnered with and managed creative teams, internal partners and external agencies and led a team of 12 to establish B2B and B2G strategic partnerships, including setting objectives and tasks and managing workstreams. • Stakeholder Management: In charge of internal teams (30+ people) to implement a cross-functional strategy, defining roles and responsibilities between stakeholders and internal collaborators.Achievements: • Increased stakeholder participation from 10 in 2016 to 300 in 2019• Increased the number of participants from 800 in 2016 to 10,000 in 2019.• Nominated for the “Most Innovative Programme Award” in 2019 by Avonni Chile. Show less

    • Innovation Project Manager - E&I Ecosystem
      • Jul 2016 - 2019

      • Project Management: Implemented the E&I ecosystem strategy, including identifying gaps in business, defining project goals, success criteria, scope, and detailed plans promoting collaboration instances between departments in order to boost innovation.• Partnership Collaboration: Responsible for articulating and implementing interdisciplinary and cross-functional projects with the internal network and international ecosystem, including coordinating events with national and international audiences and driving strategic projects to increase international impact to position the university as an influential actor.• Team Management: Guided team’s operations, coordinated and delivered impactful analyses and recommendations to identify and solve significant portfolio and team performance challenges to ensure projects were delivered to quality standards.Achievements: • Achieved more than 30 collaborations between internal departments. • Increased the University’s impact, being ranked #2 in Entrepreneurship & Innovation in Chile in 2019.• The Entrepreneurship & Innovation strategy was recognised as a key transformational initiative by the University’s leaders. Show less

    • Lecturer in Brand Development
      • Jul 2016 - 2019

    • Chile
    • Design Services
    • 1 - 100 Employee
    • Art Director
      • Dec 2015 - Aug 2016

    • Chile
    • Advertising Services
    • 100 - 200 Employee
    • Junior Art Director
      • Jun 2014 - Dec 2014

Education

  • SPRU - Science Policy Research Unit
    Master in Science, Strategic Innovation Management MSc
    2019 - 2020
  • Universidad del Desarrollo
    Certification, Interdisciplinary Innovation Management - dLab Programme
    2015 - 2015
  • Universidad del Desarrollo
    Bachelor of Arts - BA, Graphic Design & Innovation
    2009 - 2014
  • Colegio Santa Úrsula de Vitacura
    1996 - 2008

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