Experience

Treo
• Mexico
• Financial Services
• 1 - 100 Employee
• Chief Operating Officer

  • Sep 2022 - Present


De Dominio Público

• Mexico
• Civic and Social Organizations

• Co-founder

  • Aug 2021 - Jul 2022

  — Took a work sabbatical to travel and co-found De Dominio Publico, an NGO focused on using illustration and behavioral economics to raise awareness and promote civic actions to help achieve the United Nations Millennium Development Goals. — Produced 23 digital stories, with 23 different illustrators. Responsible for identifying illustrators, defining and researching topics, and drafting the content. — Took a work sabbatical to travel and co-found De Dominio Publico, an NGO focused on using illustration and behavioral economics to raise awareness and promote civic actions to help achieve the United Nations Millennium Development Goals. — Produced 23 digital stories, with 23 different illustrators. Responsible for identifying illustrators, defining and researching topics, and drafting the content.



Códice

• Portugal
• Blockchain Services
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Research and Analysis Director (Founding Team Member)

  • Mar 2019 - Jul 2021

  — Collaborated on the conception of CODICE, an NGO that produces more engaging, creative, and simplified digital communication of Mexico´s public policy issues to promote the involvement of a wider audience in the debate. — Created an analytics regression model to evaluate the social media performance of posts, which helped increase the organization’s follower base across social media platforms from 3,000 at baseline to over 90,000. — Produced over 200 infographics, 40 articles, and 7 in-depth analyses on public policy topics in Mexico (rule of law, health, education, productivity, and inequality) — Oversight of the entire process of content production, from topic selection and research to illustration and communication.



International Innovation Corps

• United States
• Non-profit Organization Management
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Project Team Lead

  • Jul 2016 - Oct 2018

  — Provided technical support for the National Ministry of Power to create a monitoring model and an implementation strategy for Saubhagya, a project that brought electricity connections to over 40 million Indian households. — Redesigned an interactive dashboard for internal and public use to monitor the progress of electrification goals. The dashboard merged all of the information reported from states and field officers to identify discrepancies and bottlenecks. — Along with the Government of the State of Telangana, analyzed qualitative and quantitative data to create a participatory irrigation management scheme for Mission Kakatiya, a USD $3 billion project that restored 47,000 water tanks to raise incomes for 15 million farmers. — Used human-centered design (HCD) to simplify and organize the responsibilities and activities performed by water associations (WUAs) to ensure feasibility and sustainability, reducing them from over 87 at baseline to only 7. — Managed an international and interdisciplinary consulting team of five staff with a background in law, economics, and computer science in projects focused on improving government efficiency at the local and national levels. — Supervised project scoping, design, fieldwork research, and implementation; Led communication with high-level government officials, funders, and academic experts.



City of Chicago, Department of Innovation and Technology

• Fellow

  • Jul 2015 - Jun 2016

  — Worked directly under Chicago’s Commissioner and Chief Innovation Officer Brenna Berman on designing and implementing an Internet of Things (IoT) initiative and public-private partnership that used interactive modular sensor boxes to collect real-time data about the city’s environment for research and public use. — Designed the project’s privacy and governance policy, organized and participated in public feedback meetings, drafted mayoral briefings and project overviews, and constructed high-quality communication materials for an international workshop. — Through strategic partnerships, the initiative successfully launched and installed the first 50 nodes in the city.



Mexican Institute for Competitiveness (Instituto Mexicano para la Competividad, IMCO)

• Senior Researcher

  • Nov 2011 - Aug 2014

  — Team-leader of a Microsoft-funded project that holistically analyzed the entrepreneurial ecosystem for ICT business in Mexico and designed mechanisms (via public policy reform) to boost innovation. — Team-leader of a Microsoft-funded project that estimated the impact and trends (by year 2025) of Information and Communications Technology (ICT) in the Mexican economy from the perspective of the government, citizen and enterprise. — In collaboration with the World Wildlife Fund, led the design of a policy roadmap and associated developmental initiatives to promote clean technology entrepreneurs in Mexico. - Participated in the development of a model law on public procurement. Focused on the use of technology to increase transparency, efficiency and accountability of Mexican states. The state of Nuevo Leon adopted the law. • Responsibilities included: Managed a group of three junior researchers and coordinated research with external specialists, interacted with government leaders and funders, prepared grant applications, organized research findings and statistical analysis into formal presentation



Comisión Federal de Competencia Económica (COFECE), Federal Competition Commission

• Research Assistant

  • Jul 2010 - Oct 2010

  — Participated in an OECD sponsored project that analyzed the Mexican pharmaceutical market — Contributed to an analysis that was ultimately responsible for approving a merger between two Polyvinyl chloride manufacturers in Mexico — Participated in an OECD sponsored project that analyzed the Mexican pharmaceutical market — Contributed to an analysis that was ultimately responsible for approving a merger between two Polyvinyl chloride manufacturers in Mexico



National Center for the Evaluation of Education (CENEVAL)

• Intern

  • Jun 2009 - Sep 2009

  — Coordinated exam applications around Mexico — Supervised deadlines and the grading process — Coordinated exam applications around Mexico — Supervised deadlines and the grading process


Mexican Soccer Federation (Federacion Mexicana de Futbol Asociación)
• Intern

  • Jun 2008 - Sep 2008