Ecologist

• Jun 2021 - Present

Research Assistant

• Dec 2020 - Present

• Obtained excellent animal husbandry experience taking care of adult, juvenile, and hatchling reptiles.• Developed effective team and leadership skills through the coordination and supervision of fieldwork trips for snake surveys and a wide array of research projects.• Demonstrated attention to detail when seeking, capturing, and handling different fauna species on the field, including several venomous snake species.• Exhibited outstanding accuracy sampling tissues and pit tagging snakes for mark-recapture long-term study.• Efficiently and precisely managed fieldwork costs and budget.• Elaborated risk assessments for fieldwork procedures.• Exploited and cultivated leadership and management abilities training and leading fieldwork personnel and volunteers.

Research Assistant

• Aug 2020 - Dec 2020

• Obtained excellent animal husbandry experience taking care of adult, juvenile, and hatchling reptiles.• Developed effective team and leadership skills through the coordination and supervision of fieldwork trips for snake surveys and a wide array of research projects.• Demonstrated attention to detail when seeking, capturing, and handling different fauna species on the field, including several venomous snake species.• Exhibited outstanding accuracy sampling tissues and pit tagging snakes for mark-recapture long-term study.• Efficiently and precisely managed fieldwork costs and budget.• Elaborated risk assessments for fieldwork procedures.• Exploited and cultivated leadership and management abilities training and leading fieldwork personnel and volunteers.

Research assistant

• Jan 2020 - Apr 2020

Developed effective team and leadership skills through the coordination and supervision of fieldwork trips for lizard sampling. • Demonstrated attention to detail when seeking, capturing, and handling different fauna species on field. • Provided high standard of organization and analysis collecting data for doctorate research projects. • Proved strong and immediate accuracy identifying reptiles on field. • Exploited and cultivated leadership and management abilities training and leading fieldwork personnel and volunteers. • Efficiently and precisely managed fieldwork costs and budget.

Research assistant – Environmental Science

• Sep 2019 - Mar 2020

• Obtained excellent animal husbandry experience taking care of adult, juvenile and hatchling reptiles. • Developed effective team and leadership skills through the coordination and supervision of fieldwork trips for snake surveys and a wide array of research projects. • Demonstrated attention to detail when seeking, capturing, and handling different fauna species on field, including several venomous snake species. • Exhibited outstanding accuracy sampling tissues and pit tagging snakes for mark-recapture longterm study. • Efficiently and precisely managed fieldwork costs and budget. • Elaborate risk assessments for fieldwork procedures. • Exploited and cultivated leadership and management abilities training and leading fieldwork personnel and volunteers.

Casual Peer tutor

• Oct 2017 - May 2018

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Environmental Assessments Manager – Biologist

• Sep 2015 - Aug 2017

Developed effective team and leadership skills through the coordination and supervision of fieldwork trips for the biodiversity component of environmental assessments for several engineering projects. • I was part of an interdisciplinary team that developed 5 river basin management plans (POMCA for its initials in Spanish) for the environmental authority of Eastern Antioquia, Colombia. • For the POMCA’s, I participated on the assessment of the environmental state of the river basins in terms of fauna and flora. • Throughout the POMCA I assisted the social workers team coordinating the meetings with stakeholders, local councils, and environmental authorities. • Efficiently and precisely planned and managed costs and budget for environmental assessments. • Demonstrated attention to detail when seeking, capturing, and handling different fauna species on field, including several venomous snake species, poison frogs and mammals. • Exhibited organizational skills coordinating the elaboration of environmental assessments reports and fulfill the lawful requirements for the engineering projects.

Environmental Assessments Herpetologist

• May 2015 - Jun 2015

Demonstrated attention to detail when seeking, capturing, and handling different fauna species on field, including several venomous snake species, poison frogs and mammals. • Proved strong and immediate accuracy with on-site taxonomic determination for herptiles. • Exhibited organizational skills coordinating the elaboration of environmental assessments reports and fulfill the lawful requirements for the engineering projects. • Calculated diversity indexes for the different land covers impacted by the engineering project.

Research Assistant

• Jun 2014 - Nov 2014

• Gained valuable experience participating on the project “Inputs for the strategic ecosystems delimitation: alpine forests and wetlands, Antioquia, Colombia” as a member of the biodiversity team. • Demonstrated attention to detail when seeking, capturing, and handling different fauna species on field, including several venomous snake species, poison frogs and mammals. • Efficiently and precisely planned and managed costs and budget for numerous field trips. • Obtained excellent animal husbandry and tissue sampling experience working with various taxa. • Applied gained knowledge making genetic analyses for phylogeographic studies.

Research Assistant

• Jun 2012 - Jun 2013

Gained valuable experience participating on the project “Colombian endemic terrestrial vertebrates monitoring in ISAGEN’s hydroelectric centrals influence area, in Eastern Antioquia, Colombia” as a herpetologist. • Demonstrated attention to detail when seeking, capturing, and handling different fauna species on field, including several venomous snake species, poison frogs and mammals. • Exhibited organizational skills coordinating the elaboration of environmental assessments reports for ISAGEN, the second largest national energy company from Colombia. • Calculated diversity indexes for the different land covers present on the hydroelectric centrals. • Throughout the project, I monitored three populations of three different species of frogs, doing mark – recapture studies. • Obtained excellent animal husbandry and tissue sampling experience working with various taxa. • Applied gained knowledge making genetic analyses for phylogeographic studies.