Experience

February 2011 to Date

Intel Components from Costa Rica

Systems Analyst for Finance Information Services: Gather requirements and analyze solutions for Finance customers to improve business processes and systems performance and functionality.

 

January 2006 to January 2011

Intel Components from Costa Rica

Instructional Designer and Training Project Lead: Design, develop and implement training strategies to educate Intel employees on IT systems. Coordinate team of training developers and instructional designers to execute, implement, and evaluate training strategy.

September 2004 to December 2005

Universidad Nacional

Professor and Researcher at the Master’s Program in Technology and Education.

Courses Taught include: Educational Software Production (with Macromedia Director), Internet Programming (with Macromedia Flash) and Internet’s Applications for Education (with Macromedia Dreamweaver and Fireworks).

 

April to August, 2004

Universidad Nacional

Local Coordination of the “First International Power Users of ICT Symposium” in conjunction with the Education Development Center. Chores included mediating communication among Costa Rican and international partners, organizing trips and transportation, recruitment and management of volunteers and procuring goods and services.

 

January to April, 2004

Universidad Nacional

Develop educational Website on Costa Rican Coral Reefs to teach middle school children the importance of preserving coral reefs and the marine environments.

 

August 2003 to April 2004

Florida State University

Instructor for the course Desktop Multimedia at undergraduate level. This course included web design, brochure design and photo editing.

 

June to July, 2003

Universidad Nacional

Design of the School of Biology’s Web site.
http://www.una.ac.cr/biol

 

January to April 2003

Florida State University

Research Assistant for Dr. Caroline Picart. Tasks included: Webmaster and administrator of her websites and online courses, web design of new courses (Women in Literature) and creating an online manual for her assistants. http://english3.fsu.edu/~kpicart/womeninliterature

 

September 2000 to April 2002

CR Page

Web and graphic designer. Website design production and maintenance. Design of logos, web banners, magazine advertisement and online booklets.

 

 

Education

August 2002 to April 2004

Florida State University

Masters Degree in Interactive and New Communication Technologies. This program focuses on strategic communication, digital-content development, training, information access and research. Also understanding the theory and processes, which involve interactive communication, especially in relation to the application of digital media, technologies in organizational, educational and marketing communication contexts.

 

April to July 2001

Universidad Nacional

Basic and Advanced courses on Visual Basic 6.0

 

March  1999  to April  2000

Instituto Británico

Advanced English certificate.

 

August to November 1999

Universidad de Costa Rica

• Newspaper design workshop
• Digital Graphic Design workshop

 

March, 1999

Universidad de Costa Rica

Bachelors Degree in Communication. Cum Laude.

This program covered a wide range of communication areas including Public Relations, Journalism, Multimedia Production and Advertising.

 

 

Skills

• Blackboard, Dokeos and SABA: for Virtual Learning.
• MS Office: Word, Excel, Power Point, Visio and Access.
• PhotoImpact, Fireworks and Photoshop: for photo editing and Web design.
• HTML 4, Dreamweaver, Flash, and CSS: for Web design
• Conventional and Digital photography