Professional experience

May 01 – Present   Servicios Consulares                                                   Weston, FL
President / Owner

Sept. 94 – May 01    Venezuelan General Consulate                                 Miami, FL

Administrator / Manager of Information Systems

1.       Full responsibility for all financial, administrative, and personnel issues of the diplomatic mission.

2.       Planned, designed and implemented a relational database environment to support all activities of the consulate, including administrative functions, passports, visas and legalization of documents. This allowed the office to process the workload in faster thus increasing productivity by 300%.

3.     Designed, developed and maintained the Consulate’s web page (my version, not longer in use) (http://www.consuve.com) using various development tools & languages such as HTML and Java for delivery over a variety of browsers such as Microsoft Internet Explorer and Netscape Navigator. The web site is visited on an average of 1200unique hits per week, allowing the user to search for information and print the different application forms.

4.       Installed and troubleshooted Operating System and Applications Software for PC’s, and Windows NT 4 Server. Install, diagnose and repair and/or reconfigure PC’s, Servers and Network Hardware.

Jul. 89 – Sept. 94     Fitness & Nutrition Center, Inc.                   Pompano Bch, FL

Accounts Payable/Receivables Manager / System Manager

1.       Responsible for all the accounts payable and receivables of the company.

2.       Created and maintained the company’s customer database.

3.       In charge of the computer network.

4.       Responsible for acquiring computer equipment.

Feb. 87 – Jul. 89      Banco de Venezuela International                            Miami, FL

Data Processing Manager

1.       In charge of the computer department

2.       Managed an IBM System/36 with 20 workstations.

3.       Supervised two programmers and three system operators.

4.       Created the department’s emergency procedures plans and operation manuals.

5.       Structured a disaster prevention plan with Banco Cafetero to insured continuity of operations in case of a major disaster.

6.      Contributed in developing the bank’s Letters of Credit Module in conjunction with the software vendor, DATAPRO, INC.

7.       Liaison between the software vendor and the bank.

8.       Reduced costs in the data processing area by 65%.

Sep. 86 – Feb. 87    Banco de Venezuela International                           Miami, FL

Letters of Credit Issuance Clerk

1.        Issued all the letters of credits for the bank.

Education

1983 - 1986              Fort Lauderdale College                         Fort Lauderdale, FL

BA Bachelor of Science · Business Administration               GPA 3.1

Seminars

Oct 24 - 25 1988      Georgia Institute of Technology                          Atlanta, GA

Computer Facility Planning and Operations

Oct. – 1987              Fort Lauderdale College                        Fort Lauderdale, FL

Letters of Credit – International Finance Studies

Sept. 1987               New York University                                         New York, NY

Letters of Credit & Bankers Acceptance Financing

Feb. 1987                IBM                                                                        Miami, FL

System/36 Operations