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If I were to resume my skills and work experience in two words, those would be communication an education.  Skilled in the technology, tools and equipment used in most forms of communication, as well as used to translate concepts not only between languages but between levels of understanding, many jobs I’ve held and as most of my training have been directed to better get information and ideas to be understood and learned by others.
Experience shows that there is much good that I can give, and help others to find.   Almost as far back as I can remember, I have had the chance to share in this way.  Different positions and circumstances such as voluntary work, formal and on-the-job training, employee, and manager have developed my expertise in teaching, training and sharing.

Formal teaching:

• University Assistant Professor 
  1982-83, Organic Chemistry, Technology Department, Faculty of Agricultural Engineering, Universidad Mayor de San Simón, Cochabamba, Bolivia. 
  Duties included being in charge of lab activities, planning experiments related to theory class contents (lectures given by the tenured Professor), supervision of students executing lab work, and grading it.
  Being given free use of laboratories, I also pursued individual research in improvements to some basic industrial processes, and extraction of natural essential oils and synthesis of artificial essential oils, internally published.
• High School Teacher 
  1985-1995, Colegio San José (Catholic private school) and several High Schools under ANEP (Uruguayan National Education Administration). 
  Duties included teaching 45-minute classes, grading students (more than just grading their work), and assorted teacher’s duties. 
  I was extremely active in co-curricular and extra-curricular activities, designing and producing a school-wide Geography interactive exhibition, Astronomy nights, camp-outs, etc. 
  In Colegio San José I pursued a year of practical, hands-on research into Computers Education with grades 1 to 12, with many interesting results, internally published
• Grade School Teacher and Principal 
  1989-1994.   Several multi-level (grades 1-6) rural schools and one school for the handicapped, under ANEP, as substitute teacher or principal, and 1994 as tenured teacher
• Sunday School Teacher 
  1982, Christian and Missionary Alliance 
  1999, La Paz Community Church
• Computers & Information Technology Institute Owner-Teacher 
  Using improved methodology, result of the Colegio San José research, I created my own Computers & Information Technology Institute.  Dissolved same when full-time involved in building Adventure Camp

• Scouting (scout, adult leader) 
  My family claims 75+ years of experience in this field, that being the time we have been involved in Scouting.  My experience and training covers 4 countries, and many assorted local positions in the Scout Movement.
• Rugby Coach 
  since 1994.   As a former Rugby player in school, later on I got to value this game not only as the most enjoyable team activity this side of the Milky Way, but as the most excellent tool for education in many important areas. 
  Winner of the A.R.CO. Cup, trophy of an international yearly tournament for children’s Rugby teams
• Summer Camp Counselor - USA 
  1994, Senior Counselor, Camp Wewa, Orlando - Florida YMCA 
  1981, Counselor, Goshen Scout Camps, National Capital Local Council, Boy Scouts of America
• Adventure Activities Instructor
• Sailing Instructor

• Owner - editor of ‘El Progreso Minuano’, weekly published in Minas, Uruguay, first publication in that city to be completely computer-edited
• co-anchor of ‘Buenos Dias, Buena Onda’, daily 2-hour radio broadcast from CW54, Minas Uruguay
• Assorted work with Channel 13 TV and Minas Cable with computer-generated special effects, co-anchoring several special programs, especially the polling and coverage of the 1995 Elections, with an extremely close result obtained in the polls conducted that day, when later compared to the official returns (+0.7 % difference).
• Owner - editor of ‘El Rugido de las Carreras’, neighborhood weekly published in Carreras, La Paz, Bolivia.

• photographer 
  built a pictoric database with over 25.000 digital pictures of Bolivia.  People, landscapes (incredible ones!), cities, handicrafts, museums. Basis of multimedia projects. See some pictures here