Senior Vice President Global Partner Success and International Partnerships
- engageli
- Full-Time
- San Francisco Bay Area
- Apr 2021 - Present · 1 yr 2 mos
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Senior Vice President Global Partner Success and International at Engageli
With a diverse professional career, regardless of the project I’ve been working on my focus has always been on growth and crushing it. Previous robotics engineer, strategy consultant, tech entrepreneur.
Currently working on the future of education with the best universities in the world.
Previously at Coursera built and managed strategic university partnerships internationally for Coursera.
Prior to Coursera, I founded LAM, the largest Latino online community and social media platform with 10,000+ members and growing.
My biggest passion is to connect people and organizations to create mutual benefit. During my career the common thread has been building communities of passionate people creating an impact, be it by offering education to millions globally, to mentoring hundreds locally.
Higher Education is a passion and always looking for ways to help underrepresented groups achieve it.
Skills
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Growth PM role archetypeⓘ
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Experience
Director, University Partnerships
- Coursera
- Full-Time
- San Francisco Bay Area
- Oct 2018 - Apr 2021 · 2 yrs 7 mos
Principal, Degrees Partnerships
- Coursera
- Full-Time
- Mountain View, CA
- Jan 2018 - Sep 2018 · 9 mos
What next after MOOCs? Highly valued credentials from the world’s best universities – online degrees.
Directly responsible for overall success of Coursera’s degree programs. I collaborate with cross-functional teams internal to Coursera to define resources and activities needed for success, then deliver them. I also work closely with university partners as we collaborate to deliver an excellent degree programs experience to our students. My responsibilities include setting and program-level business goals, online recruitment and marketing, formal partnership agreements, and program growth.
Head of Global University Partnerships
- Coursera
- Full-Time
- San Francisco Bay Area
- Nov 2016 - Dec 2017 · 1 yr 2 mos
Led a team of Global Regional Managers who manage strategic relationships with top universities and lead market activations in Europe, Australia, Asia, and Latin America.
Head of Iberoamerica Partnerships
- Coursera
- Full-Time
- Mountain View, CA
- Apr 2016 - Oct 2016 · 7 mos
Lead strategic initiatives in Latin America, Spain focused in building partnerships, marketing initiatives, and cross-functional work to help increase the impact in the region.
Come join the team! We’re hiring: https://www.coursera.org/jobs
Partnership Manager
- Coursera
- Full-Time
- San Francisco Bay Area
- Oct 2014 - Mar 2016 · 1 yr 6 mos
Work directly with partners from some of the world’s leading institutions in Latin America and Spain to develop online strategies to make high quality education accessible across the globe.
Co-lead of global launch of Coursera en Español, with 2 events (Mexico and Colombia), multiple press interviews, and content growth. Was masters of ceremony of both events and panel moderator.
Created institutional strategies with partners to grow Spanish courses on Coursera by 10x.
Grew partner portfolio by 50% in Latin America.
Come join the team! We’re hiring: https://www.coursera.org/jobs
Founder and CEO
- LAM Network
- Full-Time
- San Francisco, CA
- Jul 2007 - Oct 2014 · 7 yrs 4 mos
Founded a marketing agency targeting the Latino demographic with Fortune 100 clients including Verizon, JP Morgan Chase, New York Life, and others.
LAM is a tech and marketing startup company for brands to reach the Latino affluent market via digital media and professional/social events.
Current and previous partnerships include Verizon, SFMOMA, Comcast, Diageo, Hilton, Charles Schwab, Wharton University MBA San Francisco, UC Berkeley, and others.
LAM owns LAM Network, the largest Latino online community and social media platform in the Bay Area with 9,000+ members.
Principal
- GD Consulting
- Full-Time
- Jul 2007 - Sep 2014 · 7 yrs 3 mos
I have been hired for various freelance consulting jobs including:
– Business development
– Brand development
– Excel/VBA financial models
– Newsletter automation, management, creation
– Database management
– Website portal design and implementation
– PHP, MYSQL development
– Matlab simulations
– Robotics design
Clients include Blackrock, AutoDesk, and others.
Engineering Researcher – PhD Candidate
- UC Berkeley
- Full-Time
- Jul 2007 - Jun 2011 · 4 yrs
During my research at UC Berkeley, I was part of an interdisciplinary team responsible for developing new diagnostics to detect deterioration of underground power distribution cables, a $2 billion problem. My role specifically was to develop models and design algorithms for test methods. My work in fault detection in Underground Power Distribution Cables led to Patent No. 20120306510: Method and System for Assessing Insulation Deterioration in Live Underground Power Cables and a few publications.
Consultant – Operations Research Associate
- ZS Associates
- Full-Time
- Greater New York City Area
- Aug 2005 - Jul 2007 · 2 yrs
Pharmaceutical client projects included sales force effectiveness, treatment process in oncology markets, design and facilitation of product portfolio management workshops, sales force sizing, detailing and sampling optimization, brand planning
Designed and facilitated portfolio brand planning workshops in Latin America for a top 5 pharmaceutical company
Developed and implemented complex mathematical and statistical models in a variety of programming languages and applications that relate sales and marketing activities to financial results for client deliverables
Internal projects included training new employees size and structure methodology, implementing existing national company training courses in home office, recruiting new employees
Graduate Student Instructor – ME 237 Non-linear Control Theory
- UC Berkeley
- Full-Time
- Berkeley, CA
- Jan 2008 - May 2008 · 5 mos
A Graduate course in Mechanical Engineering Department. Professor Karl Hedrick.
Develop TA session lectures, step-in and teach lectures when Professor was absent, guide students with their semester long projects. Received high marks 4.2/5 as a GSI.
Class covered the fundamental properties of nonlinear system: stability, controller design via Lyapunov methods, equivalent linearization methods including limit cycle prediction.
Graduate Researcher
- Center for Collaborative Control of Unmanned Vehicles at the University of California at Berkeley
- Full-Time
- Jun 2004 - Mar 2005 · 10 mos
– Maintained and designed the harward platform and system architecture for a fleet of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) capable of self-directed collaborative navigations.
– Collaborated with a team of 20 members to research, develop and test control strategies achieving optimization of mission performance of UAVs.
– Developed and simulated a control algorithm for a search and track mission utilizing UAVs
Degree Programs
Certificate, Management of Technology
- University of California, Berkeley, Haas School of Business
- 2003 - 2004
MS, Mechanical Engineering
- University of California, Berkeley
- 2003 - 2004
BS, Mechanical Engineering
- University of California, Berkeley
- 2000 - 2002
Licenses and Certifications
Inspiring and Motivating Individuals – University of Michigan
- University of Michigan
- Issued Dec 2018 · No Expiration Date
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Introduction to Software Product Management
- Coursera Course Certificates
- Issued Oct 2016 · No Expiration Date
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The Data Scientist’s Toolbox
- Coursera Course Certificates
- Issued Sep 2014 · No Expiration Date
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