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Director of Learning                                                                                                                                                                               CA, Make: Community 2020-Present
  • Creation of Learning Labs, a framework that brings together the different Makings activities into a scaffolded program.
  • Implementation of virtual Learning Labs in the US and Mexico
Founder and CEO                                                                                                                                                                                                                      Kitco 2020-Present
  • Kitco is a cardboard construction kit, project-based learning curriculum, and professional development that supports schools on implementing hands-on project-based learning STEAM activities
  • More that 1K unites sold
Head of Learning                                                                                                                                                                                                                          BEDU 2019-2020
  • Implement project-based learning through out 50+ blended learning courses                                             
Founding Director of Learning Design and Research/Advisor                                                                                                     NYC, Portfolio School 2016-Present
  • Working to co-create a vision and plan for the next 50 years of our school
  • Development and implementation of a research-and-practice-based learning methodology for defining what to learn and how
  • Develop collaborations with Stanford University, NYU, Columbia University and Google.
  • Development and implementation of project-based curriculum that integrate and apply multiple disciplines into learners-meaningful projects
  • Curriculum design for Computational Thinking and Digital Fabrication
  • Teaching K-4
Director of Professional Development and Research                                                                 Beam Center, NYC 2014-Present (as board member since 2016)
  • Creation of their Professional Development program through a grant of Mozilla and MacArthur Foundation. 
  • For seeing the implementation of the PD with 50+ teachers in 14 public schools
  • Coordinate cross-domain teacher’s curriculum development that integrates technology and computational thinking with academic subjects
  • Design and/or implement impact-measurements to assess project-based learning
  • Coordinate the creation of FabLab@School in the 5 public schools
Co-Founder/Director                                                                                                                                                       Mexico, FabLabMex: Ingenio Digital 2013-2021
  • Founded and ran nonprofit based in Mexico
  • Development of collaborative relations between Stanford University, Mexican’s Universities (4) and Public High Schools
  • Customization and implementation of Fabrication Laboratories curriculum for high school students
  • Data collection and analysis for evaluation and program’s improvement
  • Building schools capacity for project-based learning, design thinking, and digital fabrication.
  • Received grants from DuPont Mexico, the Department of Innovation (Guadalajara) and UnitedWay
Founder/Director                                                                                                                                                                                      NYC, Active Emergence 2013-2016
  • Help schools to develop a MakerSpace, FabLab@School or Digital Fabrication Lab (Implementation of first FabLab@School in Spain and Mexico)
  • Guide learning environments in the use of Design Thinking
  • Create curriculum that can be used at MakerSpaces or FabLab@Schools
  • Train teachers in the spirit of making, digital fabrication and design thinking
  • Implement and organize learning programs
  • Provide or develop quantitative and qualitative tools for measuring project-based learning
Founder, Sales, Channel Manager, Sales Engineer                                                                                                                                    IT Strap, Mexico 2002-2005
  • Sold network security products to large Mexican enterprises and government
  • Development and management of distribution channel
  • Development of product to identify and block traffic at the application level ​

Technical Skills

Fellow                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                   OpenAI      2019
  • Developed “Creature”, an AI-powered web application that guides teachers and children in the creation of projects and links them with learning goals based on the Next Generation Science Standards.
Product Developer                                                                                                                                                    Master Final Project, Stanford University   2012-2013
  • Development of an android application for helping Hispanic parents measure the number of words in the interaction with their infants and practice the interaction before doing it.
  • Development of BeatTable, a physical table with a digital environment that can be controlled by tangible instruments, and through immediate auditory and visual feedback makes salient the relationships between math and music
Visiting Scholar, Lab Manager, Research Assistant                                                                                 Center for Infant Studies, Stanford University 2009-2013
  • Transformation of the system used to measure language processing efficiency into a portable version capable to travel in plane that traveled to Mexico and Senegal.
  • ​Development of a program capable to select the “word-densest” interaction between caregiver and infant using LENA (Language ENvironment Analysis System)
Staff Engineer                                                                                                                                                                           Palo Alto Networks, Santa Clara       2006-2010
  • Development of protocol decoders based on RFC and real traffic
  • Creation of signature for detecting and blocking applications, including tunneled and encrypted applications
  • Weekly meetings with the product management team, QA department, and applications detection team
  • Assisted support with responding to customer issues and requests

Research

Learning Designer                                                                                               Transformative Learning Technologies Lab at Stanford University 2012-Present
  • Workshop facilitator for teacher’s Professional Development
  • Research teacher's and student’s impact when interacting with digital fabrication 
Visiting Scholar, Lab Manager, Research Assistant                                                                             Center for Infant Studies, Stanford University  2009-2012
  • Research the beginning and consequences of the achievement gap. Research interventions to reduce the achievement gap.  
  • Conducted and designed methodology to research qualitative and quantitative analysis of parent-child interaction
  • Creation of remote lab in Mexico City

Selected Conferences

  • 2019 / Make Machine Learning a Maker (panel) 
  • 2018 /  Future of China Education Columbia University (panel/presentation)               
  •  2018 / Education and Technology Seminar Instituto Tecnico Autonomo de Mexico (panel/presentation)     
  •  2017 / FabLearn Stanford University (presentation)                             
  •  2015 / High-Level Innovation Forum for Policy Makers Woodrow Wilson Center (keynote)             
  •  2015 / FabLearn Stanford University (paper presentation)                         
  •  2015 / Progressive Education Network NYC (presentation)                         
  •  2015 / Creative Technology Symposium Columbia University (presentation)                 
  •  2015 / Maker Faire NYC (panel)                                     
  •  2015 / IMPACT NYU (workshop)                                     
  •  2014 / FabLearn Europe (paper presentation)                                 
  •  2014 / Interaction Design and Children Europe (paper presentation)                     
  •  2014 / FabLearn Stanford University (paper presentation)                         
  •  2013 / Interaction Design and Children (demo)                                 
  •  2012 / Society for Research in Child Development (paper presentation)                     
  •  2012 / International Conference on Infant Studies (paper presentation)                      
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