Start-Up Experience and Entrepreneurship
Founding Director of Learning Design and Research NYC, Portfolio School 2016-Present
- Working to co-create a vision and plan for the next 10 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
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
- 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)
- 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
- 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)