Highlights:Economist, Financial Risk Specialist, Researcher, data driven

Skills:research, data analytics, data

Goal:To provide high-quality inputs for business decision-making. Contribute to social and economic development of productive sectors that require support based on data analysis.

Membership:Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management Midwest Political Science Association Southern Political Science Association

Certification:Economic and Demographic Data Analysis Graduate Teaching Certificate

Researcher 08/2017 - current
The University of Texas at Dallas, Richardson, Texas United States
Industry: Education
Researcher and professor of political economy, data analysis for social sciences and statistics. Specialized in international political economy of developing countries, national security and critical infrastructure. Coordinator of a research team in continuous search of research grants from public / private institutions.
- Manage data, data compilation from various sources geographic and non-geographic (data format conversion) to join/relate them in data frameworks (ArcMap) ready to be analyzed. -Produce research based on spatial statistics and exploratory spatial data analysis. Hot-spot analysis, spatial auto-correlation and spatial lags of critical infrastructure, power grid and pipelines. Spatial distribution of credit provision, clustering patterns and focusing on rural and impoverished areas. - Analyzed more than 100 thousand records of a public program to evaluate economic impact through regression analysis, time series, panel data analysis, and multilevel modeling. - Developed Quantitative Spatial Models (lat-long units of 15,000 locations) for the research body of a Critical Infrastructure National Science Foundation NSF Grants (IDs:1541199 & 1539302) -Transferable Skills: -Group and team management: Teach four graduate and undergraduate courses per year with 25 to 40 students on each class. -Presentation skills: Present oral and written analysis at national and international conferences about current research interests. -Leadership: Guide and advise graduate and undergraduate students on class courses and research topics to help them in research skills.--
Risk Management Specialist 12/2004 - 8/2012
Federal Trust Fund for Rural Development, Mexico, Mexico Mexico
Industry: Development Banking
Financial risk specialist that overlook, quantify and measure credit, market, liquidity and operational financial risks for all the lending and investment operations of the trust fund. Financial Risk modeling and daily reporting of the monetary values at risk due to trust fund operations
- Developed quantitative models to identify, measure, control and reveal financial risks (credit, liquidity, market and operational) in four institutional portfolios. Reports and monitoring fully complied with National and International regulations in Risk Management. - Appraised the risk exposure of fix interest rate and U.S. dollar portfolios (about 500 hedging positions for each). Established trading counterpart limits to Interest Rate Swaps (IRS) and Cross Currency Swaps (CCS) resulting in a sustained sound practice of hedging positions and strengthened the institution’s risk profile. - Implemented models for operational risk exposures, according to Basel II AMA principles (advanced measurement approach) resulting on the first public financial institution in Mexico that integrated these standards. - Collected and examined more than 20,000 client records for the development of an internal Credit Scoring system focused on the rural low-income population as potential beneficiaries of public programs. Financial intermediaries increased by 15% credit operations with the trust fund. - Formulated technical documents to support model validations and methodologies successfully defended at the Risk Committee.--

Universidad Carlos III 08/2000 - 12/2001
Madrid, Madrid, Spain
Degree: Master's Degree
Major:Financial Analysis
Financial analysis techniques to evaluate business performance and sources of funding using hedging and risk analysis.

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