Resume of Manuel Hernández
Objective
To be part of a competitive organization where People and
Systems interact in a dynamic and challenging decision-taking,
problem-solving environment.
Education
Awards
Universidad
Metropolitana Merit Scholarship Recipient
Corpoven
Scholarship Recipient (Venezuela)
Universidad
Metropolitana Honor Roll student for two consecutive
years
Procter & Gamble Excellence
Challenge award winner
Work Experience
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Since March 15, 1996
Manager of Electrical Maintenance in the Catamenials
(until January 1997, this was the only area where I
worked) and Diapers Departments of Guatire Paper Plant.
Job Description: planification and execution of
Electrical Maintenance activities, Electrical Personnel
day-to-day management, Electrical Support to Engineering
Projects, Scrap Reduction leader for Catamenials, Member
of two pillars of TPM (Total Productive Maintenance):
Focused Improvements and Preventive Maintenance.
March 1996 - March 1997
Part-Time professor for the School of Electrical
Engineering, in Electrical Circuits II. Syllabus covers
Laplace Transform, AC Circuit Analysis, Power Factor
compensation, 3-Phase Systems, and Magnetically Coupled
Circuit Analysis.
Fall 1995
Part-time job at the Binenkorb Computer Laboratory
(the most up-to-date computer lab in Cornell campus), as
Monitor and AV technician. Job description: check-in and
out of students, support for software (mainly MS-Office)
problems, setup of computers and audiovisual equipment.
Summer 1995.
Summer intern in Guatire Paper Plant. Job
Description: two projects. One dealt with the adjustment
and troubleshooting of a temperature controller. The
second one was a hardware design and implementation of a
time measuring device to be used for auditing purposes in
the production line.
Universidad Metropolitana (Caracas, Venezuela)
1992-1994
Teaching Assistant for: Electric Circuits II and
Analog Electronics II. Job description: two hours of
teaching per week, mainly focused on problem solving and
practice.
Corpoven
(Caracas, Venezuela)
Summer 1993
Internship in the Electricity and Instrumentation
Section of the Gas Engineering Department. Job
description: elaboration of a Manual of the Electrical
System of La Quizanda, the main repair center for the
Midwestern District of the Section.
Course Enrollment for M. Eng.
Fall 1994
Random Signals for Communications and Signal Processing
Electrical Engineering Colloquium
Applied Signal Proc. System Design
Entrepreneurship and Enterprise
Spring 1995
Automation & Control of Power Dist. Networks
Image & Video Coding Seminar
Database Management
The Information Revolution
Fall 1995
Computer Networks and Telecommunications
Foundations
of Artificial Intelligence
Engineering Design Project: Synthesis of a Violin and
a Trumpet by means of a Physical Model
Skills
Languages: Fluent in English, Spanish, French, German and
Italian.
Operating Systems: DOS, Windows 3.1, 3.11 and 95,
MacOS 7.5, and the basics of UNIX.
Internet: E-mail (SMTP), Gopher, WWW, FTP, Telnet,
Usenet Newsgroups.
- Computer Programming: C, Pascal, Matlab, HTML 3.2
(WWW Home Pages), JavaScript.
- Suites: MS-Office 97 for Windows.
- Database Management Systems: dBase IV, Rbase, SQL,
Filemaker Pro.
- Desktop Publishing: Page Maker, QuarkXpress, Adobe
Photoshop.
Extracurricular Activities
- PADI Open Water Diver
- Colaborator of the Newspaper L@ Red, in its
printed and on-line version.
At Cornell University:
- Instructor of the Workshop: Venezuelan Students
and Scholar Navigating the Internet, for
the members of the Association. 9/16/95
- Secretary of the Venezuelan Student and Scholar
Association. Fall 1995
- Primary owner of the Venezuelan Students Mailing
List and webmaster for the Venezuelan Students Home
Page . Spring 1995-February 1996
- Member of SHPE
(Society of Hispanic Professional Engineers) Fall
1994-Spring 1995
At Universidad Metropolitana:
- Member of the Student Council. 1991,1992
- Co-founder of the Science & Technology
magazine Nobel. 1991
- Member and Coordinator of Opinion in the
newspaper Metrovoz. 1992-1994
- Organizer of the forum "Los Medios:
¿dirigen nuestras vidas?" (The media: do
they rule our lives?) May 4-6, 1993
- Member of the Rescue Group. 1992
- Volunteer worker for several concerts, admission
exams and graduations.
Seminars and Courses attended
- People Development College Seminar, by Procter
& Gamble (Venezuela). May 13-14, 1997
- PS Leadership College, by Procter & Gamble
(Venezuela). January 17, 1997
- P&G Management College I, by Procter
& Gamble (Venezuela). November 27-29, 1996
- Reliability Engineering Trobleshooting Seminar, by
Procter & Gamble (Venezuela). Sept. 23-25, 1996
- Information Technology Symposium, Johnson Graduate School
of Mgmt, Cornell University. April 7-8, 1995
- Product Supply Organization Seminar, by Procter &
Gamble de Mexico. November 1993
- Thirty Fourth London International Youth Science Forum. Summer
1992
Memberships
- Member of Colegio de Ingenieros de Venezuela No.
100.632 - since Feb. 27, 1996.
- Member of the Cornell Society of Engineers - Since Dec.
1996.
References available from:
Benny Barrero
and Ron Loz,
Managers, Binenkorb Lab, Statler Hotel School, Cornell
University
Juan Carlos
García, Catamenials Line Managers, Procter &
Gamble Venezuela, Guatire Paper Plant 58-36-40-3078
Jose Luis
Gimenez, Dean of Engineering, Universidad
Metropolitana. 58-2-241-4833
Carlos Cardona, Supervisor of Instrumentation and
Electricity, Gas Eng. Dept., Corpoven. 58-2-708-7778
If you are interested in my resume, e-mail me or contact me
@ CCS 1147, P.O. Box 025323, Miami, FL 33102-5323.
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