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FERNANDO RIVERA COLINTON Miguel Duverge #8, San Pedro de Macorís, DR Telephone (809) 529-2002 Cel. (809) 696-8814 colinton@hotmail.com Education 1998 Master in Business Administration Instituto Tecnológico de Santo Domingo (INTEC) 1991 Ms in Agriculture System Technology Utah State University, Logan, Utah, USA 1986 Agricultural Engineer Universidad Central del Este, S.P.M., DR Training in Service Business Administration:, Strategic Planning, Sales, Marketing, Quality Assurance, ISO 9000 and 14,000, Project Appraisal, Measurement and improvement of Productivity; Methodological Formation for Instructor, Education and Environmental Sustainability and Management of Natural Resources. Other Skills: Microsoft Word, Excel, Word Start, Word Perfect, Basic, Microsoft Project, y Q Pro. English and Spanish. Work Experience 2006 Seller of Irrimón Dominicana a Mondragón Company Responsibilities: Selling of equipment and irrigation systems to farmers and distributors. As part of this, I have to advised farmers on witch is the most appropriated system, collect information for the irrigation design and discus with them the budget and the design and train them in the use of the system. 2004 Agricultural Manager Frito Lay Dominicana a PepsiCo Company Responsibilities: Coordination and supervision of the department personals. Based on the Plant demand for potatoes and plantain, I have to plan how many acres have to be planted, where and for whom. I was also involved in price and contract negotiation with farmers . As part of my duty I have to coordinate the import of potatoes seed and fresh potatoes from Canada, USA, and Argentina and get import permit from the Plant Health Department. Also I have to coordinate with the HR Department the training program. 1999 Chief of the Production Unit of Promatrec-INDRHI a World Bank Project. Responsibilities: I was in charge of four contracts of about 4 millions dollars to train more than 5,000 thousands farmers and more than one hundred extension workers over a period of three years. As part of my duty I have to prepare and evaluate project proposals and terms of reference for international biding and contract management. Coordinate and supervise a training program and an agricultural development program addressed to more than 14000 farmers organized in three irrigation associations. These programs were implemented by Utah State University. 1995 Business Consultant at INFOTEP Responsibilities: 4. I worked for three and a half year at INFOTE, a national training institute. I conducted many need assessment in a wide variety of business settings such as factories, hotels and retailers. These Need assessments were conducted, basically, to assess the gap between actual performance and desire performance of employees. The results ware them used to determine the kind of educational or training program necessary to close the gap and increase the productivity.In that institute Every year I developed and coordinated 50 to 60 training programs for small, medium and large companies. At Tabacalera de Garcia, a free zone company with two thousand employees, I develop the training program and coordinated its implementation. . 1993 Training Specialist of BID working at FUNDESIRE Responsibilities: Need assessment and coordination and implementation of Training; analysis of strengths and weakness of business; credit analysis. Re 1981 Change Agent, Secretariat of Agriculture. Responsibilities: Transfer of agricultural technology to farmers, training, recollection and processing of data, reports writing., Honors: Member of : Colegio Dominicano de Ingenieros Arquitectos y Agrimensores; Dominican Association of Agricultural Engineers, Dominican Association for Quality, Dominican Institute of Assessors. Scholarship: LASPAU, INFOTEP , ISA. References: Upon request

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