Knowledge Management Application Developer
CENIPALMA
Total years of experience :14 years, 10 Months
Develop a didactic Managers´ Manual on the Sustainable Design and Establishment of new Oil-Palm plantations in Colombia. The manual contains guidelines for new Oil-palm investors and managers to guide decision making from the acquisition of land to the establishment of the plantation, following the international and national norms and regulations to establish sustainable plantations. The manual is accompanied by a DVD which contains a simulation exercise on the steps to follow to ensure sustainable new oil-palm plantations.
Consultant for the Colombian Oil Palm Research Center, to conduct a national study of the impact of technology transfer activities on productivity at small, medium and large-scale plantations. Study pays attention to the application of sustainable technologies and inquiries about the leading causes for their adoption. A 150-page report condenses quantitative and qualitative data for institutional decision making. Sponsor: National Palm Development Fund. Reference: Dr. Jorge Alonso Beltrán, Head Technology Transfer and Extension Services CENIPALMA, Bogotá, Colombia
To (a) Develop a framework for the design and application of multiple stakeholder methodologies to improve local governance during the Colombian post-conflict and (b) develop training materials based on a knowledge management structure for the area of transformative leadership, to be applied in organizational strengthening of a large production enterprise. Consultant´s activities included: (a) training researchers and professionals in knowledge management theory and instruments, (b) preparing modules under the ADDIE model, (c) preparing digital communication aids for content presentation, (d) delivering workshops to target audiences, (e) evaluating the effectiveness of workshops and facilitators´ performance. Worked with a six-member professional team. Dr. Manuel Ramiro Muñoz, Director Institute of Intercultural Studies
▪ Training trainers and establish a ME&L system for the agricultural production and harvesting areas. Consultant´s activities included: (a) to provide support to senior staff in the design of the Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning Department, (b) to design the job profiles and participate in the selection of personnel to staff the M&E&L department, (c) to design the strategy for a work-based monitoring and evaluation process in eleven business areas of the mill, (d) to carry out with a team of 20 staff the “analysis of competencies” for 75 job posts which constitute 11-key production and cropping activities, (e) to develop the instructional analysis plans to develop learning guides for employees who perform tasks within the 11 key activities, (f) to elaborate with senior and junior staff, 11 didactically designed guides to describe each activity performed by employees (i. e supervisors, foremen, assistants, field workers, machine operators, etc.); (g) to design and develop the performance-and-product evaluation instruments to document field workers performance, (h) to conduct the publication of 11 manuals with the Field Performance and Product Evaluation Instruments, (i) to carry out orientation workshops to sensitize and motivate staff and field .workers to follow performance and product quality standards, (j) to prepare 11 booklets containing the technical information presented in the manuals, for wide distribution among field personnel, (k) to carry out the edition of manuals and booklets to fit the academic and cultural levels of trainers and end users with different academic backgrounds and (l) to design the field workers workshops to disseminate the technical information and the quality standards agreed upon during the process. (Complete list of titles of materials available upon request).
Train the trainers and provide support to 15 staff members of CENICAÑA for the development of a series of 14 work-based didactically designed technology transfer guides which comprised the knowledge accumulated by researchers during the last 15 years in key areas of sugar cane production. Consulting activities included: (a) designing a participant´s manual to guide the production of didactic technology transfer manuals and conduct the training sessions, (b) conducting training workshops for staff on the application of instructional design strategies, (c) coaching individual researchers in the development of the technology transfer guides, (c) editing drafts of publications, (d) designing the dissemination strategy among technical personnel of sugar mills in the State of Valley del Cauca, (e) conducting motivational workshops for technical personnel in the sugar industry to prepare for the use of technology transfer guides. (Complete list of titles available upon request).
▪ Train a team of 22 staff from this Research Institution to develop a work-based knowledge management system. Consulting activities included: (a) designing the technology transfer strategy for the Research Center on a wide range of palm production technologies, (b) conducting orientation workshops for researchers to be able to design learning manuals and use them in the technology transfer program, (c) acting as a content-design facilitator and editor of publications, (d) training researchers to develop training and facilitation skills during pilot workshops using the technology transfer manuals, (e) evaluating the development of training skills and providing feedback and re-training for researchers and extension agents on the application of learner-centered communication strategies, (f) reporting results to research center directors. (Complete list of titles available upon request)
During this 860-day Peruvian commitment the international technical assistant (ITA) provided support to the Peruvian Ministry of Education to design and organize a competency-based curriculum for 50 VET beneficiary schools in seven geographical regions. Components of this task were: (a) to lead institutional workshops for education and employment, (b) adjust curriculum for the education of technical personnel in 20 different employment areas (tourism, automotive mechanics, nursing, etc.) (c) provide support to information gathering from the employment sector to adjust the academic offer according industry demands; (d) contribute to the formulation of guidelines for a base-line study of the project´s 50 beneficiary institutions, (e) evaluate a work-demand study performed by a third party consulting firm, (f) teach numerous workshops to train school directors and teachers to merge from the subject-matter-based curriculum to a competency-based curriculum, (g) coordinate a large number of publications (paper and digital) which comprised all the major achievements of the Project, (h) develop, with teachers from the National Education University -La Cantuta-, a teacher training manual for the development of learner-centered teaching skills and (i) contribute to the preparation of the yearly work plans (2007-2011), using planning tools (i.e. Log Frame).
During this period, as a Senior Research Fellow at the International Center for Tropical Agriculture, with the support of DFID-UK I designed and conducted research geared to the development of a “knowledge management” model for extension workers. Model was tested with farmers in ten different sites and crops. The model which departed from the recognition of local knowledge as the basis to build new knowledge was efficiently applied by extension workers in the four agro-eco-regions of Bolivia. Researcher´s activities included: (a) research design, (b) insertion of research study within the framework of the Bolivian Agricultural Technology System (SIBTA), (c) team work with government and private sector technical personnel to train extension personnel and practice the “KM transfer methodology”. (d) data analysis of trial results, (e) publication of two books where this and other agriculture development innovations were reported. (See CV bibliography).
University of southern California USA 1974-1976 M.Sc. Educational Technology - Emphasis Teacher training
Studies for my doctorate were financed under a schiolarship from the Rockefeller Foundation due to high qualifications as a university instructor. Dissertation: A Delphi Study of the future of Medical Education in Colombia.
This M.A. was carried out during a 4 summer period from 1965 to 1969, under a grant from the school where I was a homeroom teacher. This was an agreement between Colegio Bolivar and the University of Alabama.
Universidad Santiago de Cali, Colombia 1962-1967 B.A. Language Teaching: English and French
