Geological engineer- Master: water resources planning and management
Resume:
EDUCATION:
Universidad de Los Andes (ULA) - Venezuela.
Interamerican Center of Territorial and Environmental Research and Development (CIDIAT) of Venezuela.
Magister Scientiae in Development of Waters and Lands. Minor: Planning and Development of Hydraulic Resources.
2002-2008
Universidad de Los Andes (ULA) - Venezuela.
Bachelor of Science in Geological Engineer
ABOUT ME:
I am Dariela Ruiz-Calderon. A Venezuelan geological engineer with passion to learn and teach. I have played many roles as a professional, from field, to lab, office and classroom. My experience has been developed in branches of the geology, it has teach me that no matter what you are facing, you need to be strong in organization, willing to learn, adaptability, and good energy.
As a engineer and professor I structure situations as problems to be solve, so I design the pathway that drive me to solutions and better understanding of the situation. I am self-motivated with strong teamwork skills. I possess good time management abilities, verbal and written communications skills in English and Spanish and great research and organizational skills. I also have planning and projects experience with great eye for detail. I wish to use my energy, knowledge and enthusiasm working with teams and institutions committed to provide services and development at local or global level in geosciences and water resources management. Learn and teach what I learn is one of my professional goals.
SKILLS:
Field data acquisition, office data management and interpretation, software modeling, aquifer testing, ideas projection, info structuring, project elaboration and evaluation, research, presentation and summarizing skills, report-writing ability, teaching and tutoring. Team-working ability, time management, compromise, quick learning, marketing, determination, rapport-building.
LANGUAGES:
Spanish: Native language
English: Comprehension, very good. Speaking, good. Reading, very good. Writing, good.
SOFTWARE:
ArcGis 10.0, Golden Surfer 9.0, Microsoft Office, hydrologic software, Modflow 4.2, CROWAT 8.0, EpaNet 2.0. Customer Relationship Management (CRM) software, underwritten software. Office (Open Office, Microsoft office): Excel, Word, PowerPoint, Picture Manager, Outlook, Internet tools.
EXPERIENCE:
Sep. 2017
Current
1 year and 8 months
Senior Health Pro Corp.
Health and Life Insurance Agent
Built and maintain personal book of business.
Market and sale insurance products with emphasis in Medicare health insurance.
Analyze seniors individual medical needs and budget to help them in the selection of a supplemental insurance Medicare plan.
Be certify with the most important insurance companies.
Study Medicare insurance products for Texas.
Educate seniors in Medicare process initiation and permanence.
Effectively managed a high-volume of inbound and outbound customers calls.
Telephonic, video and social media marketing.
Skills:
Customer service, helping people, creatively solving problems, patience, persistence, communication, active listening, structure and teach guidelines to solve recurrent problems, positive attitude, marketing, understanding of senior's customers segment behavior and the Medicare market, honesty, integrity.
Sales. Design personalize scripts according to the target, filter lead listing to targeting the customers, data collector, data management, data storage according to the business rules and law, customer tracking. Keep business metrics. Set and accomplish weekly, monthly and annual sales, calls and talk time goals, Customer Relationship Management (CRM).
Achievements:
Health and Life Insurance License 2019-2021.
AHIP certification 2019.
Certificate for 2019 to conduct business in Texas with 8 different health insurance companies.
Top sales of the week in 1 opportunity (working part-time).
3rd top sale of the month on March 2019 (working pat-time).
Jul. 2017
Sep. 2017
3 months
Senior Health Pro Corp.
Marketing sales person
Market insurance products related to Medicare, life insurance, and final expenses.
Conduct life and health insurance educational training to new personal.
Built agent's book of business.
Understand senior's customers segment behavior and the Medicare market
Skills:
Marketing, quick learning, honesty, integrity, patience, persistence, communication, active listening, data management,
Achievements:
Health and Life Insurance License 2017-2019.
AHIP certification 2018.
Certificate for 2018 to conduct business in Texas with 8 different health insurance companies.
Top sales of the week in 3 opportunities.
Top sales of the week during all AEP season 2018.
Sep. 2014
Dec. 2015
1 year and 4 months
CIDIAT-ULA. Merida –Venezuela.
Instructor Professor and Researcher
Research in hydrogeology, hydrology, water management, water treatment, ground and surface water availability and depletion, water supply.
Supervise and guide undergraduate and postgraduate dissertations related with water management and availability in the watershed.
Teach basic hydrology to undergraduate students of Civil Engineering in the Faculty of Engineering of the University of Los Andes (Venezuela).
Teach basic and advance hydrology for students of master degree in Planning and Development of Hydraulic Resources, specialization in Management of Drinking Water Supply systems and master degree in Natural Resource Management and Environment.
Environmental and spatial data collection and analysis to built hydraulic, hydrologist and hydrogeological simulation models.
Application of Vertical Electrical Sounding (VES) for groundwater exploration.
Writing report with projects progress and results.
This job allow me to improve my technical skills and experience the geology in the environmental field. I also enhancement my communication and rapport-building skills by teaching and working as an engineer in a multidisciplinary team. Moreover, I started over the project of plan of action in case of earthquake for the institute and I also participate in the organization of the II Venezuelan Symposium on Climate Change. It was a very dynamic and enriching experience that in short time allowed me a great professional growth.
2014
2009
5 years
Projects Engineer:
Evaluation of the geology section for the project of environmental impact assessment of oil activity the oil activity in the Barinas Block, Barinas state - Venezuela.
Position: Consultant engineer
Contractor: LUVISAN C.A - Projects and Constructions.
Water supply availability study for a massive transportation s system station, Trolebus, Merida state - Venezuela.
Position: Chief engineer.
Contractor: Trolebus C.A
Collaboration in a series of engineer s projects of design and development in hydrogeology, geology and groundwater resources.
Position: Assistant Engineer
Contractor: CIDIAT-ULA. Merida –Venezuela.
Development of the study of the environmental impact of the remodeling of the solid waste dump of the city of Merida - Venezuela.
Position: Geology Assistant engineer
Contractor: BRIROCA Inversiones C.A.
From the operational point of view, each of these short-time projects allowed me to improve the schemes of task organization, understand and consider the flexibility of the plans to responsibly fulfill the requests with the best quality. Considering the technical aspect, being very varied projects, they allowed me to expand my knowledge in different specific areas of geological engineering, such as field, geophysics, hydrogeology, sedimentology, environmental geology. As transferable skills I feel I have developed as a leader, supervisor and technical staff, also attend to the processes of conflict management, be effective in teamwork but also individual work.
Summarizing some of the activities I as in charge of:
Conducted geological studies, lithology description, watershed delineation, water sampling, river and aquifer flow data acquisition and interpretation, generation of watershed models, geological support, analysis of water wells report, built up ground water models and influence ratio interpretation, application of Vertical Electrical Sounding.
Oct. 2008
Jul. 2009
10 months
National Experimental University of the Armed Forces (UNEFA). Venezuela.
Professor and coordinator.
This experience had an administrative and a teacher side. With the first one my role was to coordinate the geology professor team, schedule, organize and plan field trips, design the geology subject program focus on the needs of a civil engineer profile.
I was a member of the undergraduate internship committee, in charge of supervise proposal and result of the internships.
In the classroom I taught:
* Teach geology applied to civil engineer to undergraduate students of the 6th semester (Mar. 2009-Jul. 2009)
* Tech mathematical fundamentals to students of the 1st semester of general admission (Oct. 2008-Feb. 2009)
Skills:
Throughout this position I developed excellent technical, administrative and communication skills and creativity.
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