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Production Manager Coordinator

Location:
Lorton, VA
Posted:
May 07, 2025

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Guadalupe Ortega Ramírez

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Guadalupe Ortega

Career Summary

Guadalupe Ortega Ramírez attended the National University of Mexico, where she studied psychology. While working in curricula development for the Latin American Center of Health Educational Technology (Centro Latinoamericano de Tecnología Educacional para la Salud, CLATES), she developed an interest in media-related education and the performing arts. This led to continuing her studies at Centro de Capacitación Cinematográfica in Mexico City.

Ms. Ortega's career in media has included positions as Production Manager, Associate Producer, Field Producer, Location Manager and Fixer, working in television, feature films, documentaries, and theater. She has worked in Mexico on productions for Discovery Channel, National Geographic, Televisión Azteca, and University of Mexico Television, among others.

Ms. Ortega is fluent in Spanish and English. She has recently used her language skills, working as a translator, to assist in recovery efforts following Hurricane Maria, and actually working as a Free Lance Medical Interpreter. Employment History

Production coordinator at the Unit of Educational Television of the Mexican Ministry of Education; production manager at the University of Mexico Television; production assistant and logistics coordinator for Channel 13 (Mexico City). Freelance Field Producer, Associate Producer and Location Manager in documentaries, features and commercials and production manager in theater plays. As fixer in Mexico, she worked with several American companies. some of them based in Washington, DC area; freelance data wrangler for William Livingston Productions. Part-time translator for Intellectus, Dumfries (Hurricane Maria). Free Lance Medical Interpreter since 2020 for the Language Group. Guadalupe Ortega Ramírez

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General Direction of Educational Television, Ministry of Education, Mexico.

(Dirección General de Television Educativa, DGTVE) Chief of Production Department 1996 - 1998.

Chief of Operative Evaluation Department, 1998.

Production Coordinator for The Television Training Center. 1998 Special Projects Coordinator. 1999.

Production Manager

THE AIR IS FIRST, DGTVE – Health Ministry, 1997.

EDUCATIVE IMAGES, TV Magazine, 1999.

COPYRIGHTS Series of lectures broadcasted by the educational channel of the Ministry of Education.

Televisión Azteca, Channel 13.

Production Coordinator for the series:

PICANTE. Hosted by Maria Conchita Alonso. Logistic Coordinator for special international guests (Los Lobos, Irakere, Eddie Palmieri, Tania Maria, Ray Barreto, Freddie King and, others). 1991 – 1992.

WITH THE PEOPLE, hosted by Alejandro Aura. 1993.

DIGITAL IMAGE, hosted by Pilar Islas, 1993.

The National University of Mexico Television.

TV UNAM

Production Coordinator for the series:

SIAN KA'AN, THE START OF THE SKY, 1990.

THE DIVIDED HOUSE, 1990.

SAN CARLOS ACADEMY, 1987.

Dance Series:

WITNESS, 1998.

UNDER SHELTER, 1998.

For USA Companies.

Fixer and Location Coordinator

Documentaries.

THE MEXICANS TROUGH THEIR EYES. TV Special for National Geographic produced William Livingston Productions. 1991.

NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC EXPLORER, hosted by Boyd Matson for segments Dinosaur Host Wraps and Volcano Watch. 1996 – 1998 SIDESHOW, Discovery Channel, 1996.

WEREWOLF, Discovery Channel produced by Grinning Dog Pictures, 1996. 2

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MEGACITIES chapter Mexico City for the series Journey to Planet Earth. PBS produced by Screenscope. 1997.

THE AMERICAN FAMILY IMMIGRATION HISTORY for Ellis Island Museum produced by The Chedd-Angier Production Company, 2000. TABOO chapters Huichols and Witchcraft. National Geographic produced by Malvina Martin Productions. 2003.

DIGGING FOR THE TRUTH, chapter Teotihuacan City Of Gods, hosted by Josh Bernstein for Discovery Channel produced by JWM Productions, 2005. THE FINAL PROPHECY produced by Story House Productions, location fixer, 2009. TEOTIHUACAN CITY OF GODS, ZDF Germany and PBS produced by Story House Productions Germany, Permits Negotiations with INAH (Instituto Nacional de Antropología, México) and negotiations translator with the Archeologist Sergio Gómez in charge of the Tlallocan project in Teotihuacan, México, 2015. Data Wrangler at William Livingston Productions in India and Mexico shootings during several seasons.

Location fixer for still photographer Cade Martin personal project Xilitla, Edward James Tropical Garden, Xilitla Mexico, 2015 and Day of the Death, San Miguel de Allende 2016.

Feature Films

Production Assistant

LES CHEVALIERS DU CIEL, Ultrafilms Productions, France, 1994. WHY DON'T WE, directed by Jaime Humberto Hermosillo, Mexico, 1997. Commercials

Production Coordinator, Associate Producer and Location Scout and Coordinator for commercials in companies as Ultra films, a French company based in Mexico for international commercials (The Artist Company, NY; Radical Media. NY; Spots, London) and for the Mexican companies Primer Plano, Producciones LA, Producciones Triángulo, Cine South y Coyoacine. From 1983 through 1989.

Theater

Executive Producer.

EL RETABLO DEL DORADO by Jose Sanchiz Sinisterra directed by the author. The National University of Mexico. 1990.

THE SOLDIER TALE by Ramuz-Stravinsky, directed by Alejandro Aura. The National University of Mexico. 1993.

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LUZBEL, THE CONTRARY, Traditional Christmas Play (Pastorela), directed by Alejandro Aura. Played during the seasons 1994 through 1997, at the National University of Mexico, Convento del Carmen, and Antiguo Colegio de San Ildefonso. THE MAN WHO WANTS TO IMPROVE THE WORLD by Thomas Bernhard, directed by Eduardo Ruiz Saviñon. Independent Production, 1995. FEFU AND HER FRIENDS, directed by Juan Jose Gurrola, 1991. Other

Instructor for Centro Latinoamericano de Tecnología Educativa para la Salud, CLATES. Workshops for curriculum development.

ENEP Zaragoza. Escuela Nacional de Estudios Profesionales. National School of Professional Studies of the National University of Mexico (UNAM). Educational Technology Department, several positions.

Photographer for theater plays at the Cultural Unit El Bosque. INBA. Food Bank Volunteer DC Area

Part-time translator for Intellectus, Dumfries (Hurricane Maria) Free lance translator for Dawn Shepperd Web Design. Free Lance Medical Interpreter, The Language Group Education

Psychology, National University of Mexico, 1967- 1973. Centro de Capacitación Cinematográfica, CCC, 1979 - 1982 Juan Laguarda Photography Workshops, CCC, 1980.

Others

Certified as:

Community Interpreter 2017

Medical Interpreter 2019

Languages

Spanish

English

Guadalupe Ortega Ramírez

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