Professional Experience

The Managing of academic and administrative university departments for nearly 12 years has been to achieve successful outcomes of international networking and project management. I have been able to attract partners, funds and gathered teams from all sorts of backgrounds, professional fields and nationalities.

As Coordinator of Graduate programs at University of Anahuac, I made sure that programs became financially sound and sustainable. To achieve this goal, I networked with international faculty teams, managed academic projects and delivered improved programs to students. While working at the President Office, I developed academic projects from scratch to completion, performing tasks such as fund raising, proposal writing and international partner searches.

In these and other positions, I developed successful communication strategies for a variety of constituents, donors, student groups and alumni. I also developed marketing and social media strategies, corporate image campaigns and managed a 2.5 million dollar budget to advertise academic programs. In these roles, I worked extensively with Latin American, US, Canadian and European academic and research institutions. This work helped me achieve an international perspective and multicultural understanding.

While gaining technical skills and institutional know-how over the past 12 years, I have found that people have brought me on to projects for my creativity, enthusiasm, attention to detail, and my ability to implement a vision. Following you will find some of my professional experience as I also developed my own real estate firm in Mexico and I have some experience within the retail sector.

Armando Esposito Aldana  / 144 Leonard St. Brooklyn NY, 11206 USA / armandesco@gmail.com / 212-470-2780      

           

Objective: Develop successful business projects and marketing strategies while applying personal business expertise, thoughtful intelligence and multicultural skills. Apply smart and tenacious “people person” capacities.

 

Education

Universidad Anahuac Business School (ranked among Top 10 in Mexico): Full excellence scholarship.

Masters in Business Administration, Major in Finance: GPA 3.6

Business Administration Undergraduate Degree, Major in Tourism Management: GPA 3.6

 

Relevant Work Experience

Anáhuac University. Mexico                                                                                                         (1992-2010)

Worked 16 years focusing on international project management, Marketing, financial performance and public relations. Developed business, research, cultural, and development projects. Reported directly to the College President.

Executive Manager of the Graduate School

·  Achieved financial sustainability of graduate programs, which previously were in red numbers.

·  Developed international projects with the US Agency for International Development, Spain Agency for International Cooperation, University of Vermont, University of Southern Californian among others.

Project Manager for International Affairs and Strategic Development at the General Chancellor’s Office.

·  Developed international business projects with partners and founders such as the Inter-American Development Bank, World Bank, American Express Foundation, Harvard University, Vermont University, Claremont Graduate University, University of Southern California, UCLA, Surrey University and London School of Economics (UK).

·  Developed public policy projects and networked at diplomatic level for Mexico’s Presidential Office (Presidents Vicente Fox and Ernesto Zedillo) and with presidential chiefs of staff from the USA, Canada, UK, Spain and Belgium.

·  Developed corporate image, managed marketing and media campaign strategies: 2.5 million USD budgets.

Archipelagos Architects, New York City.                                                                  (Nov-Jan 2010)

Provided pro bono consultancy for the development of new products, market research and social media strategies.

Founder, owner and manager of two restaurants in Xalapa City, Mexico.                                    (2004-2009)

Kukiaio Restaurant: World Cuisine, and La Diavola Restaurant: Pizza & Gelato (40 staff members. Capacity: 195 customers). Rated by the New York Times within the four best restaurants in the city. Still in operation.

http://travel.nytimes.com/2007/11/18/travel/tmagazine/14talk-xalapa-t.html?scp=1&sq=kukiaio&st=cse

Additional Experience

International Living: lived in the USA, UK, the Middle East and Mexico.

Sabbatical Research: Undertook a 1.5 year journey to improve my multicultural understanding and interaction skills: Bolivia, Peru, Colombia, Guatemala, USA, Ireland, Spain, France, Italy, Greece, Turkey, Iran, Qatar, Pakistan, India, Nepal, Thailand, Laos, Vietnam, Cambodia, China, Hong Kong, Mongolia, Russia, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Czech Republic, Germany, Belgium, the Netherlands and the United Kingdom. 

Skills, Interests and volunteer work

Project Manager and International Public Relations.

·  Tenacious and smart hound dog skills for developing new projects. Diplomacy, Perception, Integrity and articulation for Public Relations. Capable of managing and resolving conflict and objections.

Native English and Spanish: 100% written and spoken. Italian & French: Conversational.

Volunteer Work                                                                                                  (1996-2010)

Outdoor Leadership workshop counsellor; Pro bono consultancy to new entrepreneurs; Liaison between USA-Mexico Universities, researchers and academics. Landscape photography and commercial interior design.