Rodrigo Aguilar

Current

MBA in Global Management at Thunderbird School of Global Management

Past

Project Manager at Instituto de Informática Educativa
Project Engineer at Instituto de Informática Educativa

Education

Thunderbird School of Global Management
Universidad de Chile
Universidad de la Frontera

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Information Technology and Services

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Rodrigo Aguilar’s Summary

MBA in Global Management and Industrial Engineer with 3 years of working experience providing consultancy and outsourcing services, managing multidisciplinary teams in breakthrough IT development projects for the Chilean Ministry Education and the Chilean Health Ministry.

Seeking a position in a multinational company where project management and multicultural skills can increase the overall productivity of working teams.

Rodrigo Aguilar’s Specialties:

Project Management, Research & Development, Budgets

Rodrigo Aguilar’s Experience

MBA in Global Management

Thunderbird School of Global Management

(Educational Institution; Higher Education industry)

January 2009 — Present (11 months)
Project Manager

Instituto de Informática Educativa

(Research industry)

January 2006 — May 2008 (2 years 5 months)

• Leaded a team of 6 programmers, 2 designers, and 4 schoolteachers in the development of 25 flash based digital objects for learning and education on science and mathematics. The Ministry of Education in Chile is testing these objects in order to be installed massively in Chilean schools in the future.

• Software manager for the customization and development of a Linux distribution for recovering and reutilization of old computers in Chilean schools. At the end of 2006, 2200 Chilean schools were working with laboratories based on the educational Linux distribution, EduLinux (http://edulinux.cl).

• Designed, developed, and implemented technologies for the project “E-Health, connecting the Hospital with the community”. Designed a “videoconferencing car” to connect interned children with their parents in remote communities around the 9th region, using a wireless network inside that hospital. This project is now being implemented in four more regions in the center and south of Chile.

• Specified technology requirements for the digitalization and interconnection of 4 health centers in Temuco, Chile. Managed hardware and software installations.
Project Engineer

Instituto de Informática Educativa

(Information Technology and Services industry)

January 2005 — December 2005 (1 year )

• Participated in the specification of technology requirements for the Chilean schools in a yearly basis. Consulting project for the Ministry of Education of Chile.

Rodrigo Aguilar’s Education

Thunderbird School of Global Management

MBA , Global Management , 2009 — 2009

• Academic excellence scholarship for full tuition and expenses granted by BHP Billiton.
• Participated in multicultural consulting teams projects for the non-profit One Step Beyond Inc. in organizational change and for WALMART in business intelligence strategies to expand operations in Latin America.

Activities and Societies:

soccer club, latam club, chilean club, courgart cohort
Universidad de Chile

Master , Global Management , 2008 — 2009

BHP Billiton Scholarship
Universidad de la Frontera

Engineer , Industrial , 1999 — 2005

Minor in Computer Science

Academic Research: Developed an application to solve linear programming problems, taking advantage of the resources given by a cluster of computers.