Francisco Marco-Serrano (fmarco/kpkonline.com)

Francisco Marco-Serrano has a degree on Economics for the Universitat de València (Spain) and the Diploma d'Estudis Avançats (Advanced Studies Diploma) on Economic Analysis (postgraduate program that includes 210h worth of lessons plus a pre-doctoral dissertation) for the Departament d'Anàl.lisi Econòmica (Economics Department) of the same university. He has also completed the postgraduate course on Operations Management for the Universitat Oberta de Catalunya (Spain).

He has devoted the second half of his academic life to analyse the culture from the point of view of economics, aka "cultural economics". For almost ten years he has been collaborating with the Unitat de Investigació en Economia de la Cultura (Cultural Economics Research Unit) of the Departament d'Economia Aplicada (Applied Economics Department) from the Universitat de València.

His interests are the analysis of the processes (conventional or non-conventional ones) in order to gain the needed knowledge to improve their productivity. This is the fact that motivated his interests on the logistics-oriented fields from Operations Research.

Currently he is looking for exciting new opportunities related to economics, business, and technology.

Francisco Marco-Serrano (fmarco/kpkonline.com)’s Specialties:

Productivity analysis, supply chain management, costing, tangential & forward thinking.

Languages: Catalan (mother-tongue), Spanish (second language), fluent in English (IELTS Band 8), learning portuguese.

Francisco Marco-Serrano (fmarco/kpkonline.com)’s Experience

Adjunct Professor

Universitat Jaume I

(Educational Institution; 1001-5000 employees; Research industry)

September 2008 — Present (4 months)

Economics Department
Adjunct Professor

Universitat de València

(Educational Institution; 1001-5000 employees; Research industry)

January 2008 — Present (1 year)

Business Administration Department
Economist

K|P|K

(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Management Consulting industry)

October 2007 — Present (1 year 3 months)
Managing Director

Esmalglass do Brasil Ltda.

(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Chemicals industry)

March 2006 — August 2007 (1 year 6 months)
General Manager

Esmalglass (UK) Ltd

(Chemicals industry)

January 2002 — January 2006 (4 years 1 month)
Assistant Controller

Esmalglass, S.A.

(Privately Held; 201-500 employees; Chemicals industry)

December 2000 — November 2001 (1 year)
Adjunct Professor

University of Valencia

(Educational Institution; 1001-5000 employees; Research industry)

October 2000 — November 2000 (2 months)

Applied Economics Department, "Universitat de València" (Spain).

Subject: "Political Economics" for 1st year of the Degree on Law Studies.

Comment: It was a substitution covering the Consumer & Producer Microeconomic Theory lessons.
Factory Operative (Extrusion Machine)

Exagres, S.A.

(Glass, Ceramics & Concrete industry)

June 2000 — October 2000 (5 months)

Employed through agency (Adecco ETT, S.A.).
I really enjoyed this hands-on shop-floor position that got me insight into workers minds about the manager-subordinates relationship, plus the way work is seen from "the other side".
Scholarship holder

University of Valencia

(Educational Institution; Higher Education industry)

September 1999 — October 1999 (2 months)

Researching for the project "Sectors Culturals com a Estratègia de Desenvolupament Territorial a les Comarques Centrals Valencianes" (Cultural Sectors as a Territorial Development Strategy in the Comarques Centrals Valencianes).

Grant from "Universitat de València" (Spain), financed by CONCERCOST-TERRA through the "Consorci de Comarques Centrals Valencianes".

Department: Applied Economics.
Main Researcher: Pau Rausell-Köster.
Scholarship Holder

University of Valencia

(Educational Institution; Higher Education industry)

October 1998 — June 1999 (9 months)

"Collaborative Senior Student Research Grant" from Ministerio de Educación y Ciencia (Ministry of Education & Science).
My lines of research were focused on "cultural economics", leading to the analysis of the efficiency and productivity of cultural performances.

Department: Applied Economics.
Tutor: Pau Rausell-Köster.
Administration Officer

Esmalglass, S.A.

(Privately Held; 501-1000 employees; Chemicals industry)

July 1998 — September 1998 (3 months)

Officer at the Administration Department, assisting in the Purchasing, Accounts, and Financial areas.
Administration Officer

Esmalglass, S.A.

(Privately Held; 201-500 employees; Chemicals industry)

July 1997 — September 1997 (3 months)

Officer at the Administration Department, assisting in the Purchasing, Accounts, and Financial areas.
Administration Officer

Esmalglass, S.A.

(Privately Held; 201-500 employees; Chemicals industry)

July 1996 — September 1996 (3 months)

Officer at the Administration Department, assisting in the Purchasing, Accounts, and Financial areas.
Factory Operative

Esmalglass, S.A.

(Privately Held; 201-500 employees; Chemicals industry)

July 1995 — September 1995 (3 months)
Factory Operative

Esmalglass, S.A.

(Privately Held; 201-500 employees; Chemicals industry)

July 1994 — September 1994 (3 months)

Francisco Marco-Serrano (fmarco/kpkonline.com)’s Education

Universitat Jaume I

BSc, Computer Science, 2008 — 2012 (expected)

Just trying it out through the UJI's on-line educational system.
2012 is only a very poor estimate ; )
Universitat Oberta de Catalunya

Postgraduate, Operations Management, 2005 — 2006

Lessons included subjects on the full supply chain management comprising procurement, production, warehousing, transport and distribution. The dissertation was on the efficiency of the procurement process considering all the cost-related variables ("Procurement Process Efficiency Analysis: Looking for a Managerial Monitoring Tool"), this is, the total cost of ownership and its integration into the Balanced Scorecard.
Universitat de València

MA, Economic Analysis, 1999 — 2001

Advanced Studies Diploma (Postgraduate program comprising 210h of lessons, plus a pre-doctoral dissertation). It was carried out in the Economics Department of the Universitat de València (Spain).

Lessons included subjects on Advanced Macro & Microeconomics, Advanced Econometrics, Experimental Economics, and Cultural & Communication Economics. The dissertation was on cultural economics, related to the performing arts sector; "Efficiency Analysis in the Performing Arts Sector: The Case of the CTV (1995-1999)" dealt with the efficiency analysis of a Spanish theatres network, exploring the possibility of monitoring the performance of the cultural managers.

Activities and Societies:

During my MA studies I collaborated with the "Cultural Economics Research Unit" analysing several cultural sectors and issues (performing arts, museums, copyright, culture as a developmental tool, the macroeconomics of the culture, experimental economics applied to cultural research...).My collaboration followed further after my leaving from the University.
Universitat de València

Lic., Economics, 1995 — 1999

For the first two years I focused on accounts and finance, following the more analytical path for the remaining two. I enjoyed the microeconomics, econometrics and maths subjects.

Activities and Societies:

During my last year I holded a scholarship from the "Ministerio de Educación y Ciencia" (Spanish Department for Science and Education) given to introduce students in their last faculty year into research.

Department: Applied Economics.
Tutor: Pau Rausell Köster.
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My research can be reviewed both on:

IDEAS - http://ideas.repec.org/f/pma327.html

SSRN - http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/cf_dev/AbsByAuth.cfm?per_id=389268

Additional Information

Francisco Marco-Serrano (fmarco/kpkonline.com)’s Websites:

Francisco Marco-Serrano (fmarco/kpkonline.com)’s Interests:

Economics, Operations Research, Technology.

Francisco Marco-Serrano (fmarco/kpkonline.com)’s Groups:

Ilustre Colegio de Economistas de Castellón (ICEC),
American Economic Association (AEA),
Institute for the Operations Research and the Management Science (INFORMS).