Carla Gómez Monroy

 

 

 

B.A. Computer and Management Systems

Universidad de las Ameritas (UDLA)

Mexico City, 2001

 

 

 

 

 

[ My Undergraduate Work Self]

prior

mit media lab

 

 

 

Education

®       Bachelor of Arts with Honors in Computer and Management Systems, May 2001.
[Thesis: Applying information technologies to company strategy: Customer Relationship Management.] Universidad de las Americas, Mexico City.

Experience

®       Community Development Consultant
Secretaria de Desarrollo Social (Social Development Secretariat) and Universidad de las Americas
Coatepec, Puebla, Mexico (19 Jul – 30 Jul, 1999)

·         As co-consultant, researched and recorded the history of the community, its current situation, geography, know-how, major production fields, traditions and lifestyle that most of the times are either just stored in people's memories or lost.

·         As co-consultant, diagnosed, analyzed, assessed and proposed, together with members of the community, seeking to find solutions by and for the community, who had to take the initiative and the decisions in order to make socio-economic progress. [report in Spanish] [brief ‘bio-account’ in English]

®       Management Assistant
Universidad de las Americas, Educational Planning Department
Mexico
City (1997 – 1999)

·         Carried out: institutional planning and evaluation, purchasing and library inventories management, and market research (positioning and promotion of the university).

®       Visiting Aerobics Professor
Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico, Sports and Recreational Activities Department. Mexico City (1996 – 2002)

·         Created routines, prepared class structure, and instructed students in choreographic aerobics routines for special events or tournaments.

Volunteering activities

®       Facilitator and Counselor, Integration Camp for Street Children
Veracruz, Mexico (Aug 1999)

·         Counseled, guided, and made friends with street kids.A summer camp project for integrating street-kids into "children's residences." [story]

®       Volunteer in "Flood Victims Build-Your-Own-Home Project"
Chiapas, Mexico (Dec 13 - 20, 1998)

·         Helped pregnant women and elderly people to build their houses: digging the foundations, carrying buckets of water and construction materials long distances, making adobe bricks, encouraging them. It was a project where the government provided the materials and the victims and volunteers did the work. [report in Spanish]

®       Toys-raiser and Fun Activity Organizer
Telmex Fund, Mexico city (1999 – 2002)

·         Raised new toys and candy to be given to orphan kids twice a year, on Children's Day and on the Twelfth-night; and organized and played games with the children.

®       Volunteer at Kaiser Sunnyside Medical Center
Portland, OR (summer 1998)

®       Practicing Sports with Autistic and Hearing-impaired People
Mexico (summer 1997)

Athletics

Taekwondo college competition team (Mexico, 1996 - 2001); aerobics participant in college demonstrations and tournaments (Mexico, 1996 - 2002); jazz dancing promotional performer (Mexico, Christmas season 2001); rock climbing, speleology, camping, and biking (Mexico, Apr - Sept 2001)

 

 

 

 

My Primary Self

1977 – 1997

My Graduate Work Self

[MIT Media Lab]

Sep 2002 – Aug 2004

My Professional SEED Self

[Schlumberger SEED Foundation]

Oct 2004 – Jul 2006

My OLPC Self

[One Laptop Per Child]

Apr 2007 – Jan 2009

 

 

  

Updated: Jun. 1, 2007