AREAS OF EXPERTISE

• Architecture.
• Urban planning.

EMPLOYMENT

• 2001-present: General Director, Centro de Estudios Urbanos Sociales y Sustentables, Tijuana, Baja California.
• 1999-2001: Coordinator, Alamar Project, Instituto Municipal de Planeacion (IMPlan), Tijuana, Baja California.
• 1999-2000: Professor, Centro Universitario de Tijuana (CUT), Urban Planning, Public Services.

EDUCATION

• Ph.D. Candidate, Urban Studies Program, Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico (UNAM), Mexico City.
• M.S., 2000, Urban Planning, El Colegio de la Frontera Norte, Tijuana, Baja California.
• B.S., 1987, Architecture, Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico (UNAM), Mexico City.
  

PROJECTS

• Project Coordinator, Plan parcial para el desarrollo del Arroyo Tecate, Fundacion la Puerta, Tecate, Baja California.
• Coordinator of the study "Master Plan for the Development of Arroyo Alamar," XVII Ayuntamiento de Tijuana, Baja California.
• Schematic proposal for the rehabilitation of Arroyo Alamar, Tijuana, Baja California.
• Coordinator of the study "Urban Development of Tijuana's downtown," IMPLan, Tijuana, Baja California.
• Analysis of Urban Centers in the State of Guerrero.

• "Ciudad Viva," Bulletin of the Instituto Municipal de Planeación, Tijuana, Volume 1, No. 1 (Winter 1999/2000).
• "Ciudad Viva," Volume 1, No. 2 (Fall 2000).
• "La Urbanizacion Moderna del pueblo de Tiquicheo a fines de la epoca colonial," Revista de Estudios Historicos, Instituto Nacional de Antropologia e Historia, Mexico, D.F., CONACYT.
• "Arquitectura o Pastiche: La transformación urbana-arquitectónica de Playas de Rosarito," article prepared for the Instituto de Cultura de Baja California (ICBC).
• "Tourism in the Urban Transformation of Playas de Rosarito, Baja California," M.S. thesis, El Colegio de la Frontera Norte, Tijuana, Baja California.
• "Alternatives for design of the popular space, given the colonial period," Undergraduate thesis, Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico (UNAM), Mexico, D.F.

OTHER ACTIVITIES

• 1987: Participant, representing México, at the International Union of Architects, in the final phase of the contest on housing, International Year of Housing for the Homeless, Madrid, Spain.
• 1989: Presentor of the project "Housing for the Homeless," Innovative Shelter Exposition, Ottawa, Canada.