Since 1999 I was involved, paralell to my academic work, on different professional projects. Because of my current full-focus on my Master Program, I had this part of my life in hold.

Catholic University of Chile

Since 2001 I have been teaching at the Journalism School of the Catholic University of Chile. As member of the New Media Department.

The Weather Channel

During the summer of 2006, I worked for almost three months at The Weather Channel.

Canal 13, Chile

I worked for five years at the Internet Department of Channel 13 (1999-2005), one of the two main national television networks in Chile as Advanced Project Web Development. In 1999 we were 3 persons involved in the new website project. Today, there are more than 30 people working on their staff.

  • Creation, development and production for over 50 new web sites of canal13.cl.

  • IA and UI design, data modeling, coding and evaluation.

  • Leader of interdisciplinary teams: designers, engineers and journalists.

  • Development and research of new technologies: Content Management Systems, Streaming video, multimedia and interactive mobile content solutions, television/internet convergence, etc.

  • First developments in Chilean Internet: PDA Enabled Website (1999), Continuous Live Streaming (1999), First live event coverage with video (1999), MMS/SMS Content and Realtime / On Demand Video Streaming for Cellphones (2003), Broadband Video Store (2004), TV ticker with content coming from Cellphones (2004),  Dynamic Flash Platform (2005), etc.

  • Developed first VizRT database driven solution for live broadcast events.

Professional Consulting and Freelancing

Since I was in the Journalism School I have been involved in numerous projects on my own. I created different websites and Internet solutions for profit and non-profit companies and organizations.


Relevant Project List

Skills and Expertise

  • Advanced Internet development, administration of websites and technologies (HTML, Streaming Media, XML, etc.) and excellent knowledge on development tools to create websites with database relationship (PHP, ASP, MySQL, Oracle, Javascript, etc.). Good knowledge of other computer programming languages like Visual Basic and Java.

  • Advanced use of computer operating systems and networks solutions: Windows  and Mac OS. User level knowledge of Linux/Unix based systems.

  • Advanced use of non-linear digital video editing (Avid Express, Premiere, Final Cut Pro, etc.), newsroom systems (INews) and 3D realtime broadcast graphic solutions (VizRT).

  • Advanced use of computer software (Microsoft Office, Corel Draw, Illustrator, Premiere, Photoshop, Pagemaker, InDesign, Dreamweaver, Flash, Frontpage, Cooledit Pro, Quicktime, etc.) in Windows and Macintosh platforms.

Professional Portfolio

Here is available my professional resume and portfolio