Nestor Santos

Information Technology and Services

Hi, I'm Nestor Santos. Welcome to my profile!

Nestor Santos's Bio:

Nestor Santos's Experience:

• Projects Manager at Corporaci?n Cobeii

  January 2004 - May 2012

• Associate professor at Universidad de Santander, UDES

  January 2001 - May 2012

  Professor of Entrepreneurship Development Professor of Management Information Systems

• CEO at GRUPO CONDOR S.A.

  September 2000 - May 2012

  o Founder and former CEO o Developed and implemented company strategy. o Handled commercial and legal representation of the company o Represented the company at academic institutions, economics and political groups

• Chairman of the Board at Cetics, Corporacion cluster de empresas de TIC de Santander

  March 2009 - March 2012

  o Handled board of members. o 30 Local Business members o Improved internal governance policies. o Planed entity?s trategic goals. o Delegated spokesman

• Chairman of the Board at CETICS, Corporaci?n Cluster de empresas de TIC de Santander

  2009 - 2012

• Associate professor at Universidad Pontificia Bolivariana

  January 2011 - July 2011

  Professor of Entrepreneurship

• (HR)Head research; (AR)Associate Research; (RA) Research Assistant at Investigador principal y auxiliar III

  September 2007 - January 2011

  * PROJECT: Traceability of products in stock, finished products, consumables, raw materials and shipments made to dispatch centers to track and coding INSTITUTION: Universidad de Santander, UDES. GRUPO NUEVAS TECNOLOGIAS FUNDS: Public Funds (COLCIENCIAS) and Company-financing DIRECTOR: REINA VILLAMIZAR,LUIS DATE: From 09/11/2007 to 30/09/2009 ROLE: (AR)Associate Researc Support in the preliminary documentation and implementation. Team coordination and reviewing progress, support in reporting and documentation of progress. Definition of scope of research activities. Promotion Results * PROJECT: Design, development and testing of a model of traceability for the meat chain in Santander, applications supported by RFID Radio Frequency Identification and Colombian law 1500 of 2007, thereby integrating their links (Livestock, Refrigerators and Producers) INSTITUTION: Corporaci?n COBEII FUNDS: Public Funds (COLCIENCIAS) and Company-financing DIRECTOR: PABON, MANUEL DATE: From 03/08/2009 to 03/01/2011 ROLE: (AR)Associate Research) DESCRIPTION OF ACTIVITIES Definition of traceability model and definition of scope of developed software. Commissioning and implementation of information system. Vendor selection and purchasing equipment. Technology transfer to participating companies and the academic community

• (HR)Head research; (AR)Associate Research; (RA) Research Assistant at Investigador principal y auxiliar II

  January 2007 - May 2009

  * PROJECT: EPC (electronic product code) system development based on RFID technology for warehouse environments, open spaces and asset tracking INSTITUTION: GRUPO CONDOR S.A. FUNDS: Public Funds (FOMIPYME) and Company-financing DIRECTOR: SANTOS, NESTOR DATE: From 01/08/2007 to 30/09/2008 ROLE: HR (Principal Researcher) DESCRIPTION OF ACTIVITIES Support in the preliminary documentation and implementation. Team coordination and reviewing progress, support in reporting and documentation of progress, financial and administrative coordination. Definition of scope of research activities. Promotion Results * PROJECT: Development of a Monitoring Centre based on analytics software and data adquisition and the provision of analytical services for the energy sector, specializing in substations INSTITUTION: GRUPO CONDOR S.A. FUNDS: Public Funds (FOMIPYME) and Company-financing DIRECTOR: SANTOS,ALFREDO DATE: From 05/05/2008 to 05/05/2009 ROLE: AR (Research Assistant) DESCRIPTION OF ACTIVITIES Support in the preliminary documentation and implementation. Review progress, support the development of progress reports and documents. Control and monitoring of consultants and coordination of developed products of software and hardware. Shopping and suppliers. administrative coordination.

• (HR)Head research; (AR)Associate Research; (RA) Research Assistant at Investigador principal y auxiliar I.

  January 2003 - August 2005

  * PROJECT: Proposal of an Architecture Technology oriented teaching strategies for independent learning INSTITUTION: Universidad de Santander UDES FUNDS: University resources DIRECTOR: PARRA PATI?O, EXPEDITO DATE: From 01/01/2003 to 01/01/2005 ROLE: CR (Co-researcher) DESCRIPTION OF ACTIVITIES Assistance in the definition of autonomous learning methods, testing technological applications for the development of learning tests, reporting and documentation * PROJECT: POS-MED; Development of information systems and Software for Mobile computing for managing patient clinical information in mobile environments INSTITUTION: GRUPO CONDOR S.A. FUNDS: Public Funds (SENA) and Self-financing DIRECTOR: SANTOS, NESTOR DATE: From 10/08/2004 to 30/08/2005 ROLE: HR (Principal Researcher) DESCRIPTION OF ACTIVITIES Project formulation, preliminary documentation and implementation. During the project coordination team-members, review progress, reporting and documentation of progress, financial and administrative coordination. Promotion and marketing strategy definition for final products

• Associate professor at Universidad Cooperativa de Colombia

  July 2004 - December 2004

  Professor of Project Evaluation Professor of Technology Management Professor of Creativity

• Senior Advisor at Missouri Innovation Center

  November 2012

  * Due diligence. Electronic Medical Records company. Supporting the business model generation to obtain support and funds from Venture Capital; Centennial Investors. October 2012 - May 2013 * Business Model and grant proposal. Voice Recognition Technology for improving the reading and writing proficiency, for learning environments. Advising the entrepreneur. May 2013.

• Board Member at Pensemos S.A.

  February 2012

  Advising new opportunities on formation and business structure. Brand development, brand strategy, segmentation and positioning.

• Board Member at VPSA

  March 2010

  Energy and Natural Gas commercialization company

• MBA Student, senior advisor, invited speaker and corporate relations at Private consultant and advisor

  August 2008

  Consultancy for private organizations Promoting and developing business partnerships Cluster development RFID projects * Consulting project. Minnesota Public Radio. Doubling the revenues of the company at Rochester, MN. Development of the company?s "revenue equation" and strategies to increase the income streams from the donors and supporters. January 2013 - June 2013

Nestor Santos's Education:

• University of Missouri-Columbia

  2012 – 2014
  Master of Business Administration (MBA)

• Instituto Tecnol?gico y de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey

  2011 – 2013
  MsC. Administration and enterprise development
  Concentration: Business/Managerial Economics

• State University of New York at Buffalo

  2012 – 2012

• Universidad del Rosario

  2008 – 2009
  Training Program for High Level Strategic Management of Innovation
  Concentration: Strategy and Innovation

• Universidad Industrial de Santander

  1995 – 2000
  Industrial Engineer

• Universidad Pontificia Bolivariana

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