About
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Professionally, I am actually business oriented with a bachelor’s degree in business administration from the University of Applied Sciences, Koblenz (Germany), with a focus on foreign trade and marketing. During this time, I had the opportunity to spend an Erasmus semester at the Helsinki Business Polytechnic, Helsinki, Finland which was succeeded by the Haaga-Helia University of Applied Sciences in 2007. My thesis was a strategic marketing project about the implementation of a museum within a historic castle. Nevertheless, my first job after graduating from college was as an Investor Relations Manager. Working for an agency, I was able to gain valuable experience in a short period of time advising publicly traded companies and their supervisory board members on investor relations and the organization of annual general meetings. One of these major events was the first public annual general meeting of the Deutsche Post AG at the Koeln Arena. Later, already in Paraguay, I decided to pursue a master’s degree, which ended with a business plan as my thesis (all in Spanish, of course). A little later, while searching for an alternative statistics program, I discovered the statistical programming language. Since then, I have been fascinated by and use it daily both professionally and academically.
Within my research, I usually concentrate on aspects of the social sciences that are relevant to Paraguayan society, such as street crime, social justice, the social economy, and gender inequality, as well as the effects of public policies in these areas. Occasionally, I incorporate public health into this work. I also contribute to the community by developing (research) software such as the {concstats} package for measures of concentration, competition, and market structure in a given market. I’m also author and maintainer of the {pRycollection} package which contains datasets with enriched metadata about Paraguay for research and teaching.
I’m also a Certified Expert in Enterprise Risk Management from the Frankfurt School of Finance and Management, Frankfurt (Germany). I’m also a registered expert in this field at the Supreme Court in Paraguay.
If you have questions about my work or are interested in collaborating, feel free to contact me. I’m always interested in discussing data science consulting or workshop offerings.