Being a bilingual actuary (fluent in English and native in Spanish), having studied abroad (in the UK) with more than 20 years of credited experience, having worked in multidisciplinary and multicultural environments as an Independent Consultant for USAID (through CARANA and Development Associates) and as an Actuarial and Benefits Consultant (for Towers Perrin and MERCER), being a Computer Programmer (in C++, Splus, R-language, FoxPro, etc.) and knowing how to work MS-Office (Excel, PowerPoint, Word, etc.), being able to self-teach and teach others, being familiar with Quality Management principles (Deming, EFQM, Baldrige;etc.) and local and foreign labor and social security legislations, having participated in teams for Privatization and Due-Diligence processes (for Mergers and Acquisitions), knowing IAS, FAS; gives me the ability to perform under the Basel-II principles on how to deal with Human Resources’ Operational Risks.
The above, has enabled me to work as a consulting actuary, HR consulting (benefits, compensation, mergers, acquisitions, salary scales, etc.), IAS/FAS consulting and as a financial expert for labor, civil and commercial legal trials.
My current interests include (but are not limited to) the following:
a.) To encourage the need to build a Worldwide Benefits Database based on a benefit risk benchmarking philosophy;
b.) To encourage the need for actuarial researches to broaden their scope, in order to provide HR consulting actuaries with tools that serve to provide new products and services (as an example, please take a look at my IASQF 2014 presentation);
c.) To open a discussion on IAS19’s criteria on how to set the discount rate to be used in the calculations of Defined Benefit Obligations, since it collides with the economic principle of an interest rate term structure;
d.) To encourage the need for short courses/diploma/specialization for actuaries/accountants in employee benefits
