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Cristóbal López

Angestellt, Programme and Administrative Officer, SLYCAN Trust
Abschluss: Master of Science (MSc.), Universidad Autónoma de San Luis Potosí (PMPCA - UASLP), San Luis Potosí, México
Bonn, Germany

Skills

MS Office
ArcGIS
QGIS
Project Management
Translation
English Language
Spanish Language
French Language
Team assistance
Organizational skills
Reporting
Sustainability
independent
Flexibility
Intercultural competence
ability to work under pressure
willingness to learn
Communication skills
Commitment
Reliability

Timeline

Professional experience for Cristóbal López

  • Current 1 year and 3 months, since Mar 2024

    Programme and Administrative Officer

    SLYCAN Trust

    - Contribute to the administration and coordination of SLYCAN Trust program and project activities (conferences, meetings or webinars, and their recording), project planning, monitoring and reporting. - Document review to collect data and review methodologies related to loss and damage in the context of climate change. - Support in the synthesis of such information for the drafting of research material, newsletters based on defined templates and content.

  • 4 months, Nov 2023 - Feb 2024

    Internship on Climate-related Research and Programme Support

    SLYCAN Trust

    - Documentary review to compile data and review methodologies related to loss and damage in the context of climate change. - Support in the synthesis of such information for the drafting of research material and other relevant activities. - Contribution to the planning and coordination of activities during conferences, meetings or webinars, as well as their subsequent recording.

  • 7 months, Mar 2023 - Sep 2023

    Project Assistant

    NGO Mondo

    - Monitoring emails and follow-up/complete administrative tasks. - Creation and updating of an organized database of documents (volunteer applications, checklists, and other informational materials). - Supporting in training and preparing volunteers for deployment.

  • 2 months, Apr 2023 - May 2023

    Consultant

    Protestant Churches of Switzerland (HEKS/EPER)

    Support the “Proposal of alternative slope stabilization options for 38 houses, combining bioengineering & conventional engineering techniques to ensure improved slope stability & a good cost-benefit ratio”: - Mapping biophysical data (geology, soil types, soil cover, slopes, rainfall, DEM & landslides susceptibility). - Cost-efficiency analysis with conventional engineering & bioengineering techniques (3 stabilization levels). - Drafting the report and Excel budget file with cost-efficiency analysis.

  • 2 months, Jan 2023 - Feb 2023

    Consultant

    Swiss Development Cooperation Agency (SDC)

    Support during the “Systematization and capitalization of lessons learned, challenges and best practices achieved by the Disaster Risk Reduction Program in Central America from SDC during the period 2000-2024”: - Review of more than 100 documents in Spanish, English, and French to extract orderly information for the systematization process. - Review and summary of part of the transcribed interviews. - Summary of beneficiaries’ number per project & data visualization.

  • 3 months, Oct 2022 - Dec 2022

    Translator

    Water Science Policy (WSP)

    Translations or review of translations from English articles into Spanish (4) and French (3).

  • 1 month, Aug 2020 - Aug 2020

    Consultant

    Proyectos y Negocios, S.A. (PRONESA)

    Elaboration of a Quality Management System Guide (ISO's 9001:2015 standard) with audit forms, incident reports, basic procedures (communication, info. control, risks & opportunities identification, etc.) & other reporting formats (e.g., infrastructure status, plagues & rodent control, cleaning control). PRONESA imports & distributes industrial lubricants (Lubrication Engineers, Inc.-EEUU), filter suppliers & quality air compressor spare parts for customers in the food & industrial sectors.

  • 3 months, Oct 2019 - Dec 2019

    Consultant

    Central American Institute for the Development of Human Capabilities (IXMATI)

    Contribution to developing the Risk Management Index of Dipilto, Ocotal, Mozonte, and Somoto municipalities: - Interviews with local municipality authorities and institution representatives (24). - Literature review and data processing related to risk and disaster management in these municipalities. - Implementation of workshops (4) to present and validate results with stakeholders (72).

  • 8 months, May 2019 - Dec 2019

    Lecturer

    Universidad Centroamericana (UCA

    - “Sustainable Development” module (virtual) taught to 34 students. - “Hydrology” and “Fundamentals of Environmental Analysis” (virtual) modules taught to 31 civil engineering students and 35 students from multiple careers, respectively.

  • 8 months, May 2017 - Dec 2017

    Lecturer

    Universidad Centroamericana (UCA)

    Bachelor’s thesis supervision for environmental engineering students (4).

  • 11 months, Feb 2017 - Dec 2017

    Researcher

    Universidad Centroamericana (UCA)

    Impact analysis for Climate Change Adaptation (CCA) measures from the “UCA - SDC Project”: - Survey application and analysis to assess community perceptions, as well as socio-economic and environmental indicators. - Development of an inventory of applied CCA measures in Ciudad Dario municipality. - Elaboration of thematic maps, as well as research reports.

  • 1 year and 3 months, Oct 2016 - Dec 2017

    Researcher

    Universidad Centroamericana (UCA)

    Systematization of “UCA-SDC project’s” experiences: - Data collection on results obtained during education processes in DRR and CCA (2014 – 2017) and report writing. - Survey application to key actors and beneficiaries, as for data processing to elaborate a systematization report of the project's activities.

  • 2 years and 10 months, Mar 2015 - Dec 2017

    Project Officer

    Universidad Centroamericana (UCA)

    - Project supervision (planning, MEAL, knowledge & financial MGMT, communication strategy follow-up). - Drafting technical & operational reports. - Review consultant's reports, research & communication material. - Work in multidisciplinary & multigenerational teams at UCA. - Planning & follow-up DRR-CCA courses with local NGO “Fe y Alegría”. - Org. workshops, fieldwork & International Day for Disaster Reduction (2015-2017) with the Nicaraguan Red Cross & other local org. related to DRR-CCA in Nicaragua.

  • 1 year and 2 months, Nov 2014 - Dec 2015

    Research Assistant

    Universidad Centroamericana (UCA)

    Drought and climate change effects in water resources and food safety in five communities of Ciudad Dario municipality, Matagalpa: - Survey application and data processing with SPSS. - Thematic maps production with ArcGIS. - Inventory of static water levels in community wells. - Report writing.

Educational background for Cristóbal López

  • 2 years and 1 month, Aug 2020 - Aug 2022

    Environmental Sciences

    Universidad Autónoma de San Luis Potosí (PMPCA - UASLP), San Luis Potosí, México

    Thesis title: “Participatory Assessment of Nature-based Solutions to complement the Environmental Management of the Dipilto River Watershed, Nicaragua”.

  • 2 years and 1 month, Aug 2020 - Aug 2022

    Natural Resources Management and Development

    University of Applied Science (ITT - TH Köln), Cologne, Germany

    Thesis title: “Participatory Assessment of Nature-based Solutions to complement the Environmental Management of the Dipilto River Watershed, Nicaragua”.

  • 11 months, Apr 2018 - Feb 2019

    Assessment and Management of Geological and Climate-related Risks

    University of Geneva (UNIGE), Geneva, Switzerland

    Research project: "Application of GIS and remote sensing for flood prone zones identification in La Tablazón micro-watershed (Dipilto municipality, Nicaragua)".

  • 6 months, May 2015 - Oct 2015

    Disaster Risk Reduction and Adaptation to Climate Change

    Universidad Centroamericana (UCA), Managua, Nicaragua

  • 5 years and 4 months, Jan 2010 - Apr 2015

    Environmental Quality Engineering

    Universidad Centroamericana (UCA), Managua, Nicaragua

    Thesis title: "Study of the effect of rainfall variability on the availability of water for human consumption in the municipality of Las Sabanas, Madriz (Nicaragua)".

Languages

  • Spanish

    First language

  • English

    Fluent

  • French

    Intermediate

  • German

    Basic

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