Armando Izquierdo

Business mentor, Change Agent, Consultant, Designer, Educator/Teacher, Engineer, Idea generator

Armando holds a Mechanical Engineer degree from Universidad Metropolitana (Caracas, Venezuela) and two master degrees from Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), one in Mechanical Engineer and other in Management of Technology. Armando is the Director of Pacific Corporate University since beginning of year 2010. His main responsibilities are the design and implementation of the corporate university at Pacific Rubiales Energy, a Canadian Oil Company that has operations in Colombia, Peru, Guatemala, and more recently in Brazil. Prior to his current position, he worked as independent consultant for six years facilitating and implementing businesses transformational processes dealing with human capital management, technology management, innovation, knowledge management and organizational learning. As consultant he worked in Venezuela, Mexico, Andean Region (Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, and Chile) and Canada. He worked for 26 years in the Venezuelan National Oil Company (PDVSA) being one of the pioneers of its R&D Center and the company corporate university. He is frequently invited as guess speaker in the areas of Knowledge Management, innovation, and organizational learning.

I am passionate about helping individuals and organizations to learn. That is what I do for work. I am Also Passionate about my hobbies: 3D design, Games Development, Robotics.

3d & graphic design, 3D Animation, competence management, Competence/Capability Management & Development, Corporate Learning, corporate universities, Game Design & Development, Graphic & Multimedia Design, Knowledge Management - Education, video / editor