Employment

Full-time

School of Sciences and Engineering, University of Asia and the Pacific (Academe). 

Position: Program Director of the Industrial Engineering Program and Assistant Professor. July 1 2024 - present.  Handles courses in Systems Engineering, Operations Research, Management Science, Predictive and Prescriptive analytics, Supply Chain Management at the undergraduate and graduate levels (including PhD Program).  Advises and mentors students on their data analytics capstone projects.  Directs the Industrial Engineering program of the university. Establishes linkages with the industry, and develops new courses and curricula.

Position: Secretary of the Operations / Executive Committee of the School of Sciences and Engineering. January 1 2025 - present.  

Portland State University, Oregon, United States (Academe). Position: Visiting Senior Scholar. Funded by Fulbright Program. February 15 2024 - June 15 2024 (extended without Fulbright funding until 30 June 2025). https://www.fulbright.org.ph/index.php/varsolo-sunio

Philippine Council for Industry, Energy, and Emerging Technology Research and Development, Department of Science and Technology (DOST-PCIEERD) (Government).  Position: S&T Fellow II for transport and logistics-related research. Responsibilities: Develops roadmaps and project concepts on Intelligent Transport System, Road-based and Maritime transport, and Logistics for funding by the government; Conducts research on the conceptualization, development, piloting, deployment and upscaling of innovations across multiple sectors (industry, energy and technology). November 10 2021 - December 31 2023.  

Convenor of the following Special Interest Groups (SIG):  

Physical Internet for Logistics: https://sites.google.com/uap.asia/physicalinternetph/

Service Contracting of Public Transport: https://sites.google.com/uap.asia/servicecontractph/

Transport Science PH: https://sites.google.com/uap.asia/transportsciph/ 

Social media appearances:

https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=1209030236510398 

https://www.facebook.com/DOST.STFellows/videos/712210753358979 

Accenture - Technology, Advanced Technology Centers in the Philippines.  Position: Project & Service Management Consultant / Tech Writing & Translation Specialist and Workflow Lead.  Assisted developers from Japan deploy their applications to the cloud and software platform of Google. Deployed by Yondu Inc. as a Japanese Bilingual (Workflow Lead) to Accenture/Google. Main role is to review Android apps by third-party developers (in both English and Japanese) for Google policy compliance before integrating them into the functionality of Google Assistant.  Certified Associate Google Cloud Engineer (Valid until 23 September 2024). Took up courses on Professional Data Engineer and Professional Machine Learning Engineer in Qwiklabs, Coursera and Udemy. September 30, 2019 - October 31, 2021.

Department of Transportation (Government). Position: Data Scientist / Information Officer. Primarily responsible for the management, integration and analysis of various transport data for planning, as well as setting policies for data sharing within the government and data release to the public. June 2018 - September 2019.

Makati Medical Center.  Position: Supply Chain Analyst.  Reviewed and documented end-to-end medication and supply process flow for bar-coding implementation. July - October 2014.

School of Sciences and Engineering, University of Asia and the Pacific.  Position: Instructor.  Taught science and engineering courses, conducted research and extension work. June 2007 - July 2013.

Part-time

Science Engineering and Management Research Institute (SEMRI), University of Asia and the Pacific (Academe). Chief Research Fellow of the university's research institute. Manages research projects related to sustainable development goals from the Global South through innovative research, technology and policy.  January 2022 - present. https://sites.google.com/uap.asia/semri/ 

School of Management, University of Asia and the Pacific. Handles courses in Operations Research, Management Science, Predictive and Prescriptive analytics at the undergraduate and graduate levels (including PhD Program).  Advises students on their data analytics capstone projects.  January 2019 - present.

Japanese Studies Program, Ateneo de Manila University. Taught basic Japanese grammar, vocabulary and conversation to professionals. Prepared test-takers for JLPT N5-N2. June 2018 - September 2019.

Consultancy

The Asia Foundation. Coalitions for Change (CfC).  (15 October 2024 - present)

Center for Engineering and Sustainable Development Research, De La Salle University. Sustainable Technology-Assisted Route Planning for Region VI (STARPLAN VI).  (November 1, 2021 - April 30, 2022). 

Rizal Library, Ateneo de Manila University. Analyzed two years worth of data using RapidMiner from Rizal Library and proposed recommendations for service delivery improvements.  (July 1 - December 31, 2018). Certificate here.

Brodlie Medical Systems, Inc.  Reviewed the company’s business processes, identified bottlenecks, and proposed recommendations for improvement..  (October 1 - December 31, 2016). Certificate here.

University of Macau. 

Conducted face-to-face interviews and document analysis of two large-scale social enterprises in the Philippines, prepared theoretical framework drawn from various social entrepreneurship streams and performed encoding using RQDA. 

Conducted face-to-face interviews with respondents from the government and industry for the study “Servant Leadership of Corazon Aquino”. Mined data from various sources and conducted analysis of documents for the study “Training and Development in the Philippines”.

National Institute of Physics, University of the Philippines. Assisted in the implementation of the project, Art Beyond Appearances: Physics Looks into Paintings. The project makes use of physics-based approaches to solving artwork conservation and climate control challenges of tropical museums.

Professional Services

Technical Panel. Member of the panel that evaluates projects for government funding by the Department of Science and Technology (PCIEERD and NRCP) and Philippine-California Advanced Research Institutes (PCARI) – Commission on Higher Education (CHED)

Editorial Board, Innovatus. Innovatus is an official journal of the Department of Information Science and Technology, University of Asia and the Pacific. https://innovatus-pub.github.io/editorialboard.html

Volunteer Work

University Center Foundation. Amber Drive University Center, Lauan Study Center, Maynilad Study Center (Philippines).

East Asian Education Limited. Ravenahl Study Centre (Singapore).

The Foundation for the Advancement of Education. Yoshida Student Center (Japan).

Others

Part-time jobs in Japan. Kinder Kids International School (9 months); Meishin Primary School (3 months); Fujinomori Middle School (6 months); WAK Japan Tours (1.5 years); Gion Shimonso Hotel (1 year); Sawaya Hotel (1 year); Seido Language Institute (1.5 years)