FELIPE M. NOGUERA
felipemnoguera@gmail.com
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SUMMARY
Regarded as an eloquent advocate and creative strategic thinker, Felipe is an accomplished executive with extensive international experience in media, corporate communications, telecommunications, education, business administration, human rights advocacy, community organization and international trade. Visionary leader with success in managing regional Caribbean organizations, establishing them on financially successful footing, Noguera was a central figure and lead negotiator in multiple international trade negotiations and symposia, including World Trade Organization, EU, CHOGM, Summit of the Americas and has extensive experience as Communications Specialist, television news and documentary producer, anchor, and radio host. Multi-lingual and dynamic presenter and team leader. Noguera has a track record of delivering high performance, maximizing the transformational impact of technology by constantly seeking best practice and attracting, developing and retaining the great talent to sustain it.
SKILLS PROFILE
Major program execution Corporate Communications and Strategic Planning
Executive Business/ Educational Leadership, Equity, Diversity and Inclusion Trainer (Los Angeles Public Schools)
Media production, broadcast and telecommunications policy International trade,
University of the West Indies/Arthur Lok Jack Business School - Lecturer, Enhanced Professional Writing
University of the Southern Caribbean - Lecturer, Intercultural Communications, Interpersonal Communications, Crisis Communications, Public Relations; Designed Masters in Corporate Communications.
Director of COMMUNICATIONS - 5TH SUMMIT OF THE AMERICAS AND COMMONWEALTH HEADS OF GOVERNMENT MEETING (CHOGM), Port of Spain, Trinidad Senior Coordinator
MIAMI DADE COUNTY PUBLIC SCHOOLS, Miami, FL
Chief Communications Officer
Reporting directly to the Superintendent of the 4th largest school district in the United States, had 12 Direct reports and responsibility for supervision of 250 employees. Areas of responsibility included Media Relations, Public Relations, Community Engagement, Citizens Information Center (responding within statutory requirements to all Public Information Requests), WLRN public radio and television and Translation Services. Major accomplishments include building bridges to the Spanish-speaking community of Miami Dade County and spearheading the digitization of WLRN’s Instructional Fixed Television Service in compliance with the US Federal Communications Commission’s mandate, while developing original program content for public education.
Aug. 2006 – Sept. ’07
THE CABLE COMPANY OF TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO (CCTT)
Chief Executive Officer
Responsible for doubling the business subscriber base; pioneered introduction of educational programming on cable television in Trinidad and Tobago and introduction of competitive VOIP (Voice Over the Internet Protocol) wireline competition. Managed more than 230 technical, financial and administrative managers and staff, more than doubled the revenue base and grew the operation from US$50 million to US$100 million.
EDUCATION
Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass.
BA (cum laude), East Asian Studies 1977
Boylston Speaking and Elocution Prize
Henry Russell Shaw Traveling Fellowship
Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies, Washington, D.C.
MA, International Economics and Arabic language
The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Tufts University, Medford, MA
MALD, International Communications and Energy Law 1982
Fulbright Scholar/Professor – Ministerio de Informacion y Turismo/Universidad Central de Venezuela produced “Hacia Una Tecnologia Con Rostro Humano” video documentary of comparative research on indigenous communications capacity building in Venezuela, Brazil and Trinidad and Tobago
