Summary
Overview
Work History
Education
Skills
Language Proficiencies
Publications
Languages
Timeline
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Ernesto Fidel Domínguez Mederos

Ernesto Fidel Domínguez Mederos

Palm Bay,Florida

Summary

A dedicated and results-driven intercultural expert, academic and professional with extensive experience in teaching, communications, public affairs, and international relations.
Enjoys engaging students from diverse backgrounds in meaningful and transformative learning environments.

Overview

18
18
years of professional experience

Work History

Professor & Resident Director

Autonomous University of Social Movement (AUSM)
01.2013 - 01.2022
  • Managed on-site arrival, orientation, and academic field trips for semester, short-term, and faculty led undergraduate study abroad programs in Havana, Cuba
  • Led orientation process with home stays families to meet needs of visiting students and maintaining positive relationships with families to ensure program continuity
  • Collaborated with U.S
  • Based partner institutions to ensure transfer of academic credit, health and safety of students, delivery of academic content
  • Partner institutions include but were not limited to: DePauw University, Augsburg College, University of Arizona, Canisius University, State Universities of New York, University of Wisconsin, Connecticut College, University of Redlands and Virginia Commonwealth University
  • Led instruction to undergraduate students from diverse U.S
  • Colleges and universities on Cuban history, politics, economics, and society
  • Liaised with administration and faculty at Enrique José Varona Pedagogical University and Faculty of Latin American Social Sciences (FLACSO) at University of Havana, to ensure appropriate academic content and resources for university level instruction
  • Led official attention to Eastern African students studying in Cuban universities
  • Liaison official with ACNUR for Cuban-Eastern African educational relations
  • In-field-investigator on intercultural dialogue and medical cooperation in Equatorial Guinea and Mali.

In-field-investigator

OXFAM International
11.2021 - 05.2022

Freelance guest columnist

Al Día Today Palm Bay bilingual newspaper
05.2022 - Current

Lecturer

University of Havana
01.2006 - 01.2007
  • Lecturer, Theory of Communications and History of the Cuban Press at the University of Havana

Education

MSc in International Relations - International Relations And Affairs

Instituto Superior De Relaciones Internacionales, ISRI
Havana
01.2004

Bachelor of Science, Social Communications - Journalism, Advertising, & Public Relations

University of Havana
Havana
01.2002

Spanish Teacher Training Spanish as a Foreign Language -

Tía Tula Colegio De Español, Salamanca (Instituto Cervantes)
Salamanca, Spain
01.2022

Skills

  • Microsoft Office: Word, Excel, and PowerPoint
  • Photoshop
  • Participated in seminar on implementation of cloud-based software Terra Dotta though it couldn’t be fully implemented in Cuba due to internet limitations Nevertheless, team understood importance of that tool for development of study abroad programs
  • Eye for excellence and high-level standards
  • Strong work skills
  • Positive attitude even under pressure

Language Proficiencies

  • Spanish, native
  • English, fluent
  • French, advanced
  • Portuguese, intermediate, Centro de Avaliação de Português Língua Estrangeira, Faculty of Humanities, University of Lisbon, Lisbon, 2009

Publications

  • Banderas: historia y simbolismo (2015). Editorial Boloña, Oficina del Historiador de La Habana, Cuba. Related to the history of flags as a communicative pattern throughout the history of mankind. Different elements of the flag compositions, flag families, historic flags. History and creation of the Cuban flag., Ñamiñami y otros relatos (2012). Editorial Gente Nueva, La Habana, Cuba. Stories on African oral culture collected during trips to Equatorial Guinea, Mali, Zimbabwe and Ethiopia., Las aventuras de Tío Guayabito (2020). Editorial Ácana, Camaguey, Cuba. Book for children. A Cuban version of the Wizard of Oz and the Odyssey based on collecting folk speaking in Camaguey province of Cuba., Haraké (2021). Editorial Omniscriptum, Saarbrücken, Germany., El mundo de las banderas (2022). Editorial McPherson, Panamá., https://aldiatodaysp.com/2023/02/chronicle-of-the-survivors-iii/, https://aldiatodaysp.com/2023/05/cronica-de-los-sobrevivientes-parte-4/, https://aldiatodayusa.com/2023/05/the-escape-part-one/, De cómo Indiana Jones llegó a Etiopía (How Indiana Jones Arrived in Ethiopia). Published in Alma Mater Magazine, February 2009., La lluvia cae sobre Addis Abeba (The Rain Falls on Addis Ababa). Published in Alma Mater Magazine, September 2008., Rumbo a los Estados Unidos Africanos (Towards the United States of Africa). Published in Juventud Rebelde (nacional journal. (Written under the pseudonym of Fernando Hermida), July 2008., La tragedia de Bizima
  • Por qué la Guerra (Bizima’s tragedy or why the war). Published in the ISRI Bulletin, July 2004., Ruanda, la historia de un pueblo (Rwanda, the history of a People). Published in the ISRI Bulletin, July 2004., La Bella de Luba (The Beauty of Luba). Published in Alma Mater Magazine, November, 2003., África, la lepra y el tiempo (Africa, leprosy and time). Published in Alma Mater Magazine, December 2003., Looking Toward the Horizon. Published in St. Thomas University Magazine, Minnesota, USA, March 2000.

Languages

Spanish
Native or Bilingual
English
Full Professional
French
Professional Working
Portuguese
Professional Working

Timeline

Freelance guest columnist

Al Día Today Palm Bay bilingual newspaper
05.2022 - Current

In-field-investigator

OXFAM International
11.2021 - 05.2022

Professor & Resident Director

Autonomous University of Social Movement (AUSM)
01.2013 - 01.2022

Lecturer

University of Havana
01.2006 - 01.2007

MSc in International Relations - International Relations And Affairs

Instituto Superior De Relaciones Internacionales, ISRI

Bachelor of Science, Social Communications - Journalism, Advertising, & Public Relations

University of Havana

Spanish Teacher Training Spanish as a Foreign Language -

Tía Tula Colegio De Español, Salamanca (Instituto Cervantes)
Ernesto Fidel Domínguez Mederos