Alfonso Arturo Borboa Rubio

                                          

My name is Alfonso Arturo Borboa Rubio; I was born in July 26th 1967 in Mazatlan Sinaloa Mexico. I’m the elder of three children, Dilia (30) and Carlos (34) are my youngest brothers.  I grew up in different cities within Mexico (Ensenada, Mexicali and of course Mazatlan) because my father was working at the Mexican Army and we moved from city to city every time he was transferred to a new one.  I have been living in Monterrey since 1977.

At the beginning of  my professional career I thought that my area of interest was tourism (I really love traveling); however, I decided to study a business bachelor degree at the University Autonoma of  Nuevo Leon and graduated in December 1988.

Since 1989 I have been working in five different companies: Control Corporation, Seguros Monterrey New York Life (Insurance Company), Vitro Group (www.vitro.com), and IMSA Group (www.imsa.com).  In all of them I have been part of the corporative offices, mainly in human resources areas like training and recruiting.  For the last three years I have been working at Domos Group (www.grupodomos.com) with the position of Human Resources Manager.  My main responsibility is to recruit executives for key positions in the company, and to develop a potential plan for each executive for the Administrative Succession.

You can contact me at: aborboa@grupodomos.com


 

Arlen Guajardo González

My name is Arlen Guajardo González, I’m 24 years old, I was born in Monterrey, México in February 2nd 1981. All my family lives in Monterrey; we are 4, my mother and father, and a brother who is 4 years older than I am.  I have always lived  in Monterrey.

I decided to study my bachelor degree of Organizational Psychology at the Tec de Monterrey, I started my studies in August 1999 and  graduated on December 2003.

I started working when I was in 4th semester of my bachelor responding an ad of one person of the Tec who was searching for help to finish developing training courses. Since that time I’m still working in the same place, Human Resources at Tec de Monterrey, but now I’m in charge of recruiting and selection candidates for the vacanies of the system.  In these 4 years I have been working in human resources areas and I really enjoy my job, especially recruiting people because that makes me feel that I can support the University selecting the best candidates to contribute with us on our Mission. At the same time I can help people to find a job where they develop all their skills and offer their work to a company and be productive.

 


 


Jorge Escandon

 

 

 

 

                   

                                                        Jorge Escandon, the author                                         The author ( wearing black) and a close friend

 

My name is Jorge Escandon. I was born in December 13th 1968 in Monterrey, capital of the state of Nuevo Leon, Mexico. This city is considered the business capital of the country. I have been married for three wonderful years. My wife, Norma, works in Human Resources for a nation wide organization.

            My mother Aurora Pagaza is a single parent, which is why I am her only child. She is from Mexico City, but has been here for the last 38 years. She is a businesswoman and has a small store where clothes and accessories are sold.

            I majored in Marketing, but I have always been involved in the academic field. I worked as a teacher from 1989 through 1995, spent four years with third graders and two more in a high school level.

             I provide my professional services to Telcel, the leader Telecommunications Company around the country, and have been doing so for about seven years. Back then I joined as part of the customer service department and ever since have seen the evolution of the industry as well as the company along with my own professional growth. Currently I am the Chief of the training department.

            I consider myself a highly competitive and team oriented person. I like sports, I used to play football in college, and couched for about fifteen years. These days I practice kendo and aikido.

 

     

                                Mario Soto
 
 

 

 

 

 

 

 


My name is Mario Soto. I am the only son of divorced parents. During my childhood and adolescence I lived with my mother at my grandparents´ house, here is where I learned The Catholicism that gives light to my life. At the age of 18, I decided to leave home and go to college in Monterrey (500 kms away from Tampico the city I was born) and study Industrial Engineering at Universidad Autonoma de Nuevo Leon (1990-94). Since then I have been working in different manufacturing companies. My work experience has taking me through different responsibilities within an organization: logistics, supply chain, industrial engineering, quality and training. Nowadays I work for Whirlpool México, the biggest home appliances manufacturer in the world, in charge of the training department.

Within my eleven years experience in organizations I have realized that my real passion is “the people” and the key element they play on the results of any company. This is why I decided to join the OD program at UDEM, which I love!!!!

There are two greatest dreams in my life: being a father and becoming a pilot. I am sure that if it is God´s will both are going to happen in my life.

You can contact me at: mario_soto@whirlpool.com or mariosoto@terra.com

 

 

 

 



Rolando Ibarra Martínez

 

                                                       

 

My name is Rolando Ibarra Martínez, I was born in November 21 of 1968, in the City of Monterrey, State of Nuevo Leon, Mexico.  My parents are José Ibarra Bazaldúa and Juana María Martínez Alvarez, my father was born in the called Municipality Galeana, State of Nuevo León, Mexico and my mother in the Municipality of Arteaga, State of Saltillo Coahuila, Mexico. We are seven siblings and they are: José Juan Ibarra Martínez, Silvia Soledad, Gerardo, Roberto, Ricardo and Erika. At the moment we live it fences Gerardo and me. 

 

            My parents live in Monterrey, Nevo Leon, Mexico, my father worked for 25 years in an industrial company and my mother was devoted to the Home. 

 

            I studied in the Preparatory No.15, later I began in the Universidad Autónoma de Nuevo León, in the Facultad de Contaduría Pública y Administración, in Graduate's career in Administrative Computer science. At the moment I am in the University of Monterrey studying in Post grade the 3er. quarter of the master in Organizational Development. 

 

            My First works were in a company called Integral Solutions, which was devoted to the Analysis, Design and Implementation of Systems Computacionales, carrying out Analyst's programmer position, in 1991 during a year and half. 

  

            I began this way in diverse companies of the Group IIMSA, Division Accumulators ENERTEC, first I placed myself in the Plant of Accumulators, located in the minicipio of Ciénega of Flores, Nuevo León, in the position of having Taken charge of Payrolls and benefits in the Department of Human resources, I was here from 1991 to 1992, since they promoted me to another Plant that the Group IMSA had acquired.  This company that I mention them is the Plant of Accumulators, located in San Pedro, Garza García, Nuevo León, there I was in the position of having Taken charge of payrolls and benefits of 2 Companies you join same, Acumuladores ALSA and Comercializadora ROBERTO DIENER and besides all the 28 Branches in Mexico, from 1992 up to 1997 that the year in that he/she closed this organization for strategic reasons of the Group was.  Later on they sent me to the Main Plant of Accumulators, located in GARZA SADA, in Monterrey, New León, carrying out the position of Administrator of Personal Staff, from 1997 until final of 1998, giving up for my part to look for better opportunities.  Later on I placed myself again in Group IMSA, Division IMSALUM, in Plant Windows, as Boss of Human resources, from 1999 up to 2001, leaving this company for readjustment. 

 

            At the moment from the 2003 to the date work in the company ENERYA that belongs to Group GONHER, in this organization self-driven accumulators are manufactured and it is located in the Municipality of Santa Catarina, Nuevo León, acting Assistant's of Human resources position, in areas of payrolls, training, recruitment and selection of personal. 

 

            I married in the year of 1999, in Monterrey, Nuevo León, my children are Rolando Emiliano Ibarra de la Garza and Leticia Mariel, Rolando Emiliano was born in September 11 of 1999 and Leticia Mariel in April 9 of 2001, both in Monterrey, New León. 

 

            I go to the Catholic Church each Domingo with my family. 

 

 

 


Text Box: Alejandra E. Rodríguez Morales

Hello! My name is Alejandra Rodriguez, I am 27 years old and I live in Monterrey Mexico; I have lived here all my life and I got married a year ago.  My husband’s name is Ruben, he is from Tamaulipas State and he is 30 years old.  I have 2 younger sisters, Jenny and Ruth, and 2 beautiful baby nephews, Rolando and Caleb.  My parents, Maria and Juan, are great people and they still work.  I graduated from UdeM in 1999 and I have a degree in Communications, Public Relations and Mass Media.  After my graduation I traveled to NY City and I lived and studied there for almost 8 months.  I came back to Monterrey and started working for the British Embassy in the Commercial Consulate in Monterrey.  I have been working there since 2001 as a Trade and Investment Research Officer, and my role is to support companies in the UK doing business internationally, and overseas enterprises seeking to set up or expand in the UK.  I love international relations and I really enjoy my work; in the future I want to learn German as a third language.  I love traveling and my dream is to visit Jerusalem one day.  I play the piano and I also want to learn how to play the harp; I like books (I’m a Harry Potter fan!), movies, restaurants, food and I have a cute sausage dog called “Mi Rey” which means “My King”.  I got interested in the OD master’s degree because I like everything related to public relations, human resources, motivation, training, and I really believe that the success of any Organisation relies on the development of its people.  Our MOD learning community is called “Eleven Fiat” because we are eleven students, and Fiat (Latin) means “Let it be done”.  I am looking forward to meet you all in June, and please feel free to contact me if you need any help in advance.  My contact details:  Home: 83 06 05 71.  Mobile: 044-811-185-2979.  Email: arodriguez@ukconsulate.org, alerdz@hotmail.com .  Welcome to Mexico!!!

“Live as if you were to die tomorrow.  Learn as if you were to live forever.”  Gandhi.

 

 


Nadia Karina Estrella Zavala

My name is Nadia Karina Estrella Zavala, I was born on July 24 1978 in Monterrey, Nuevo León, an industrial city located in the north of Mexico. My parents are Angel Estrella Campos and Elena Zavala Mendoza; they were born in San Luis Potosí.

I am the first of eight children, I have three sisters and four brothers with very different careers, (Accountants, Engineers, Lawyers), the youngest of my sisters is 12 and is about to finish elementary school. All of us were born in Monterrey.

I started elementary school when I was 6 years old, and ended at the age of 12, after that I studied at the “Profra. Elvira Maldonado” Junior High located in the south of the city.

At the age of 15 I attended “Preparatoria no. 15, Unidad Florida, which belongs to the State University “Autónoma de Nuevo León”.

When I was 17 years old, in1996 I started my career at the “Universidad Autónoma de Nuevo León” got a degree in 2000 with a major in Communication Science and Organizational Development.

In the year 2000 I started working as part of the Human Resources Team for Vidrio Plano a company belonging to the Vitro Group, where I have had the opportunity to develop professionally, I have been working for Vitro for five years.

In 2004 I started studying Organizational Development Master in “Universidad de Monterrey”, I recently finished the second grade.

I enjoy playing team sports such as basketball and soccer, as well as going to the movies in my spare time.

So far, I have had many personal and professional achievements, always supported by my family, which I consider to be the starting point of anything, as well as the company I work for.

 

 

 



Yolanda Berlanga de Vargas

Hello! My name is Yolanda Berlanga de Vargas, I am

36 years old, I have a degree in Communication and

Mass Media from the University Autónoma of Nuevo

León.  I am from Reynosa Tamaulipas and I have been in Monterrey for 16 years.  I have 6 brothers (2 men and 4 women) and my father died more than 20 years ago.  We still have our mother and we are very proud of her.

Next month, in May 24th, it will be my three year wedding anniversary.  I am very lucky because God gave me a great man as husband, and his name is Enrique Vargas. 

 

Currently I am pregnant and I am going to be the mother of a beautiful little girl; her

name is Maria Cristina.  I have 6 months of pregnancy and for me and my husband this is one of the most beautiful stages in our lives.  We feel blessed by God with this baby daughter, and we are waiting for her with hope, happiness and with tons of love.  My baby is due to July 15 - 20.  During your visit to Mexico I will be very close to these dates but I´ll try to be there with you, as enthusiastic as usual.


I have been working almost 4 years in Cáritas de Monterrey, a non profit catholic

institution focused in offering support to people with limited resources.  I work in the

Department of Communication, and my main activities consist in giving support to the different fundraising campaigns, edition and design of two bulletins, photography during important events, among other tasks; recently the area of purchases was also assigned

 

to me.  I love very much what I do because I am catholic and I try to live my faith; that is why I consider myself very blessed and I always try to serve God with my work.

My classmates and I initiated the OD studies last September, and as I go through the program I am touched with everything that I have learned and discovered.

                                                                                      

Welcome to Mexico!  My email: yberlanga@caritas.org.mx

 



Elizabeth Rodríguez

I was born in New Laredo, Tamaulipas border city with Laredo, Texas in July 15th, 1968.

My parents are Eduardo Rodríguez and Leonor Rentería, both were born in San Luis Potosí, SLP., in the central part of the Mexican Republic.  They work in the commercial and trade business.

When I was a girl we live in different states of Mexico, since my father worked as a Decorator in commercial centers and he had to move in the commercial chains of these centers.  At the moment they live in San Luis Potosi.

I studied in the Instituto Tecnologico de San Luis Potosí; I finished my B.A. in Industrial Relationships in 1995, and a graduate course in the Administration of Personnel.  At the moment I am studying the 3rd. quarter of the Master Degree in Organizational Development at the UDEM (University of Monterrey).

Talking about my work history, the more outstanding employments that I have been working in are in the area of Sales and during the last 5 years in the area of Human Resources.

The first 3 years I worked in PEPSI PBG of Mexico as Training Chief at a Center Region level in the cities of Aguascalientes, León, Zacatecas and San Luis Potosí.  And during the last period of 2004 to date I have been working as a Human Resources supervisor in Caterpillar Nuevo Laredo in the division of injector’s remanufacturing.

I am single, I am 36 years old, I live alone in Nuevo Laredo since my family lives in San Luis Potosí.

 

My main objectives are to achieve a professional growth, the well-being of my family (parents, 5 brothers and 8 nephews) and to reach a level of maturity that allows me to leave print in this life.

 

 

 


 MARIO ALBERTO ORTIZ MARTINEZ

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

            I am Mario Ortiz, I am 25 years old and I am married with an excellent woman, Marisela. Mary and I got married in September 4th 2004. This has been the best in my whole life. With her I have learnt to be a better person.

            I consider myself as a passionate person. I really enjoy to live and to learn from different people and experiences. I think that because of this I decided to study Psychology and then some specializations in Human Resources, Organizational Development and Psychometric topics.

            I started working when I was 19 years old, as a recruiter assistant in Opentec an IT Company; this was my first experience formally working.  My gratefulness with the owner of this company is present every year, because he gave me an opportunity to start a career in human resources and to develop my interest in organization and leadership aspects.

My next step was creating a company with my parents and my wife with the savings we had. During this process I was chosen as General Coordinator, in this role I pretended to institutionalize our business. And I could do the first sales without any commercial experience.  We couldn’t do it so well.  But now I know that we could do it better if we could understand the organization cycle and change interventions.

Until September 1999, I started working for CEMEX in different HR positions. CEMEX becomes my biggest school until now. Here I am able to handle a lot of topics related to people and business issues. My current position is called Human Capital Assessor. And I am in charged of helping the ready mix concrete business to increase its margins by handling EHS, Training and Development, Talent Managing and Labor issues.

            One of my purposes is to be a professional able to manage change intervention in organizations and helping them to increase their efficiency. I know that with the MOD at UDEM  I have made a solid step in this challenge.

I am very happy to be part of ELEVENFIAT, my OD group at UDEM. Together we decided to become OD practitioners and to learn more about leadership and change topics. And to integrate a group that believe in the strength of the team and communication.

I am very proud of having the opportunity to know people as you. And I won’t lose the time for learning from you.

When we could go to Pepperdine I saw my next professional step. Yes I know. ¡Despacio que llevo prisa!

 

            I will not forget one of my preferred life moments. I really enjoy singing and watching movies, specially the ones that give me a life message. And you know? I consider the 49ers the best football team in the history of this spectacular game. I consider the best football player Joe Montana.

 

 

 

 

 


 Gerardo Rodríguez

 

           

I’m Gerardo Rodriguez, I was born on this city of Monterrey in 1968 and lived always in this city, I have only changed residence for work questions 2 to 3 years, most of my family comes from Guanajuato to the center of Mexico, that’s the reason for the family values and religious are very narrow in all my family, I love may family!. My mother Silvia Sandoval Chavez she work at Elizabeth Arden Mexico at Sales Regional manager and my Father Luis Rodriguez Montiel he’s a Doctor actually his in charge of cardiology Center in Mexico City, they always made an effort to give me a venturesome vision and of leadership always respecting the human part. I am unique son for that reason it matures to very short age.

            I’m Study college career in Business Administration at the University Regiomontana, later enter to the same university and studied the MBA program with accentuation in human resources finished in 2002, I was always considered as a student focused to the best academic results and of personal or labor formation. To enter MDO program means a personal challenge and a pleasure that he/she had waited but of 6 years to be able to achieve is for that reason that I want to live each moment intensely to strengthen my professional and personal plane.

            Actually I work in Nypro Monterrey (Nypro Inc.) a company dedicated to the injection molding parts focused on leadership with global presence, I’m in charge of Human Resources and my Manager position it allows me to guide the strategies and abilities of the organization toward the total effectiveness to all levels of my organization at the moment the operation to grown in a balanced way giving support to 2 business units with 3 facilities in the city with 1600 employees average. Approximately 5 years ago I belong to the Maquila Industry Association of Nuevo Leon with Director's of Labor Committee position; this allows me to have a complete vision that it happens outside of my organization and their town, his international behavior impact giving support in benchmarks used in my organization.

 

 


 

 


Lorena Garza Rodríguez

 

My name is Lorena Garza and I am 28 years old. I studied International Marketing at the Universidad de Monterrey. I am married and I am a mother of a 2-years-old child, and I am pregnant of my second baby.

As soon as I finished my professional studies I worked in CINTERMEX, the International Exposition and Convention Center in Monterrey, as responsible of the Public Relations Department. After some months, I became coordinator of the Communications Department where I was in charge of the edition of the CINTERMEX Magazine. After two years, I was invited to work at UDEM in the Development Department, as Chief of the Annual Fundraising Campaigns Department, where I coordinated the fundraising campaigns aimed to alumni, parents and students of the University.

When my baby was born and because of some circumstances that presented to me in that time I had to make an important decision, and that one was to take a part time job, so I could be able to be more time with my baby; that is why right now I am teaching support classes for children in my house. Nevertheless, I decided that this was the time to enter to the Masters Degree Program of Organization Development, in first place because it was something that I had been wanting for a long time, and second, because in the future I want to work in a formal job again and I want to be more prepared, particularly in the OD area, which I am sure it is very useful in the non-profit sector in which I am interested.