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Luis Alejandro Bernal

Writing, researching, counseling and advocating for small business has been the core of my professional life since I graduated from the University. In doing so, I came to develop such high level communication skills that they made me an international development independent consultant, top-level government advisor and writer for the media. These are the very same consulting and communicational skills that you and your organization can take advantage of.

Education

  • Business Administration
  • Business Consulting
  • Hispanic Marketing Communications
  • Project Management
  • Law and Political Sciences
  • Executive Leadership
  • International Development Monitoring and Evaluation

Languages

  • Spanish at Scholar-level: thought, written and spoken
  • English at above average professional communication skills
  • Able to read both Portuguese and Italian

Communicational Activities

  • Collaborator for “Business Currents”, magazine of the Greater Naples Chamber of Commerce
  • “Connections” magazine of the Southwest Florida Hispanic Chamber of Commerce
  • “D’Latinos Magazine” and “Vista Semanal” a Spanish Language weekly owned by the Naples Daily News.
  • Featured at local TV Shows in Spanish Language such as Acción Hispana (Univision) and D’Latinos TV Show (Azteca America).
  • Business oriented Bilingual transcreation and translation
  • Active participant in social media and networking through Facebook, LinkedIn and Twitter.
  • Blogger for HispanicWise.net
  • Research for International business consulting engagements.

Business and Community involvement in Southwest Florida

  • Council for Hispanic Business Professionals: former President.
  • Southwest Florida Hispanic Chamber of Commerce: current Business Development Manager for Collier County.
  • Small Business Development Center at FGCU: former Business Counselor.
  • Hispanic Institute at Hodges University: member of its Advisory Board.
  • Hispanic Affairs Advisory Board for the Collier County Commissioners: former member
  • Council for International Visitors in Collier County: Board member.
  • Greater Naples Chamber of Commerce: Executive Member
  • Veterans Memorial Elementary School: Advisory Committee Member.
  • Voluntary Poll worker in Collier County for the 2008 Elections

Local Recognitions

The Greater Naples Chamber of Commerce honored Luis Alejandro Bernal with its Outstanding Service Award for “Hispanic Endeavors”.

Geographical Experience

I have learned in Colombia, Europe, the USA and Canada, and worked in South Florida, Barbados, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, Guatemala, Peru, Bolivia, Panama and Venezuela.

Personal Note

I am a Colombia-born American Citizen, living in Florida for ten years now. My personal interests spin around my family: my wife who is a Physical Therapist, and my second-grader, seven year-old son, plus listening and learning from people, doing public policies analysis, web researching, playing with electronic gadgets, photography, listening to music, traveling, walking and biking.

I love collecting and studying dictionaries, grammar and style books in English and Spanish from all over, also I enjoy reading and watching movies about the cultural and language differences among Hispanics/Latinos and everything about their life in the USA.