{"id":818,"date":"2022-10-19T15:56:40","date_gmt":"2022-10-19T14:56:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/thekentmbacommunity\/?p=818"},"modified":"2024-12-03T16:40:16","modified_gmt":"2024-12-03T16:40:16","slug":"alfonso-rodriguez","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/thekentmbacommunity\/2022\/10\/19\/alfonso-rodriguez\/","title":{"rendered":"Alfonso Rodriguez"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"lead\">MBA 2022, Venezuela\/UK<\/p>\n<p>Alfonso is a strong believer of continuous education. In 2001, he obtained his bachelor&#8217;s degree in Electrical Engineering and worked in the telecommunication industry for 14 years. Here he had various different roles: wireless engineer, procurement manager and project manager. In 2008, he obtained a master&#8217;s Degree in Engineering Management. During this time, he had to combine his technical skills and develop a new group of knowledge areas.<\/p>\n<p>In 2015, Alfonso made the transition into the UK job market, and now is responsible for the successful delivery of \u00a315 million worth of projects and services in the UK rail industry.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Achievements<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Creating the PMO organisation in Icomera UK and managing to replicate the success story in the global organisation<\/li>\n<li>Forming part of a bidding team who successfully was awarded a $300 million project<\/li>\n<li>Leading an organisation transformation project which is making the Service Delivery Department a more efficient department<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>What attracted you to the MBA programme at Kent Business School and why?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A colleague at work. Plus, I am in favour and an advocate of continuous improvement.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Aspiration<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>To learn from my cohorts&#8217; experiences in their fields and be able to share mine with them.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Advice<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Continuous improvement should never stop.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cExcelsior\u201d (Ever upward!)<br \/>\n&#8211; My High School motto<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MBA 2022, Venezuela\/UK Alfonso is a strong believer of continuous education. In 2001, he obtained his bachelor&#8217;s degree in Electrical Engineering and worked in the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/thekentmbacommunity\/2022\/10\/19\/alfonso-rodriguez\/\">Read&nbsp;more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":79181,"featured_media":859,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[249107],"tags":[249099],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/thekentmbacommunity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/818"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/thekentmbacommunity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/thekentmbacommunity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/thekentmbacommunity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/79181"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/thekentmbacommunity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=818"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/thekentmbacommunity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/818\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1678,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/thekentmbacommunity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/818\/revisions\/1678"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/thekentmbacommunity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/859"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/thekentmbacommunity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=818"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/thekentmbacommunity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=818"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/thekentmbacommunity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=818"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}