Vilma E. Petrash

Background

About Vilma E. Petrash

Specialties: Organizational Leadership, Higher Education Teaching, International Relations, Latin American Politics and Foreign Policy, US politics and Foreign Policy, TV Production, TV hosting. ONGOING PROFESSIONAL OBJECTIVE: To enthusiastically apply my political and international relations expertise as a higher education academic, researcher, political analyst, and political and media consultant to job responsibilities focused on US and/or Latin American International political and socio-economic affairs and relations. To apply my knowledge in organizational leadership, strategic management, and multicultural work teams to a dynamic and global-oriented work environment. My work experience spans 20+ years of academic teaching, coordination, curriculum design and research experience in prestigious Venezuelan, American, Canadian and Spanish colleges and universities; 7 years as a columnist in Venezuelan newspapers El Globo and Tal Cual; 18+ years as Political and International Affairs analyst consulted by American and foreign media; more than a decade as co-producer and host of the TV Program “Temas de Mujer” in WLRN, Public Radio and Television Station; 7 years as Executive Producer and Senior Producer of political analysis and opinion Shows in America CV Network; and 1+ year experience as Contents & Booking Director of MiraTV, Channels 18 of Comcast and DirecTV, 20 of AT & T Uverse and 82 of Atlantic. More recently, I have trained in strategic planning, decision-making strategies, and decision support systems and in the use of technologies for the leadership and management of virtual professional and academic teams. I was co-founder of the Masters Program of International and Global Relations of the Central University of Venezuela, and served as Research Director of this program. From 1998 to 2005 I was full time Faculty in the Department of Social Sciences and the General Studies Division of the Simon Bolivar University (Caracas Venezuela).