Ricardo Antonio De Levante Rodríguez

Teaching assistant and grader in the Nuclear Science and Engineering Department. I have supported the graduate level courses Essential Numerical Methods and Applied Nuclear Physics.

Contractor for the UNDP working as part of a multidisciplinary team in renewable energies to develop the economic capacity of a rural community in extreme poverty.

• Planned and designed a grid-isolated solar power plant.
• Sourced personnel for specific tasks like architectural designs, graphic designs, cost studies, and surveys.
• Met with representatives from entities including UNDP management, Panama Canal, and the Energy Department.
• Developed and executed business plans to increase the community's economic capacity.
• Developed workshops and other training regimes to increase the skills of the rural community in electricity.

Full-time contract position as a patent engineer working remotely for Renaissance Fusion a tech startup developing novel technologies and methods for the fusion industry focusing on stellarators.

• Researched prior art for potentially valuable intellectual property in the fusion industry.
• Determined the patentability of novel ideas, including new methods and devices.
• Consulted with the development team to identify new intellectual property.
• Drafted patent specifications including drawings.
• Worked with patent offices and attorneys.

College level lecturer for the Electrical Engineering Department.

• Taught Dynamics for Electromechanical Systems to the level of Williams.
• Structured and organized sessions including workshops, homework, exams, and review.
• Evaluated students' performance through exams and provided feedback on their progress.
• Collaborated on patent drafting training courses as an instructor, teaching on technology prospection and prior art search, and guiding teams on writing patent specifications.
• Taught three five credit courses on Control Theory for digital and analog systems, including laboratory sessions, to the level of Ogata.
• Developed laboratory guides for Rockwell Automation PLCs using RSLogix 5000. Also designed guides for NI's DAQs and on UDP communication. Guides include a MATLAB & Simulink component.
• Worked on common control schemes like PID and ON-OFF.
• Participated in faculty and university-wide meetings and councils to improve educational efforts.
• Instructed on seminars and masterclasses on non-holonomic systems, underactuated systems, and dynamical modeling.
• Received further training on technology prospection and commercialization from OAS' HUB on Technology Transfer and Commercialization for the Americas.

• Instructed over 100 scientists and engineers, from the public and private sectors, during a series of intensive workshops on topics related to patent drafting, technology prospection, and technology search.
• Developed methods for fast prior art search and intellectual property prospection.
• Produced and corrected patent specifications that were submitted to PCT and national phases.
• Traveled through Panama and Latin America to receive training in technology transfer from FICPI and to support CAF’s efforts to promote the development of technology-based intellectual property in the region by teaching and instructing on drafting.

Intern for Damac's data team, working with AI tools to improve on data insights provided to higher management.

• Produced guides and workshop materials on Microsoft Copilot for PowerBI.
• Compared the efficacy of different AI tools, including ChatGPT and Copilot, for analyzing business data and reports.
• Developed Copilot template libraries for easily producing reports and data insights.

• Started a publishing company dedicated to comics and art books. Hiring and acquiring associates to work as editors, marketing specialists, graphic designers, and video specialists.
• Brought together 30 Panamanian artists to produce the first collection of comics made completely by Panamanians.
• Sourced financing for the company through sponsorships and public art funds.
• Organized conventions, art shows, contests, seminars, and workshops to develop art in Panama.

• Formed part of a team that developed a novel smoke detector for domestic use.
• Acquired a seed capital grant in the amount of USD 25,000 for prototype development.
• Completed market research with industry professionals.
• Received entrepreneurship training from incubators and accelerators.

Volunteer for the IEEE Student Branch

• Elected by public vote to Branch Chair for the 2015 period.
• Organized nation-wide student competitions on a variety of subjects, including chess, literature, electronics, and coding.
• Restructured the Student Branch to achieve a stable workflow for volunteers, resulting in 30 volunteers that worked steadily for the Branch and five part-time workers.
• Raised over USD 17,000 in 2015 from a variety of sources: workshops, seminars, and sales.
• Received awards for excellence in administration and innovative projects: Darrel Chong Award in 2016 and Best Student Branch in the CONESCAPAN Region in 2015.