Hi @FritzWorm Hi NEAReans
Hope you all are doing well
Thanks for creating again this space for everyone involved in the Near Community, his gov, and the different guilds we are participating in order to know and meet each other and to express the valuable work that we have been doing for the NEAR ecosystem
Without further ado, let me introduce myself and talk about my experience/duties/responsibilities / main activities:
As I exposed previously in a post in this forum, the way NEAR has impacted my life is huge full:
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Firstly, I’m Luis Aponte, BA in International Affairs, living in Caracas (Venezuela) for the moment and with a huge experience in different fields. I have been working in cryptocurrencies and blockchain since 2017 with the company of @FritzWorm about the mining process of crypto that was a huge rush back then. By that moment, I moved to Medellín (Colombia) and I worked in different jobs but I aimed the target when I started working for the City Hall of Medellin in a Tax Intelligence Project to avoid evasion of taxes, money laundering, and fulfillment of guarantee of the execution of fiscal policy. I met @AndreaB794 that is where I learned the importance of Social Worker and the impact this job has on society and minorities in Medellín and expanded my point of view as I’m passionate about governmental affairs.
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Currently, I’m working in two different fields but with deep influence in the digital industry and international trade. I’m Director of Governmental, Political and Social Affairs of the Multilateral Chamber of Commerce and Cooperation between Israel and Iberoamérica (that includes Andorra, Spain, and Portugal) and I’m also a Supply-end Manager in Coliving.com (the #1 booking platform for coliving spaces). This part of me excites me so much as at these two jobs I have been able to execute what I studied.
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As the icing on the cake, I found the excellent community of NEAR and its ecosystem that has achieved in me the opportunities in some much roles to earn deep-related knowledge and to build a strong work-squad:
. Leader of NEAR Venezuela Guild: I’m responsible for the execution, organization, delegation, and direction of all projects, development, leadership, and decision-making as well as long-term vision of the guild’s objectives
. Researcher/Investigator and Content Creator in Sankore 2.0
. Coordinator and Manager of Operations in NEARMUN Project.
. Coordinator of Operations and Onboarding New Members Manager in Palmeros de Chacao Project.
. Collaborator of Cryptobeer, P2P, and other development projects and tasks within Near Venezuela Guild.
. Creation of a Translation Squad including more than 5 languages for the content of NEAR community, Near Venezuela Guild, Nearwiki, etc with @Alecaseg @user1
- As the last point, I’m a big fan of motorcycles, bikes and I’ll love to do motocross again. I’m training with bikes focused on MTB and cross-country. Also, road training takes more time. I love music but I have a little weakness for rock music, as I’m a current free-lance guitarist. I read a lot about geopolitics and security/defense stuff and I’d love to involve and integrate blockchain and NEAR within international trade, security defense, governments, etc
Hope this works for what this article meant to be. Thanks in advance
Best
Luis Aponte