GUE Instructor resumé

Professional

• Principal Engineer, Espial, 2002-present
• Senior Engineer, nCUBE, 1996-2001
• Scuba Instructor, Wallins Dive Center, 1997-2004
• Scuba Instructor, AquanSports, 2005-2007

Education

• B.A., 1990, Computer Science, Simon Bolivar University, Venezuela
• Master, 1992, Computer Science, Simon Bolivar University, Venezuela

Diving Qualifications

• Fundamentals Instructor GUE
• Technical Instructor GUE
• Open Water Instructor SSI, IANTD, TDI (Inactive)
• Technical Instructor IANTD, TDI (Inactive)
• O2 Provider Instructor DAN (Inactive)
• Trimix Diver GUE, IANTD, TDI
• Cave Diver NSS-CDS, CDAA

Diving Experience

• 18 years of diving
• 1800+ logged dives
• 200+ cave dives
• 120+ cave dives using stage diving techniques
• 1000+ cold water dives
• 400+ dives using stage decompression techniques
• 400+ dives using specially mixed gases
• 200+ dives using DPVs
• Longest Cave Penetration -15,500 ft
• Longest Dive - 360 min

Community Involvement

• Nohoch Nah Chich Project ( Dec/1998 )
• Nohoch Nah Chich Project ( Dec/2001 )
• EJPP Project (Sept/ 2003)
• EJPP Project (Sept/ 2004)
• EJPP Project (May/2005)
• EJPP Project (Oct/2006)
• MCEP Project (Nov/2006)
• PET Jan 2007
• PET March 2007
• PET May 2007
• PET Oct 2007
• PET March 2008
• PET June 2008
• PET Dec 2008
• DSV California Diving (2004)
• BAUE E3 Project (Feb/2003)
• BAUE Big Sur Project (2004)
• BAUE Barge 2006
• BAUE Great Pinnacle 2007
• BAUE Thumbs Up 2008
• BAUE Point Lobos Mapping 2010
• GUE Conference 2008
• GUE Conference 2010
• GUE Conference 2012

Special interests

• Exploring and mapping Carmel/Monterey Pinnacles
• Mexican Cave Diving
• Swimming
• Volleyball

Publications

• Underwater Mapping of Point Lobos State Reserve, A. Nava, Quest 5.3
• A Quest for Saving Those Memories: Part I, A. Nava, Quest 6.4
• Got My Video System... What’s Next?, A. Nava, Quest 7.1
• The Barge Project: A First Step in BAUE’s Project Development Program, A. Nava & S. Bird, Quest 7.3
• What's Up with GUE's Fundamentals Course?, A. Nava, Quest 8.2
• Exploring Tamakas Ecological Park, A. Nava, Quest 8.4
• How to Prepare for a Successful Tech 1 Class, S. Bird & A. Nava, Quest 9.3
• Rissolo, D., P. Luna, A. Nava, A. Alvarez, F. Attolini, J C. Chatters, R Chavez Arce, and S. Meacham 2012 Recent Investigations in Hoyo Negro: A Submerged Late Pleistocene Cave Site in Quintana Roo, Mexico. Paper presented at the Society for Historical Archaeology 45th Annual Conference on Historical and Underwater Archaeology, Baltimore, MD.

Additional languages

• Spanish