GUSTAVO VALLE

SECTION A : BIS PROGRAM

SECTION B : SKILLS

SECTION C : RESUME

SECTION D : PROFESSIONAL REFERENCES

SECTION E : LEARNING EXPERIENCE

SECTION A

BIS PROGRAM

BIS Program overview:

The Bachelor of Interdisciplinary Studies program (BIS) is a degree program that allows students to attack modern day problems and attempt to come up with solutions from a multidisciplinary approach. Each student selects two concentrations in which they can integrate the two, both in a classroom setting as well as in an applied study manor. The BIS program has four-core course that help the student to integrate his or her concentration areas and attack problems in order to come up with solutions from a multidisciplinary perspective.

What the BIS program is:

The BIS program offers flexibility when determining what one wants to study while in college. It offers one to be disciplined in more than one area of expertise. As long as one can incorporate his or her concentrations in the required capstone course BIS 401, One can have two concentrations in any disciplined he or she chooses.

Brief recap of what I've learned in each of the four core BIS classes:

BIS 301
This course taught students how to think and research at a multidisciplinary level. Students were challenged in regards to attempting how to think like a multidisciplinarian.

BIS 302
This course feeds off of what students learned in BS 301. This course allows students to convert what they learned in BIS 301, and use it when researching an interdisciplinary problem.

BIS 401
BIS 401 is a capstone course, which allows students to incorporate his or her concentrations with an internship.

BIS 402
This course is a senior seminar which helps students attempt to find out who they really are. Through several readers, it attempts to help students to define what his or her journey through college has meant and what it will do for them in the future.

Summary of my concentrations:

Business:
This concentration is somewhat of an overview of the major disciplines of business. Courses studied are: Management, Finance, Marketing, Accounting, Real Estate, and Managerial Economics. Each course challenges and offers insight into many key elements of each discipline.

Public Administration:
This concentration offers an extensive overview of many of the issues and challenges that effect public and government entities. Course work in this discipline covers Public Administration, Public ethics, public policy, justice studies, and communication. This concetration has a heavy focus on civic responsibly and ethics.

Brief summaries of what I learned in each class taken in each concentration area:

Concentration #1: Business

ACC 230- Uses of accounting information I
Genral accounting fundamentals
How to read a financial staement
Budgeting
Reporting and analyzing short-term and long-term investments
Reporting and analyzing current liabilities and assets.

REA 380- Real estate fundamentals
Mortgage guidelines
Mortgage regulations
Commercial development
Zoning laws
How to read a contract

MGT 380- Management and strategy for non-majors
Management guidelines
Social norms in the workplace
Ethical management
Employee development
Management strategies

MKT 380- Advertising and marketing communication
Ad development
Ad campaign strategies
Advertising norms
Advertising regulations
Guerilla marketing tactics

ECN 382-Managerial economics
Economic/management integration
Economic theories
Economic development
Economies and diseconomies of scale
Production standards

FIN 380-Personal financial management
Investment principles
Concepts of stocks and bonds
Wise investment strategies
How to retire early
Investment regulations

Concentration #2: Public Administration

PAF 300- Public management and leadership
Management analysis
Urban development
City management
Management theories
Intergovernmental relationships

JUS 303-Justice Theory
What justice studies is
The integration of theories from theorists such as Thomas Hobbes, John Locke, and John Rawls, Emmnuel Kant, John Rawls, and Jean-Jacques Roussau
Social contract theory
Theoretical based policy analysis
Concepts of natural law, divine right of absolute monarch

PAF 340-Public management and policy
Policy analysis
Policy development
Overall role of the public manager
Organizational structure
Management hierarchy

GCU 361-Urban geography
Map reading
Cartography
Urban development
Zoning guidelines
Origins of community development

PAF 460- Public service ethics
Case study analysis
Case study development
Workplace norms
Social norms
Normative and deceptive ethics

PAF 420-Public leadership
Group Dynamic
Case study analysis
Leadership
Guidelines for public leadership
Public management strategies

SECTION B

SKILLS

Transferable skills:

All learned and mastered at the Better Business Bureau:
Microsoft XP pro, windows, Microsoft excel, Microsoft works, Microsoft power point, Front page, Microsoft Office 2000 as well as 10-key by sight

SECTION C

RESUME

Resume:

GUSTAVO VALLE
10523 w. Whyman
Tolleson, Az 85353
cell phone (623) 337-7134
Gvalle@cox.net

OBJECTIVE
To secure an employment with an established organization, that offers an opportunity for professional growth

EDUCATION
Bachelors of Interdisciplinary Studies, Graduated Fall 2007
Emphasis: Business and Public Administration, GPA: 3.00
Arizona State University, Tempe, Az

RELEVANT COURSEWORK
Public service ethics, Public Mgt & Administration, Business Management
Public Mgt & Policy, Public Leadership, Marketing

Business Management
· Developed skills on how to apply different management strategies, given the diverse working environment of the 21st century
· Developed skills on how to manage subordinates in an ethical manner
· Conducted an informational interview of a current manager and critiqued her skills

Public Leadership
· Conducted case study work on how to develop good leadership skills
· Group project based on the analysis of another group and each individual’s leadership characteristics
· Wrote several essays on leaders of the past (Churchill, Eisenhower, and Nixon) and an in-depth analysis of their leadership skills

Public Service Ethics
· Analyzed different un-ethical situations and developed a model on how to handle the situation accordingly
· Group project and presentation on an ethical dilemma and how we as a team would handle it’s many challenges
· Case study analysis of good and bad ethical decisions ad how we as leaders would have handled the situation while under the same constraints

COMPUTER SKILLS
Are Microsoft XP pro, windows, Microsoft excel, Microsoft works, Microsoft power point, Front page, Microsoft Office 2000 as well as 10-key by sight

EXPIERENCE
Business Research and Information Development Intern
Sept 2007-Dec 2007
The Better Business Bureau, Phoenix, Az

· Respond to public inquiries regarding businesses and marketplace issues
· Research businesses and develop information
· Research potential member companies to ensure standards are met
· Communicate with outside agencies to obtain appropriate referral information
· Develop educational materials in response to marketplace trends
· Establish informational needs and propose viable solutions
. Build relationships with organizations that would benefit from our information service's

SECTION D

PROFESSIONAL REFERENCES

Three professional references:

Carmen Garza (623) 414-8398: M&I Bank

Jeff Kostuch (630) 414-6053: Morgan Stanley

Richard Maggio (623) 866-3449: Costco

SECTION E

LEARNING EXPERIENCE

Summary of an especially meaningful learning experience:

Attending Arizona State University was the most meaningful moment in my life. No one in my family has ever attended ASU, so being the first to come to a place that no one has been has been very exciting.