NORTHLATITUDE :: Northlatitude Staff::

Founder, Director, General Coordinator and Instructor of outdoor courses given at the National and International Education and Training Argentine Center NORTHLATITUDE (C.A.C.E.N.), first and unique national Center where a course system are run Spanish and English language., aimed to provide training in wild natural environments like air, land and sea.
Dedicated to professional education in Wilderness Survival, Cartography, Orienteering, Land Navigation and GPS (Global Positioning System), by running courses in basic, advanced and superior levels.
Dedicated to professional sporting activities of Trekking, Mountaineering and Exploration disciplines, carried out in natural areas like mountains, hills, glaciers, jungle an woodlands of Argentine (since 12 years).
Dedicated to professional sporting activities of mountaineering and trekking in Chile.
Associated researcher at the Latin American wesbsite www.andinia.com, on issues regarding to sporting and safety in wild natural lands.
Wilderness survival instructor for Jungle and woodland areas (Delta Survival).
Orientation and Land Navigation Instructor (Delta Survival).
Military Personnel (Ret.) from the Argentine Air Force (he was over 21 years on active duty), specialized in Computing, Statistics and Programming skills. By the time he was at the Air Force, his first appointment was the ex 7th. Air Brigade located in the Moron city, where Hughes 500-E, Bell UH-1H and 212, sikorsky and Chinook helicopters were based. After that, he was appointed to accomplish other military activities, carrying out operational professionals tasks in areas with sophisticated technology with air/ground electronic equipment, at the Direction and Department of Operational Computing, Systems Management, Research and Development General Management, Flight Plan, National Plan of Radars of the Argentine Republic and Communication, Direction and Design of Air Traffic Control Consoles. Other activities performed was as professor at the ACC (Air Control Center) in the Ezeiza International Airport and in the Metropolitan Aeroparque (Domestic flight Airport), running a course with the”Antares” software programm at the Flight Plan Control Office, aimed Air Traffic Controllers Staff. Besides, he also worked as English language interpreter before representatives from some very important American companies from the World Air Traffic Control like Cardion, Inc., Siemens, Westinghouse and Raytheon (Argentine Air Force and the Argentine Branch Office from the Automatik S.A. Canadian Company).
Master in Computing -2 years attended- (Catolica de Salta University).
General wilderness Survival, Cartography, Orientation and Land Navigation course (Argentine Air Force).
Specialization course in General Survival –C.I.S.S. –Survival and Search and Rescue (SAR) Instruction Center based at the 3rd. Air Brigade (Argentine Air Force).
Land Navigator (Argentine Air Force).
Director and instructor of Survival, Orientation, Land Navigation and GPS courses for the “Pezcalandia” national sporting company.
Columnist on issues regarding to sporting activities regarding to Mountaneering, Trekking, Survival and Orientation for the “Pezcalandia” national sporting company.
Collaborator and provider with the official topographic maps from the I.G.N. (Nacional Geographic Institute) –ex I.G.M.- for a Adventure Races championship carried out by the ECOATLETAS adventure runners group –may, 2008- (Yerba Buena city – Tucuman province).
Pioneer in the Argentine Republic as Designer, Organizar and Sporting Director of the “First National and International Competition of Survival and Orienteering 2007” carried out in woodlands areas of the Buenos Aires province (NORTHLATITUDE -C.A.C.E.N.-).
Mentor and pioneer in the Argentine Republic in the design of “Orientation” techniques, to be applied with Survival techniques, for the development of the “First National and International Competition of Survival and Orienteering 2007” (NORTHLATITUDE -C.A.C.E.N.-).
Pionner in the Argentine Republic and in South America continent in the design and development of integral courses given in English language only, on Wild Survival, Orientation, Land Navigation and GPS techniques, with secondary support given on First Aid, Search and Rescue (SAR), Skydiving, Mountaineering, Trekking and Diving courses (NORTHLATITUDE – C.A.C.E.N.).
Pioneer and Designer of a course system run in Spanish and English language, on Survival, Orientation and Land Navigation techniques, exclusively for the education of participating teams from the ““First National and International Competition of Survival and Orienteering 2007” (NORTHLATITUDE -C.A.C.E.N.-).
Orientation, Land Navigation and GPS course –Topography, Cartography, Orientation, Position, Land Navigation and Magnetic Compass use and GPS- (Tierra Sur – Center of Activities and for Mountain Sporting).
GPS –Global Positioning System- course (FUNADE – Argentine Navy)
Trekking and Mountain Hiking course –First Aids in Remote Natural Environments, Bad Acute Sickness, Techniques of Acclimatization and Basic Meteorology for Mountain Climbers (Tierra Sur– Center of Activities and for Mountain Sporting).
Lifesaving course on Basic First Aid and CPR for Airport Emergency, with a training that included water rescue using a raft and lifejackets and also, an emergency evacuation practice, carried out in a commercial aircraft (Metropolitan Aeroparque – Argentine Air Force).
Honors Diploma in Survival –given by Mr. Ruben Omar Yorio, Founder and Chairman at the Western Survival Argentine Union (U.A.S.O.) and Organizer of the “First National Competition of Survival in Jungle and Forest Land of the Argentine Republic -1999- (Buenos Aires Province).
Organizer and Instructor of a Survival, Orientation and Land Navigation course for jungle and forestland areas, given to the “Argentinos por su nombre” television programm, leaded by Andy Kutnessoft –Channel 13- (NORTHLATITUDE C.A.C.E.N.).
Basic explanation on Survival urban techniques, provided for a primary school students from the Buenos Aires province, given to the “Argentinos por su nombre” televisión programm, leaded by Andy Kutnessoft –Channel 13- (NORTHLATITUDE C.A.C.E.N.).
Organizer of a Survival Media Competition for comic actors from the “Un Mundo Perfecto” television program, leaded by Roberto Pettinato –America Channel- (NORTHLATITUDE C.A.C.E.N.).
Organizer and General Coordinator of a Diving practice carried out in a swimming pool with the comic actor Freddy “Figuretti” Villarreal, given to the “Zoom” television programm, leaded by Andy Kutnessoft, Daniel Tognetti and Freddy Villarreal –Channel 13- (NORTHLATITUDE C.A.C.E.N.).
“Cartography, Orientation and Land Navigation” course given for the ECOATLETAS adventure race runners group (Yerba Buena city – Tucuman province).
“Cartography, Orientation and Land Navigation” course given for the QUILMES WAY adventure race runners group (Quilmes city –Buenos Aires province).
“Wild woodland survival course with basic notions on First Aid, Orientation and Land Navigation”, given to the Director and studentes from the Santa Fe province School of Traditional Ju Jitsu and Bu Jutsu (Rosario city – Santa Fe Province)
Certificate of distinction in wilderness Survival –given by Mr. Sensei Mario Norberto Alem – Vice Chairman of the Ju Jitsu Argentine School and Director of the Santa Fe province School of Traditional Ju Jitsu and Bu Jutsu, in gratitude for the presence and effort given through the first “Wild Survival basic course with basic notions on Firt Aid, Orientation and Land Navigation” (Rosario city – Santa Fe province).
“Cartography, Orientation and Land Navigation” course and designer of a 8 kilometers circuit on a wild land, where an outdoor training applying orientation and land navigtion skills was developed for an independent adventure race runners group (Rosario City – Santa Fe province).
General Coordinator and Instructor of a “Survival, Orientation and Land Navigation” course (Pereyra Iraola Park – La Plata city – Buenos Aires province).
General Coordinator and Instructor of an “Orientation, Land Navigation and Survival basic techniques” course (Pereyra Iraola Park – La Plata city – Buenos Aires province).
Several courses given since the year 2005 for local and foreign students from conutries of North, Central and South America and Europe too, on Survival, Orientation, Land Navigation and GPS techniques, carried out on jungle and forest lands areas of the Buenos Aires province and others alike.
Exponder on issues regarding to Space Satellite Systems, Digital Maps and GPS (Global Positioning System) – running of the Remote Sensors and Radars based on Satellite and Airborne Platform, Synthetic Aperture Radars, Geographic Information Systems (GIS), Digital Maps design on platforms based in personal computers and way of the universal running of the Global Positioning Systems (Catolica de salta University).
English language intensive course -3 years attended-, having obtained the best average in his Promotion –course that contained study programms from the American Language Course - Defense Language Institute - English Language Center - Lackland Air Force Base - Texas –United States- (Argentine Air Force Language Center).
Full domain of the American and European English language.
English language translations from sporting and military skydiving handbooks, with bibliography from United States and Europe, given for the Skydiving National and International Instructor from the Argentine Air Force, Mario “Dog” Rodriguez (Argentine Air Force).
Private translations of English language from Wilderness General Survival, Cartography, Orientation, Land Navigation, GPS, Trekking, Mountaineering books and other sporting disciplines alike.
English language translation from a Air Crew Members Handbook (Boeing 737), made for the American Falcon Argentine Air Company (Metropolitan Aeroparque).
Ad-honoren colaboration for the www.aventurarse.com, www.traccion.com.ar, www.alborde.com.ar, www.andinia.com, www.ladeportista.com.ar, www.pezcalandia.com,ar, www.mundooutdoors.com, www.elbarilochense.com websites, in articles related on sporting disciplines like Trekking, Mountaineering, Survival, Orientation, Land Navigation, GPS, Personal Safety in mountains and others.
Diplomatic Protocol, Official and Ceremonial in the Public Affairs Management (Argentine Air Force).
High Personnel Management– General Management– Level IV (Argentine Air Force).
Managemente of Persons and Human Groups in Labor and Social environments – Level V (Argentine Air Force).
Modern Oratory (Argentine Air Force).
Towards the creation of a productive culture for the companies of the year 2000 (M.B. Associated Advisers).

NOTE: all the practices carried out during the survival training, was made in total isolation, with complete equipment (for emergencies situations), but using the basic