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Joseph O. Vergara – Résumé
Joseph O. Vergara
Joseph O. Vergara – Complete Résumé
- Contact Information
- Professional Summary
- Education
- Work Experience
- Eligibilities, Certifications, Licenses and Other Talents and Skills
- Other Accomplishments
- Trainings Attended and Organizational Affiliations
- References
Contact Information
Email: webmaster@josephvergara.com
URL: http://www.josephvergara.com/resume/
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Professional Summary
- Public management expert and public service practitioner both in civil government and religious circles. Excellent public speaking skills, gifted teacher, and respected personal mentor. Experienced in coordinating corporate operations .
Education
June 15, 2008 – King's Cross Victory Bible College (Wooster, OH)
- Doctor of Philosophy in Theology (hc)
1999 – Polytechnic University of the Philippines (Manila, PH)
- Doctor in Public Administration (Candidate)
1995 – Central Colleges of the Philippines (Quezon City, PH)
- Master in Public Management
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June 1991 – October 1992, University of the Philippines in Diliman (Quezon City, PH)
- Master of Arts in Psychology (units)
CICM MaryHill School of Theology (Quezon City, PH)
- Master in Theology (Units)
1991 – Trinity College of Quezon City (Quezon City, PH)
- Bachelor of Arts, Major in Psychology
June 1982 – May 2008, University of the Philippines in Diliman (Quezon City, PH)
- Bachelor of Arts (Units)
Work Experience
Division Chief and Procurement Specialist, Task Force on Corporate Center and Offices
April 12, 2012 to present
Management Services Sector
Philippine Health Insurance Corporation, Pasig City, PH
OIC Senior Manager/Head, Task Force on Corporate Center and Offices
January 13, 2012 to April 11, 2012
Management Services Sector
Philippine Health Insurance Corporation, Pasig City, PH
November 4, 2011 to January 12, 2012
Management Services Sector
Philippine Health Insurance Corporation, Pasig City, PH
Division Chief and Officer-in-Charge, Secretariat for the Bids and Awards Committees
June 14, 2007 to November 3, 2011
Office of the President and Chief Executive Officer
Philippine Health Insurance Corporation, Pasig City, PH
January 1, 1999 to June 13, 2007
Administrative Services Department
Philippine Health Insurance Corporation, Pasig City, PH
The Philippine Health Insurance Corporation (PhilHealth) is the premier provider of social health insurance in the Philippines and covers all Filipinos all over the world.
- Hailed by suppliers for maintaining transparency in the bidding process and ensuring fair competition among qualified providers of goods and services. Regarded as one of the few officers in Government who has credibility in public procurement.
- Shortened the bidding process from 90 days to 28 days with complete staff work.
- Has ably faced, defended and won against harrassment suits from suppliers and public officers who thought they can get away with corrupt practices in government procurement.
- Ensured judicious requisition by end users of needed supplies through constant studies on the actual needs and applicable specifications of goods and services in the Corporation
Manager, Finance and Administrative Services
June 2, 1997 – December 31, 1998
National Kidney and Transplant Institute., East Avenue, Quezon City
The National Kidney and Transplant Institute is the premier center for nephrology and organ transplantation, and is the first government owned and controlled health care institution to pass ISO certification.
- Reversed the trend of suppliers threatening to boycott the Institute by slowly but surely reducing the Institute's debts to suppliers and imposing cost-effective measures in hospital operations.
- United the Institute’s two warring employee's unions towards helping employees regardless of union membership, thus helping to revive the hospital on the brink of collapse due to a nine-figure debt to suppliers
- Was the first and only Manager to head the Finance and Administrative Services Department who is not a Certified Public Accountant
Senior Personnel Specialist
June 18, 1993 – June 1, 1997
Career Executive Service Board, Quezon City, PH
Personnel Specialist I
March 25, 1992 to June 17, 1993
Placement, Training and Career Development Service
Career Executive Service Board, Pasig City, PH
The Career Executive Service Board is the Philippines' central personnel agency for government career executives above Division Chief level but below members of the Cabinet
- Managed the Career Executive Placement Program (CEPP) which successfully marketed to the President of the Philippines and members of the Cabinet several Career Executive Service eligibles for appointment to top-ranking vacant career executive service positions.
- Conducted training sessions for government executives on the subject of relaxation and spiritual quieting.
- Supervised the conduct of the Management Aptitude Test Battery (MATB), the first in a four-stage Career Executive Service eligibility examinations, for the Mindanao Region
Editor, TEKA MUNA Project1990 – 1991
Claretian Publications, Inc., Quezon City, PH
Proofreader, Christian Community Bible
1989-1990
Claretian Publications, Inc., Quezon City, PH
Claretian Publications is a pastoral endeavor of the Claretian Missionaries in the Philippines. It aims to promote a renewed spirituality rooted in the process of total liberation and solidarity in response to the needs, challenges, and pastoral demands of the Church today.<
- Coordinated with various writers who wrote their reflections and had them published for the benefit of overseas Filipinos.
- Assisted in reviewing final drafts for the Christian Community Bible, a direct translation of holy scriptures from the original Aramaic and Greek.
Student Assistant1983 – 1984
University of the Philippines in Diliman., Quezon City, PH
The University of the Philippines Office of Counselling and Guidance is in charge of setting programs for the guidance and counselling needs of the different campuses of the University of the Philippines System. One of its programs is the peer counseling program where students are trained to counsel their peers inasmuch as the level of confidence in peers is higher than confiding in professionals who are older and are relatively strangers.
- Performed test interpretation and evaluation under the supervision of professional counsellors
- Acted as frontline "first aid" counsellor, specifically making initial assessment of immediate needs of clients prior to referral to professional counselors.
Eligibilities, Certifications, Licenses and Other Talents and Skills
- Extensive experience in performing arts. Has been trained from primary school up to college to sing, dance, act and read interpretatively. Was briefly under the tutelage of respectable mentors as Mel Chionglo (film), Dr. Pat Lazaro (speech and interpretative reading), Behn Cervantes (theatre) during college. Has been called upon as Lector in television masses.
- Is computer-literate on basic office applications and can understand a bit of HTML. Was trained in B.A.S.I.C. Programming through the International Correspondence Schools
- Certified by the International Fitness Association on Personal and Group Fitness Training; Sports Nutrition and Senior Fitness
- Extensive experience on training groups and individuals. Has finished a course on Training Design and Administration. Has taken part in training government executives as member of the Career Executive Service Board training staff. Has been hailed as a Recognized Procurement Trainer by the Government Procurement Policy Board.
- Extensive religious and pastoral training and experience. Was a professed (with evangelical vows) missionary for three years. Studied catechetics and gave catechetical instruction to public school pupils. Delivered recollections and retreats to graduating classes in various schools. In recognition of his active participation in online interfaith discussions, has been ordained Minister of the Universal Life Church by the Seattle,WA and Modesto, CA, branches; and granted a Doctorate in Divinity by the First Church of the Gospel Ministry in Wooster, OH.
- Extensive experience in counselling. Has been endorsed by the late respected lifestyle columnist Mary Prieto to readers of her column who needed assistance.
- Possesses Career Executive Service Eligibility, conferred by the Philippine Career Executive Service Board on June 29, 2001
- Possesses Career Service Professional and Sub-Professional Eligibilities, conferred by the Philippine Civil Service Commission.
Other Accomplishments
- 15th placer –
Philippine Career Executive Service Open Management Aptitude Test Battery (Open MATB)
held on December 10, 2000 - Blood Galloner (presently a candidate for a Bronze Medal Award) –
Philippine National Red Cross
awarded June 16, 1996
Philippine Career Service Professional Examinations
held on July 18, 1991
Trainings Attended and Organizational Affiliations
(see online complete list of my trainings)
Employer References
(see OCR copies of my letters of recommendation)
- Hon. Francisco T. Duque III, MD, MSc
Chairperson
Philippine Civil Service Commission
Constitution Hills, Quezon City. PH
Phone: +63 2 931 7997
Email: och@webmail.csc.gov.ph
Hon. Teodoro Brawner Baguilat Jr.
Representive, Lone District of Ifugao
15th Congress of the Republic of the Philippines
House of Representatives
Constitution Hills, Quezon City. PH
Phone: +63 2 931 5001
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Hon. Enrique T. Ona, MD, FPCS, FACS
Secretary of Health
Government of the Republic of the Philippines
Manila, PH
Phone: +63 2 651 7801
Email: etona@doh.gov.ph
Prof. Tomas Marcelo Luke DG Agana III
President and Chief Executive Officer
PHAREX HealthCorp
Quezon City, PH
Phone: +63 2 386 1509
Mark Vincent S. Dayrit
President, L. A. Fitness, Inc.
Gold's Gym Galleria East Wing
Pasig City, PH
Phone: +63 2 890 7738
Bro. Eugenio Isabelo Tomas R. Sanchez Jr.
President
Shepherd's Voice Publications, Inc.
Quezon City, PH
Phone: +63 2 725 9999
Rev. Dr. Albert C. Clavo.
Bishop/Senior Pastor
Lighthouse Christian Community.
Alabang, Muntinlupa City, PH
Phone: +63 2 772 1088
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