Civil Engineer from the Universidad Industrial de Santander; Master’s degree in Structures from the Universidad Nacional de Colombia; PhD in Materials Science and Technology from the Universidad Nacional de Colombia; assistant professor in the Department of Civil Engineering at the Pontificia Universidad Javeriana. He has been a postgraduate professor at the Universidad del Norte, the Escuela Colombiana de Ingeniería and the Universidad Nacional de Colombia and undergraduate at the Universidad de La Salle and at the Universidad militar Nueva Granada. He was the manager of the construction company DEKA S.I.S Ltda. He has worked as a designer and structural consultant for the firm Lince Andina Ltda. And as an independent professional.