Profile
Blanca Mendizabal
Curriculum Vitae
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Work History:
Little Bee Community – Lead Sustainability Consultant – October 2013 – Present; Battle McCarthy – Agricultural Engineer – January 2013 – October 2013; AQUALOGY – Engineer at the Environmental Department; Consulting and Monitoring Area – September 2011 – September 2012.
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Current Job:
Lead Sustainability Consultant
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Employer:
Little Bee Community
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My Work
I work every day to create solutions to make agriculture easier and accessible so that everybody can grow their favourite food at home!
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Everyday is a new challenge. I love analysing different situations and processes to find the best way to improve how they work. Being able to apply my knowledge and experience to create products or services is very satisfying. Now I’m working on city farming projects, creating vertical farms that allow people to grow vegetables without the need of soil, in a clean and easy way. I also run workshops and training for people that want to make their own urban farms.
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My Typical Day: I work in an office planning and designing agricultural ideas. When the project is finished, then I start the best part of the work, building it!
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In a typical day I:
Check the work planned for the day or the week.
Attend meetings.
Research new technologies and what is happening out there!
Write reports and briefs to share with my colleagues or clients.
Attend events and conferences to keep my knowledge up to date.
Design and create.
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What I'd do with the money
I would build a vertical urban farm. But I won’t do it alone! I would do it with a fantastic team of children wanting to bee engineers. Then, they will keep it at their school for them to pick a fresh and tasty salad every day with their own hands.
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I would build a vertical urban farm. But I won’t do it alone! I would do it with a fantastic team of children wanting to bee engineers. Then, they will keep it at their school for them to pick a fresh and tasty salad every day with their own hands.
Do you know where food comes from? Are you excited about growing food from a tiny seed just adding water? It looks like magic to me. I would like to show children how they can make it. Agriculture needs passionate engineers willing to create new solutions to real challenges.
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My Interview
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How would you describe yourself in 3 words?
Curious creative engineer
What's the best thing you've done in your career?
When I worked at a dairy industry I was responsible for the quality control of the milk that came from the farms. I checked the samples in the lab and managed the reception of the tanks when the quality was good. It was amazing to see how milk was pumped through long pipes to different containers, treated and at the end of the process is packed and ready to drink. Again, food engineers doing amazing things that only us can imagine and understand.
What did you want to be after you left school?
I love animals and I wanted to be a veterinary.
Were you ever in trouble at school?
Sometimes… I loved exploring the small forests around the school with my friends.
If you weren't doing this job, what would you choose instead?
Probably a vet or a horse breeder. I love horses so much!
Who is your favourite singer or band?
It’s difficult to chose just one! I love many kinds of music but specially Queen.
What's your favourite food?
Chocolate!
What is the most fun thing you've done?
Rafting down the Ayung river in Bali. It was amazing! Not just paddling but being surrounded by the jungle, monkeys, colourful birds, iguanas and other wild animals.
Tell us a joke.
A wife asks her husband, a software engineer… “Could you please go shopping for me and buy one carton of milk, and if they have eggs, get 6!” A short time later the husband comes back with 6 cartons of milk. The wife asks him, “Why did you buy 6 cartons of milk?” He replied, “They had eggs.” XD
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