Oscar J. Franco O.

     Professional Education

·        Certified by the Supreme Court of Florida as Appellate, Family Law, Circuit Civil and County Mediator and qualified as Arbitrator.

·       Approved Mediator Trainer .

·        Cross Borders Child Abduction Mediation (Hague and non Hague convention). Trained at the University of Miami

·        Mortgage Foreclosure Mediation, trained at the University of South Florida.

·        Juris Doctor, Santa Maria University, Caracas, Venezuela.

·        Doctor of Veterinary Medicine, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Professional experience

·        Practiced law in Venezuela from 1980 to 2000.

·        Practices mediation in Florida since 2000.

·        Areas of conflict resolution include commercial, insurance, banking, personal injury, mortgage foreclosure and family law.

·        Specially dedicated to cultural diversity mediation

·        Speaks Spanish, English and Portuguese.

Mediation work experience

·        County and Family contractor mediator for the Mediation and Arbitration Program of the Seventeenth Judicial Circuit since 2004.
President of Foreclosure Mediators Inc

      www.foreclosure-mediators.com

·        Associate mediator of Divorce Without War Inc.

     www.divorcewithoutwar.com

·        Associate mediator of Upchurch, Watson, White and max Mediation Group

     www.uww-adr.com

National and International speaker.

·        Florida Dispute Resolution Center Conference, Orlando, Florida 2009.

·        Universidad de la Republica, Montevideo, Uruguay  2007.

·        Seminario de Mediación y Resolución Pacifica, Venezuela 2007.

·        Supreme Court of Florida, Tallahassee, Florida, Cultural Diversity in the Workplace 2007

·        Florida Dispute Resolution Center Conference, Orlando, Florida 2007.

·        Primer Congreso Interamericano de Mediacion, Uruguay, 2006.

·        Florida Dispute Resolution Center Conference, Orlando, Florida 2005.

·        Conference of the Dispute Resolution Association, Florida, 2003.

·        Medicine Dispute Resolution Conference, Belo Horizonte, Brasil 2003.

·        Dispute Resolution International Conference, Puerto Rico 2001.

·        Inter-American Bar Association Panama 2001

 
Professional memberships:

·        Member of the Board of Directors of the South Florida

    Association of Mediators and Arbitrators, (2008-present)

·        Member of the Board of Directors of the Florida Academy of Professional Mediators (2008-2009).

·        Former Executive Director of the Venezuelan American Chamber of Commerce, Miami

Teaching experience

·        Lecturer at the University of Miami, Koubeck Center.

     Course: Strategic Negotiation and Mediation). 

·        Lecturer  at the Florida International University, Miami, Florida, Multicultural Training Institute

Course: Mediation and Negotiation in the Workplace

·        Primary Trainer of County Mediation

·        Numerous mediation seminars and workshops in Latin America