Jonatan Loaiza is a graduate student from Peru. His bachelor degree is in Industrial Engineering from the Andean University of Cusco. He also has an MBA from the Rey Juan Carlos University of Spain.

Before coming to the United States, he worked in several companies of different economic sectors such as financial, health, mining, and electric power distribution. 2021 marks his second year in the PhD program in Systems Engineering and in the U.S. His research interests are manufacturing systems, quality assurance, and risk management. His goal in the program is to improve my research skills and gain experience in the academic field. He is highly interested in studying new manufacturing approaches such as digital manufacturing and automated systems. His hobbies are playing sports, and computer games, reading books and listening to all kinds of music.

Jonatan performed several tasks for the INCOSE Certification Program during the second and third quarter of 2021. He developed a new method of volunteer training using Google Forms and coordinated with 30 engineers from around the globe. Those interviews will appear as blog posts in September 2021. He also created online forms for submission of content from INCOSE volunteers and proposed future posts for the Certification blog. 

Those wishing to connect with Jonatan can reach him at https://www.linkedin.com/in/jhloaiza/