For the past 17 years, Arnaldo has worked for the government, private and nonprofit sector, focused in analytics, program evaluation, finance, and information technology. He has worked for the US Census, the Mayor’s Office of Workforce Development and the Office of Management and Budget at the City of Chicago. Arnaldo was Executive Director of the Segundo Ruiz Belvis Cultural Center, a community-based nonprofit in Chicago, where he was responsible for a major expansion, revitalizing the brand, reengineering its program portfolio and significantly increasing funding for the organization. He also worked in management consulting, deploying business process reengineering plans at various government agencies and leading the implementation of performance management systems for government.
In Puerto Rico, Arnaldo served as executive director of the Senate Committee on government performance and economic development at the Puerto Rico Senate. He was also senior advisor to the Senate President on public finance, where he developed and implemented a performance management process for the commonwealth’s budget.
More recently, Arnaldo was the Research Director of Foundation for Puerto Rico, a local non profit, where he established a new research unit to support the organization’s advocacy programs. At Foundation, Arnaldo led the development of the first National System of Tourism Statistics in Puerto Rico and was responsible for the design and evaluation of the organization’s disaster recovery programs.
Arnaldo was chairman of the board of the Puerto Rico Institute of Statistics, the government entity in charge of establishing the statistical policy for the Commonwealth and is an adjunct professor at Sacred Heart University College of Business. He is currently the Director of Research and Policy of the Financial
Oversight and Management Board of Puerto Rico. Arnaldo has a Masters in Public Policy, from the Harris School of Public Policy Studies at the University of Chicago.
Arnaldo is co-founder of ABRE Puerto Rico