Billingua Talent
A bilingual talent platform built for AVAA and the U.S. Department of State's Venezuela Affairs Unit to help high-skilled Venezuelans access high-paying national jobs and improve their English readiness.
Overview
Billingua Talent is a professional networking platform commissioned by the U.S. Department of State’s Venezuela Affairs Unit and led through AVAA in 2025. I led the full product development, from data architecture to the candidate and advisor interfaces.
The platform helps high-skilled Venezuelans with strong English levels access high-paying national jobs. It also gives Venezuelan-American Centers a shared system to identify candidates who need stronger English skills and offer them services, courses, and workshops to improve their readiness.
Context
AVAA and the Venezuela Affairs Unit needed a secure platform to organize vetted professionals and coordinate follow-up across Binational Centers. The main challenge was keeping candidate profiles, English levels, training services, and advisor decisions in one place.
My role
I translated the program goals into a working product and built the platform from the ground up.
My work covered:
- database architecture and data modeling
- candidate profiles and CV access
- advisor dashboards and reporting views
- service, workshop, and course management
- English-level tracking
- bilingual interface support
- frontend and backend implementation
Product scope
Billingua Talent combines candidate profiles, service management, and advisor analytics. Candidates can present experience, education, certifications, language level, social links, and CV. Advisors can review the talent pool, track participation, and identify training gaps.
Advisor dashboard
The dashboard gives VAU and AVAA advisors a live view of candidates, services, registrations, service types, and English-level distribution. It helps the team decide which resources to promote, repeat, or adjust.
Growth funnel
The platform gives Venezuelan-American Centers a national funnel for candidate development. Advisors can monitor active users, publish targeted services, and guide candidates toward workshops, courses, webinars, and career preparation.
Service operations
Each service page centralizes logistics, capacity, cost, modality, location, facilitator, and performance metrics. Advisors can manage services and review demand without rebuilding spreadsheets.
Analytics
The analytics views help the team understand candidate composition, offer activity, traffic sources, devices, and usage patterns. Training plans can then respond to observed behavior, not only anecdotal demand.
Outcome
Billingua Talent gave candidates a structured professional presence and gave advisors the data needed to coordinate training, monitor English readiness, and support access to high-paying national opportunities.
The platform improved talent visibility, service coordination, and planning across the Binational Center network.
What I learned
The product worked because professional networking and training management were treated as one system. Candidate readiness depended on profile quality and the support structure behind it.