Cecilia Pulido-Peña has over 20 years of experience in fitness instruction and personal training. She holds black belt certifications in PaKua and is a master trainer in kettlebell training. Pulido-Peña currently owns her own fitness studio in Puerto Rico and teaches various fitness modalities while also operating as a consultant and personal trainer. She has a background in nutrition studies and sales/marketing experience in the fitness industry.

1. Cecilia Pulido-Peña
PO Box 2345, Guaynabo, PR 00969 • (787)363-0100 fitnessculture@yahoo.com • pakua_puertorico@yahoo.com
PROFILE: articulate, apt, accountable; self starter with abundant sales/marketing knowledge & experience; innovative, resourceful, hard working.
FITNESS EXPERIENCE:
TRX Black & Yellow CORE Course Instructor - TRX STC, GSTC, R4
KBTA (KBell Training Academy) Master Trainer
PaKua International League - 3rd degree Black Belt Master & member since 2000
Puerto Rico Departamento de Recreación y Deportes (Dept. of Sports & Recreation)
State authorized continuing education provider & course instructor license #01543
Polestar Pilates Educated 2009
Invited Guest Instructor & International Presenter
Rancho La Puerta, Tecate, Mexico
International Sports Center, Hagatña, GUAM
Good Life Fitness, Ontario, Canada (thru KBTA)
Life Time Fitness, Ontario, Canada (thru KBTA)
ECA World Fitness (Florida 2014)
WORK EXPERIENCE:
Fitness Culture, Inc. & PaKua Health Studio Guaynabo, Puerto Rico 2004 Oct – present
Owner, PaKua Master, Consultant, Personal Trainer, Educator
Fitness programming, events, certification courses
authorized distributor of genuine TRX equipment and education courses
Head Instructor (Puerto Rico & Caribbean) PaKua knowledge (www.pakua.com)
Fitness Depot, San Juan, Puerto Rico 2009 May - 2010 Oct
Sales Manager
Marketing & sales of fitness equipment, accessories and body building supplements
Planning & design of fitness centers in government, municipal, institutional, personal
& private sectors, from order fulfillment to installation
Integrative Marketing & Sales, Los Angeles, CA & Puerto Rico 1995 Feb – 2005 Dec
Owner, Independent Broker, Consultant in natural health products industry
Marketing, consulting , product placement, merchandising, trainings for key accounts
Regional and National sales & conducted product trainings
Art Concept & Information Design and technical writing for small and start up companies
ITA Corporation, Los Angeles, CA 1994 May – 1995 Feb
Manager, Import/Export Division
Devised and implemented operational procedures for Russian Textile Company
Marketing, sales, design & distribution of product line
Managed domestic textile sales & converting and Russian textile imports
Ideal Textiles Company, Inc. Los Angeles, CA 1990 Apr – 1994 May
Sales Assistant (4/90-4/91 promoted), Assistant Manager, Print Division (4/91-12/91 promoted),
Assistant to CEO (12/91-6/92 promoted), Manager Import/Export division (6/92-5/94)
Established Import/Export Division for company (internal structure & procedures)
Responsible for all aspects of importing textiles (customs procedures/letter of credit, etc.,.)
Responsible for all aspects of converting (raw materials into finished products)
Supplier & client development (foreign & domestic)
EDUCATION:
Neuro-Linguistic Programming Practitioner Certification Training ABNLP, TLTA, ABH, ABLC 2014 graduate
Clayton College of Natural Health, Alabama Master of Science, Holistic Nutrition (in process)
University of California, Los Angeles, Bachelor of Arts, Russian Civilization 1989 graduate
Maurice Thorez Institute of Foreign Language, Moscow, USSR Intensive Russian study 1989 graduate
Center for Strategic & International Studies, Washington D.C. 1988 internship
Research Associate for Dr. Zbigniew Brzezinski, former NSA 1977-1981
PaKua International League, Buenos Aires, Argentina & Los Angeles, CA 2000 to present