Unable to graduate, he was subsequently hired as a public administration clerk at Vialidad Nacional, the National Highway Bureau, and became a specialized advisor in the construction of mountain roads.

Returning to Catamarca, he worked as a consultant from 1950 to 1963, when he was elected to the Provincial Legislature on the centrist Radical Civic Union (UCR-P) ticket.

Two landmark projects include the Cuesta de El Portezuelo road and the San Francisco Pass, which improved links between both sides of the rugged Ancasti range, and facilitated commerce with neighboring Chile, respectively.

The governor responded to the province's judicial bottlenecks by decreeing that, counter to the provincial constitution, candidates from anywhere in Argentina could be eligible for the bench in Catamarca.

[5] His tenure, in turn, was criticized for refusing to advertise in El Ancasti, Catamarca's most important news daily, as well as for its numerous lawsuits against the publication.