• Perform analytical process including instrument setup, sample analysis, and data review using Agilent GC and GC/MS and following EPA methods.• Implement best practices in the laboratory to maximize operational efficiency and maintain data quality that meets or exceeds industry standards.• Participate in SOP development and updates as necessary.

• Prepare and analyze samples with accuracy and precision following analytical SOPs.• Conduct semi-volatile analysis of EPA methods• Operate, troubleshoot, and maintenance of GC.• Perform organic extraction in soil, water, and waste matrices.

• Performed physical and chemical analysis of petroleum products such as gasoline, diesel, fuel oil, and LPG, per standard procedures (ASTM, IP).• Conducted routine lab testing including API gravities, flash points, distillations, BS&W, cloud point, sulfur test, copper strip corrosion, and haze.• Perform daily Quality Assurance/Quality Control requirements set forth by the test method.

• Monitored, recorded, and reported drilling and geologic activity during the drilling of oil wells, providing information concerning the efficiency of the well.• Created well logs with drilling, gas, and lithological information.• Collected geochemical samples and completed on-site isotopic analysis by using GC-IR2.• Performed geochemical analysis of calcimetry, XRF, XRD, and isotopes.

• Conducted operations in two chemistry laboratories and prepared all materials prescribed in the lab manual.• Provided instructional service for students and assisted them in mastering skills required for success within five courses of chemistry.• Performed maintenance checks on lab instrumentation regularly, such as NMR, IR, refractometer, spectrophotometer, polarimeter, etc.

• Served as an interdisciplinary geoscientist integrating geochemical, geological and production data for research purposes and support exploration and production projects.• Directed day-to-day operations of geochemistry and reservoir studies laboratories and procured supplies and equipment.• Performed laboratory tests to determine chemical and physical properties of crude oil, gases and water samples according to SOPs.• Developed laboratory experiments at HP-HT and operated some analytical instruments to study the rock-fluid and fluid-fluid interactions.• Carried out research in aqueous geochemistry, petroleum geochemistry, and EOR.

• Managed research projects in geochemistry, reservoir characterization and EOR, which contributed to solving a variety of production problems and recommended best practices to reservoir exploitation in southeast of Maracaibo Basin and Junin Block of Orinoco Oil Belt, Venezuela.• Led day to day activities for multiple research teams (groundwater, stable isotopes, organic geochemistry, nanotechnology, EOR-CO2, steam injection and acid gases). • Responsible for executing scope and maintaining schedule and budget goals.

• Environmental geochemistry• Aqueous geochemistry (hydrogeochemistry)• Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) / Reactive transport modeling and CO2 sequestration• Numerical methods and fluid dynamics (programming in Matlab)

Research Area: Spectroscopy, Dispersion Modeling• Conducted air dispersion modeling using AERMOD.• Processed and analyzed remote sensing massive data sets.• Measured air pollutant gases using DOAS and FTIR spectroscopic techniques.• Performed maintenance and calibration of all instruments and laboratory equipment.

• Analyzed volatile organic compounds using GC-MS.• Collected and characterized particles and air pollutant gases.• Accomplished Soxhlet extraction to determine polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAH’s).

• Collected and analyzed surface water and ambient air samples by using GC-FID and IC.• Ensured analytical work met the quality requirements.• Performed environmental compliance programs, environmental permitting, and industrial hygiene.• Assisted in the execution of Phase I/II Environment Site Assessments (ESA).