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Kissimmee, FL, US

Lancaster, Pennsylvania, US

• 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.

Orlando, FL, US

• 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.

Sugar Land, Texas, US

• 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.

Covina, CA, US

• 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.

Orlando, Florida, US

• 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.

Caracas, Venezuela, VE

• 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.

Caracas, Venezuela, VE

• 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.
• 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.

Caracas, Venezuela, VE

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

Distrito Federal, MX

• 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.

Caracas, Venezuela, VE

• 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).

Bachelor'S Degree, Chemistry - Geochemistry

Master'S Degree, Atmospheric And Earth Sciences

Certificate, Carbon Capture And Storage

Diploma, Advanced Reservoir Engineering

Doctor Of Philosophy (Phd), Abd, Engineering Sciences

Diploma, Environmental Geochemistry