Teaching Pillar Courses at the Chemical and Petroleum Engineering Department. Coordinating the Outreach Program for the Chemical and Petroleum Engineering Department. Academic and professional advising of chemical engineering students. Servicing at different academic committees.

Advisory reports and counseling on academic teaching and research to the Board of Directors, University Council, Faculty Councils and Research Centers.Teaching courses on core subjects (see Projects section).Conferences, speeches and seminars (see Attachment).

Responsible for official relations with government officials and academy representatives, regular meetings with the board of directors and the board of trustees, and open communication with industry, business, media and society representatives.Signing and development of over fifty (50) cooperation programs with local and international academic and professional organizations. Promotion, organization and development of fifteen (15) research centers in Human Rights, Law, Environment, Politics, Higher Education, Disabilities, Classical Studies, Iberoamerican Studies, History, Economy, Bioethics, Strategy and Safety, Mass Media, Digital learning and Innovation.President (2005-15) of the Alumni Association, with monthly meetings of the board and semi-annual encounters with Alumni.Lecturer at seminars (3), conferences (8), speeches (33) and panels (4). See attachment.Counseling and coaching of directors, staff, colleagues, professors, students and families, following a person centered approach for the development of competences and the enrichment of virtues.

Coordination of academic and research activities.Supervision of professors performance.Development of internal regulations.Management of academic relations with Government, institutions, companies and society.Keynote speaker (see attachment)

Responsible for the integration of Academic Faculties administration, complete set-up for graduate studies, development and updating of academic programs for students, and continuous education programs for professors (over 50 academic programs annually).Teaching courses on Calculus for Business Administration, Applied Statistics for Social Communication, Research Methods, Philosophy of Science, Introduction to Philosophy, Philosophy and History of Religions (see Projects section)

Development of an integrated research and technology business unit for the innovation and commercial support of PDVSA international refinery system on the manufacturing of specialty products: lube oil, wax, coke, asphalt, bitumen, solvents, additives, etc.Development of a business strategy for the commercialization of a patented Gas-to-Liquid process.Management of an annual budget of $ 7 million and leading a team of 30 professionals, with over 300 technical reports on a three-years period.

Expert on the upgrading of petroleum residues into higher value products (cokes, asphalts, vanadium recovery and carbon fibers), including advanced physicochemical analytical techniques, computational simulation, pilot plant design and operation, commercial refinery units monitoring, project design and business plan, technological intelligence networks, international cooperation and negotiation of technology. Evaluation of needle coke production form selected Venezuelan residues: in-depth characterization by Nuclear Magnetic Resonance and High Pressure High Temperature Polarized Light Microscopy and Pilot Plant data analysis.Evaluation of carbon fiber production from selected Venezuelan residues: pilot plant design, operation and data analysis.Research (pilot plant) on Delayed Coking optimization.Technology intelligence on thermal conversion processes for petroleum residues.Technology intelligence on asphalt manufacturing.Participation at ASTM D-04 (Road and Paving Materials) and ASTM D-08 (Roofing, Waterproofing and Bituminous Materials) Committees.Comprehensive program for the evaluation of Venezuelan residues asphalt potential to meet SHRP new guidelines for US road paving and environmental impact.

Design, construction and operation of Delayed Coking pilot plants: batch (1 and 3 kg coke) and continuous (220 BPD) operation.Process training in commercial Flexicoking unit (PDVSA-Amuay Refinery, Venezuela).Process training in commercial Delayed Coking unit (Ruhr Oel-Gelsenkirchen Refinery, Germany) Visbreaking pilot plant: operation, data analysis and process simulation.Fluid catalytic cracking process simulation.Vanadium recovery from flexicoke conceptual design.