JOSE ALBERTO ROJAS MORA

Houston Area, TX ***** (US Permanent Resident, no sponsorship required)

+1-832-***-**** adhxat@r.postjobfree.com http://www.linkedin.com/in/rojasjosealberto

SENIOR RESERVOIR ENGINEER

With more than 14 years of broad experience in reservoir engineering, numerical simulation, and integrated asset modeling with excellent communication skills, and goal-driven in increasing technical solutions, ability to adapt, open minded, creativity, positive attitude and relationship builder. Self-starter to strategize new business opportunities, and create key client relationships.

PROVEN SKILLS

Bilingual (English, Spanish)

Numerical simulation

Business development

Field development planning

Solution-focused

Engineering support

Written - presentation skills

Software development

Strategy definition

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

SCHLUMBERGER (www.slb.com) 11 / 2006 to Present

Leave of Absence. Houston, USA 11 / 2019 to Present

Moved to the United States after being granted permanent residence.

Self-development in programming with Python.

Reservoir Engineering Technical Sales. Villahermosa, Mexico 09 / 2018 to 11 / 2019

Responsible for sales and technical activities including presentations, demos, business pipeline, and strategy delineation.

Design and close a USD 5MM project for a new High-Performance Computing solution for PEMEX, proving the ability to collaborate and working under minimal supervision

Expand INTERSECT (IX) usage in PEMEX, achieving to triple the number of licenses and more than 7 projects converted to new technologies such as INTERSECT (IX) and Depogrid by applying outstanding verbal communication skills and excellent organizational skills

Restored, generate and managed relationships on Reservoir Engineering matters with PEMEX in a professional manner, this allowed getting into 6 different locations promoting INTERSECT solution workflows

Execute and report 4 INTERSECT high-resolution subsurface simulation studies, coaching and managing multiple projects (4 more implementations) while mentoring 5 reservoir engineers on numerical simulation

Produce dynamic models including SCAL, PVT (fluid) generation, analysis and validation, perform history matching and forecasting working under a multidisciplinary team environment.

Petrel RE Product Analyst. Abingdon, United Kingdom 04 / 2016 to 09 / 2018

Led the development of the reservoir engineering aspects of the Petrel platform and have delivered three successful releases of its new version with more than 95% quality matrix and no major issues

Coordinate and align more than 4 teams to ensure all inter-dependencies are managed smoothly achieving a proper end-to-end workflow for all domains to meet deadlines accordantly

Partner and cooperate in technical discussions with top clients (Chevron, Woodside, Statoil, BP), to define and be the bridge between their needs and the software engineering team, ensuring Top 5 requirement delivery

Design and lead the Case Conversion process for seamless migration from ECLIPSE to INTERSECT in Petrel RE (versions 2017 and 2018)

Prepare and coordinate the development and testing of the Material Balance plugin for Petrel RE successfully deployed in 2018

Conceptualize and innovate processes such as Grid property modification, interactive grid filters, PLT/RFT display, and Field Management usability improvements, plus a quality campaign with more than 100 bugs fixed. Programing in python (scripting language) to automate tasks.

Senior Reservoir Engineer. Abingdon, United Kingdom 01 / 2014 to 03 / 2016

Provided second-level support as a member of the Global Reservoir Engineering Group, solving complex cases mostly related to convergence, compositional, thermal, and integrated asset modeling with more than 90% satisfaction

Develop highly impact projects internationally with 10 high-level successful reported implementations. Including subsurface studies, production systems, asset development, production optimization, and full lifecycle economics. Using ECLIPSE, INTERSECT, Petrel RE and IAM.

Generate asset evaluations under an integrated asset perspective from geology to economic performance analysis under a collaborative environment and recording best practices

Co-author the ECLIPSE Thermal training and reviewer of Petrel Advanced Wells and ECLIPSE Compositional training

Deliver more than 10 training sessions globally to internal and external clients

Reservoir Simulation Engineer. Maracaibo, Venezuela 07 / 2007 to 12 / 2013

Provided reservoir engineering project consultancy with 8 high-level successful deployments including reservoir characterization, history matching, water-flooding, reservoir-to-surface integration, production optimization, asset development, and intensive computing, in Venezuela, Suriname, Trinidad and Tobago

Demonstrate the value of the reservoir engineering solutions persuading PDVSA to close the software maintenance agreement for USD 6MM in 2012

Conduct training sessions, rated with >95% satisfaction involving ECLIPSE, Petrel RE, and IAM

QC static models and model reservoir physics under an integrated study point of view

Reservoir Engineer Trainee. Maracaibo, Venezuela 11 / 2006 to 06 / 2007

Thesis Project: “Numerical simulation of the enhanced oil recovery process THAI™ and comparison with other conventional thermal methods”

Forecasting different development strategies and run diagnostics against conventional methods

EDUCATION

Bachelor of Science in PETROLEUM ENGINEERING – Universidad del Zulia - Maracaibo, Venezuela

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