Safety Specialist

Certified Safety Professional (CSP), sixteen years of experience in Venezuelan Oil Industry. Accomplishment of an extended range of responsibilities in Safety & Health and Risk Management for process facilities

HSE Manager Gas Retail Facilities, 2005-2006
Petróleos de Venezuela Services–Deltaven

• Traffic Safety Program
• Implementation of PDVSA’s EHS Integrated Management System in Deltaven
• Review and actualization of Corporate Risk Engineering Manual


Safety Specialist, 2001-2005
Petróleos de Venezuela Services–Corporate Offices Caracas


• Industrial Safety Leader in grass-root projects: Mariscal Sucre LNG, Petrobras/PDVSA New Refinery
• Strategic Planning for the Implementation of PDVSA’s EHS Integrated Management System
• Update of the Risk Engineering Manual : risk tolerance criteria, safety zones, risk analysis for pipeline systems, third party risk management
• Coordination of the corporate cost benefit program: safety measure feasibility review, training, software tools.
• Instructional design of the “Safe, Clean, Healthy Performance of Supervisors” Program
• Quantitative Risk Analysis, Jose Gas Processing and Storage Facility
• Safety Audit, Third Party Risk of Adjacent Road for Hovensa Refinery US Virgin Islands


Safety Specialist-1999-2002
Petróleos de Venezuela Services–Corporate Offices Caracas

• Coordination of a HSE training program for Managers and Supervisors
• Technical Leader for updating PDVSA's Risk Enginnering Procedures
• Safety Audit Hovensa Refinery
• Cost-Benefit Methodology : technical administration, course designer and facilitator.
• Quantitative Risk Assessments for PDVSA's Metropolitan Area Fuel Distribution Facilities and Jose Gas Processing Complex.
• Process Safety Management Efficiency Audit for PDVSA's Production and Gas Processing Facilities
• Public Risk Evaluation of Residential Facilities Adjacent to the Puerto La Cruz Refinery.
• ACCRO III/IV Project: Tie-ins Hazop, Process Buildings Evaluation
• El Tablazo Petrochemical Plant: Evaluation of Accident Prevention Systems and Programs
• Ule Gas Plant: Evaluation of Major Hazards and Emergency Response Capacity


Environmental, Health and Safety Hamaca Project Downstream Coordinator (Irvine, CA)-1998-1999
• Coordination of EH&S Requirements for Upgrader´s EPC Request for Proposals
• Coordination/performance of Process Hazard Analysis (HAZOP’s, Hamaca Upgrader Quantitative Risk Analysis)
• Evaluation of Process Plant Buildings Blast Resistance requirements
• Review of Hamaca Upgrader safe design requirements

Civil Engineer: Universidad de Oriente-Puerto la Cruz, Venezuela. Nov. 1989
Master in Safety and Health: University of Southern California, Los Angeles CA. Aug 1997.
Specialization: Process Safety Management. University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA. Aug 1997.

Professional Safety Certification CSP, July 2002

Spanish, native language
English, fluent

Volunteer Work

(1991-1995) Member of the Fire and Rescue Volunteer Brigade of the Corpoven S.A. Puerto La Cruz Refinery.