Business Development Manager

Business Development and General Management experience in multi-disciplinary teams. Leading negotiations with most multinational O&G companies.

BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT MANAGER
Develop business opportunities regarding assets acquisitions in Venezuela, Colombia, Guatemala, Russia, and Peru.
Coordinate and execute all phases in business development opportunities, including screening and preselecting assets, technical (geological, reservoir and surface facilities) and economics evaluation and preparing commercial proposals. Joint Ventures Business Structure and Terms.
Business frameworks, taxes optimization and design of legal structures.
Operating Service Agreements Manager and Contracts Administration Manager:
Manage 17 Assets operated for multinational companies under operating services agreement.
Strategic Planning, Development Plan, Business Plan, Capital budget, AFE, invoicing, technical (subsurface and surface) and economical evaluation and Budget control. Establishing New JV’s.
Planning E&P, Business Opportunity and Production facilities Manager:
Business and Development Plan and optimize the Business Investments Portfolio.
Screening, conceptual, business structure, including project finance and negotiation for business opportunities in E&P areas.
OPERATIONS MANAGER:Responsible for managing the gas operations 2 billion of cubic feet/day to handle 500K Bls/day in Muscar Complex, Carito and Amana centers. (200MM$/year budget)
Responsible for the operations of Gas Compression Plants, gas treatment Plants (Dehidration and Amine), gas segregation, Gas Supply for injection and for domestic market and over 500 Kms of pipelines and related flow stations.
Project evaluations, cost/benefit analysis, project risk and managing the conceptual design for Compression center and increasing capacity projects.
Planning and Marketing Superintendent:
Corporate Planning for Gas Business Development
Pipeline planning for gas transmission, distribution and marketing in Venezuela
Planned, coordinated and managed business framework for business opportunity to distribute natural gas in Venezuela.
Production and Drilling Operations&Engineering: Lake Maracaibo, San Tome,Vzla
Drilling Engineer and Drilling Operations Supervisor for deep wells in Lake Maracaibo Basin. Drilling Programs, Cementing, DownHole Tools, Drilling Technology, W/O Operations and Engineering, Directional Drilling, WireLine Operations, Snubbing Unit, HSE.
Production Operations Engineer

EDUCATION (relevant degrees and courses)
Business and Strategy Management, Houston 2004 and 2005
Negotiation & Business Strategies, Chicago University, Illinois, USA 2002
Negotiation Strategies, Stanford University, CA, USA 2001
Oil and Gas Projects, Advanced Program in Oil Directorate, Stavanger, Norway 2000
Strategic Planning, Wharton School, Philadelphia, PA, USA 1998
Petroleum Engineering, Gulf Oil Co. Special Program, Houston, TX 1980-1981
Chemical Engineering, Universidad del Zulia, Venezuela 1978