EXPERIENCE
Thales - Technical Product Owner
Netherland (Jan 2025 - Present)
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Baker Hughes - Product Owner - 3D Subsurface Modeling
Netherland (Jul 2020 - Jan 2025)
Managing the software development team for a highly complex software platform using Agile-Scrum (Azure DevOps).
Aligning goals and milestones with the organization's strategy, collaborating closely with Project Managers, SMEs, stakeholders, and other teams.
Maintaining and prioritizing the product backlog to ensure alignment with immediate business objectives and broader organizational goals, while ensuring timely delivery and clear communication on progress and challenges.
Defining needs, recommending solutions and executing the product roadmap to align with the product vision.
Proactively managing and removing impediments to ensure smooth development processes and maintain team productivity.
Supported sales and consulting teams in applying geomechanics models for Oil & Gas and new energy operations.
Baker Hughes - Leader Subject Matter Expert (SME) - 3D Modeling and Simulation - Geomechanics
Netherland (Nov 2018 - Jul 2020)
Defined needs, recommended solutions and executed a 24-month product roadmap for 3D modeling software, aligning with the product vision, using Agile-Scrum.
Worked in close collaboration with software development teams supporting the Product Owner, clarifying requirements, providing guidance during development and mitigating risks.
Introduced new functionalities surpassing main competitors.
Supported sales and consulting teams in applying geomechanics models for Oil & Gas and new energy operations, using Finite Element simulator and visualization tool (Abaqus and Abaqus/CAE).
FIRE1 - Data Scientist Consultant
Ireland (Aug 2018 – Oct 2018)
Developed machine learning models in MATLAB to predict anomalies in sensors for heart failure patients.
Three models were developed: External Ultrasound Guidelines model (based on European Cardiac Ultrasound Guidelines), Regression Line model and Boundary Line model.
Evaluated the optimal model based on ROC (Receiver Operating Characteristic) curves and reported the results.
Fault Analysis Group - UCD - Software Developer - 3D Geological Modelling
Ireland (Jan 2016 – Mar 2018)
Developed the 3D reservoir fault modeling software, FaultMaker, for generating high-resolution 3D geological models in complex fault zones.
Rewrote the Visual Basic solver in C#, enhancing code structure and performance.
Designed and developed both a Petrel plug-in and a standalone version, using shared code to deliver nearly identical functionality in both applications [C#, .NET, SharpGL, Ocean]
Created the code documentation, user interfaces, and installation guides.
Delivered the Petrel plug-in for the QUAFF2 research project in a record time of eight months.
FaultMaker continues to be used by the research group and Oil & Gas sponsors, contributing to several publications.
SLB-Schlumberger [Reservoir Geomechanics Center of Excellence] - Reservoir Geomechanics Scientist
United Kingdom (Aug 2012 – Dec 2014)
Executed consulting projects in 3D geomechanical modeling and simulation at well scale (wellbore stability) and reservoir scale (compaction/subsidence, reservoir performance, cap rock integrity, fault stability, well survivability and hydraulic fracture planning). Some projects included modelling stresses in complex environments, including faulted and fractured reservoirs, with salt domes and overburden formations. Others, involved a 4D geomechanics model - coupled geomechanics and reservoir simulators to predict the stress changes, deformations or rock failure in field life. And lastly, for unconventional reservoirs, the coupled geomechanics and hydraulic fracture modelling to understand the stress changes during the fracture treatments and to improve the well and fracture design (well spacing, stage spacing and stage sequence). This includes stress shadow, synthetic microseismic and fracture stability computation. For all these 3D/4D projects, VISAGE (3D Finite Element geomechanics simulator) and ECLIPSE (3D Finite Difference reservoir simulator) were applied.
Co-authored a patent on well survivability.
Designed and developed the MFIP Petrel plug-in for mapping mechanical failure and predicting fractures based on 3D stress fields [C#, .NET, Ocean]. One of the first geomechanics Petrel plug-ins available for commercialization in the Ocean Store.
Supported the Sales team for 4 months in Houston-US, teaching, presenting and promoting the 3D subsurface modeling technologies for geomechanics.
SLB-Schlumberger [Reservoir Geomechanics Center of Excellence] - Unconventional Reservoir Technology Champion
United Kingdom (Nov 2011 – Aug 2012)
Developed and promoted SLB-Schlumberger's Geomechanics portfolio for unconventional reservoirs, introducing 1D and 3D geomechanics workflows. Those workflows included stress computation using Techlog-1D and VISAGE-3D, followed by well placement and fracture design, with Mangrove, and 3D fracture mapping and permeability updates.
Supported the software development team in creating new Petrel plug-ins and prototypes for geomechanics.
SLB-Schlumberger [Brazil Research and Geoengineering Center] - Software Engineer
Brazil (Sep 2009 - Nov 2011)
Researched, designed and developed a Petrel plug-in prototype for calibrating natural fracture properties using well test data [C#, .NET, Ocean]. Utilized an optimization algorithm and 3D Finite Element flow simulator (MAFIC) to determine optimal fracture parameters for reservoir simulations (exported to ECLIPSE or INTERSECT)
Evaluated the Ocean development framework for Petrel plug-ins as part of a Commercialization Team, gaining experience with Agile methodologies.
Tecgraf - PUC-Rio - Researcher & Software Developer
Brazil (Jul 2001 - Sep 2009)
Collaborated with Petrobras Research Center (CENPES) in the FRATURAS3D project for 3D modeling and numerical simulation of flow in fractured reservoirs. Researched, designed and developed the following software:
StatisticalFracture: Statistical analysis tool for fracture networks [C/C++, IUP, OpenGL]
FracGen3D: 3D discrete fracture network generator [C/C++, IUP, OpenGL]
ChannelSim: System for estimating the equivalent permeability of a fracture network, including: ChannelMesh3D (Finite Element mesh generator), ChannelFlow3D (steady-state Finite Element fluid flow simulator) and ChannelVisual3D (flow results and permeability tensor visualization tool) [C/C++, IUP, OpenGL]
FracMesh: 3D Finite Element mesh approach for creating fracture meshes from existing rock meshes [C/C++, IUP, OpenGL]
CalcSpacing: Fracture spacing verification tool [MATLAB]
FTPF-3D: 3D Finite Element simulator of flow in porous and fractured media, where I implemented the fracture elements (triangular mesh) and expanded the Finite Element calculation coupling the fractures and the rock matrix [Fortran]
FRATURAS3D project was a result of my PhD research, led to several academic publications.
UCAM - University teacher
Brazil (Mar 2009 - Jul 2009)
Taught "Isostatic Systems" and "Solid Mechanics" in the Production Engineering course.
DEC - PUC-Rio - Researcher & Software Developer
Brazil (Mar 2001 – Mar 2004)
Researched, designed, and developed ASTC-s, a 3D analytical simulator for contaminant transport in porous media. The software can quickly predict groundwater contaminant concentration over time and space; and it can also be applied in preliminary studies for environment and human health protection. ASTC-s consists of three components: ASTC (pre-processor), AstcSolver (Domenico analytical solution calculator), and AstcPos (3D visualization tool). [C/C++, Lua, IUP, OpenGL]
A version was commercialized to environmental engineering company.
Implemented an ethanol reactive model in RT3D (3D FD numerical simulator software for transport of contaminant), to analyze ethanol's impact on gasoline contamination in groundwater. As ethanol is a commercial fuel, and 25% of the Brazilian gasoline is composed of ethanol, the model can be widely applied in Brazil. Fortran programming language [Fortran].
Conducted 3D modeling and numerical simulations of chloride flow and transport in groundwater using VisualModflow to assess environmental impacts from oil and gas leaks.
PET - UFPA - Researcher
Brazil (1995 - 1999)
Research: Analysis of blocks for civil construction.