Previously, he was he was a research faculty at the Applied Computing Institute of the University of Zulia, Venezuela. His research interests are in the areas of reservoir engineering, fluid flow in porous media, enhanced oil recovery, flow assurance and multiphase flow modeling, and natural gas hydrates. He holds a B.S. and M.S. in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Zulia, and a Ph.D. in Petroleum Engineering from the Colorado School of Mines (2013). He is a member of the SPE, ACS and ASME.