Ricardo Alonso.

 Fields of Professional Interest

• Application of Modeling and Simulation techniques to Petrochemical and Chemical Processes. The aim is to optimize  operation performance and Reliability.
• Application of Expert Systems and Fuzzy Logic for the advanced and adaptative Control  of Manufacturing Processes and its application on Decision Making process.
• All those fields are complement of my main interest : Operations Research.
• Very akin to use of software on fields of interest ( Matlab, Vensim, 20Sim, Extend, etc. ).
• Others fields : Vermiculture, Hydroponics and Fish farming.

 Formal Education

• Chemical Engineer. Universidad de Carabobo, Venezuela.
• Master Oil, Gas, Refining and Petrochemical . Universidad Metropolitana - IFP, Venezuela.

Professional Experience

• Process Engineer Treatment Unit and Offsites. MTBE/TAME unit start up team and engineer. Refinería El Palito, PDVSA. ( 1984 – 1995 )
• Automation Engineer Crude Unit. Refinería El Palito, PDVSA ( 1995 – 1998 ).
• Professor Operation Research, Steam System Design and Industrial Instrumentation. Unitec ( 2000 ).
• Professor Reliability Engineering and Mathematics Simulator. IUTVAL postgraduate department ( 2000 ).

 Meetings

• Agro industry update meetings. UNITEC 2001.

Professionals Associations

• INFORMS  ( American Institute for Operations Research and Management Science ).  1999 .
• AiChe ( American Institute for Chemical Engineers ), 1985.