Alejandro Coy

Experience

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  Texas A&M University

  Jan 2009 - Dec 2009

  Research Assistant

  Thermodynamic Research Group -Evaluated the performance of new Orifice Equation for Natural Gas Measurements

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  University of Calgary

  Jan 2010 - Oct 2017

  • Managed the pilot plant facilities for heavy oil upgrading.• Lead technical support group on research and development of two new technologies for heavy oil upgrading. Leading to a designing a field test for In-situ upgrading• Automated data analysis using Excel reducing report preparation time by 50%. • Created dashboards in PowerBi for pilot plant unit reporting. • Supported the experimental research of over 20 MSc, MEng and Ph.D. students.• Performed multiple HAZOPs for the pilot plant units.• Managed research projects with industrial partners. Worked all the way from the experimental design through data collection and data reporting.• Design, construction, simulation and operation of pilot plant units for evaluation of new technology developments in heavy oil extraction and processing.• Evaluation process variables through simulation software (VMG) for design and operation bench Show less ­Evaluated the catalytic activity of ultra-dispersed catalysts in a porous media under in-situ conditions. (Thesis work)Pilot plant design, Procurement, construction and operation of the pilot plant and complete HAZOP for the unit. Evaluation of Deasphalted Oil Thermal Cracking and Catalytic Steam Thermal Cracking through a down flow soaker-striper reactor, University of Calgary and Nexen Project. Evaluation of Commercial Catalysts for Hydrocracking of VGO, U of C and Nexen Project. Show less

  • Technology Development Engineer(Engineer-in-Training) & Advanced Researcher

    Jan 2013 - Oct 2017

  • Graduate Research Assistant, University of Calgary, Chemical and Petroleum Engineering Department

    Jan 2012 - Dec 2012

  • M.Sc. Petroleum Engineering

    Jan 2010 - Dec 2012
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  PC-CUPS Ltd

  Jan 2014 - Aug 2019

  Technology Development Engineer (Engineer-in-Training)

  • Lead the transfer of information between experimental laboratory results and engineering team for design and construction of the field test. • Applied data analysis of laboratory experimental data over 10 years for design a pilot field test application of the In-situ Upgrading Technology for 140 bbl/day. • Designed and programmed the control system for the catalyst production prototype using ladder logic • Design the database using MySQL for saving all sensors data of the unit.• Created dashboards in PowerBi for visual analytics and reports for the pilot field test results.• Member of team that design the online catalyst production prototype for the ISTU technology• Developed conceptual, basic and detail engineering for a 140 barrels/day catalyst production prototype for the ISUT technology pilot test. This includes, process simulation, P&IDs and mass balances generation, equipment design and procurement, control philosophy design and supervised the prototype construction.• Employed multiple process simulation of to specify and select equipment for the prototype unit and its integration with the facilities• Experienced in risk assessments and integrated HAZOPs involve in the pilot test.• Technical lead in preparation of application for funding agencies for a Canadian field pilot test of the In Situ Upgrading Technology (NRCan Oil and Gas Clean Tech program and Sustainable Development Technology Canada). Show less

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  Rangeland Engineering

  Aug 2019 - Mar 2021

  Process Engineer (Engineer-in-Training)

  · Participate in the team for the design of 8 salt mined caverns for different hydrocarbons and natural gas at Tuzandepetl storage facility in Mexico. This included the development of cavern hydraulics, equipment sizing, studying the debottlenecking of 12 existing caverns, and presentation of the project to the client.· Developed novel hydraulic modeling for salt mined cavern using a gas cap for lower pressure operation. This includes single double completion modeling.· Used extensive knowledge of chemical production processes to debottleneck an NGL fractionation unit connected to multiple caverns to adjust to a new feedstock· Created multiple process simulation to modeling select equipment for the new units and its integration with the existing NGL facilities Show less

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  Alberta Investment Management Corporation (AIMCo)

  Mar 2021 - now

  • Collaborate with other data scientists to build an automation reporting pipeline to reduce the turn-around reporting time by 80 % using NLP and intelligent Automation.• Design process to transform complex SQL queries to Python script to automate weekly reporting using Power BI and Power Automate. Achieving a 60 % of reduction in manual work. • Lead the solution design for automation of four processes in the treasury Team, archiving time savings of 75% on average for the processes. • Subject matter expert in Python for the Client Analytics Platform project, implemented the CI/CD pipeline and DevOps repository for the project. • Provide internal training for the adoption of Python for intelligent automation in the organization.• Developed a Reusable code for the Topic Modeling of Data Incidents in the organization. Presented the result using the sonification technique adding a new dimension to the data analysis. • Lead the development of a POC for the adoption and integration of Databricks and Snowflake to the organization. Show less

  • Senior Manager Data Enablement, Data and AI

    Aug 2023 - now

  • Senior Manager Data Science

    Oct 2022 - Aug 2023

  • Data Scientist / Senior Data Specialist

    Mar 2021 - Oct 2022