Rafael Ventura is a seasoned and hardworking professional that follows a career path in project management. When he was 19 years old he came to realization of how people can be empowered to reach their personal and professional goals as a volunteer, whilst he was leading a schools branch of Radio Fe y Alegría (an initiative to help people to obtain the elementary school diploma by mean of radio broadcasting). He uses this powerful transformational experience to work passionately to get projects done and make the project team feels good about it. Rafael got a Bachelor degree in Chemical Engineering (qualifications recognised as equivalent to Spanish BSc and MSc degree in Chemical Engineering) from the Universidad Simón Bolívar (Venezuela). He is chartered engineer of Colegio Oficial de Ingenieros Químicos de la Comunidad Valenciana. He obtained his MBA diploma from IE Business School as top-of-class student, and earned the PMP certification.

Rafael has worked in industrial and service sectors in engineering, consultant, marketing, and project management positions. He has recently engaged in training in Simulation of Chemical Process and Desing of Water Desalination Plants at COIQCV.

He led an e-Commerce business unit with 8Mio Euros worth in revenues and managed a budget of 700K Euros, and managed project of 500K euros in worth value.

He has developed skills in quality management, computer programming, database design, business intelligence application design, team management, and project management. He's currently researching about doing dynamic simulation doing data integration with DWSIM and Qlikview using R and Python.

Recently he has developed SSIS ETL for populating CRM Dynamics with data from legacy systems (Oracle, Informix, SQL Server). He also has developed R scripts for text matching, parallel multiple linear regression, and visualisation in PowerBI.

Currently, he is working in developing code in R for Computational Fluid Dynamics simulation of water evaporation from baresoil, as he is looking forward to understand de mass transfer phenomena behind evaporation and foresee the opportunity for developing products and process to tackle the desertisation problem in Africa, and South America.