Carlos Agudelo - Director & Founder, AuroraTech SAS

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Network Power<100 people

Roles

🧨60%

Consulting

✨40%

Business Owner

🧑‍🔬40%

Engineer

Geos

🇧🇷20%

Brazil

🇮🇳20%

India

🇺🇸20%

United States

Work Background

Agencia Nacional de MineríaContractor

Feb. 2021 - Dec. 2021Bogotá, Distrito Capital, ColombiaKey Achievements: ● Elaborate the use cases in which the roles, requirements, systems used, interactions, capacities and obligations of the different actors involved in the processes of exploitation, transformation and commercialization of the minerals associated with the mining chains defined for the adjustments are identified. and new required functionalities that will be developed in the Mining Traceability Platform. ● Prepare and propose procedures that allow taking samples of the transactions and time stamping in the different steps of the selected mining chains, so that no modifications are allowed after the closing of transactions. ● Select and propose the instruments, technological equipment (hardware) or methodologies that must be used to be able to acquire data in order to have the traceability of the transaction in the different steps of the selected mining chains, so that later modifications are not allowed. at the time of closing transactions. ● Participate in the preparation and delivery of the proposed strategy document for technical and functional support to be implemented for the Mining Traceability Platform by the ANM. ● Guide the ANM in the definition of the operational and traceability flows (processes, data, information systems, times, among others) of the mineral chains and provide feedback on the definitions established in the use cases for the development of software of the Mining Traceability information system. ● Support the process of preparing the regulatory framework document ANM - MME for the obligation to promote the economy of data exchange. ● Support the process of preparing the document that will allow the ANM to establish the requirements to apply as an OTTM Mining Traceability Technological Operator (legal, technological, administrative and financial).

Universidad Santo Tomás ColombiaAssociate Professor

Feb. 2017 - Jul. 2017Key Achievements: Abnormal Situations Automation for electronic engineering students, training more than 24 students in Alarm Management, Fault Detection and Diagnosis and Fault Tolerant Control, and leading those student´s internships in industries, applying these technologies to increase Process Safety and Profit.

Universidad Pontificia Bolivariana - ColombiaAssociate Professor

Jan. 2014 - Nov. 2014Key Achievements: Advanced Control for control engineering specialisation students, training more than 50 students in Advanced Regulatory Control and Multivariable Predictive Control, and leading those student´s work in industries, applying these technologies to increase Process Safety and Profit. Analog Control for control engineering specialisation students.

AuroraTechDirector & Founder

Aug. 2013Bogotá, Distrito Capital, ColombiaKey Achievements: Design and launch of AuroraTech´s mission, vision and services for Industry, Small & Medium size Business, and Entrepreneurs. To serve Industry with our ABNORMAL SITUATIONS AUTOMATION Program. Implementing Alarm Management Methodologies, which allowed to detect Bad Actors of Alarms, and make recommendations to solve the problems associated with the excessive activation of these alarms. Through the realization of VIRTUAL Workshops we build together with our clients the Philosophy for the Management of Alarms, starting point for all efforts in Alarm Management. To serve Small & Medium size Business, and Entrepreneurs with Digital Marketing, Data Analytics, Social Media and Video Marketing. Together with our clients, we built innovation projects using advanced technologies (Data Analytics), which allowed us to promote initiatives of our clients in the areas of marketing and distribution of agricultural products and tourism. We compared the performance of social media strategies through Data Analytics. We evangelize entrepreneurs around the use of Video Marketing to promote their business and get more customers. Design, development and launch of AuroraTech´s proposal to foster Entrepreneurship. https://www.dropbox.com/s/5euzyxzh64sxkeh/Propuesta%20de%20Fomento%20del%20Emprendimiento%20v2.pdf?dl=0 Author of Memories of a Virtual Voyager, with lessons about Entrepreneurship and the search for God. http://auroratech.com.co/memories/ Design, development and launch of Boosting Economy, a new platform that seeks to stimulate the economy, connecting rural producers and cities with distributors and consumers of agricultural products, manufactured products of all kinds, and services and needs of non-profit entities, creating a Social Entrepreneurship option. https://www.dropbox.com/s/h5svg42yoobsm6n/PRESENTACION%20Dinamizar%20Economia.pdf?dl=0 Expansion campaign through Colombia, Peru and other locations.

Unidades Tecnologicas de SantanderAssociate Professor

Feb. 2002 - Dec. 2007Key Achievements: Seminar in industrial instrumentation for control engineering students. Seminar in advanced process control and its industrial applications for control engineering students, training more than 100 students in Advanced Regulatory Control, Multivariable Predictive Control, Fuzzy Control and Artificial Neural Networks application to Inference, and leading those student´s work in industries, applying these technologies to increase Process Safety and Profit. Director of several projects in application of artificial intelligence techniques for solving industrial problems.

EcopetrolProject Leader

Apr. 2000 - Dec. 2016Key Achievements: Development of an intelligent software tool to make early fault detection and diagnosis in a fluid catalytic cracking unit, which made it possible to detect operational faults during the years 2012 to 2014, and recommended actions to reduce or eliminate the effects of faults. Preparation of proposals for regulatory process control optimization and control loop tuning, development and implementation of simulators for refinery operators training, and alarm management and alarm rationalisation for Barrancabermeja’s and Cartagena’s refineries. Participation in planning activities and technological foresight to transfer automation and control technology to ECOPETROL refineries and pipeline business. Control loop tuning and regulatory control strategies optimization of 4.000+ regulatory process control loops and DCS implementation projects at Barrancabermeja’s and Cartagena’s refineries, reducing the variability of the process variables and increasing the economic benefits by operating closer to the constraints of the processes. Trainer at Barrancabermeja’s and Cartagena’s refineries in methodologies for alarm management and alarm rationalisation, control loop tuning and regulatory control strategies optimization, process operations using OTS, regulatory process control and advanced regulatory process control. Research and development team leader in early fault detection and diagnosis project for ECOPETROL refineries. Awards for dedication in projects with highly economic impact for ECOPETROL business operations and satisfying client needs; team work and building successful teamworks with cooperation, assertive communication skills and proactivity in seeking business goals. Development of technological products for control loop tuning; operator training systems for crude unit, aliphatic solvent unit and gasoline blending; methodology for alarm management and alarm rationalisation. Facilitator of the Practice Community in Automation and Control.

EcopetrolProject Leader

Apr. 2000 - Dec. 2016Skills: Desarrollo de productos · Ingeniería técnica · Ingeniería de sistemas basada en modelos (MBSE) · Manufacturing Execution System · Estrategia · Capacitación docente · Diseño de la interfaz de usuario · Inteligencia empresarial · SCADA · Desarrollo empresarial

Universidad de La SalleAssociate Professor

Jul. 1999 - Aug. 1999Key Achievements: Assistant professor in simulation for design and electronic automation engineering students. Assistant professor in artificial intelligence principles for design and electronic automation engineering students.