Cesar has a Master's Degree in Chemical and Petroleum Engineering from the University of Calgary with a Bachelor's Degree in Chemical Engineering from Universidad Nacional de Colombia, currently working as Process Safety Engineer at CNRL for the Conventional and Thermal business areas, he provides process safety and technical support to process facilities that includes leading process incident investigations and root cause analyses, facilitating Hazops and PHAs and conducting process facility safety inspections. Preceding his current role he managed As-Built P&ID work activities, project validations and site walk-downs at the Horizon upgrader refinery, Cesar was responsible for checking, approving and authenticating P&IDs for the downstream process units. With over 25 years of professional experience, he started his career at Ecopetrol Oil Refinery in Colombia then moved to Canada, briefly performed R&D with Fuel Cells and extensively worked as Process Engineer for two major engineering companies in Calgary, supported different projects around the world as an active member of the Talisman Energy's Global Projects group based in Calgary and worked at heavy oil and gas facilities within the Canada Production Engineering team at Repsol Canada Oil and Gas. Cesar also provided engineering technical support to the New Water Technology Development Centre (WTDC) at Suncor's Firebag facility, an initiative of the Canada's Oil Sands Innovation Alliance (COSIA), funded by CNRL, Suncor, Shell, Devon, Nexen and Husky.