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Well, first of all, like a little background. What I do, right. So I went to school at the University of Houston for chemical engineering. Uh, while I was there in turn, for an information firm, actually, in their chemical apartment, I realize the company I really like culture. It was, you know, it was very, um oh, to say, liberal and encouraging. And they, you know, they really took care of their police about something that, you know, you really should look at, you know, started to work tomorrow. Um, the following year, I got another offer from them for their refining operations. Wish. You know, I took and my my plan on a longer being a chemical engineer was to work at a plant like a chemical plant or a refinery or something like, but, um, I'm not really liking what I was doing with, um So what we do, what I currently do right now is I look at the market and friends, so we focus on the demand supply of refining products. Right. So I don't work on the technical side anymore. I do. You do need a technical background for this because you know her certain units are down and certain refinery Easter should have chemical puts it. You wouldn't need to understand the value chain of the products, uh, work in the market. Right? But, um, it's not something that I ever even you existent, right? Like it's a chemical in the near. Your foot is on on the technical aspect somehow. Remember finder you had overrun a chemical plant? You know, safety kind of asked, but you never really consider the market or the value of the products or what we're doing business or, you know, and I didn't really opened up my eyes at this other hole side of industry, right? And you have this with absolutely everything automotive chemicals, in polymers, everything you name it this they arrive. So they're interested, right? I found that I was, I don't know, quite good at predicting trends and spying. That kind of stuff. I love that I never really developed as a you know, in my back around with you in school is a year, right? So, you know, it's a lot of, ah, client presentations. It's It's a lot of talking to people. It's a lot of blood being really on top off the current transit current market. What's happening? The news is not so. I always like to be in former and they were really had common. I was in school for size it because I was in school. Not really appreciate that this job gives me the opportunity to really know what's going on, right? Like I didn't that I like something that calls to meet, at least so I do. Yeah, that's kind of how I ended up, you know, doing what I bigger right now.
so before this Kobe thing happened, Like I said, you know my responsibilities right now it's I am, ah, principle out of analysts for Latin America refining products market. So what that entails is I look at the look at the market in each country, like America. Then I decide with the help of, you know, some other groups and the company way worked really closely with economist and and other people are drinks Do eso We decide what the trend is gonna be going forward. Right? So we forecast the man supply numbers two years and events and even as Long s 50 year forecast, That's only known ones a year. But you know my responsibilities from day to day better. So I need to be informed of what's going on in each of those countries. You know, their energy sector there, pull it it their politics because, you know, every country has from, um, policies that we need to figure out. Oh, you know, um, another big part of my job is answering client questions. So I got this report right after of a monthly report, and they look at it and based on my report and you know, perhaps that they're hired someone else to get sick. And they go and talk to the board of directors with their development of business development, right? And then did decide what's the best strategy going forward for us? Should we? Perhaps you know, the Priester gassing production? Should we? You know, in best in this business, should be, you know, my best. Should we get rid of some assets? So, you know, I will get back client questions and some of our emails. But for the most part, we like on my company, at least we like to be I really, like, close to our clients. See? Well, you know how they're feeling with the one. So we'll have Ah, well, big meetings. So all we part off a large meeting and it will be their team and my team. And since this is, most of these companies are, you know, integrated. So we'll have people from upstream. So you're getting the oil out. They will have, you know, like me for finding We'll have our call it like chemicals, and we'll try to paint like a larger picture, right? And, like, answer any questions that they might have uh, so that that's kind of where my date they goes, right? This was a combination of, like getting gathering data and insert client questions and, you know, meetings under strategy. What we see. So we talk or other colleagues, Right? Um, speaking of ours, um, you know, my cos they're very flexible. That's something that I ask about them. Since you know a lot of my colleagues with teammates there, you know, somewhere in Europe, some of their our atia, so flexible with hours, were more off a goal or in the company. Right? So it's like we have to have a deliverable sore, like reporting be out at the end of the month. So Well, you your, um your trusted to manage your time wisely, and because we do, like I just mentioned have a lot of, like, client meetings. Then you Sometimes we do sacrifice a little bit of time to that. Right. Because we want to accommodate or clients of clients, you know are in Europe. Then we might have very early cool relate, Cole. Yes. So very spent at the same time. Like I said, I'm very progressive company, you know, lots of benefits and you know, it's great. Um, you know, for example, my family lives in Mexico, right? And, um, I like to go see them during Christmas. But you know what? I do what they let me do what they've always let me do. This is during Christmas break. Like I only take for five days actual vacation, but I stay down there for like, almost a month, so I just think they let me work from home higher time. You know, it's really varies from manager to manager arrived, but I've been fortunate enough to where it leaves my side of the company. It is very flexible in that sense. So, you know, it's a sparse traveling before this Kobe thing. We Yeah, we did do quite a few, um, trips a year. And that was because we do have large conference. So we closed of our you know, we host a large amount of conferences in different, different countries. So then we used to go and either talk of this conference, applying meetings whenever we were visiting those countries. Right, move forward. You know what? This What's happening right now we've been told that it really is gonna bury from team to team contributory city to city. So we're not sure what we're gonna do. But where are currently just trying to have stuff online? So we do What? So Well, you know, like something like this. If I were well, we were yourselves and explain a topic or, you know, whatever class might be interested in. And then we put on our website so they are able to like, Look at that leader. Ah, little those are alive too, so that the clients in trapped with us. So we try to, you know, at least get the information out, you know as much again.ones we once markets, it's
as a company, and you were very were really a large company, right? And different groups used different cell for it. Right? So, like, we have right carry software that some of the groups use mostly on the upstream one, not, you know, financial markets. Guys have their own software. Um, my group, the energy group, um, does were more worried about the forecasting ride, like way. We do have people that use, um are happened. You know, it's l power bi. I, um Pablo, Um, so there there's a few You know, there's a large amount of people use I personally like I never really We never know. When I was in school, I never learned, I wonder are right So that's something currently working on because it's like when you're trying to process so much data at once and really you know, like excel is an amazing tool. Don't get me wrong. Everyone would list, please, like do not ever underestimate how wonderful Excel is. Yes, it's like you can do so. Imagine Exhale and it just the beauty of it is it's simplicity, right? But at the same time, you know, once you start to get into very large. Madea, you have to go in and get yourself and scraping one. Not that, you know. Then you see the value of problems like arm pipe in that, you know, let you collect data and then forecast that with, you know, a little bit more rigorous nous, right? So, yeah, cause I'm trying to the right now I'm trying to learn our and