Debbie Williams
Director of Integrated Training
Debbie has 25 years of academic and industry experience, obtaining a BSc. Degree in Geology from Liverpool University in the United Kingdom. Her Career started as a mudlogger and moved onto an LWD field engineer, working for National and International Oil companies across the world. Her field operations have given her a solid working knowledge of the full Oil and Gas Industry sector. Since joining NExT in 2012, Debbie has been responsible for creating and delivering numerous programs specifically within the Middle East and Asia regions.
Debbie has played a large role in developing programs for International Oil and Gas companies, for structured on-boarding training programs for all new hires, to gain an overall understanding of the Oil and Gas value chain. More recently Debbie has been working with International Oil and Gas companies to create programs for high school students to enable the young minds the opportunity to learn more about the Energy and Sustainability concepts in today’s age, using fun, interactive and engaging STEAM techniques and practices.
During the past 13 years, Debbie has trained over 1,000 individuals, delivered over 100 commercial classes in more than 20 countries, as well as being a Lead Instructor for our very popular OilSim business simulator software, which is leading the way, in unique gamified oil and gas training solutions.
Fabrizio Di Marco
Digital Curriculum Associate
Fabrizio Di Marco started his career in 2001 with a focus on High Performance Technical Computing. Serving in sales and presales, he worked closely with the oil & gas and education sectors. His journey led him to Slb where he contributed in areas like sales for Digital Infrastructure, service delivery, and business management. More recently, Fabrizio took on a role with NExT as a business development manager.
Today, he oversees the Digital Portfolio at SLB, emphasizing the role of AI and Data Science. Outside of this, Fabrizio is involved in the AI Academy initiative, hoping to support the energy industry's growth through knowledge-sharing worldwide.
Juliane Heiland
Director of Curriculum Geomechanics
Juliane has over 15 years industry experience and over 20 years technical experience in geomechanics. She joined SLB in 2001 and worked for 6 years in various roles in the SLB research organization. Her research focused on geomechanics issues related to completions engineering, sand production prediction and perforating. Since 2007 she has applied her geomechanics knowledge to consulting projects in the US, Africa and Europe, first as a principal engineer and later as the manager for SLB’s geomechanics business in Europe and Africa.
Between 2012 and 2014 she worked for Maersk Oil in Copenhagen as a drilling geomechanics specialist. She returned to SLB in 2015 as Technical Lead in the Geomechanics Centre of Excellence. She holds a master’s degree in engineering geology from the Technical University Munich and a PhD in applied geology from the Charles University Prague.
Maria Eugenia Yanez Banda
Director of Curriculum Drilling Engineering
Over 26 years of experience in drilling engineering and field operations in oilfield projects, including full well design and execution of directional, horizontal, ERD and short radius wells in offshore, onshore, remote and sour environments. Additionally, have experience developing the drilling component of FDPs and working as part of integrated asset evaluation teams. Maria has also worked on developing competency models, technical capability development and providing training in drilling engineering.
Well versed with business drivers for drilling, having worked in Integrated Drilling Services bidding teams - undertaking the technical assessment, risk evaluation and costing for wells under turnkey and lump sum projects. Worked with clients in several countries, spanning six continents, including her native Mexico.
Muriel Kone
Curriculum Associate - Geoscience
Muriel Koné is the Curriculum Associate for Geoscience. In collaboration with the respective Directors of Curriculum and Portfolio teams, Muriel is responsible for designing training programs and managing the technical content of customized training solutions in the Geoscience discipline. In addition to providing mentoring and training facilitation in programs, she also contributes to the development and implementation of Geoscience-related competency assessments and capacity development roadmaps.
Muriel joined SLB in 2012 as a Geologist and has, since then, been working extensively with clients on various field development studies, petrotechnical data management and solutions automation projects, providing consultancy services and workflows support with Petrel and Techlog. She holds a Petroleum Engineering Degree from the Institut National Polytechnique Félix Houphouët-Boigny (INPHB), Yamoussoukro, Côte d’Ivoire.
Rafid Al Kaisi
Director of Curriculum Health, Safety and Environment
With 33 years of experience in the Oil & Gas industry, KC has trained over 1,500 professionals and delivered more than 200 QHSE courses. He is widely recognized as an Accredited Occupational Safety, Health, and Environment Master Trainer in the Oil & Gas sector.
KC began his career as an Instrument Engineer with Total Oil Company before joining Schlumberger in 2000 as a Wireline Engineer. He later transitioned to Well Completion and Productivity as a Field Engineer, where he successfully conducted 46 Surface Well Testing jobs, two Early Production Facilities (EPF), and two Central Production Facilities (CPF).
He then shifted his focus to QHSE loss prevention and risk management, eventually earning a promotion to Iraq HSE and Training Manager. KC later joined NExT SLB U.S. as an HSE Master Trainer, and today, he serves as the Global HSE Director of Curriculums and HSE Subject Matter Expert at NExT.
In his current role, KC designs and delivers customized training programs for external clients, develops training materials, and creates structured Training Road Maps tailored to various proficiency levels in HSE competencies. Additionally, he plays a key role in developing HSE competency levels—ranging from Awareness to Expert—as part of the competency assessment services offered by SLB NExT.
Valmore Rodriguez
Director of Curriculum Surface Facilities, Operations & Maintenance
Valmore oversaw all surface facilities and technological projects in PDVSA-Intevep in 1999, this included flow assurance, automation, reliability engineering, process design, facility design, environmental, corrosion, material technology and project engineering. For 3 years from year 2000, he held the position of reliability and maintenance corporate major leader, the highest technical career position in PDVSA, in charge of corporate policies and guideline for reliability engineering.
Valmore’s more than 30 years of oil and gas industry experience includes development of competency models for many companies in the Americas, Europe, Asia, and Africa. Recently, he has focused on developing competency models, technical capability development, and training the oil and gas industry. Valmore holds BS, MS, and PhD degrees in chemical engineering.
