Jose Villa is a Senior Reservoir Engineer in the US Gulf of Mexico Development Team with Total E&P USA. He focuses on reservoir modeling and simulation and has mainly worked off-shore oil fields in USA, Venezuela, and Africa. He has actively participated in the development and deployment of reservoir simulation technologies during his professional career. He previously worked for Anadarko Petroleum Corporation (Houston, TX, 4 years) Shell International E&P (Houston, TX, 8 years) and PDVSA Intevep (Venezuela, 10 years), and conducted a number of studies in onshore and offshore fields involving analytical and numerical simulation, history matching, well/field optimization, and integrated asset modeling. In addition to that, he prepared and taught classes on reservoir simulation technology and assisted history matching (AHM) to his colleagues at Shell in different locations. He holds two degrees in PE, a BS from Central University of Venezuela, and a MS from Stanford University. Jose Villa also actively volunteers for the SPE Gulf Coast Section (Reservoir Study Group) and has been committee member and co-chair person in several SPE workshops.