Manuel Rosales
ExxonMobil
Business Development Leader
Mr. Rosales joined ExxonMobil in 2008 as a subsurface engineer in Houston, Texas. He progressed through several domestic assignments supporting assets in Colorado, South Texas, West Texas, Southern California, and Wyoming. In 2011 after the acquisition of XTO Energy he relocated to Tyler, Texas with his wife Amanda where he supported unconventional gas production in the Freestone Trend. In 2014, Mr. Rosales moved to XTO Energy’s Fort Worth, Texas headquarters to take a role as a reservoir engineer for the Bakken shale play in North Dakota. He integrated data sources and deployed scalable workflows in support of what was the busiest area of operation for XTO at the time. In 2018, Mr. Rosales moved to Spring with his family and was appointed manager of data analytics for ExxonMobil’s unconventional business units. He built a team of 8 data scientists and analysts who execute large scale projects using technologies such as Azure, AWS, SQL, Python, R, and TIBCO Spotfire to generate business value and insights. Most recently his team was tasked with a modernization of equipment aggregation and emissions calculations in support of ExxonMobil’s unconventional emissions reduction goals. Manuel Rosales is a graduate of The University of Texas at Austin, where he earned a Bachelor of Science degree in petroleum engineering.