Venanzio Petrarolo
Assistant Director, McNair Center For Free Enterprise And Entrepreneurship at University of St. Thomas (TX)
Houston, Texas, United States
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Top SchoolVenanzio Petrarolo is an engineer and Assistant Director at the McNair Center for Free Enterprise and Entrepreneurship with nine years of experience bridging process engineering, control systems, and reliability work in primary manufacturing. He spent over five years focused on process and process control engineering at companies like Anssum and Sasol, tackling empirical modelling and systems engineering to deliver targeted, high-impact production solutions. Currently pursuing a Master in Liberal Arts, he blends technical rigor with a humanistic approach rooted in the Artes Liberales, using literature, dialogue, and contemplation to shape problem selection and creative execution. Known for enjoying difficult, interdisciplinary problems, he emphasizes that effective solutions require ideals and a clear sense of human flourishing, not just technical skill. Based in Houston, he brings a rare mix of hands-on industrial control expertise and a cultivated philosophical perspective that informs leadership and program development in entrepreneurship and free enterprise.
9 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Master in Liberal Arts, Master in Liberal Arts at University of St. Thomas (TX)High School, High School at St David's Marist InandaBEng, Chemical Engineering, BEng, Chemical Engineering at University of Pretoria
English
Github Skills (6)
historian6
osi6
binder6
sdk5
python4
internals4
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
Petrarolo/PIdata
Jun 2020 - Mar 2021
An easy-to-use python package for connecting to the OSI PI historian via the PI SDK
Contributions:1 release, 2 commits, 1 PR in 9 months
historianosi-pipythonsdkosi
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