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Keith Ribe currently serves as the project engineer for the ExxonMobil Open Process Automation program, where his responsibilities include project management and coordination of the internal ExxonMobil OPA R&D activities. He joined ExxonMobil in 2011 as a technical software engineer and worked on various proprietary geoscience and engineering software development projects in both the upstream and downstream sectors before joining the OPA program. He holds a BS in computer science from the Univ. of Texas at Austin and is based at the ExxonMobil Campus in Spring, TX.