Cassandra is the Computational and Data Sciences Manager for the Upstream Integrated Solutions. She joined ExxonMobil in 2000 and co-developed optimization software for oil and gas investment portfolio planning and management.  From 2010 to 2012 she led the Visualization & Workflow Integration team responsible for the in-house visualization engine and geoscience/engineering integration software platform.  From 2011 to 2013, she worked as a skill area advisor for Computational and Applied Mathematics. In 2013, she was named Computational Methods Architect. From 2013 to 2016, she was the Computational Methods Supervisor.

Cassandra holds a Bachelor’s degree in Mathematics from Southwestern University and a Master’s and PhD in Computational and Applied Mathematics from Rice University.  She is a native Houstonian and lives in the city with her two daughters, Madelyn and Lena.