Experience

Wapiti Energy, LLC - Uintah Basin Asset Manager - 2018 - Present

Directly accountable for the safe and profitable management of natural gas operations with a focus on leveraging data and analytics to relentlessly drive down unit costs while maximizing total field production

• Manage a technical staff of 2 IT professionals and 12 field based employees
• Conduct annual performance based reviews of team members, providing technical training and mentorship as needed
• Fully-architect an ELT data pipeline, centralizing various streams of raw data into a single source of certified data in Snowflake for downstream consumption via reports and BI analytics
• Automated 30+ internal, external, state and federal reporting with documented SQL transformation on Snowflake
• Experience with the nuts and bolts of both legacy Cygnet applications and SAAS based scada providers, building fit for purpose plunger lift, compression, and gas treatment dashboards
• Identified break-even project economics thresholds for production optimization and cost reduction initiatives including 20-30 annual workovers with 95% success rate, well utility conversions from T&A to injection saving $1.50 / bw produced, and rent vs. buy analysis of compression, trucking, and other facility improvements
• Championed internal communication and collaboration with Microsoft Teams with overwhelmingly positive feedback from office and field personnel
• Led the data migration plan and execution from on-prem legacy file storage to streamlined, refined, and more secure Sharepoint based office workflow leveraging subject matter knowledge to tailor the architecture based on assets and functions
• Plan and participate in in-depth and advance field studies including Green River waterflooding, behind pipe stimulations, and Mancos shale exploration with many projects ready to implement when prices allow
• Overall, driven by formalizing business process and objectives by setting KPIs and OKR, measuring results, providing feedback, and repeating the process for continuous improvement

SilverBow Resources - Resource Development Manager - 2011 - 2018

Roles of progressively increased responsibility culminating as the lead technical expert in an international joint venture (PT Saka Energi Indonesia) directly responsible for type- curve generation, development planning, and managing partner relations on a prolific gas field in the Eagle Ford shale

• Perform all traditional reservoir and production engineering duties aimed to maximize the profitability and value of a prolific gas field in the Eagle Ford shale
• Coordinate integrated team of landmen, regulatory staff, geologists, facilities, drilling, and completions engineers as Project Lead on all major area projects
• Develop concepts and promote fit-for-purpose technology and science for major projects including: advanced wireline logging, mud logging, mini-fracs, tracers, microseismic, and well test procedures
• Create analytical models of all horizontal multi-fractured wells with probabilistic forecast generation based on linear flow analysis and type curves (IHS Harmony)
• Develop and recommend development plans and work programs based on economic modeling of field rate, gas processing options, and transportation contracts (Enersight)
• Justify year-end SEC reserves bookings and reporting (Aries)
• Optimize gas field performance with nodal analysis and integrated asset modeling using an integrated software package that couples the subsurface and gathering system models
• Proved and defended the use of advanced rate-transient analysis modeling techniques resulting in a 20% increase in reserve bookings for assigned field
• Built an integrated asset model then optimized compression timing and line looping that will result in an additional NPV10 of $5MM versus the original design concept
• Developed a lease operating expense forecasting methodology for both budget year and long-term development scenarios that became the corporate template
• Designed and executed several company firsts in the Eagle Ford: horizontal refrac, horizontal production log, cap string foam, and pacemaker plunger lift

FTS International - District Engineering Manager - 2008 - 2011

Boots on the ground field experience at the height of the shale gas boom

• Hire, train, and supervise a staff of 28 field engineers, fluid techs, and lab techs
• Design, supervise, and interpret pre-frac diagnostics, DFITS, and Step Rate Tests using commercial software
• Perform and approve QA/QC of all proppant and fluid systems in the lab and field
• Gained on-site experience on 1000+ frac stages in the Haynesville, Eagle Ford, Fayetteville, and Marcellus

Certifications

Licensed Professional Engineer #113249 (TX - Petroleum Engineering)

AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner (CLF-C02)

ICCA - INE Certified Cloud AssociateICCA - INE Certified Cloud Associate

Microsoft Certified: Azure Fundamentals (AZ-900)

Microsoft Certified: Power BI Data Analyst Associate (PL-300)

Microsoft 365 Certified: Fundamentals (MS-900)

Data Engineering Bootcamp

Skills and Toolkit

Petro Software: Aries, IHS Harmony, IHS Piper, PipeSim, Enersight, Cygnet

Tech: Snowflake, Streamlit, dbt, Power BI, PostgreSQL, Python and SQL, ArcGIS Pro

Workflow Efficiency: Microsoft 365, Sharepoint Online, Teams

Education

Texas A&M University

Petroleum Engineering - Master of Engineering, May 2014

Professional Study: Reservoir Characterization Using Rate-Transient Analysis in the Eagle Ford Shale

Petroleum Engineering - Bachelor of Science, May 2008