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Houston, Texas, United States

Calgary, Alberta, Ca

Establishing relationships with customers to drive the future development of Pason's Cloud Solutions portfolio.

Calgary, Alberta, Ca

Overall accountability for the profitability and product life cycle of several Pason products, including its flagship Electronic Drilling Recorder (EDR) and DataHub. The combined revenue of these product lines exceeds $100 million per year.The EDR records and transmits critical drilling data from the well site to the office, and is the platform for hosting other products and services at the rig. The DataHub provides a web portal for historical and live access to streaming data from the rigs, enabling mission critical decision making in real-time.This role entails:- Collaboration and consensus building- Thought leadership- Global product strategy and road-mapping- Customer engagement- Monitoring market trends- Providing guidance and leadership to R&D

London, United Kingdom, Gb

Responsible for the sustainable and profitable growth of IHS Harmony and Piper, two of IHS's Petroleum Engineering solutions. This includes:- Creating the product strategy and vision- Managing the product lifecycle- Developing business cases for investments- Creating product roadmaps and prioritizing enhancements- Documentation of market requirements- Driving product rationalization, convergence, and transition- Ensuring product value is reflected by appropriate pricing structures- Monitoring regional staff development for global sales, support, and training- Working with multiple disciplinary teams, including sales, marketing, product development, and business development, to align product strategy, tactical activities, and corporate initiatives.

London, United Kingdom, Gb

Lead engineer and manager for the deveopment of VirtuWell, Fekete's wellbore optimization software. With a small team, we would continuously develop cutting edge, first in the industry tools tailored to reservoir and production engineers. Managing this product was a multi-step process that involved:- Determining market demands and understanding problems faced by the petroleum industry- Coming up with new ideas for tools to satisfy the needs of reservoir and production engineers- Taking those ideas and turning them into practical and powerful pieces of software- Managing a team of engineers and developers- Prioritizing and scheduling project plans- Writing engineering and design specifications- Designing test plansPrior to VirtuWell, responsibilities included:- Engineering development of Piper, Fekete's gathering system analysis software- Project management and engineering development of Risk and Sensitivity, a tool used to perform statistical analysis on reservoir models to obtain likely and possible production forecasts and reserves.

Responsible for account management and engineering support. Performed field audits of oil sands steam distribution and tracing systems. Made design and equipment recommendations to clients to increase efficiencies, decrease down time, and achieve required levels of performance.

Calgary, Alberta, Ca

Designed, tested, and implemented a new, first in the industry, portable Sulphur Granulation unit. Co-Invented a specialized sulphur granulation apparatus and process (see Patents section for details). Key responsibilities:- Equipment sizing- Mechanical design- Commissioning and site management- Performance testing and analysis

Master Of Business Administration (Mba)

Bsc, Mechanical Engineering