Bram Laarman P. Eng. Email & Phone Number

Creating insightful dashboards, identifying key focus areas and driving action for clients through the right KPI's. Providing insight into product utilization, success metrics and other ad-hoc analyses for the Customer Success and Sales teams that increase customer satisfaction and drive new sales.

Remote

- Providing powerful dashboards and meaningful KPI's through ad-hoc analysis and reporting on customer utilization of Smart Access technology

• Remotely guided a US-based team through divestiture projects, leading a cross-functional team in non-authoritative position from deal conceptualization to negotiations, due diligence and closing• Analyzed technical and financial data to identify acquisition and divestiture (A&D) opportunities in Canada and select projects internationally • Conducted market research and careful interpretation of technical and financial data that justified a joint venture and country exit, resulting in realized savings of $100k annually and elimination of distractions from core business for several teams• Acted as the lead economic evaluator of the small negotiating team, providing the detailed analysis that led to a successful divestiture and country exit out of China • Lead analyst focused on proactively identifying and the economic modeling of prospective acquisitions • Created and maintained financial models of Merger and Acquisition (M&A) opportunities, identifying strategic rationale for the purpose optimizing the company’s asset portfolio to allow for agile decision making

Calgary, Canada Area

• Transformed and rolled out the internal approval process for A&D projects company wide, increasing efficiency by ~50% while maintaining the accuracy required for informed decision making by executive management• Reduced and templated process for asset swaps to a 2-slide presentation for the executive team, allowing for more efficient use of management time and resulting in fast-paced effective decision making• Provided guidance for all acquisition and divestitures projects company wide (US & Canada) to ensure quality of economic evaluations, concise communication of information and alignment with corporate strategy• Built relationships across the company (Corporate/Business Development, Finance, Operations, HR, Legal, Commercial etc.), facilitating the effective and efficient flow of critical information needed for agile decision making by senior and executive management• Created a strategic ranking system for all proposed acquisitions company-wide to align with corporate strategy and targets, prioritizing the opportunities presented to the executive team

Calgary, Canada Area

• Demonstrated critical thinking by providing detailed economic evaluations and writing strategic justifications for proposed transactions, highlighting the upside and risk and suggesting potential improvements to deal negotiators• Worked with multiple disciplines to build accurate financial models, performing data analysis & data integrity checks and data room preparation for larger divestitures and joint venture opportunities• Managed economic modeling process and related data room material for a Joint Venture opportunity, delivering an accurate economic model that potential bidders could confidently use to submit a competitive bid • Enhanced asset cash flow by leading a multidisciplinary competitor review, optimizing the wellbore, operations, and facility design strategies by incorporating industry trends and best practices from various offset operators

Calgary, Canada Area

• Built a sales case through data analysis in collaboration with external advisors, ensuring both base case and upside potential were accurately captured by the external reserves evaluators• Lead reservoir engineer for the divestiture of select Foothills assets following the Suncor/Petro-Canada merger, resulting in a $285MM divestiture of the assets

Calgary, Canada Area

• Created long term operational plans and field depletion strategies through analysis of technical, operational, and accounting data, optimizing production volumes & cash flow between multiple operated & third-party operated gas plants• Provided reservoir engineering analysis for development activity and annual internal reserves process in compliance with regulations• Actively coordinated with Operations to provide accurate production volume forecasts and reconciling them with budget volumes.• Identified and provided strategic rational for capital spending on optimization projects, creating immediate impact on cash flow and extending life of the asset in the long term