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Denver, Colorado, United States

• Reservoir Characterization - G&G and Diagnostics Team

Denver, Colorado, United States

Reservoir Characterization Team - Texas Operating Area• Supports innovation projects and generates geoscience fundamental products • Evaluates inventory upside potential and characterizes reservoir quality, uncertainty, and holistically integrated basin-, play-, and well pad-scale geology.

Denver, Colorado, United States

Led strategy development workshops with subject matter experts in the energy sector, and built evaluation model that highlighted decision-relevant choices, leading to differentiation of strategies and convergence.

Denver, Colorado, United States

• Generated insights that support corporate clients through complex organizational and strategic changes by utilizing decision quality and building probabilistic models that demonstrate the impact of uncertainty on value metrics. Supporting Energy, Energy Transition, and Aerospace clients.• Supported business development and marketing via research, case studies, client presentations and revenue modeling.

Greater Denver Area

• Influenced key business development opportunity evaluations by providing geologic context, type curve analogs, quantified drilling inventory, and economic inputs for cash flow models, forming the basis for acquisition valuations.• Prioritized and delivered economically appealing subsurface evaluations and investment recommendations throughout the Rockies, Permian, and Gulf Coast, improving the efficiency of a team of six geoscientists.• Designed and implemented opportunity review and risking processes and promoted strategic decision-making best practices, ensuring consistent and rigorous evaluations and stakeholder dialog ahead of investment recommendations.• Created probabilistic models and used multivariate analyses to quantify uncertainty and key production drivers.

Greater Denver Area

Senior Staff Geologist • Transformed field development strategy by planning and managing core analytical program and integrating geochemical results into a regional charge model, which saved over $100 million in planned drilling costs.• Implemented corporate use of petroleum charge modeling and probabilistic volumetric modeling, and incorporated results into capital-improving field development strategies for Williston and Permian assets.• Provided innovative technical assistance as a corporate geoscience expert for asset optimization and exploration/renewal efforts in all divisions (Williston, Haynesville, Uinta, Permian), with emphasis on Midland Basin.• Refined exploration methodology for consistent evaluation of conventional and resource plays. • Spearheaded opportunity evaluation and generation in Williston, Powder River and Denver Basins. • Created and delivered short courses on exploration methods, risk assessment and volumetric estimation, unconventional play assessment, and basin modeling, providing in-house training and saving company expenses.• Initiated peer mentoring group and guided staff and interns with technical and professional development.

Houston, Texas

Senior Geologist, Permian Asset and New Ventures/Business Development • Diagnosed key technical risks in exploration play by prioritizing and supervising core and wireline log data collection programs. Rapidly integrated data and made recommendation to management, which saved $50 million in planned drilling and completion costs. • Launched and led a multidisciplinary team in generating play maps utilizing Play-Based Exploration methodology, supporting Permian asset’s acquisition and development strategy, reserves estimates, and economic models. Recognized by management for delivery of “breakthrough technical work with clear business impact.” • Improved efficiencies and reduced drill times and costs by providing stratigraphic framework criteria and assurance of team interpretations for more accurate well prognoses.• Evaluated and promoted the acquisition of 86,000 net acres in San Joaquin Basin unconventional plays, significantly adding drilling inventory for joint venture partners. Assisted with stakeholder and project management. • Led subsurface assessment during Brazil National Agency of Petroleum Bid Rounds ANP-9 (2008) and ANP-10 (2009) and recommended 5 lease blocks to senior management and joint venture partner that the company won at low cost, supporting strategic country re-entry. • Assembled regional geologic evaluations for offshore South American Atlantic margin plays that provided the framework for subsequent acreage acquisitions. • Evaluated data rooms, prepared technical summaries, and communicated recommendations to management in support of new business opportunities in Denver Basin and Gulf Coast shale plays.• Headed global unconventional resource assessment of multiple plays in Latin America, Australia, Europe, and China, enhancing corporate technical understanding of new play concepts and prioritizing future study.

Ithaca, New York Area

*Research focusing on nonmarine sequence stratigraphy, paleoclimatology, paleomagnetics and crustal dynamics.* Geologic field research in foreland basins of Argentina and Utah. *Graduate teaching assistant for Atmospheric Dynamics course.

Greater Pittsburgh Area

*Paleontologic preparation of mammal (Eocene, Wind River, WY) and dinosaur (Triassic, Ghost Ranch, NM) specimens.*Weekend manager of PaleoLab interactive exhibit in Dinosaur Hall:

Phd, Geological Sciences (Sequence Stratigraphy; Reflection Seismology; Climate Dynamics)

Bs, Ba, Geology; Studio Arts