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Denver, Colorado, United States

Greater Denver Area

• Merger between Bill Barret Corporation and Fifth Creek EnergyOversaw production operations, flowback operations, facilities, automation, and production accounting. Supervised field operations, 3 corporate departments.
• Improved communication, efficiency, and morale by establishing cross-functional meetings of supervisors in production operations, accounting, and automation.
• Influenced executive leadership by facilitating daily reporting of production, lease operation expense (LOE), and capital expenditures.
• Drove productivity via implementation of department and individual goals based on company objectives.
• Improved safety metrics 41% over 2018 levels, exceeding industry averages.

Greater Denver Area

• Guided production engineering and field operations for DJ and Uinta basin. Initiated role as interim area superintendent for DJ Basin to return morale to field office, improve daily operations, set standard of high.
• Integrated 2 DJ Basin field operations during company merger allowing for operational activity to ramp within 1 month after merger closed.
• Negotiated offload with 3 midstream companies during multiyear midstream curtailment, returning wells to production and saving 2018 - 2019 drilling programs by expanding offloads from 39 million cubic feet per day.
• Boosted production during development from 5K barrels of oil per day (BOPD) to 30K BOPD while driving LOE cost down to DJ Basin leading less than $3.00 per barrel of oil equivalent (BOE).
• Executed field wide pipeline and compression plan for sales and gas lift, achieving peak of 36K+ HP, 250+ MMCFPD capacity.
• Drove profitability by decreasing per well operating costs in DJ Basin and Uintah Basin by 25% to 30%.

Greater Denver Area

• Oversaw all production operations, artificial lift (AFL), LOE, optimization, and annual budgeting in Uinta oil basin. Provided initial pipeline design, facilities install, initial flowback, and AFL for 3 to 7 rig.
• Increased gross oil production from 1.5K BOPD to 15K BOPD peak and achieved or exceeded production and LOE targets annually for 5 years.
• Streamlined communication by establishing daily contact with superintendent, foreman, and lease operators.
• Orchestrated and oversaw all types of artificial lift, rod pump, gas lift, PC, ESP, hydraulic, and chemical.
• Implemented failure analysis program reducing failures over 2-year period from 1.18 failures per well to 0.72.
• Designed and implemented 5 salt water disposal (SWD) facilities, multiple on Federal land.

Greater Denver Area

• Sr. Production Engineer, Western Business Unit 2005-2011Spearheaded completion, production, and facilities in Texas Panhandle Granite Wash. Selected as Area Engineer in 2010 for Uinta gas field in Utah and Wild Rose.
• Completed over 300 vertical / horizontal wells following 6-12 rig drilling program.
• Increased production from 25 MMCFEPD to 100 MMCFEPD in 3 years.
• Developed successful completion procedure for first horizontal well in Granite Wash, spawning 5-year drilling program.

• Responsible for artificial lift optimization, cost control and workover supervision in the Permian Basin and Delaware Basin of West Texas.
• Focused on Spraberry, Wolfcamp, Delaware, Atoka, Ellenberger and Fusselman formations.
• Optimized rod pumping units in spraberry field and applied knowledge to new gas and oil fields for deliquification.
• Initiated use of Peloton's Wellview electronic well file system in FOC.

• Managed corporate quarterly and annual reserve reporting, acquisition and divesture and annual reserve audits
• Provided timely quarterly and annual reserve reporting, SEC reports, annual EIA-23 reporting and coordinated annual reserve audits.
• Established a reserve management system and integrated production accounting with ARIES and DAVE accounting system.
• Upgraded ARIES from DOS to Windows in 2001 for US operations.

• Production engineer for Altamont/Bluebell Field in Uinta Basin.
• Optimized artificial lift and wrote P & A procedures for Altamont/Bluebell Field.