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Houston, Tx, Us

Dallas, Texas, Us

New York, Ny, Us

Advisory manager within Energy Solutions group providing management and professional consulting services across the five pillars of oil & gas operations, power & utilities operations, energy trading & risk management, energy transition services, and energy data management.-managed a team for a client company acquistion of midstream pipeline assets and transition to Day 1 activities to include the establishment of a new standalone subsidiary and projects to support the future operating model.-led the execution of an integrated economics project for a super major oil & gas client to include the validation of asset-level and portfolio-level technical and commercial analysis.-captured $1M+ in sales and managed $1M+ in revenue for energy clients in FY23.-developed and executed work across the carbon capture value chain supporting client with interests in the emission, capture, transportation, utilization, and storage or sequestration of petrochemical emissions.-analyzed partnership and financial structuring for energy clients for the purposes of capital recycling, accretive valuation, risk sharing, and strategic partnership choices.

Boston, Ma, Us

Subject-matter expert on oil & gas industry providing consultation on oil & gas advisory topics to include business analysis, commercial, engineering, drilling, geoscience, marketing, HSSE, and operatorship and non-operatorship project management.-developed and presented alternative energy development scenarios to include renewables and hydrogen gas development.-provided contributions to offerings for scenario planning on post-COVID recovery to super major international oil companies.-provided critical analysis and feedback of thought leadership on post-Covid growth areas for international oil companies.

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Offshore Deepwater, Brazil (Bacalhau / Various) - managed multiple multidisciplinary engineering teams to include drilling, reservoir engineering, geoscience, facilities engineering, and commercial on the early development of large capital projects in offshore (deepwater) Brazil. Provided technical and economic support to the Bacalhau Phase 1 Project with greater than $12G of gross investment. -led team to complete prespud support of Opal-1 exploration well to include commercial analysis and sensitivities.-executed the completion of opportunity evaluation for Maraire prospect, resulting in continued exploration phase funding and support.-managed 22-person pre-project study to optimize the pace, scope, and profitability of Bacalhau Phase 2, resulted in increase in profitability by 21%. -provided technical and development planning oversight to development plan for Bacalhau projects, resulting in successful government submission in 2020.-successfully completed 12-person regional oil and gas development study to determine the cost of supply for 14 ExxonMobil Brazil prospects and their fit within the regional markets.-deployed to Kandahar, Afghanistan for US Army mobilization as logistics, engineering, and medical operations director.

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Caspian Sea, Kazakhstan (Kashagan Oil Project) - seconded to North Caspian Operating Company, led development planning and engineering teams to progress developments within Kashagan PSA. -worked tenaciously through 114 days of extended business trips to submit a 46-page full field development report on 31 Dec to meet EM Senior Vice President commitment to submit by YE2015. Interfaced directly with multiple North Caspian Operating Company (NCOC) N.V. directorates to progress work effort. Resulted in PSA Authority and RoK acceptance and successful engagement on plans for further phases of Kashagan development.-working directly for NCOC Development Director, successfully planned, organized, and prepared to execute three workshops on Project Definition Rating Index (PDRI), Project Characterization, and the Compression Centre 01 (CC01) Project Cold Eyes Review (CER). Interfaced directly with 7 CoVs to set charter, execution plan, organized logistics, and preparatory meetings for 29 participants. Resulted in five days of high quality workshop material with appropriate representation from NCOC/CoV functions, delivered on time and under budget. -originated, reviewed, and submitted a 42-page detailed CC01 Project FEED Cost BreakdownReport to explain and quantify the existing $400M $2014 CC01 FEED Phase cost. Revised,reviewed, and distributed an updated master schedule for CC01 Project activities andmilestones from pre-FEED, to FEED, through EPC contract award, which ultimately led to a 35% reduction in FEED Phase costs.-supported the revision and submittal of Amendment 6 of Kashagan Development Plan on 13 July and engaged to obtain approval through PSA Authority and Republic of Kazakhstan to receive multi-year development budget through EPC contract award.

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Offshore Deepwater and Conventionals, Global (Various) - led the integated planning activities for multiple multidisciplinary engineering teams to include drilling, reservoir engineering, geoscience, facilities engineering, and commercial on the early development of large capital projects in North America, South America, Europe, and Africa. -completed development and business analysis for successful bid of seven exploration blocks in the Porcupine Basin, Ireland.-completed development concept assessments for numerous exploration opportunities by leading three- to seven-person teams across all relevant engineering disciplines, with representation from cost/schedule, drilling, facilities, geoscience, reservoir engineering, and execution planning resulting in accurate and timely development concepts to determine profitability and report upward for pursuit/non-pursuit.-led internal and open book profitability analysis and valuation of assets during optimization, execution, and pre- and post-startup to include cost, schedule, and price sensitivities, breach analysis, and contract negotiations; analysis included PSC, tax/royalty, TSC, and RSA regimes.- coordinated Mexico heavy oil opportunity assessment as four-month effort with 14 employees and direct responsibility for deliverable quality and interface with experts on technology, drilling, flow assurance, and heavy oil production; positively influenced data room access purchase.

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Conventionals and Gas, Indonesia / Java Island (Cepu Block)- led development planning and engineering teams in Jakarta, Indonesia to progress development of Banyu Urip, Cepu Gas, and Kedung Keris projects with total gross investment of over $16G.-led Indonesian project FEED studies to include inlet pressure optimization, flowstream analysis, depletion optimizations, and equipment count optimizations.-led Indonesia opportunity team of four individuals in effort to progress business case, completed feasibility study of partner proposal and reported upward to project management team and functional management; prepared accelerated development plan to include extracting in-country resources, onboarding team, and providing economic support and overall technical support to enhance profitability and complete milestones process for approval.-led cross-functional team to expeditiously assess alternative development concepts for Indonesian megaproject experiencing significant cost growth. Resulted in reduced scope, over $450M in cost savings, and improved profitability. Successfully received capital funding for optimized project; co-led Plan of Development revision for approval by partner/government.-led planning and execution of two-day concept alignment workshop to review an Indonesian opportunity, which included the participation of 34 individuals from co-venturers and partners; resulted in partner alignment/buy-in and successful definition of internal and external paths for project completion. Ultimately led to successful project funding of revised scope.-responsible for assessing development plan concepts for discovered undeveloped resources in Iraq and supported development and approval of the enhanced redevelopment plan as a government submittal to oil ministry.

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Onshore, Iraq (West Qurna I Oil Project) - led 8-person team for environmental engineering and regulatory compliance of the Early Works Project for the West Qurna-1 Oil Field in Basra, Iraq.-led successful completion of environmental baseline study for West Qurna-1 Oil Field.-led a transportation parameters logistics task force as a two-month effort to analyze the logistics routes into the field; interfaced with multiple IOCs, US Military, US Department of State, and US Department of Transportation; resulted in a highly successful joint IOC workshop with NOC and other IOC that led to cost savings measures in excess of $60M. -as Secretary of the IOC HSE Managers Committee for Iraq oil projects, directly interacted with 14 IOC HSE Managers to successfully lead three quarterly IOC meetings and complete 41 general interest HSE initiatives resulting in an improved HSE culture.-led the development of tender package and successful tendering of EIA work. Maintained lead role in contractor orientation, kickoff meetings, work breakdown, cost monitoring, and execution oversightConducted the in-country tendering workshop that resulted in the successful $6.7M contract award for seawater pipeline project. -led the planning and execution of multiple smaller EIAs, field monitoring, environmental aspect analysis for 35 separate early works projects; led the development and implementation of multiple project-specific systems and initiatives to improve the execution of activities; led the successful completion of 11 environmental risk analyses for elements for infrastructure and facilities scope to analyze and mitigate environmental risk, resulting in successful field execution.-maintained contractor oversight of E&R commitments of $20M early works contract.-led E&R effort to mitigate gaps and initiate contracting strategy for $12M field support contract.

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Offshore, Canada (Hebron Project / Hibernia Southern Extension) - led 4-person team for environmental engineering and regulatory compliance of the Hebron Project located 180 miles offshore of St. John’s, Newfoundland, Canada.-led the development of the development plan application for the technical and commercial components of the Hebron Project.-led successful completion of 4 town hall events in Newfoundland as part of public consultation requirement. -completed early deliverables for environment management and regulatory compliance for Government submission.-led the development and successful completion of all HSE engineering deliverables with no recycle.

Arlington, Virginia, Us

Managed 15-person team in the planning and executing logistics and medical support of a combined joint task force within four provinces of Afghanistan. -successfully moved 168 tons of personnel and equipment within Afghanistan theater of operations. -led the execution of 56 strategic refueling, ammunition resupply, and food and water combat air missions. -designed, planned, and executed the reestablishment of essential life support functions, communications, power generation, and water supply to the Tarin Kot forward operations base.-planned and executed the service of 10 medical functions with the Health Service Area of 14,000 beneficiaries.

Arlington, Virginia, Us

Managed 20-person staff for the administration and staff functions to include Personnel, Intelligence, Operations, Logistics, and Managed Care for the Texas Medical Command located in Austin, TX; reported to the Commander of the Texas Medical Command.-reduced overhead by 13% while increasing quality of medical care within Health Service Region. -led staff effort to receive 4 exemplary ratings during external evaluation from higher headquarters.

Arlington, Virginia, Us

Led 12-person planning staff for the medical support of units within the Texas Army National Guard. providing health service support to three subordinate maneuver units and three support units. Supports forward deployed forces as part of contigency operations. Maintains oversight of division-level medical readiness, providing current reports and analysis for recurring reviews and as part of monthly division standup. Leads liaison and coordination activities with State Surgeon staff. Leads the generation of order and directives. Briefs medical planning products to the division command group. Supports unit readiness for joint warfighter exercises (JFX) of division and subordinate units.-expertly led medical support planning for a division task force deployment (TAC-S) to include coordination with deployed medical assets for seamless support during RSOI. -led the generation of seven medical directives to include the FY2016 FMR plan which improved medical readiness by 14%. -oversaw 68W sustainment for 657 Division medics in which 237 were successfully recertified.-incorporated lessons learned from Warfighter Exercise 15-05 into a 95-page medical tactical sop.

Arlington, Virginia, Us

Managed 9-person staff to oversee medical operations within assigned health service area and responsible for the effective and successful management of labor, productivity, quality control and safety measures.-implemented risk management program that decreased off-duty incidents by 75%.-created evaluation management system that decreased processing time 10 days/resubmission rate over 20%.

Arlington, Virginia, Us

Served as senior commissioned officer focusing on project management, leadership, and the planning and execution of military missions in North America, Europe, Africa, Asia, and the Middle East. Responsible for multiple complex projects in excess of $850M. -managed military exercise program of 1,800 workers to include participation in Europe-wide recertification exercise involving over 30,000 U.S. Department of Defense personnel. -managed $850M Iraq-wide medical logistics program to provide medical supplies, blood, optical fabrication, and medical maintenance support to medical facilities at 37 installations for over 160,000 individuals; managed the completion and certification of a world-class medical logistics center in Balad, Iraq, valued at over $50M; led a 24-hour operations center with an annual budget over $200M and oversight of 15 workers to manage nine directly-reporting organizations in Iraq with zero loss time incidents.

Arlington, Virginia, Us

Commanded 500 individuals for over 17 months; managed hospital support projects to include the successful hospital recertification by the Joint Commission of the military hospital in Heidelberg, Germany, which supported over 45,000 beneficiaries, ahead of schedule, under budget, and with zero loss time incidents.-led team that achieved 100% supervisor course graduation rate.-rated by brigade commander at “Top” of peer group.

Arlington, Virginia, Us

Served as junior commissioned officer in first-line / second-line supervisory and management positions managing cost, schedule, quality, safety, and project execution.-managed $65M veterinary service mission to provide animal care and military working dog support in Europe and Africa, including the renovation and recertification of seven animal care clinics in Germany.-managed $155M direct support budget to provide vehicle maintenance, refurbishment, and replacement for a fleet of over 1,600 military vehicles in South Korea.-led 46 individuals through first-line and second-line supervision; managed medical treatment and evacuation missions supporting 470 workers at six locations with two treatment facilities and eight field ambulances; managed annual budget of $25M to include staffing, vehicle maintenance, medical equipment and supplies, training, and contingency mission budgeting.

Bachelor Of Science - Bs, Chemistry With Nuclear Engineering

Master Of Science - Ms, Leadership

Military Strategic Studies, General

Project Management Leadership, Gas Business Fundamentals

Project Management Leadership, Enterprise Leadership

Education record

Education record

Accelerated Scholastic High School Diploma