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Austin, TX, US

• Develop serverless data processes and scalable DevOps deployment solutions for the integration of oil/gas regulatory data and proprietary customer data to support customer facing JetRock analysts.
• Achieved cost savings of 35% monthly by migrating virtual machine applications and dedicated SQL Servers to Azure Batch, Azure Logic Apps, Azure Container Instances/Registry (using Docker), and Azure SQL Databases.
• Implemented incremental data processing techniques and database index tuning on existing web service jobs to reduce processing time by 40%.
• Reduced Azure SQL Database costs 58% by developing a database performance scaling service.Improved data quality and acquisition rates 25% by implementing historical run-over-run statistical reporting and retry policies.
• Developed Azure Data Factory ETLs across Azure and on-premise resources, allowing clients to remain assured sensitive data doesn’t leave their firewall - using cloud (Azure) technology.
• Maintain legacy SSIS ETLs.

Austin, TX, US

• Served in a variety of management and technical roles across the Product and Data departments, including data ingestion, data manufacturing, and product usage data for the upstream oil and gas markets.
• Product managed team of 210+ for all upstream oil and gas regulatory and data ingestion (60+ sources including: courthouse, land, permit, well, production, and directional surveys). Oversight also included teams.
• Managed usage data and analytics for 7 major Drillinginfo oil and gas upstream products (DI Web, DI Desktop, DI Analytics, & DI International); producing up to $105M in annual revenue.
• Established agile project management processes for the data development team. Served as interim scrum master allowing visibility into project progress by external stakeholders.
• Created Drillinginfo’s first ever roadmap for well data coverage, completeness, correctness, and concurrency projects; thus giving senior management visibility into the highest priority data projects.

Austin, TX, US

• Selected as director and founding Product Manager for Drillinginfo’s new web application (“DI Web”) - an application combining the best data and functionality from Drillinginfo's legacy desktop, web, and Spotfire.
• Managed the scrum backlog and provided requirements for 4 web development teams across the US and India.
• Oversaw maintenance of Drillinginfo’s legacy DI Desktop application using a 5th remote development team in India.
• Maintained backlog and requirements for oil and gas production data development across the new DI Web application and 2 legacy products with a 6th (local) data development team.
• Collaborated with marketing, development, and the CEO to write the requirements for Drillinginfo’s Product Gallery - the post-login landing page that provides a simple, centralized way to launch all web-based products.
• Wrote the requirements (and provided content) for the first product-wide, central release notes website which educated customers about new features, new data, and bug fixes for all Drillinginfo products.

Austin, TX, US

• Authored the 1st competitor and company-of-interest (“COI”) report for the Drillinginfo board of directors which provided detailed insight into competitors and potential acquisitions.
• Maintained the backlog and requirements for both data and software development for Drillinginfo’s oil and gas production data product lines – the highest used datasets (45% of total dataset usage according to metrics).

Austin, TX, US

• Managed 4 person team of software and database developers on the core HPDI Online (DI Desktop) application.
• Established scrum project management practices to ensure development progressed and was delivered on time for industry events.

• Directed 4 person team of software and database developers for all HPDI data products. Managed technology operations and annual IT budget $1M+. Prioritized and defined technological strategies for software and database.
• Monitored QA procedures using issue tracking software and batch scripts to ensure quality software releases.
• Implemented and managed bug/issue tracking and project management software (Atlassian’s JIRA); strengthening communication between technical support, software development, and data processing departments.

• Built web services to connect 3rd party software vendors into HPDI's petroleum database; widening HPDI's client base. Developed and maintained HPDI's account management intranet allowing HPDI staff to securely manage.
• Optimized existing build procedures to generate a 24x increase in overall build performance.
• Accelerated database processing time by 300% by automatically notifying key data analysts via SMS when SQL scripts encountered errors.
• Streamlined 90% of existing data processing procedures via macros, web scrapers, and batch scripts; reduced human error and increased productivity by 20 hours per month.