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Colorado Springs, Co, Us

Birmingham, Al, Us

Denver, Colorado, Us

Houston, Texas, Us

Leading the Digital Oilfield Transformation efforts at Whiting, successfully advocated for restructuring existing teams to better align the technical resources to support a dynamic field environment. By delivering the right data, on time and in context, gained user acceptance and improved efficiencies in multiple areas of the business. Recruited and trained personnel to support rapid development cycle using both traditional and open source tools that returned business solutions and process enhancements measured in hours or days. Established strong partnerships with Corporate and Field IT teams, Facility Engineering, Field I&E and Operations teams across multiple reporting structures.● Identified opportunities to improve artificial lift performance by deploying enhanced monitoring, project ROI was 25X initial investment.● Led efforts to integrate SCADA and Well Management systems data with Production Accounting systems resulting in 25-50% reduction in daily data collection.● Established cross departmental standards for Facility design to include automation components to support current and future data needs.● Worked with Field Operations teams to identify both technical and mechanical changes to reduce physical risk, improve measurement and reduce required visits to the wellhead.● Worked closely with Environmental, Health & Safety team to understand compliance requirements and identify programmatic alternatives for tracking and reporting. Created integrations to support compliance reporting systems needs for Colorado and North Dakota.● Developed and deployed open source Historian ingesting 1B records per week from multiple source systems utilizing 3rd party vendors.● Led the development of real time dashboards to provide full asset surveillance and alarming capabilities to mobile and desktop platforms, supporting over 300 users across field and office locations.

Houston, Texas, Us

Managed various functions including Application Development, Database, BI, Infrastructure and Service Desk teams during a time of fast growth. Focused on hiring and developing top-notch talent and building high-performing teams.● Ensured IT efforts aligned with Corporate needs and priorities.● Developed and implemented security standards for Corporate and SCADA Control systems.● Set procurement standards and led contract negotiations for hardware and software.● Maintained department budgets, implementing coding standards to support spending analysis.● Sponsored and participated in the design of data quality initiatives that drove lasting business value.● Implemented and built support teams for multiple LOB applications.● Built out remote IT support organization to support field activities in TX, CO and ND.● Coordinated multiple acquisitions and divestitures.● Managed SOX audits and other regulatory and legal reporting needs.● Managed migration from internal data center to co-location data centers, increasing uptime and reducing costs.● Focused on customer support, utilizing service desk system to track critical metrics, drive down MTR and identify systemic issues.

Houston, Texas, Us

Responsible for all aspects of IT infrastructure including Intel Server and Cisco Network environments. Built and led a team of highly motivated and productive professionals who successfully transformed the infrastructure from an unreliable state to a stable and dependable backbone for supporting business applications and communication needs. ● Developed IT Asset Management systems and processes including software deployments, patching and configuration management using COTS, .NET and scripting tools● Designed high-availability MS Exchange solutions.● Created and maintained Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery plans. ● Implemented Service Desk software and created helpdesk standards.● Designed and Implemented HP and Cisco LAN and WAN and security systems. ● Managed day to day network performance and troubleshooting for corporate and field networks.● Implemented MRTG, Netflow and Syslog systems to monitor network performance.● Implemented Windows event log correlation systems to improve system monitoring.● Evaluated, selected and deployed NAS and SAN technologies. ● Implemented VMWare virtualization.● Designed DFS structure to enable single namespace across geographically dispersed workforce.● Active Directory redesign design and domain migration / consolidation.● Supported multiple asset acquisition including complex SCADA control systems.

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Provided pre-sales engineering support of hosted Exchange Email solutions and post-sales on-boarding of new customers. Responsible for successfully migrating new customers to SAS solution, including data migrations, mail routing configurations and client-side connectivity. Work was mostly remote after-hours but occasionally performed at customer location.● Developed vbscript based toolset for automated ldap data migrations from customer to USA.NET Active Directory systems.● Developed multiple Active Directory domain synchronization tools to support extended or partial mail migrations and complex mail routing schemes.● Developed client-side deployment tools using VB.net to automate Outlook client deployment, configuration and mail migration. Used by United Airlines to migrate thousands of client systems. ● Built and supported complex text parsing routines in vbscript.

Colorado Springs, Colorado, Us

Managed team responsible for all public and internal facing applications and related server platforms. This included primarily Windows servers but also HPUX and DEC VAX.• Managed datacenter move and daily backup operations.• Managed redesign of public web site to address stability issues on IIS platform.• Build .NET asset management application integrated to ERP and Active Directory.• Set and enforced security standards for domain.

San Jose, Ca, Us