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Flowood, Mississippi, United States

Flowood, Mississippi, United States

• Supervised a team of 4 Plant Support Engineers and a Co-op Engineer
• Drove engineering and maintenance efforts in the Western US region for Ergon Asphalt & Emulsions, Inc. (A&E)
• Managed communications with A&E Operations Management to ensure alignment of team efforts with the needs of the business unit

Flowood, Mississippi, United States

• Developed and executed capital projects at A&E facilities
• Functioned as first-call maintenance support at assigned A&E facilities
• Managed communications with A&E operations to stay aligned with shifting priorities
• Enabled A&E operations to make quick, informed decisions

Houston, Texas, United States

• Managed full rebranding initiative
• Supervised the development and commercial roll-out of two new service lines
• Performed the primary Sales and Marketing functions for the organization (periodic communications with new content, developing strategies for developing new business, further penetrating core customers)
• Identified opportunities for new products and services to be added
• Managed technical communications between operations, data processing, and product delivery

Houston, TX

• Designed experiments using fiber data to optimize completion design for hydraulic fracturing of horizontal oil and gas wells.
• Informed wellbore intervention and mitigation efforts, as well as future well placement, by identifying water zones and other production disparities along the lateral using dip-in fiber data.
• Identified well candidates that will maximize client return on investment in fiber data.
• Incorporated disruptive fiber deployment technology to deliver economic real-time fracture monitoring.
• Developed new and existing business in Midland, DFW, and Houston areas.
• Generated targeted content for digital and print marketing materials.

College Station, TX

• Served as the primary point of contact for all vendors regarding the manufacturing, installation, and operation of a two-stage light gas gun (2SLGG), a miniature split-Hopkinson pressure bar, and an ultra-high speed.
• Oversaw undergraduate design team efforts to design and manufacture an improved target fixture for the 2SLGG.
• Explored methods of characterizing the dynamic behavior of materials at high strain rates, such as those resulting from blast effects and hypervelocity impact.

Starkville, MS

• Directed the design, specification, and acquisition of a 2SLGG and an ultra-high speed camera for the newly founded Hypervelocity Impact Lab at Mississippi State University.
• Designed and built an articulating target fixture for the 2SLGG allowing for oblique impacts and target face plates that force axisymmetric boundary conditions on the impact event.
• Served as the primary interface with the program sponsor (U. S. Army Engineer Research and Development Center) regarding research updates and alignment.
• Performed over 150 hypervelocity impact tests to targets composed of geomaterials, polymers, and metals
• Developed experimental metrics for comparison of targets subjected to perforation at hypervelocity, including analysis of high-speed images taken during perforation as well as post-shot evaluation of the targets.
• Investigated the effects of polymeric material microstructure on damage morphology due to hypervelocity impact.

Oklahoma City, OK

• Drove the sales strategy for the Mid-Con Basin (OK, KS, TX Panhandle) including account planning and development, managing price erosion under worsening market conditions, and developing innovative applications for our.
• Developed my team of 4 direct reports through mentoring and implementing individual training programs to address apparent competency gaps.
• Ensured alignment of the sales, operations, and technical data support teams with a unified strategy to high grade customers, find solutions that resonated with product end users, and support final data delivery.

Oklahoma City, OK

• Managed the integration of Geosciences (Petrophysics, Geomechanics, and Borehole Geology) with Operations to provide solutions for proper well placement and optimal completion design.
• Advocated the adoption and evolution of completion optimization in horizontal wells using data by traveling to and supporting local sales hubs in US Land with technical support and presentation delivery.
• Developed a procedure for evaluating horizontal wells that leverages the right combination of conveyance systems (ThruBit, TLC [Drill pipe Conveyed Logging], and Open-Hole/Cased-Hole tractor) to balance data quality.
• Coordinated the multidisciplinary workflow incorporating Petrophysics and Geomechanics into a seamless completion design within the accelerated timeline demanded by large-scale development operations.

Midland, TX

• Supervised rigging up/down operations to ensure compliance with safety policies and job efficiency metrics.
• Acquired client requested data at the wellsite and prepared deliverables on location.
• Utilized communication between sales and geoscience to make sure any advanced deliverables were completed accurately and distributed in a timely manner.
• Developed competencies in advanced formation evaluation services including borehole imaging, magnetic resonance, and elemental spectroscopy through classroom and on-the-job training.

• Expanded technical competencies in general open-hole and cased-hole formation evaluation through on-the-job and self-initiated training.
• Worked directly with customers to help them identify their well evaluation needs and recommend a tailored open-hole and/or cased-hole evaluation suite.

Alice, TX

• Acquired basic oil field knowledge and safety awareness through classroom and on-the-job training.

Starkville, MS

• Developed material and geometric nonlinear finite element models of sandwich composite structures with woven fabric facesheets and Nomex Honeycomb core.
• Predicted drop weight normal impact damage in sandwich composites using LS-DYNA.
• Predicted compression-after-impact residual strength in sandwich composites using ABAQUS.

Starkville, MS

• Developed 3-D finite element model of semi-monocoque tapered box beam using PATRAN and Unigraphics.
• Generated reference fundamental frequency and tip deflection data for tapered box beam with varying skin thicknesses using PATRAN/NASTRAN modal and static analysis.
• Validated scaling-factor approximations of tip deflection and fundamental frequency using reference data.

Master Of Science - Ms, Aerospace Engineering

Bachelor Of Science - Bs, Aerospace Engineering