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St Simons Island, Georgia, United States

St Simons Island, Georgia, United States

St Simons Island, Georgia, United States

St Simons Island, Georgia, United States

Working Remote

Digital DSMSelected to work on corporate leadership framework project during the work for home environment due to COVID-19 Pandemic. Exhibited ability to maintain high productivity while working from remotely utilizing current IT cloud technology.• Organize and analyze non-operated joint venture data for benchmarking team based on capital spend, operating spend, Drilling, Completions and Facilities Costs.• Create Spotfire and PowerBI dashboards to analyze drilling day rates for competitors based on operator, well classification and rig contractor.• Construct a Microsoft Sway digital story of Chevron Midcontinent Business Unit’s history.

Midland, Texas, United States

Drill Site Manager, Permian Basin, Rotational AssignmentSupervised and led drilling rig site for night shift operations in Culberson County, Texas consisting of 30+ business partners with 6 different service industry companies.• Drilled 20,000 ft. MD horizontal wells with 10,000 ft. MD laterals and 3 to 4 strings of casing in complex unconventional reservoirs. • Optimized drilling performance using a combination Corva’s data analytics software and drilling with mechanical specific energy (MSE) efficiency process. Achieved 6 “Best in Class Wells” titles with the fasted drill time for the company saving over $3 million in capital expense in one calendar year.• Directed logistics and developed plans of action for current and future operations. • Enforced relentless control of Health, Environment & Safety operations by mitigating hydrogen sulfide gas, well control and occupational risks for onshore drilling leading to zero safety incidents.• Produced daily status reports for official documentation of activity using WellView software and coordinated with state government agencies for regulatory compliance.

Midland, Texas, United States

Asset Development Factory Coordinator, Midland & Delaware Basin Coordinated the full field development of Chevron’s Permian Basin unconventional assets in the Midland Basin. Capital budget for the 2018 year: $365 Million.• Simultaneously managed wide portfolio of pad and facility construction crews, 2 drilling rigs, completions crews and flow back operations for initial well production. Point of contact for managing 24/7 execution activities for seamless delivery of heavily impactful corporate development.• Generated an additional sustained 15,000 barrels of oil equivalent per day by bringing first production to 26 wells while obtaining the fastest product cycle time of 67 days. • Coordinated integrated development schedules via strategic planning to meet business plan goals.• Interfaced and allocated fleet resources within all execution steps of the MCBU Unconventional Resource Factory, identifying any misalignments and provided resolution for all stakeholders, including management staff, engineers, geologists, operations superintendents and field personnel.• Established formal roles and responsibilities structure between asset development engineering team and operations engineering team to align priorities for converting wells from naturally flowing to artificial lift. This process removed a previous 30,000 barrel of oil equivalent constraint amounting to $600,000 in earnings and an increase the overall productivity of the new unconventional wells.• Developed a field wide integrated production system optimization (IPSO) plan to handle high than expected water volumes. Through this process debottlenecked water handling facility which increased capacity by 8,000 BWPD and earnings by $7.3 million. This was the foundation of a business unit wide tactical IPSO process to ensure handling facilities for multiple production scenarios.

Production Engineer, Dollarhide Field • Served as lead production engineer in legacy asset with 567 wells, produced root cause analysis reports for any system repeat failure and generated corrective action plans• Executed 64 workover jobs returning 1,549 barrels of oil per day back to production • Headed plug and abandonment tasks for all business unit divest assets while maintaining technical accuracy reports and compliancy with state and federal regulatory agencies

Production Engineer, Levelland Field June 2015 – May 2016• Managed line drive waterflood base asset with a training assignment in field learning production operations • Developed, designed and sustained artificial lift systems for long-term oilfield production and optimized existing well pumping systems by implementing maintenance plans and new technological modifications

Houston, Texas

• Wrote and published 2 major case histories for the Reservoir Asset Management Group • Assisted a team of engineers on a reserves process efficiency project

Houston, Tx

•Calculated original gas in place of Urbana Field using array & dual induction logs, gamma ray and laterologs•Constructed isopach maps for each formation reservoir integrated with produced drainage basin acreage•Formulated cost analysis for future horizontal wells through potential natural gas rich reservoirs

Houston, Tx

•Optimized Coldsprings Field facilities to remove bottlenecks and increase overall productivity of the field•Discovered over $500,000 in a faulty field pipeline design through personal research and calculations•Assessed surface production equipment for 16 Coldsprings Field wells

•Designed irrigation, grading, cement and electrical conduit plans using AutoCAD and contractor surveys for City of Houston and various other clients•Assisted a team of professional engineers to help numerous clients on future design projects•Attended client meetings to help maintain healthy customer relations and discuss future projects

•Conducted private investment research for prenatal biomedical devices and chemical detection spectrometers•Gathered information and analyzed the world and futures markets to present to primary investment team•Prepared Financial Goal Analysis and Risk Analysis Reports for long-standing clienteles’ benefit

Managed barrier-free facilities for special needs camp including a rock wall, zip line, tarzan bar and others* Was responsible for the safety of all campers and staff while attending the challenge course* Encouraged strong leadership skills and team work ethics among campers by setting a positive example

Executed ongoing electrical and physical repairs for 217 condominium units* Was rewarded a promotion to supervise the maintenance department on weekends* Orchestrated and monitored the daily tasks of 6 newly recruited maintenance staff members

Master Of Science (M.S.), Petroleum Engineering

Bachelor Of Science (B.S.), Engineering