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Baton Rouge, Louisiana

Instructed students in Drilling (PETE 4045), P&A (Pete 4241) and in Well Control(PETE 4060). Performed and Supervised research for BSEE Contract No. E16PC00007 (Effects ofTripping and Swabbing in Drilling and Completion Operations).Worked at LSU’s PERTT laboratory with duties to prepare equipment and to helpstudents perform pump start up simulations with the driller’s method. Performed fullscale kick exercises with students where we injected gas into LSU’s Well #2 at 6,000 ftto practice recognizing, controlling and removing kicks from the well.

Hassi Messaoud, Algeria

Senior Drilling Engineer – Responsibilities included well design from pre-planningthrough post well review. Includes writing drilling programs, end of well reports, AFEpreparation, risk analysis, rig and vendor selection, casing design analysis, drilling fluiddesign, cementing design, bit selection, pore pressure, well control considerations,drilling curves, cost analysis,

Senior Drilling Engineer and Drilling Superintendent for Halliburton's PM project with Sonatrach

Gom, Aberdeen, North Slope Alaska, Nigeria

Project manager – Provided in house support to BP for the BHI products and servicesprovided for the deep water projects, Mad Dog in Green Canyon 782, and Holstein inGreen Canyon 644-645MWD Engineer – Provided services including Rotary Steerable, Gamma Ray,Resistivity, Neutron, Density, Sonic, Pressure, and Vibration measurement tools whiledrilling. Participated in the development of Baker Hughes INTEQ’s 3 1/8” Ultra SlimResistivity tool.