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Conduct data collection using a Bruker XRF gun and related software. Identify and analyze cuttings with a high degree of scientific rigor to ensure reliable results. Record each relevant sample using microphotography and log progress.

Liaise between on-location personnel and off-location geologists over phone and online. Collect, interpret and relay geological and drilling information and operations.Create real-time logs of drilling parameters, fluid properties and sample characteristics. Collect, describe and perform field laboratory testing on cutting samples. Maintain, troubleshoot and repair sensors and computers in the field. Rig up and rig down all equipment.Proficient with the following hardware and software: Pason Gas Analyzer, MPlot, photomicrographs, calcimeter, fluoroscope.

Research industry trends and stats to write in-depth reports on a scheduled and on-demand basis.

Edit and format industry reports using proprietary AppleScripts, InDesign and Acrobat.

Netopia National Design Center | Edited and wrote copy for Web sites under the pressure of financial consequence for errors. Worked across departments to solve problems and maintain high productivity while minimizing errors and assuring quality.

From 2006 to 2008, went back to school for graduate degree in journalism at University of Oklahoma. Worked as Night Editor of The Oklahoma Daily student newspaper until final semester. Collaborated on re-design, trained section editors, managed and trained copy editors. Wrote an award-winning column about reporting in post-Katrina Mississippi and won first- and second-place Oklahoma SPJ awards for page-one deadline layout.

In 2003, gained position as Entertainment Editor for The Norman Transcript in Norman, Okla., a CNHI newspaper. Also helmed weekly A&E tabloid as Editor-in-Chief of the Transcript's pop section. Managed writers, designed section and news-side fronts, designed tabloid covers, copy edited, wrote, and interviewed the likes of Wayne Coyne, Danzig, Warren Haynes, Winston Smith and Billy Joe Shaver.In 2005, reported post-Hurricane Katrina from Picayune, Miss., for CNHI affiliate The Picayune Item. Broke story about an elderly blind man held captive in a trailer who managed to free himself after the hurricane. His captors had abandoned him and since have been convicted of various crimes stemming from their abuse of the man. Also reported on FEMA/Red Cross mismanagement.

Beginning in 2002, reported sports and A&E for community newspaper chain in Denver suburbs. Interviewed professional women's billiards champion Jeanette "The Black Widow" Lee.