Established company to provide strategic planning and analysis, project evaluation and finance and business support services to the energy industry, as well as acquire equity interests in oil and gas assets.- Lead evaluation of corporate strategic alternatives and identification of funding for domestic energy firms.- Perform detailed due diligence, forensic accounting and modeling of cash flow scenarios.- Created business plan for a vertically-integrated, natural gas fueled, cryptocurrency operation and funding raise.- Served as interim Chief Financial Officer for an independent oil company while spearheading the sales process for a majority of its asset position in Alaska.

Acquired, owned and operated two fuel station and convenience stores - one in Tulsa, OK and another in Claremore, OK.- Managed a small business team of 7-10 employees- Enhanced properties and attracted a new customer base that resulted in a material increase in gross sales revenue.- Created one of the first medical marijuana dispensaries inside of a traditional convenience store.- Established and cultivated relationships with a diverse group of vendors, contractors and suppliers.

Co-founder and managing partner of a venture established to acquire oil and gas assets in east Texas and northern Louisiana.- Spearheaded creation of an acquisition pipeline and evaluation process aligned with strategy, budget and expertise.- Managed evaluation and process to close the inaugural purchase of interests in a 250 well portfolio of properties.- Negotiated and closed on a $4 MM credit facility to support growth plans; administered compliance requirements.- Executed day-to-day financial and administrative responsibilities, including marketing of produced products, financial analysis and reporting, contract negotiation, regulatory compliance, reserve and financial valuations, strategic and development planning, accounting and Master Service Agreements (MSA).

Co-founded a private equity-backed company to acquire and operate oil and gas assets within the U.S.- Created a business plan for the origination, evaluation and acquisition of assets intended to deliver strong equity returns.- Secured equity commitment and funding to establish office and build team.- Directed acquisition opportunity evaluation efforts, including the process of managing technical resources and providing detailed economic, price and development scenario analyses.- Built banking, advisory and insurance broker relationships; managed third-party accounting firm as well as administrative support functions including human resources.

Recruited to establish and manage a corporate group accountable for providing analysis and insight to assist the executive team in strategic and operational decision making. Also lead annual corporate long range planning and performance management processes, as well as assist with development of materials and presentations for the Board of Directors.- Established the company’s first-ever planning department and hired/supervised an analyst and advisor to deliver a fit-for-purpose public corporation planning function.- Led a fully integrated planning process that included not just financial analysis, but also critical operational, technical and executive considerations that tie decision making to corporate value drivers- Provided the C-Suite with company's first integrated performance management reports. - Ushered the company through its first comprehensive strategy and long-range planning exercise.- Created consistency in the collection, modeling and reporting of corporate information in order to insure its credibility.

Joined ConocoPhillips as a Cost Analyst and progressed through positions that provided increasing levels of responsibility, accountability and leadership including Planning Coordinator for the Alaska Region and then at corporate headquarters as the Senior Finance and Planning Analyst for the Corporate Human Resource (HR) function before serving briefly as Supervisor of gasoline trading, financial planning and analysis.Before being recruited by Kosmos for the position described above, promoted to manage the group tasked with the delivery of risk/mark-to-market reporting and the execution of close and control processes in support of ConocoPhillips gasoline trading activities. Even during the short period in this position, was able to decrease the time to process daily reports and work with traders to refine reports in an effort to help them more effectively manage their business.

Promoted to corporate headquarters from Anchorage, Alaska in a career-broadening position to be the Senior Finance and Planning Analyst for the company's Chief HR Officer, who had direct responsibility for all corporate HR staff and dotted-line functional responsibility for all HR managers worldwide serving more than 30,000 employees. - Refined and managed analytic support and insight for all critical HR functional areas including workforce planning, leadership, development and diversity.- Provided detailed financial and performance analyses, budgeting and planning/strategic support to the Corporate Chief HR Officer and the HR leadership team.- Co-led council tasked with assuring efficient utilization of HR resources and also the prioritization of the HR technology portfolio and was also selected to lead ConocoPhillips’ Headquarters Safety Subcommittee.- Served as editor of a quarterly global HR newsletter produced by a matrix editorial team that reflected HR successes, individual accomplishments, process highlights and culture emphases.- Evaluated talent rating implications that would result from changing individual performance rating scale from three criteria to five criteria.

Assumed the role as planning coordinator for the company’s largest cash generating asset with approximately 1000 employees and 225 mboed equity production. Accountable for coordinating the region’s long range planning, detailed budgeting and near-term forecasting activity, and then for reporting results to senior and executive-level management. - Honored in 2007 as an “Alaska Top 40 Under Forty” winner by the Alaska Journal of Commerce and Anchorage Chamber of Commerce as one of Alaska’s top 40 business professionals less than 40 years of age, an award granted for demonstrating professional excellence and commitment to the community.- Co-led development and implementation of new planning system with an extensively upgraded database of key regional information and metrics.- Developed and enhanced dynamic planning tools for a fully-integrated regional business model to account for all functional areas of the Alaska business unit.- Managed and reported to corporate management all the planning activity and workflow that was collected through a multi-functional matrix population of more than 50 professionals throughout the region.

Accountable for reporting, budgeting and planning of all non-capital related activity within the Greater Kuparuk Area, a business unit with 185 mboed of production and a $250MM operating budget. - Promoted to be the Business Analyst for the second largest oil field in North America.- Redesigned and implemented new dynamic budgeting and reporting models that realized a step-change in quality and analytical rigor.- Managed commercial contracts and business for selling excess North Slope diesel.- Appointed as primary contact for renting idle equipment in order to realize extra revenue when the equipment was not required for ConocoPhillips’ operations.

Accountable for all budgeting, planning and reporting for a $100MM general and administrative (G&A) budget. Primary contact for all financial issues related to Anchorage overhead and the point person for ad hoc G&A analyses. - Designed and implemented a new region G&A budgeting model that proved to be highly effective, which revolutionized the way data was processed and was ultimately adopted by other ConocoPhillips’ regions and used to budget approximately $1 billion of G&A cost.

Accountable for cost analysis of 150 natural gas wells, as well as transportation and gathering facilities in the San Juan Basin (Northern New Mexico and Southern Colorado). Served as primary contact with field operations office for cost and accounting issues. Managed contract profitability. Performed quarterly cost reviews with field operations. Prepared authorities for expenditures and monthly billings to working interest partners/third party operations and processed partner joint interest billings.