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Houston, Texas Area

Houston, Texas Area

Houston, Texas Area

• Coordinated and facilitated 10 vendor led Reveal training sessions in which 66 people in six countries were trained in using the Reveal seismic processing software package with no company travel required.
• Built capacity for delivering internal Reveal training by creating online training videos and example workflows, enabling web-based training for geoscientists and software developers.
• Collaborated with computing center personnel to evaluate and test Reveal software and establish a production processing environment for Reveal, ensuring integration within computing environment.

Houston, TX

• Successfully supervised and mentored a team of 4 processing geophysicists and 1 geophysical analyst, multi-tasking by supervising and managing projects, as well as providing outstanding hands-on technical service and.
• Project manager - Niobrara land 3D pre-stack depth migration (PSDM) project. Team successfully completed processing, velocity model building and imaging under aggressive timeline, generating final products that enabled.
• Supervised 2300 sq. km. Angola 3D PSDM project ensuring good ongoing collaboration, communication and understanding of client objectives, resulting in velocity model improvements that produced a more accurate base salt.
• Collaborated with business units by performing seismic processing project bid preparation, bid review and normalization, culminating in optimal vendor selection and ensuring compliance with corporate policies.
• Performed quality control and quality assurance for many processing projects carried out by external vendors producing final products that met or exceeded client objectives.

Houston, Texas Area

• Responsible for providing hands-on technical processing and processing support to internal and business unit clients.
• Project leader - Performed all processing and imaging for 1000 sq. km. Angola 3D PSDM. Managed all aspects of project and received involvement request by client on all future Angola imaging projects.
• Tested and evaluated three structural oriented filter technology algorithms, documenting lessons learned, leading to improved understanding of algorithms and better application of technology within the company.
• Created software validation workflows leading to a 200% reduction in vendor software release adoption cycle time.
• Influenced decisions related to software development, data management, new hardware selection, and processing workflow development ensuring current and future needs of processing organization were met.
• Streamlined geophysical tool promotion procedures leading to more rapid adoption of new technology by data processors and ensured accurate and computationally efficient algorithms were used.

Houston, TX

• Responsible for providing hands-on technical processing and processing support to internal and business unit clients.
• Project manager - Barent’s Sea 1000 sq. km. 3D PSDM project. Oversaw R&D components of 3D SRME, deghosting and RTM, ensuring overall technical excellence with project results demonstrating a very high level of.
• Project manager - Kashagan 3D PSTM project. A year-long collaborative processing effort by CoP, Shell, ENI, and Total, in which CoP processing was recognized as best in class among the partnership.
• Project lead - Performed all time processing and depth imaging for North Sea PSDM project producing final product that reduced risk associated with hydrocarbon trap and allowed interpretation team to mature.
• Performed vendor QC for South Texas 37 survey mega merge 3D PSTM project resulting in the first county wide seamless merge, improved migration aperture at survey boundaries and allowed interpreters to more effectively.
• Directed the design, development, and implementation of computer cluster monitoring dashboard which quickly became a critical piece of software infrastructure in organization, aiding processors in job and cluster.

Houston, Texas Area

• Managed lifecycle of a 4-year software development project, collaborating with vendor to build a next generation processing system.
• Managed initial evaluation of vendor software prototype, leading ConocoPhillips (CoP) and vendor agreeing to partner and collaborate to fully develop the next generation processing system.
• Coordinated with vendor to schedule regular project meetings for the iterative development cycles, and ensured effective communication and collaboration between project stakeholders.
• Negotiated priorities and established key goals for quarterly project milestones, successfully building and gaining consensus on software development priorities ensuring CoP needs were met in final product.
• Collaborated with CoP high performance computing team resulting in hardware and software compatibility and better operational efficiency within CoP computing environment.
• Developed transition plan and trained personnel on new software platform, achieving the goal of transitioning processing organization to new software platform by the established deadline.

Ponca City, OK

• Responsible for providing hands-on technical processing and processing support to internal and business unit clients. Utilized Conoco Processing System (CPS)
• Performed QC and QA for many 2D and 3D processing projects with results meeting or exceeding Business Unit (BU) objectives.
• Collaborated with geophysical research personnel to test and implement internally developed diving wave tomography and tomostatics capability resulting in improved data continuity relative to standard refraction.
• Performed 2D turkey shoot processing on challenging Colombia over-thrust data with quality exceeding that of 4 other companies which convinced partner Texaco that Conoco should solely process all of the 2D Colombia.
• Performed software testing and debugging on Conoco interactive processing tools leading to enhancements which positively impacted processing projects throughout the organization.
• Continuously trained and guided geophysical processing technician enabling greater productivity and technical excellence on all processing projects.

San Ramon, CA

Performed 2D seismic data processing from field tapes through documentation and archiving of final results using the ProMAX processing system. Processed challenging 2D land data from over-thrust areas of Colombia and Bolivia. Processing flows were data driven meaning that the processing alternatives were continually explored by testing new processing flows.

Houston, TX

Performed 2D seismic data processing using an in-house IBM/Cray based processing system. Worked on several research type projects which involved testing new algorithms and developing new processing flows in order to improve seismic images within difficult overthrust geologic regimes. Facilitated the processing teams move to the workstation based ProMAX.

St. Louis, MO

Supervised the daily operations of the principal departmental research tool, a 43 station seismic network. Performed event location of local earthquakes, teleseisms and quarry blasts. Compiled and edited quarterly earthquake bulletins reporting seismic activity. Senior student author for six quarterly bulletins. Trained new network personnel. Regularly.

Houston, TX

Ms, Geophysics

Bs, Physics / Geophysics