Mark Wuenscher, Pmp Email & Phone Number

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 support to internal and business unit clients.• 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 geologists to make better real time drilling decisions and more accurately integrate well control with seismic data.• 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 image leading to better prediction of the base salt depth ahead of drill bit.• 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.• Collaborated with software developers by assisting in user interface design, algorithm testing and writing documentation, improving the usability, accuracy and computational efficiency of geophysical tools.• Developed and implemented seismic data management policy for processing organization which led to greater adherence to data archival standards, improved project data management, and reduced risk of data loss.• Documented best practices and facilitated knowledge transfer between processing team members leading to more consistent application of processing workflows throughout the organization.• Performed quality control and quality assurance for processing projects carried out by external vendors producing final products that met or exceeded client objectives.

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 technical know-how to an important business partner in the region.• 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 Pre-Cretaceous growth prospects for 21st license round.• 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 collaborate within a single interpretation project.• 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 monitoring, helping them process data more efficiently and more effectively share idle compute resources.• Led internal 3D SRME software development and testing effort which yielded an accurate and computationally efficient algorithm. Created critical benchmark workflows by which future updates to algorithm efficiency could be measured.• Collaborated with R&D personnel, testing new processing workflows and algorithms so that stable and computationally efficient tools were more rapidly adopted by processors.• Performed QC and QA for many external processing projects with results meeting or exceeding client objectives.

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.• Served as software support lead for processing organization, acting as primary liaison with vendor, debugging workflows and investigating software issues, helping processors more rapidly solve day-to-day problems, avoid project delays and obtain more accurate results. Continued in this role after primary software implementation was completed until employment ended with ConocoPhillips in 2015.

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 statics solutions.• 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 data associated with the project.• 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.• Processing lead on first in-house land 3D depth migration successfully solving S. Texas Lobo fault shadow problem and reducing drilling risk.• Led dedicated processing team on a BU driven 3 year-long processing program performing depth imaging over the entire 1500 square mile Lobo trend, adding $2,000,000 in value to company.• Coordinated with BU to train vendor how to complete overflow depth imaging work successfully allowing BU to increase processing capacity and meet their overall business objectives.• Collaborated closely with seismic analysis personnel completing three Lobo pre-stack inversion projects, reducing drilling risk and led to publication which was nominated one of top 11 papers at 2001 SEG.

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 and algorithms and by working closely with the interpreters to optimize results.Tested new geophysical algorithms, developed internally, and provided feedback to developers to improve results.Leading role in moving the processing team from the main frame environment to ProMAX proved critical in allowing the team to make a smooth transition to the new workstation based processing environment.Acted as processing team internal UNIX systems administrator and ProMAX site coordinator solving problems, collaborating with vendor, and allowing for an easier transition to new ProMAX releases.Trained other processors, business unit personnel and visiting scientists in processing seismic data in ProMAX.

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 seismic processing system and trained others in the UNIX / workstation environment.

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 gave presentations on earthquakes, earthquake safety and earthquake hazard mitigation to various local groups and civic organizations.

Houston, Tx

Ms, Geophysics

Bs, Physics / Geophysics