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Denver, Colorado, Us

Denver, Colorado, Us

• Utilized strong data analytics skills to evaluate emerging technology, derive meaningful insights from competitor intelligence data, explore drilling hazards, elucidate water production trends, & digest survey results• Applied extreme gradient boosting, elastic nets, multilinear regression, generalized linear models, K nearest neighbors, radius neighbors, neural nets, random forests, and iterative imputers to make forecasts, generate prescriptive models, model non-linear relationships, predict event probabilities, investigate edge case performance, and impute data• Developed 3D declustering algorithm to remove spatial bias from subsurface data; used statistical power analyses and t-tests to evaluate experiment results• Chosen to serve as member of an innovation team whose purpose was to identify and steward the best ideas across the business while fostering a culture of innovation• Conducted residual analyses to assess the effect of geologic structures, infill development style, & wellbore placement on oil production in the Eagle Ford & Austin Chalk Formations• Led Eagle Ford data trade team in the successful negotiation & execution of 8 trades with 313 wells; created a data QC dashboard to maximize onboarding efficiency & data quality• Authored posters at internal conferences for 5 straight years & presented content to Board of Directors in 2018• Employed solid geologic foundation to develop 3D structural models of the Eagle Ford & Midland Basin, created innovative subsurface maps, & generated several upside zone resource assessments • Played essential role in corporate processes by managing inventory with ARCGIS, Geopandas, & Kingdom; • Collaborated with coworkers across a wide range of disciplines to successfully plan & execute developments, influence asset level planning, & evaluate joint operating proposals

Calgary, Ab, Ca

• Generated a new geologic model for hydrocarbon exploration in the Mississippian & Devonian strata of the Midland Basin through detailed mapping, literature review, & core data analysis• Compiled Devonian core data sets from several North American basins with Spotfire to analyze the rock quality & maturity of analogous plays

Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, Us

• Assesed the Bone Spring Sands in the Delaware Basin, mapped electro-facies, projected oil cuts, estimated resource in place, sited potential well locations, and presented recommendations to senior staff

Madison, Wisconsin, Us

• Generated, QC’d, & managed XRF, microfossil, & carbon isotope data sets• Led research assistants in the curation of core & the collection of subsurface data• Conducted wireline logging, assisted with hydrogeological field work, & acted as onsite geologist for the drilling of 24 cores• Served as a junior collaborator on mapping projects and stratigraphic studies across Eastern North America

Master Of Science - Ms, Data Science

Master'S Degree, Geology

Bachelor Of Science (B.S.), Geology, Environmental Studies