Rachel Lothringer Email & Phone Number

Houston, Texas, United States

Developing tools for thru-tubing, completion, and workover applications.

Conroe, Texas, United States

• Lead a team of 3 drill bit design engineers in Russia, completed about 3 projects per month to improve performance.
• Worked with drill bit design engineers and management team in Russia to test different materials to improve value to the customer.
• Developed a drill bit designer in Colombia, completed 1-2 projects per month.
• Personally completed about 1 drill bit design project per month
• Consulted with Central and South American field engineers about once a month to match products with customer needs to reduce cost and lead times.

Conroe, Texas, United States

• Design engineering contributor on a cross functional team to reduce tooling inventory and increase design flexibility and reduce health risk during manufacturing.
• Completed about 2 drill bit projects per month. Including a Bi-Center bit project.
• Created a drill bit design for USA, it exceeded the ROP

Conroe, TX

• Lead a team of 5 engineers, each completed 1-3 drill bit design projects per month.
• Coached an engineer on a challenging development project.
• Coached another engineer to understand specialty bit and develop local manufacturing technique.

Conroe, Texas

• Developed and coached others on how to create designs for Canada and Central and South America while keeping cost and performance in mind.
• Created video tutorials for on the job training (over 10 videos) on the various parts of the drill bit design process to save other designers time, about 20 minutes per project while in training.
• Solved problems by working with various people to design drill bits for the oil and gas industry, supporting the product through manufacturing, and providing technical support to field engineers and sales.
• Created & delivered 2 more custom core bit projects for the Japanese client.
• Part of the 24-hour Downhole technical support desk.

Conroe, TX

• Trained new hires ranging from one-one on the job to a class size of up to 8 people.
• Created conventional one diameter bits in both steel and matrix for South America and Canada; about 2 designs per month to improve performance and reduce cost.
• Established as Core Bit Subject Matter Expert.
• Worked closely with a customer in Japan to develop & deliver custom core bits. This project included presenting the designs to a customer panel in person.

Conroe, Texas, United States

• Recaptured the coring bit product line by learning about product from coring services. (slim hole large core, high torque, sponge, and express).
• Learned how to create and evaluate PDC cutting structures.
• Dispositioned non-conforming product, about 5-15 issues per month.

Houston, Texas Area

Summer intern worked as a lab technician gathering and sorting data on rock failure at ReedHycalog before being bought by NOV.

San Antonio, Texas Area

Worked with a team of people to plan and execute retreats for local churches.