Stratex Energy Group is a Calgary based sales and marketing management consultancy that provides support for small to intermediate petroleum service companies. Stratex Energy's clients range from geoscience (geological, geophysical) companies to petroleum engineering companies that need guidance in business development both domestically and internationally.

McLeay Geological Consultants is one of Canada's leading resource consultancies providing field wellsite geological supervision for the oil and gas industry. McLeay provides geological personnel for oil sands, conventional and unconventional vertical and horizontal wells in the upstream petroleum industry.Business development consulting services include: prospect generation, account maintenance, sales administration, client promotion, trade show management, proposal writing, trade association volunteering, recruitment, market research and weekly reports.

The RPS Energy Canadian office provided geological well-site supervision, seismic QC and project management, petroleum engineering (drilling, production, reservoir) consulting and advisory.Business development consultant services included: prospect generation, account maintenance, CRM utilization and supervision, recruitment of technical personnel, client entertainment and promotion, travel in the USA, development of industry courses and seminars, trade show management, sales and marketing planning, writing proposals, management team member, submission of weekly reports and attendance at weekly meetings..

Datalog is a worldwide supplier of mud logging services and equipment. The company provides unmanned drilling monitoring systems as well as traditional manned mud logging services. Datalog had offices in Canada (head office), United Kingdom, United States and South America. The business development consultant provided the following services: lead generation, client maintenance, customer relationship management (GOLDMINE), international travel, development of industry courses, client entertainment and promotion, new product development, professional presentations, trade association volunteer, market research, product scheduling for field utilization, trade show management, writing proposals, sales training, pricing, sales and marketing planning, advertising, brochures design, and weekly reports.

Tekkmark Group Inc., located in Calgary, provided both geological consulting and small business consulting for the oil & gas industry. The company developed several regional geological studies and digital databases in Western Canada. It also provided sales and marketing consulting for several small petroleum service companies in Calgary.The President of Tekkmark was responsible for the following: new product development, project management, recruitment of staff, accounting procedures, weekly staff meetings, sales and marketing consulting, advertising and brochure design, account management, trade association volunteering, and overall company administration.

Robertson Research (Canada) Limited was one of the regional offices of Robertson Research International PLC. Robertson Research was a world leader in providing petroleum laboratory services, petroleum consulting, data management and integrated petroleum studies. Robertson Research, headquartered in the United Kingdom, had regional offices in Canada, United States, Singapore, Indonesia and Nigeria.The position of Operations Manager/Marketing Manager had the following responsibilities:supervision of administrative and technical staff, recruitment of technical and lab personnel, development and operation of geological services lab (core analysis, sedimentology, biostratigraphy and geochemistry), development and project management of domestic petroleum studies, marketing of international studies (North Sea, Africa, Middle East, South America, SE Asia),sales and marketing management, supervision of sales staff, personal selling, client maintenance, training and education and financial reporting.

Motorola's Petroleum Division provided several products to the local and international markets from the offices of Calgary, Houston and Chicago. Our communications products included portables, vehicle phones and SCADA systems for various oil and gas service companies and petroleum operating companies. The end-users worked in refineries, gas plants, oil rigs and pipeline facilities.This position had the following responsibilities: generate bids and proposals, personal selling ("cold calling"), client maintenance, international travel, participation at local and international trade shows,attendance at weekly sales meetings, weekly sales report and forecast, technical presentations,client entertainment and promotion, liaison with in-house engineering staff and market research.

Nova Husky Research was a jointly owner research company of Husky Energy and Nova Corporation. The primary objective of the company was to come up with several methodologies for enhancing heavy oil recovery. I worked in the EOR division working on several types of core flooding. We used steam flooding and polymer flooding as two methods for looking at secondary and tertiary recovery. The floods were done in a laboratory setting and then tested in the field.The position of research technologist/geologist had the following responsibilities: laboratory flood design, laboratory flood development utilizing proper equipment, select cores and fluids, daily monitoring of core floods, communication with senior research staff, report writing, apparatus set-up,calibration of select equipment, and calculations using computer aided software.