Ryan Bye Email & Phone Number

Calgary, Alberta, Canada

Calgary, Canada Area

• Provided ValNav support to assets in North America; imported hundreds of base declines from Harmony into ValNav; created and linked new type wells; loaded monthly production history into ValNav from IHS Hub and Texas Railroad Commission; updated economical parameters including royalties, working interest and net revenue interest. This support helped Eagleford double their production of the asset and turned it into a cash positive territory. • Provided reserves and contingent resource… Show more • Provided ValNav support to assets in North America; imported hundreds of base declines from Harmony into ValNav; created and linked new type wells; loaded monthly production history into ValNav from IHS Hub and Texas Railroad Commission; updated economical parameters including royalties, working interest and net revenue interest. This support helped Eagleford double their production of the asset and turned it into a cash positive territory. • Provided reserves and contingent resource support for production forecasts, impairment tests, budgets and long-range plan (LRP).• Maintenance of ValNav and testing and deploying new versions.• Provided solutions for assets to support them in their reserves forecasting. This included converting contingent resource wells to the reserves database; proven undeveloped to proven developed or vice-versa; completing quarterly and year end movements and revisions.• Built and supported complex Excel Pivots which pulled in data from various databases to provide useful and timely information to the various assets and planning teams.• Queried, organized and submitted company production data for the annual EIA-23L report.• Built and supported critical QA tools in MS Access and VBA. Show less

Calgary, Canada Area

Responsible for managing software upgrades, testing, business demand & requirements, planning & budgeting, licensing & vendor relationships for GeoSciences, Development & Reservoir Engineering, Geospatial and Information Management.Key Accomplishments:• Worked with my business groups to determine the demand level for our applications which allowed me to negotiate with vendors to reduce the M&S costs of my applications and resulted in savings of more than $500,000.• Built… Show more Responsible for managing software upgrades, testing, business demand & requirements, planning & budgeting, licensing & vendor relationships for GeoSciences, Development & Reservoir Engineering, Geospatial and Information Management.Key Accomplishments:• Worked with my business groups to determine the demand level for our applications which allowed me to negotiate with vendors to reduce the M&S costs of my applications and resulted in savings of more than $500,000.• Built strong relationships with my business teams including G&G & Development Engineering.• Global Support Model – Required my input for all of my applications including annual support costs, licensing costs and upgrades. Provided information to help determine where the support should exist in the new Repsol environment.• Oracle Upgrade – Worked closely with the project team to coordinate testing of my two affected applications. Documented and provided key information to help move the applications from test to production and upgraded one of the applications to remain compliant with Oracle.• Developed and maintained operational support documents to align with business strategy. Show less

Calgary, Canada Area

Key Accomplishments:• GIS Infrastructure Upgrade – Identified and documented an organizational chart of the Talisman GIS user community, this was then used to help identify stakeholders for the project. Completed, reviewed with stakeholders and attained signoff of the Business Case for the project. Gathered, documented and validated business requirements. Built a thorough test plan for the testers to follow and complete for a successful UAT.• Talisman Energy/Talisman Sinopec Energy… Show more Key Accomplishments:• GIS Infrastructure Upgrade – Identified and documented an organizational chart of the Talisman GIS user community, this was then used to help identify stakeholders for the project. Completed, reviewed with stakeholders and attained signoff of the Business Case for the project. Gathered, documented and validated business requirements. Built a thorough test plan for the testers to follow and complete for a successful UAT.• Talisman Energy/Talisman Sinopec Energy Joint Venture - Worked closely with teams in Calgary and Aberdeen to ensure separation of both companies (network, Active Directory, Applications) was completed seamlessly and with minimal impact to the business.• Peru Reduction - Reduced hardware, upgraded desktop OS, decommissioned and destroyed old hardware, moved all data and applications onto new servers and moved all users and machines on to the North American Active Directory. Traveled to Lima to gather, consolidate and decommission hardware and data and upgrade user’s desktops.• Drilling & Completions Rollout - provided expertise in application packaging through smoke testing, coordinating UAT and production deployments; attending daily packaging meetings; working with various vendors to ensure success.• Petrotechnical Hardware - Managed and coordinated Petrotechnical hardware rollouts for specialized high powered workstations for G&G/RE teams. Show less

Key Accomplishments:• Provided business solutions that utilized a combination of business and IT expertise. • Coordinated projects and priorities with outsource IT suppliers. • Provided global opportunities and IT best practice advice. • Fostered and maintained relationships with the business and demand. • Provided innovation and unique solutions to complex IT issues.

Key Accomplishments:• Joined the Cenovus Asset Management Team in June 2010 to help build a new fluid analysis web application from scratch.• The project consisted of building a completely new database and web application which when complete would have dynamic reporting, auto importing of new analyses, validation and scheduling capabilities.• Contributed to both the database design and GUI design of the application which was to be utilized by multiple business units within the… Show more Key Accomplishments:• Joined the Cenovus Asset Management Team in June 2010 to help build a new fluid analysis web application from scratch.• The project consisted of building a completely new database and web application which when complete would have dynamic reporting, auto importing of new analyses, validation and scheduling capabilities.• Contributed to both the database design and GUI design of the application which was to be utilized by multiple business units within the company including the Langevin field and WAM.• The “Fluid Analysis” application was to be the single source of data combining information from CWS, PVR and PAS data sources. • Created multiple PL/SQL packages, triggers, unit tests and contributed to the design of the new database.• Developed the majority of the interface for the application which was built with C#, ASP.NET, Ajax, CSS and Oracle. Show less

Key Accomplishments:• Created a .NET interface in December 2009 for the Global HSE Project which pulled in acustomizable asset hierarchy into an XML file.• Created an enhancement to an export function in BART which created a midstream opex recovery offset total just prior to exporting the opex budget to the Talisman financial system. This enhancement removed the manual process of having to correct midstream amounts after the export was loaded into Talisman’s financial… Show more Key Accomplishments:• Created a .NET interface in December 2009 for the Global HSE Project which pulled in acustomizable asset hierarchy into an XML file.• Created an enhancement to an export function in BART which created a midstream opex recovery offset total just prior to exporting the opex budget to the Talisman financial system. This enhancement removed the manual process of having to correct midstream amounts after the export was loaded into Talisman’s financial system.• Lead developer for the BART Enhancements Project in 2007. Developed four Windows Services and one Web Service as well as key enhancements to a volumes import. The enhancement allowed the users to set up schedules for selective processing of the asset hierarchy rather than importing all volumes, which saved the users countless hours of time during budget season where timelines were extremely tight.• Key developer in the BART (Budget And Reforecast Tool) Enhancements Project in 2006. Contributions included the creation of seasonal adjustment templates which allowed users to specify costs in months where the actual costs occurred; developed and ran all deployment scripts; created the sub feature area of interest functionality which allowed users to specify their areas of interest within the tool.• Supported various applications including BART, WellView and SiteView.• Responsible for multiple web servers and Oracle databases (development, test and production). Show less

Key Accomplishments:• Worked on an in-house CRM web application using C#, SQL Server and ASP.NET.• Used an agile methodology with daily scrums and multiple sprints that spanned just over a year.• Worked as a tier 3 support programmer, supporting multiple web applications for Hewlett Packard’s Imaging and Printing Group. • Customers were from around the world and support was done remotely from our office in Calgary.• Worked with co-workers in Calgary and Boise, Idaho to… Show more Key Accomplishments:• Worked on an in-house CRM web application using C#, SQL Server and ASP.NET.• Used an agile methodology with daily scrums and multiple sprints that spanned just over a year.• Worked as a tier 3 support programmer, supporting multiple web applications for Hewlett Packard’s Imaging and Printing Group. • Customers were from around the world and support was done remotely from our office in Calgary.• Worked with co-workers in Calgary and Boise, Idaho to support applications as the Primary and or secondary tier 3 contact. This exposed us to working in teams remotely with other tier 3 programmers, which allowed us to share and learn from each other and become more knowledgeable with the applications we supported.• As a tier 3 support programmer, when anything went wrong with the applications, or the customer needed something enhanced, we were the ones responsible for determining how to fix and implement the solution. Show less

Key Accomplishments:• Developed web applications in an n-tier environment with VB 6.0, Webclasses, ASP, SQL Server 2000, IIS 5.0, COM+, VSS, ADO, JavaScript and HTML 4.0.• Implemented an overhaul of RIS' Accounting processes to automate everything from client invoicing to rate management. Proved that we could use XML as a solution to design multiple customized invoice statements using XML Schemas and Templates through a virtual directory for SQL Server.• Completed an enhancement… Show more Key Accomplishments:• Developed web applications in an n-tier environment with VB 6.0, Webclasses, ASP, SQL Server 2000, IIS 5.0, COM+, VSS, ADO, JavaScript and HTML 4.0.• Implemented an overhaul of RIS' Accounting processes to automate everything from client invoicing to rate management. Proved that we could use XML as a solution to design multiple customized invoice statements using XML Schemas and Templates through a virtual directory for SQL Server.• Completed an enhancement project for Steering Committee Reports in Track247 which are generated using Active Reports.• Developed all administration functionality components for Time247 and Track247 applications, using VB WebClasses and JavaScript. VB WebClasses encapsulate the ASP object which allows you to develop with ASP using Visual Basic rather than a scripting language and a far more powerful and reliable development and debugging environment.• Both Time247 & Track247 require use of the ASP session object to maintain security, authentication and increase ease of use while navigating through the applications. Both products have various levels of permissions and the sessions that are maintained allow us to determine each user’s permission level. Time247 (time tracking and reporting) and Track247 (Problem tracking) were web applications used by several clients including RIS.• Designed and developed a vacation entitlement reporting component for Time247. Every employee can easily determine how much vacation time they have taken, planned, accrued and carried forward as well as their year end balance based on their own personalized accrual level.• Successfully converted all vacation entitlement data which substantially saved time and money by freeing up staff, automating our process and making it available on the web for all employees.• Designed and developed a Queued component to auto-email a manager when someone in their group submitted a timesheet or emailed an employee when their timesheet is rejected. Show less

Bachelor Of Arts - Ba, Geography

Diploma, Computer Programming, Database And Internet Solutions Developer

Master Of Business Analysis, Certificate, Business Analysis

Associates Certificate In Business Analysis, Business Analysis