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Austin, TX, US

Austin, TX, US

Austin, Texas, US

Austin, Texas, US

• Wrote production-ready code to add numerous product enhancements which incorporated clustering, regression, custom outlier removal, feature importance, identifying and fixing overfitting, prediction validation, and.
• Scaled multiple projects to run in kubernetes clusters, then implemented methods to increase performance and reduce resource usage
• Mentored coworkers regarding efficient software design and consulted on several data science projects
• Designed an algorithm to predict when a permitted well would be drilled, as well as the geological formation the operators would target
• Built a process to create realistic geologic maps at scale, leading to unmatched geologic property coverage
• Adapted manual expert systems into automated processes

Austin, Texas, US

Austin, Texas, US

Austin, Texas, US

• Built a gradient-boosted decision tree model to estimate rock properties such as water saturation from common well log data
• Applied natural language processing to show reports, drill stem tests, and core reports to rank whole datasets of hydrocarbon show data
• Created a procedure to generate naturally-shaped areas of expected consistent oil production using outlier detection, clustering, and spatial analysis
• Programmed a software package to download and QC all the data our team regularly used
• Piloted internal methods to predict gas-oil ratios for wells using an alternating conditional expectations model
• Co-authored a conference talk on parent-child well interactions

Stillwater, OK, US

Received my MS in Geology working under Dr. Daniel Laó Dávila. My classwork focused on petroleum geology, potential field geophysics, and structural geology.Thesis Title: The Influence of the Mugese Shear Zone Structures on Strain Accommodation in the Northern Malawi Rift. Published in Tectonophysics.

Stillwater, OK, US

Planned lessons and activities for laboratory instruction and taught several laboratory sections of Physical Geology.

Stillwater, OK, US

Taught Physical Geology to four class sections over two semesters.

Midland, Texas, US

Correlated over 600 well logs from the Permian Basin for structure, isopach, and net reservoir maps.Incorporated seismic data, petrophysics, basin evolution, and economics for my prospects.Presented unconventional shale and conventional carbonate prospects to management.

Chapel Hill, NC, US

Analyzed and plotted river systems across North and South America for the NASA Surface Water and Ocean Topography Mission.

Master'S Degree, Geology

Bachelor Of Science (Bs) With Honors, Geology