As a global leader in commercial intelligence for the energy, metals and mining industries, Wood Mackenzie provide objective analysis and advice on assets, companies and markets, giving clients the insight they need to make better strategic decisions.As the Houston Energy Sales Director I manage a team of driven and successful sales and account managers that cover the United States. I also continue to manage large upstream oil & gas accounts as their Strategic Account Director.

As a global leader in commercial intelligence for the energy, metals and mining industries, Wood Mackenzie provide objective analysis and advice on assets, companies and markets, giving clients the insight they need to make better strategic decisions.

The PUG is a professional geospatial Petroleum User Group community that works to improve and expand the use of geospatial technologies in the petroleum industry. Our focus is on community, both local and global, with the goal of sharing ideas and meeting likeminded people!

Driving better business decisions through E&P data management standards.The Professional Petroleum Data Management (PPDM) Association is the global, not-for-profit society within the petroleum industry that provides leadership for the professionalization of petroleum data management through the development and dissemination of best practices and standards, education programs, certification programs and professional development opportunities. PPDM represents and supports the needs of operating companies, regulators, software vendors, data vendors, consulting companies and data management professionals around the globe.Through the PPDM Association, petroleum data experts gather together worldwide in a collaborative, round table approach to engineer business driven, pragmatic data management standards that meet industry needs. Key standards include the Public Petroleum Data Model, What is a Well, Well Status and Classification, Well Identification best practices, data rules and more. In addition to the training and certification programs, PPDM professional development opportunities include conferences, trade shows, luncheons, workshops, HR support tools and student development programs.

I was responsible for driving sales and account management for North America as part of Petrosys USA. Petrosys is headquartered in Adelaide, Au with offices in Calgary, Houston, Kuala Lumpur, Glasgow, Mexico City, and Perth. This work involved software and workflow studies and reviews with clients to ensure the best use Petrosys in their environment and working with technical sales to create and deliver value add demonstrations to potential clients. I was also a valuable part of the team to grow the North America client base for Petrosys' data management products and services.

I was a member of the Petroleum Services Group in Houston, Texas, a global team of upstream oil and gas experts. Samantha managed the upstream oil and gas data team and technical support for North America for Deloitte's Petroleum Service Group software and consulting.