Provide support for the Deepwater Development team including internal reviews of IOC deepwater development plans, creating well designs and cost models to compare to IOC development plans, and assisting with cost recovery and local content concerns.Interface with IOC deepwater drilling teams (Total, Apache, Shell and Petronas) on ongoing drilling operations (nine wells to date) and advise Staatsolie on daily operations.Created and implemented formal mentoring program for deepwater management / engineering team.Authored drilling guidelines for the Surinamese regulatory body that are the first national offshore regulations for drilling activities.Support Staatsolie land drilling operations with technical advice, engineering staff assessment and training, selecting and interviewing rig based operational personnel, and advising on contractual concerns with service providers.

Lead engineer on exploration well in the mountainous Qara Dagh field, appraisal well in the Sarta field and abandonment programs for numerous orphaned abandoned wells in Kurdistan.Conducted rig contractor and third-party tender analyses and advised on revision of corporate process and policy documents.

Drilling Manager for offshore exploratory project in Suriname for Staatsolie.Advised on tendering process for a multi-well horizontal onshore campaign to be drilled in Suriname by Staatsolie. (2019)Advised, as a member of Endeavor Management, a non-operating company in selecting a potential partner operating company and on service company / rig contractor alliances and the regulatory and organizational requirements to become a deepwater operator in the United States of America. (2018)Performed engineering and project-level review for an offshore ten well exploratory campaign to be drilled in Suriname by Staatsolie.

Designed, permitted and operated slim-hole sidetracks (MPD) drilled from the Auger TLP.Assisted well/slot recovery analysis and completed various big hole and slim-hole sidetrack feasibility designs for the Ursa TLP.

Performed detailed design review of first horizontal wells to be drilled in the Tambaredjo Field, Surimane for Staatsolie.Evaluated and advised on well abandonments portion of deepwater Chinguetti Field decommissioning plan as a member of a multi-discipline team assisting the Government of Mauritania.Acted as a tubular severing subject matter advisor for Endeavor’s Subsea Decommissioning Joint Industry Project.

Delivered numerous drilling feasibility studies for Ursa TPL and Auger TLP assets concentrating on well/slot recovery and sidetracks with high angle (80+ degrees) laterals, and casing design modeling (WellCat) for wells with collapse/cascading collapse issues created by high production rates or worst case discharge driven trapped annular pressure. Completed a variety of well/slot recovery analyses, big hole and slim-hole sidetrack designs, drilling programs and casing design verification for the Perdido asset.Finalized various alternative concept designs as principal engineer for the formation stability and depletion challenged GA-15 Great White project to be drilled from the Perdido spar.Managed monobore expandable casing technology application for Perdido and Ursa assets.Conducted a study on maximum drilling reach from the Ursa and Olympus TLPs into various virgin reservoirs by using formation stability models (STABOR) and torque/drag modeling (WellPlan) to design high angle (65-85 degree) extended reach wells.

Planning and operations engineer on five deepwater exploration wells.

Planning and operations engineer on two wells offshore Cameroon and four wells offshore Gabon.

Drilling Engineer on deepwater and jack-up wells. Drilling Supervisor on jack-up and land wells.

Completed detailed cost estimates and pore pressure analyses while providing initial designs for 75+ Gulf of Mexico wells for a turnkey driller service provider.