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Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States

Senior Geoscientist responsible for project management and technical evaluations while collaborating with clients on best practices and environmental compliance.* Project manager overseeing Carbon Capture Utilization and Storage (CCUS). * Developed well integrity risk assessment for underground storage fields.* Investigated gas migration in water wells within the Wattenberg Basin, Utah.* Created workforce optimization model to justify additional resources to maintain compliance.* Methane Migration Investigation overseeing coring and logging operations.

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States

Geological & Petrophysical consulting service with 25 years of experience in oil and gas, coal mining, environmental protection, and government.* Petrophysical evaluation of Silurian carbonates in Ontario, Canada* Reservoir characterization of Cretaceous limestones/dolomites in Utah* Marcellus and Utica shale mapping in northwest, Pennsylvania

Zelienople, Pennsylvania, United States

* Owner of the quality review of domestic & international service records to identify conflicts, dependencies, and risk to ensure quality assurance stands.* Quality assurance review of service repair work orders for BD Direct and contract service providers. * Perform Device History Reviews (DHR), Process Failure Mode & Effects Analysis (PFMEA), and Service History on manufactured/supplier related issues.* Coordinate with Field Assurance (FA) to follow up with service providers to clarify issues & complaints

Warrendale, Pennsylvania, United States

Led petrophysics of Appalachian Assets.• International multi-disciplinary team member working with geophysicists, geologists, petrophysicists, geomodellers and reservoir engineers to enhance reservoir recovery.• Led peer assist reviews with Canadian business unit and Madrid corporate office.• Key contributor to the petrophysics governance process and petrophysical software selection.• Central petrophysicist organizing data management system into cloud-based environment.• Built basin-wide Marcellus Shale petrophysical model using 40+ wells improving 3D geologic static modeling.• Subdivided Marcellus reservoir by zones to evaluate net pay sensitivity relative to porosity and permeability.• Organized horizontal cuttings program for rock property distribution with geologic model prediction. • Implemented technical solutions by establishing rock typing methodology increasing accuracy of models by 25%.• Created Utica Shale play petrophysical model from 60+ wells defining reservoir properties for greenfield project.• Designed logging programs and integrated coring tests to optimize formation evaluation.• Wireline-core integration developing & editing regression curves of rock properties using data analytics. • Prevented methane gas migration into water wells by evaluating groundwater samples and geologic data.• Improved Marcellus Shale gas-in-place model by 10% with improved reservoir properties that align with production.• Established best practices and designed cement classification tool for well integrity evaluations. • Refined logging program due to challenging hole conditions for a $.5M annual savings.• Developed unconventional onshore process workflow integrating Canada and the United States.• Led groundwater protection team to provide technical support and environmental stewardship.• Launched testing program of 100+ water wells to obtain pre-drilling results that eliminated groundwater impacts and established proper drilling locations.

Warrendale, Pennsylvania, United States

Built regional geologic framework of shallow subsurface to improve operational efficiency. • Created regional petrophysical model of the Medina Sandstone from 60+ wells that forecasted 3MMCF per day.• Designed & accountable for logging data acquisition plan including dipole sonic scanner, formation micro imagers, and elemental capture spectroscopy.• Defined petrophysical properties of 25+ sandstones to determine in-place hydrocarbons and reservoir recovery.• Calculated apparent water resistivity of shallow formation water to comply with government regulations.• Introduced fluid drilling method for shallow drilling that reduced groundwater impacts by 95%. • Evaluated FMI's, cameras, and core to identify natural fracturing in vertical and horizontal wells.• Supervised service providers for wireline logging, core collection and special core analysis. • Decreased drilling risks 80% from mapping shallow geologic formations and coal mining. • Received corporate award for geologic interpretation of an environmental investigation. • Geosteered Marcellus Shale wells remaining 90% in target zone.• Implemented benchmarking and project risk assessment to reduce environment impacts. • Presented technical presentations at AAPG and local PAPG subchapter.

Cranberry, Pennsylvania, United States

Directed Marcellus development team responsible for project execution, direction, and planning of the asset. • Developed competent multi-discipline team that achieved a high delivery performance.• Created full field development plans for 400+ wells aligning with corporate long-range plan. • Supervised well site operations including core, methane desorption, and wireline collection on 10 wells.• Prepared geological prognoses, write-ups, cross-sections, maps and geosteered unconventional wells.• Collaborated with Geophysicists on seismic interpretation and with engineers to optimize reservoir target.

Pittsburgh, Pa

Executed core drilling programs in the Appalachian coalfields.• Supervised contractors, mobilized drilling rigs, and submitted state permits.• Created 3D reservoir models to calculate reserves and resources on company property.• Described core and sampled coals for 40+ wells annually.

Master Of Science - Ms, Geology/Earth Science, General

Masters Of Science, Geology

Bachelor'S Degree B.S., Geology