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Houston, Tx, Us

Prudhoe Bay, Alaska, United States

Prudhoe Bay, Alaska, United States

Support start-up of a new coiled tubing division within the organization, including bringing two coiled tubing units online, one of which is a full electric-over-hydraulic retrofit. Develop standards, operating procedures, test procedures, and hazard assessments for the division consistent with API standards, industry, local, and company best practices, and state and federal law. Complete fatigue and downhole activity modeling (forces, pressures, etc.) for upcoming coiled tubing operations. Provide real-time technical support to internal field operations staff and customers. Specify, order, and manage coiled tubing, downhole tool, well control equipment, and various consumables inventories. Support hiring and conduct personnel training.

Houston, Texas, United States

Provided technical and sales support for coiled tubing operations on Gulf of Mexico and Caribbean deepwater interventions. Successfully developed and managed client relationships. Provided technical designs for safe and efficient execution of high profile interventions to over 5,000' water depth and 20,000 psi bottomhole pressure. Provided real-time technical engineering support in case of difficulties offshore. Experienced with operations with coiled tubing lift frames, hazardous locations, fixed and floating vessels.

Prudhoe Bay, Ak

Monitored all activity across the Well Services segment in my district. Led daily operations meetings and provided direction to members of my team. Identified and assigned work assignments for six active coiled tubing units, two fracturing crews, and six pumping crews earning $60 million in annual revenue. Matched resources available in the district (personnel, equipment, and materials) to projected and actual demand to maximize utilization and minimize costs. Interacted with customers regularly to discover and accept new work. Also responsible for completing critical job preparation tasks including cement load out approvals, acid blend formulations, and fracturing inventory management.

Prudhoe Bay, Ak

Managed day-to-day operations and work assignments of the district, responsible for the ongoing activities of 100+ employees split across coiled tubing, cementing, and fracturing operations. Identified multiskilling opportunities across segments to maintain equivalent operating capacity despite a significant reduction in force. Worked to develop and execute a field test of cutting edge perforating technology resulting in average per-job cost savings to the customer and additional company revenue of $15.5K and $24.5K, respectively. Mentored developing coiled tubing field engineers.

Prudhoe Bay, Ak

Supervised a team of skilled operators to successfully execute coiled tubing interventions including milling, perforating, logging, fill cleanouts, cementing, matrix acidizing, nitrogen lifts, completion modifications and coiled tubing drilling. Developed hazard assessments and risk control measures. Conducted pre-job safety meetings and used the management of change framework. I received client recognition for efficiently and safely managing coiled tubing crews on location and for developing an improved CT drilling trip sheet adopted field-wide. I designed and modeled hundreds of potential coiled tubing scenarios for coil fatigue, tubing stress and strain, fluid flow and pressure, and other characteristics to maximize post-intervention well performance. Recognized as the top performer in all of my employer's high-intensity multi-week training courses. Selected to run Schlumberger's proprietary active coil non-destructive evaluation service, CoilSCAN, for which I received training and qualification in magnetic flux leakage and ultrasonic NDE.

Prudhoe Bay, Ak

Focused on observing, questioning, and keeping myself and others safe. Gained first-hand field exposure to service coiled tubing and coiled tubing drilling. Learned how to make up iron, perform routine maintenance, run pumps, operate coiled tubing units, and solve fundamental oilfield equations.

Bachelor Of Science (B.S.), Mechanical Engineering

Bachelor Of Arts (Ba), Plan Ii Honors

Broad-based liberal arts degree culminating in the preparation and presentation of a senior thesis.