Tobi Kosanke, Ph.D. Email & Phone Number

Hempstead, TX, US

• While on hiatus from the petroleum industry to remain at home to care for a young child with a temporary medical disability, formed a multi-award-winning social venture to support a 501(c)(3) non-profit, Crazy K.
• Goldman Sachs 10,000 Small Businesses Program Graduate
• Count Me In Revival grant winner
• Make Mine a Million (M3) Award winner
• Invented and patented (15 patents) products that improve animals' lives
• Designed and managed a successful advertising and marketing campaign that attracted distributors and placed items in retail stores across the United States, Canada and the United Kingdom

Houston, Texas Area

• Clastic facies reservoir quality researcher with experience working a wide range of both conventional and unconventional plays and basins in both onshore and off-shore (deepwater and shallow marine) environments
• Subject Matter Expert in sedimentary petrology, diagenesis and petroleum geology
• Specialist with experience collecting and statistically analyzing petrographic, core, and chemical data
• Exceptional ability to integrate and logically interpret a large variety of information
• Skilled at applying diagenetic and burial history models within a stratigraphic framework
• Experienced at reservoir quality modeling to predict porosity and permeability away from well control in geologically complex and data-poor areas

Houston, Texas Area

• Independent Consultant and Subject Matter Expert (SME) in sedimentary petrology, diagenesis, reservoir quality characterization/modeling, and hyperspectral imaging of core
• Guide development of new technologies, oversee data integration/deliverables, and interface directly with clients and staff
• Generate and guide technical partnerships with Oil & Gas operators, and publish results of joint studies
• Areas of technical expertise include: Thin section-based studies (mudrock and sandstone petrographic analysis); Point-counting; Touchstone reservoir quality prediction modeling; Evaluation, integration and upscaling of.

Houston, Texas Area

Guided technical strategy, oversaw geological data quality, integration and deliverables, and interfaced directly with clients and staff. Developed geological technologies, generated technical partnerships with Oil & Gas operators, and published results of joint studies.

Houston, Texas Area

• Consultant and Subject Matter Expert. Provided specialist support on important and challenging projects supporting the efforts of business units to explore, develop and produce hydrocarbons commercially:
• Delivered qualitative and quantitative petrographic information for evaluation of both conventional and unconventional reservoirs
• Performed reservoir quality modeling and rock properties prediction for conventional clastic reservoirs (pre-drill reservoir quality forecasts)
• Identified reservoir quality controls of both conventional and unconventional clastic rocks
• Defined regional variations in provenance of clastic rocks
• Determined the controls of rock composition and texture of mudrocks on geomechanics and reservoir properties

• Consultant and Subject Matter Expert. Worked with Asset Teams and Business Units to perform reservoir quality technical service work and provenance studies for Gulf of Mexico, Egypt and Alaska Exploration and.
• Taught Reservoir Quality portion of Qualitative Interpretation Course.

• Consultant and Subject Matter Expert. Performed reservoir quality technical service work and provenance studies for Exploration and intercompany joint study teams; promoted interaction of team members insuring.
• Stewarded and evaluated work conducted by service company for two production teams, quality controlled their data and insured that it was consistent with that obtained in-house for use in regional models
• Identified reservoir quality controls and regional variations in reservoir rock properties and determined the causes of reservoir compartmentalization and producibility (not expected with original rock properties.
• Implemented a plan to improve exploration risking/uncertainty management and the setting/managing of expectations with stakeholders; increase communication among staff; and ensure that leaders are accountable for.

• Conducted comprehensive (within existing data and financial constraints) seismic reevaluation and assessment of prospects
• Rigorously reevaluated prospects with detailed seismic mapping; utilized 3-D seismic interpretation tools to illuminate important stratigraphic details and delineate prospect body structures.
• Identified potential compartmentalization issues related to facies changes and related reservoir quailty issues in deepwater Gulf of Mexico reservoirs. Received "Bravo" award for this work.
• Performed reservoir quality technical service work for Exploration and Development teams; promoted interaction of team members insuring consistent work results.

• Training assignment designed to develop 3-D seismic interpretation skills. Conducted comprehensive 3-D seismic and sequence stratigraphic evaluation of several zones within the Sakhalin oil field
• Designed, implemented and taught a Principles of Safety Leadership School

• Training assignment designed to develop skills in predicting reservoir quality of carbonate rocks and mapping both clastic and carbonate depositional facies on a regional scale and within a sequence stratigraphic.

• Managed the training site
• Evaluated the teaching skills of other instructors
• Taught the Texas Department of Public Safety-sponsored Beginner and Advanced Motorcycle Rider Courses

• Consultant and Subject Matter Expert. Performed reservoir quality technical service work and provenance studies for ExxonMobil affiliate companies in exploration and production both independently and as a team member.
• Conducted research building integrated reservoir quality prediction software
• Addressed Division safety issues, conducted risk assessments of laboratories and equipment, organized quarterly safety meetings and updates, served on the Geoscience Risk Management Committee, scheduled employees for.

Taught Motorcycle Safety Foundation Courses Riding and Street Skills and the Experienced Rider Course and New York State point-reduction driver education course

• Conducted research to determine permeability and related physical properties of the earth's mantle
• Performed high temperature/pressure experiments using a piston-cylinder apparatus; operated an air permeameter; wrote a computer program in C to determine permeability of samples from permeameter output; analyzed.

• Team Member, Control Room Operations, Isothermal Dendritic Growth Experiment, NASA Remote Operations Control Center
• Team member manning the first NASA Remote Operations Control Center
• Analyzed data from images of dendrite growth obtained in real time from a space shuttle experiment (USMP-3 on STS-75)
• Manned the education room and taught students about space and microgravity research

Performed research and taught undergraduate courses in the departments of Materials Engineering and Earth and Environmental Sciences

As "Tobi Cohen" wrote articles on racing and interviewed road racers for "On the Gas" column

• Edited articles written by freelance journalists and wrote featured articles
• Evaluated motorcycles and riding gear, wrote technical articles, covered races and represented the magazine at industry functions

• Taught lower- and upper-level undergraduate courses in Geology and Mineralogy
• Organized and led field trips

Researched the mineralogy and physical properties of zeolites

• Edited articles submitted by freelance writers
• Evaluated motorcycles and riding gear
• Wrote technical articles and represented the magazine at industry functions

Taught Motorcycle Safety Foundation Beginner and Experienced Motorcycle Rider Courses

Taught undergraduate courses in Paleobiology and Physical Oceanography

Taught undergraduate courses in Physical Geology and Igneous and Metamorphic Petrology

Ph.D, Geology, Department Of Earth And Environmental Sciences

Activities and Societies: President, Rensselaer Motorcyclist Association Geological Society of Americatopic: Permeability and related.

M.S, 1989 Geology, Department Of Geology

Activities and Societies: President, Geology Club Editor in Chief, Conglomerate Mineralogical Society of AmericaThesis topic I: Trace.

B.S, 1987 Geology, Department Of Geology; Geology

Activities and Societies: President, Geology Club Editor in Chief, Conglomerate

High School

Activities and Societies: Band