SUMMARY

Diversified international and domestic operations experience as an engineer and project manager for both operators and service companies.

EXPERIENCE

Senior Project Engineer & Principal - Bakersfield, CA

Consulting project engineer for a variety of oil and gas well drilling, completion, workover and abandonment programs in California and Oregon.  Responsible for well planning, cost estimates, daily operations management, post-job analysis and reporting.  Functioned as operations manager for a large independent oil/gas operator, overseeing a multi-rig drilling project.

Senior Drilling Engineer - Elk Hills, CA

Designed and implemented a variety of drilling programs with heavy emphasis on horizontal drilling and slotted liner completions ranging from 3000' to 9000' TVD.  Received Oxy’s 1999 Engineering Excellence Award for a 10-well horizontal project.

Project Manager, Oryx Alliance - Quito, Ecuador (1996‑1998)

Managed an 11,000' drilling operation for the Oryx Ecuador-Baker Hughes INTEQ Alliance.  Supervised a staff including expatriate operations engineer, rotating rig foremen, directional drillers, mud engineers, tool hands, secretary and warehouse personnel for a land rig operation in the Oriente Basin of the Amazon.
Project Manager, Trinmar Alliance - Point Fortin, Trinidad W.I. (1995‑1996)

In charge of 3000'-8000' workover operations for an offshore barge rig in the Gulf of Paria.  Supervised a staff including expatriate operations engineer, rotating rig foremen, logistics coordinator and office secretary.

Drilling Engineer - Elk Hills, CA (1991-1995)

Prepared 3000'-10,000' drilling and completion cost estimates, rig procedures, AFE’s and documentation for regulatory agencies.  Designed and wrote a computer database for tracking drilling information.

Production Engineer - Elk Hills, CA (1990-1991)

Monitored a 60-well reservoir under gas injection producing 12,000 BOPD.  Also monitored an 11-well water drive reservoir totaling 560 BOPD.  Prepared remedial programs for 6000'-7000' wells.

Database Engineer - Elk Hills, CA (1989-1990)

Designed and implemented a reservoir management database system on an IBM 4386 mainframe computer.  Developed COBOL screens and relational database files based on current and future data requirements.

Logging Engineer - Bakersfield, CA

Supervised cased hole logging, perforating and pipe recovery operations.

EDUCATION

B.S., Petroleum Engineering, Colorado School of Mines, 1986
Registered Professional Petroleum Engineer, California, 1993 - Present