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Grisham, Rodney - Ph.D. Software and Systems Consultant

Registered Consultant

Qualification Summary

Twenty years experience as a leader of software design and system integration projects for petroleum exploration, production, transportation, and refining.

Skilled at meeting customer needs by evaluating user requirements, assessing development tools and technologies, and merging these to create functional specifications and products.

Provided strategic planning and project management, emphasizing team work for development and support of engineering systems, based on open architectures for computer hardware and software.

Analyzed performance, portability, and integrated third party tools in 3D exploration workstations.

Lead the development of reservoir engineering software, including analytical tools, equation of state PBT analysis, numerical reservoir simulators, and graphical presentation tools.

Developed real-time leak detection systems integrated with SCADA for petroleum products pipelines. Directed development of chemical process and plant design software systems.

Published 7 articles and papers. List upon request.

Employment Experience

Technix Systens, Houston, Texas - President and Principal Consultant (1990-pr)

Petrotehnical Open Software Corporation, Houston, Texas - Project Leader (1992-94)

ChemShare, Houston, Texas - Director/Strategic Planning and DesignMaster Systems (1988-90)

J.S. Nolen and Associates, Houston, Texas - Director of Microcomputer applications (1983-88)

Intercomp Resource Develpment and Engineering, Houston, Texas - (1978-83)

Exxon Production Research, Houston, Texas - Research Mathematician (1976-78)

U.S. Navy - Lieutenant JG (1969-72)

Western Geophysical, Houston, Texas - Program Analyst (1968)

Education/Membership

Ph.D. in Mathematical Sciences - Rice university, Houston, Texas 1977

M.A. in Mathematical Sciences - Rice University, Houston, Texas 1975

Rice Graduate Fellow 1972-76

B.S. in Mathematics, Phi Beta Kappa, 1968 - University of Oklahoma 1968

SPE, Houston Object Oriented Progrmming Language Association