HyperMedia Home PageHyperMedia Home PageThirty-four years experience managing and designing data management systems and applications in the areas of research and development and exploration and production. Six years working as Exploration Department Coordinator and Data Administrator for ARAMCO Exploration & Production Database Integration Project on a loan assignment from Mobil's Research Department to Saudi ARAMCO.
Well versed in IDEF Methodology Data Modeling, Basic C Language and Unix O/S for Sun Microsystems Workstation, Britton Lee (Teradat) RDBMS Programming, Model 204 Database (DBMS) Ad Hoc Programming, Learmouth/Burkett Data Analysis/Modeling, Technology Transfer (DRL/MEPSI offering), and DEC's VAX.
Managed and participated in Mobil`s Database Integration Data Modeling project for technical and business data and in the relational Geochemical Database for Mobil's Research Laboratory.
Three patents with co-authors -
Co-authored and served as data expert consultant for "MNEV Data Model Study:" " Mobile E&P Data Management Study" for Exploration & Producing Office of Technology, Fairfax, Va.; "VAX Relational Database Selection Report:" and "E&P European Data Management Review."
Presentations include "Data Management for Technical Computing," Invited Keynote Paper at "Integration 91" Conference; Caracas, Venezuela, and "Identifying Data and Data Problems," Invited Paper at Convex Computer Company's "Petroleum Industry Seminar:" Dallas, Texas.
Published 37 articles database and related subjects, list available upon request, including "Central Well, Data, and Records Index System Cost Reduction and Migration Scenarios," Hodge, J.D.; Mobil E&P Technical Center, 1992.
Mobil Corporation, Dallas Texas - Senior Geophysical Advisor & Senior Reseach Geophysicist in Saudi Arabia (1957-92)
B.S. in Mathematics - Southern Methodist University, Dallas, Texas (1961)
Data Management Association Internationl (DAMA), IDEF Users Group