Thirteen years experience in technical and managerial positions in oil and gas exploration both domestically and internationally.
Proficient in using the Landmark workstation for regional and reservoirj-scale seismic-stratigraphic evaluations of 2-D and 3-D surveys.
Evauated, as project leader for multidisciplinary teams, regional plays in the south Texas Rosita Delta system and the Nile Delta, Egypt, Which resulted in a successful Discovery and relinquishment of nonprospective acreage.
Acted as company stratigrapher for facies analysis and sequence-stratigraphic interpretation from whole cores and well logs.
Developed method of quantifying fluvio-deltaic reservoirs for geostatistical analysis and reservoir simulation, Tertiary lacustrine basin, Indonesia
Conducted worldwide field work, resulting in new exploration concepts and plays in domestic areas, Washakie/Red Desert basins; Wyoming, San Joaquin, Salinas, and Ventura basins, California; San Juan Basin, New Mexico; Book Cliffs, Utah; and international areas, eastern rift margin, Egypt; eastern rift margin Greenland; and Doninican Republic.
Marathon Oil Company, Littleton, Colorado - Development Geologist (1976-94)
Geology Intern -Gulf Oil Co., Marathon Oil Co., Amoco Production Co. 1980,79, and 76
Ph.D. in Geology - Rice University Thesis: Basin-Margin Sedimentation: Eocene La Jolla Group, San Diego County, California 1982
M.S. in Geology - Duke University Thesis: Endolithic Infestation of Carbonate Substrates Above and Below the Sediment/Water Interface 1977
B.S. (Honors) in Geology - Earlham College Thesis: A Textural, Compositional, and Stratigraphic Study of the Maysville and Richmond Shales Near Brookville and Richmond, Indiana
AAPG, GSA, IAS, RMAG, SEPM