Twenty-four years experience as a result-oriented manager and technical engineer in exploring for and producing oil and gas both in the international and domestic settings.
Well versed in interpretation, computer support of interpretation and management in the fields of operations, safety, training, mapping and general interpretation, risk oriented financial analysis, budgeting and detail planning, strategic planning, negotiation (both international and domestic), management of large groups of people, and multi-discipline team management.
Worked with a multi-discipline team to successfully discover, bring on-line, and pay out an offshore oil field in less than 19 months.
Built an infrastructure of computer hardware and technical applications software support for a multi-discipline group of 120 computer users. This support system was largely responsible for record profits over a four-year period of time.
Researched, designed and built a corporate-wide system of risk assessment to objectively determine risk on any project. Built the databases to support that world-wide system.
Headed a multi-discipline task force in assessing the financial, physical, and usage requirements of all Upstream data in a large international oil campany. Operations was so streamlined that the data implementation project was completed in 2 1/2 years, ahead of schedule, and under budget.
Negotiated, planned, and subsequently installed a multi-media data storage facility in Gabon for the Directorate of Hydrocarbons
Conoco, Inc., Houston, Texas - Director, Data Management (1989-93)
Conoco U.K. Ltd., London England - Supervisor, Exploration Data Systems (1981-89)
Superior Oil Company, Houston, Texas - Computer Applications Coordinator
Well Log Analysis, Inc., Logan Utah - Owner and President (1977-78)
Oil Service Company of Iran, Ahwaz Iran - Senior Petrophysicist (1973-77)
Schlumberger International, Ahwaz, Iran - Geophysical Engineer (1972-73)
Schlumberger Well Services, N. Dakota and California - Geophysical Engineer (1969-72)
B.S. in Physics - Utah State University (1969)
SEG, Association of Records Managers and Administrators, past member SPWLA