SUMMARY:

International oil & gas exploration geophysicist, software application developer, project economics analyst, and strategic planner. Adept in risk analysis, portfolio analysis, and decision making under uncertainty. Possesses extensive geophysical, geological, and business experience from evaluating over 600 prospects in 50 worldwide basins. A proven leader of multi - disciplinary teams. A business and software consultant that adds high value through quick delivery of savvy solutions to business problems. Enjoys mentoring in process development and implementation. A strong presenter of technical information focusing on profit and risk oriented decisions.

STRENGTHS IN:

• Portfolio Optimization
• Economic Analysis & Negotiations
• Risk & Volumetric Analysis
• Strategic Planning
• Project Management
• Operations Research
• Spotfire & Tableau
• Custom Software Solutions
• Integration & Automation
• Database Devel, T-SQL
• Excel, Access, VBA
• R, Iron Python
• Seismic Interpretation
• Seismic Stratigraphy
• Basin Analysis
• Prospect Generation
• Earth Science

MANAGEMENT AND LEADERSHIP:

• Targeted Selection
• Effective Leadership
• Managing Motivation for Performance Improvement
• Art of Project Management
• Integrated Decision Management - Practitioners Level.
• Confidential Performance Management
• Diversity Learning Experience
• How to Manage Multiple Projects
• Economics and Finance
• Real Options for Managers
• Portfolio Optimization Seminar.
• Planning Concepts
• Risk Analysis of Oil Ventures
• Planning Analysis & Modeling Systems School
• Software & material
• Spotfire Pro (thru Version 7.5)
• (2015 Partner Bootcamp, SP100, SP121, SP131, SP141, SP151, SP300 plus Houston User Group meetings, TUCON2015)
• Tableau (Version 8.x, 9.2, 10 Beta 4)
• R (packages: base, stats, graphics, ggplot2, ggvis, lattice, xlsx, data.table, knitr, markdown, XML), Brown: Business Case Analysis with R, James: ISLR Data Science.
• Coursera: (Getting-Cleaning Data, Exploratory Data Analysis, Reproducible Research, Statistical Inference, Regression Models)
• RStudio
• PowerBI
• Iron Python (for Spotfire scripts)
• Python & Jupyter (Introduction to Statistical Learning via Python - )
• SSMS, T-SQL
• Visual Studio (TSF, VB.Net)
• Spotfire Decision Suite
• Certified Microsoft Excel Expert
• VBA
• Microsoft Access
• Microsoft Word
• Microsoft Powerpoint
• Git and Github
• JavaScript
• VBScript
• Microsoft FrontPage
• Arbor Essbase 5: Database Design
• Ogre NextGen - Asset Manager & Model Builders
• Developing Applications with Microsoft Office

Expert: Risk Theory, Portfolio Analysis, Monte Carlo Simulation, Decision Analysis, Statistics, Bayesian Probability, Discounted Cash Flow Analysis Tibco Spotfire Pro (through V.7.5), Tableau 9.2, Spotfire Decision Site, Microsoft Excel ( ), VBA, Access ( ), Office (365, 2010,XP,2000,97) PowerPoint, OneNote

Project Management, T: SQL, SQL, Seismic Stratigraphy, Basin Analysis and Geohistory, Microsoft SQL Server, Microsoft Project, Google Earth, Microsoft FrontPage (2003), Microsoft Word ( ), Windows

Working Knowledge: R (packages base, stats, graphics, ggplot2, ggvis, lattice, xlsx, data.table, knitr, markdown, XML), RStudio, JavaScript, IronPython, Visual Studio, Team Foundation Server, HTML5, CSS, VB.Net, C#.Net, Git/Github,. Windows Server 2008+, Microsoft Azure, Microsoft Hyper-V, Amazon EC2,, MS Active Directory, FORTRAN-77

General: Adobe Photoshop Lightroom, LiveMotion and Illustrator, Merak PEEP, Ogre NextGen, GeoX (GeoKnowledge), Essbase 5, Landmark, Well Log Interpretation, ASP, ASP.NET, Canvas, Lotus Notes, Oracle 7.x, Mac OS8, JCL

Experience i: n over 50 BASINS of the WORLD

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Houston, Texas

Data Scientist, Visualization Developer

Responsibilities:

• Software and business process development with Spotfire, Tableau, MSSQL, PowerBI, Excel, and other software.
• Long experience in Upstream Oil and Gas exploration and production business processes.

Confidential, Houston, Texas

Business Intelligence Architect & Geophysicist

Responsibilities:

• Business Intelligence Consultant.
• Oil and Gas Portfolio Management, and Risk Analysis.
• Geophysical Software Selection.
• Tableau/Quickbooks data modeling and visualization, SQL Server Management Studio, T-SQL.
• Visualization application developer in: Spotfire, Tableau, Excel, R, and Power BI. Data Modeling. Master Data Management.

Confidential, Houston, Texas

Consultant, CFO and Solution Provider

Responsibilities:

• Consulting in Financial, Risk, and Portfolio Analysis. Software and business process development with Spotfire, Excel, Access, and other software.
• We developed BlitzPort: a Portfolio Optimization system capable of handling large asset portfolios.
• Consulting with Custer Resources clients on Portfolio Management and Analysis Processes.

Confidential, Houston, Texas

Sr. Geoscientist & Risk Specialist

Responsibilities:

• Deployed the Prospect Database into all Strategic Business Units worldwide so that 30 offices and asset teams could share information automatically daily with corporate managers of the portfolio.
• Created a Spotfire application for executives to manage the $9 billion portfolio of investment opportunities contained in the Prospect Database.

Confidential, Bellaire, Texas

Sr. Geoscientist & Risk Specialist

Responsibilities:

• Developed and managed the Prospect Database used by Confidential Exploration worldwide in order to increase information quality and timeliness management used for decisions for $5 billion of investment opportunities.
• Sold it to Confidential .
• Combined the prospect inventories of Confidential and Confidential into one database prior to the merger closing to enable portfolio management of $9 billion of exploration opportunities on the day the merger closed.
• Developed an Efficient Frontier Portfolio analysis method that Confidential used to decide commitment levels on 8 bid round license opportunities around the world.
• Created or consulted in all economic analysis in our worldwide bid round and contract negotiations.
• Continued maintenance on Confidential that Confidential used to evaluate economics of 100 prospects per year and supply data for the Strategic Planning Process.
• Manage the Spotfire Pilot Project for data visualization in Portfolio Analysis, risk tools and other geoscience applications.
• Coordinated efforts of geoscientists and planners in building applications. Negotiated license purchase and rolled out software and applications to users.
• Built the WhatIF model to speed the analysis Strategic Plans.
• Developed the Nominations Database that Confidential Exploration Management used to place 150 employees into jobs in the new Confidential organization.
• Improved automation of Global Risk Standards Team processes.

Sr. Geoscientist & Risk Specialist

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Made Confidential a department wide database tool for risked economic analysis of worldwide exploration ventures; a solution that saved $250K/year in license costs and better fit our processes and needs than did outside software.
• Added uncertainty analysis to the Strategic Plan products.
• Made key contributions to the development of a corporate wide Strategic Plan Portfolio Optimization application.

Sr. Explorationist & Risk Specialist

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Established and lead the peer review geologic risk evaluation team that reviewed all plays prior to acquisition and all wells before and after drilling.
• Personally reviewed over 600 prospects in over 50 basins around the world. All reviews were for investment decisions.
• Designed and developed “ Confidential ”, a highly automated play based, multi-prospect risked economic evaluation and strategic plan database system.
• Confidential used Confidential for most of its exploration evaluations and strategic plans from 1990 through 2001.

Adv. Geophysicist

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Geophysical and regional geological analysis.
• Developed and maintained Confidential, a multi-user database of exploration documents.
• Design team for Confidential, a GIS-based exploration document inventory system for maps, x-sects, and reports.

Adv. Geophysicist Special Project I, Project Leader

Confidential, Texas

Responsibilities:

• Lead a team of 3-6 explorationists engaged in Area-Wide Lease Sale block evaluation and Confidential exploration in the shelf and deep water South Texas Federal Offshore