Experience

The FerVID Group

• United States
• Business Consulting and Services
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Contract Biostratigrapher

  • Sep 2021 - Present



BHP

• Australia
• Mining
• 700 & Above Employee

• Biostratigrapher/Exploration Geologist

  • Oct 2018 - Aug 2021

  Regional Caribbean Exploration Team

• Nannofossil Biostratigrapher

  • Aug 2016 - Oct 2018

  Geological Business Support TeamAugust 2016 - October 2018



University of Nebraska-Lincoln

• United States
• Higher Education
• 700 & Above Employee

• Graduate Student Teaching Assistant

  • Aug 2010 - May 2016

  Graduate Student Teaching Assistant for Geology 101 (lecture and laboratory), Geology of National Parks and Oceanography courses.

• Instructor

  • Jan 2014 - Dec 2014

  Instructor for undergraduate Oceanography



BHP

• Australia
• Mining
• 700 & Above Employee

• Intern

  • May 2015 - Aug 2015

  Gulf of Mexico Exploration Geology Intern: Nannofossil Biostratigraphy Gulf of Mexico Exploration Geology Intern: Nannofossil Biostratigraphy



Integrated Ocean Drilling Program (IODP)

• Environmental Services
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Exp. 346 Nannofossil Paleontologist

  • Jul 2013 - Oct 2013

  Collected, processed and analyzed core samples from the Japan Sea for calcareous nannofossil biostratigraphy. Composed shipboard site reports. Worked in cooperation with other paleontologists and paleomagnetist to provide sediment ages for shipboard Science Party during drilling operations. Currently conducting post-cruise research on expedition samples. Collected, processed and analyzed core samples from the Japan Sea for calcareous nannofossil biostratigraphy. Composed shipboard site reports. Worked in cooperation with other paleontologists and paleomagnetist to provide sediment ages for shipboard Science Party during drilling operations. Currently conducting post-cruise research on expedition samples.



Paleo Data, a PetroStrat Company

• United States
• Oil and Gas
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Nannofossil Biostratigraphy Intern

  • May 2013 - Jul 2013

  Analyzed well cuttings and sidewall cores for calcareous nannofossil biostratigraphy. Collaborated with office paleontologists in construction of revised biostratigraphic charts for Lower Cretaceous through Neogene calcareous nannofossils, planktonic foraminifera and benthic foraminifera. Analyzed well cuttings and sidewall cores for calcareous nannofossil biostratigraphy. Collaborated with office paleontologists in construction of revised biostratigraphic charts for Lower Cretaceous through Neogene calcareous nannofossils, planktonic foraminifera and benthic foraminifera.



University of Nebraska System

• Higher Education
• 700 & Above Employee

• Head Graduate Teaching Assistant

  • Jan 2013 - May 2013



Allender Butzke Engineers Inc

• United States
• Civil Engineering
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Staff Geologist

  • Apr 2007 - Aug 2010

  Composed geotechnical reports for commercial, residential and governmental clients. Performed laboratory soil tests. Managed all drilling operations. Conducted field work including shallow exploration drilling operations and in-situ soil tests. Generated Environmental Impact Statements. Assisted with Phase I, II Environmental Site Assessments and environmental field testing. Composed geotechnical reports for commercial, residential and governmental clients. Performed laboratory soil tests. Managed all drilling operations. Conducted field work including shallow exploration drilling operations and in-situ soil tests. Generated Environmental Impact Statements. Assisted with Phase I, II Environmental Site Assessments and environmental field testing.



University of Northern Iowa

• United States
• Higher Education
• 700 & Above Employee

• Teaching and Research Assistant

  • Jan 2003 - May 2006

  Prepared limestone thin sections for foraminiferal analyses. Imaged thin sections using dark room photography. Contributed to paleontological database. Assisted teaching Earth History laboratory. Prepared limestone thin sections for foraminiferal analyses. Imaged thin sections using dark room photography. Contributed to paleontological database. Assisted teaching Earth History laboratory.