Experience

SwingLogic

• United States
• Sporting Goods Manufacturing
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Chief Executive Officer

  • Oct 2021 - Present

  SwingLogic (SLX) is the industry leader in sensor-based golf simulator equipment. Our flagship product is the SLX MicroSim Home Golf simulator bringing indoor golf to all demographics at the lowest price point possible for indoor golf simulators. The unique product has several advantages over its competition and on track to generate over $2mm of annual revenue. SLX is also developing a first in class radar based golf simulator that will provide the accuracy of $2,000 products at a $500 price point. Stay tuned for updates for this product launch the beginning of 2022.


BlackBrush Oil & Gas, LP
• United States
• Oil and Gas
• 1 - 100 Employee
• Lead Independent Board Member

  • Sep 2020 - Present


Exemplar Energy, LLC

• United States
• Oil and Gas

• Managing Member

  • Aug 2020 - Present

  Exemplar holds a balanced portfolio of Minerals and NonOperated Assets with ownership in over 4,000 properties across the US. Exemplar also consults on engineering projects and carbon sequestration technologies. NonOperated ownership comes from selective participation in new drilling units that are heavily derisked. We continue to pursue operated assets primarily in the Midcontinent, North Texas, East Texas, and Haynesville, including potential new drill strategies. Exemplar holds a balanced portfolio of Minerals and NonOperated Assets with ownership in over 4,000 properties across the US. Exemplar also consults on engineering projects and carbon sequestration technologies. NonOperated ownership comes from selective participation in new drilling units that are heavily derisked. We continue to pursue operated assets primarily in the Midcontinent, North Texas, East Texas, and Haynesville, including potential new drill strategies.



DivotIsland

• United States
• Sporting Goods Manufacturing

• Partner

  • Jan 2021 - Present

  Divot Island is a premier golf brand focused on growth through strategic partnerships, acquisitions, and optimizing e-commerce sales. Divot Island is the sole manufacturer of SwingLogic EFX-1 available on-line and at your neighborhood Walmart store. Simple. Effective. Versatile. Dominate your next group golf outing by building good habits and set up for the best outcome with proper alignment. Divot Island is a premier golf brand focused on growth through strategic partnerships, acquisitions, and optimizing e-commerce sales. Divot Island is the sole manufacturer of SwingLogic EFX-1 available on-line and at your neighborhood Walmart store. Simple. Effective. Versatile. Dominate your next group golf outing by building good habits and set up for the best outcome with proper alignment.



Templar Energy, LLC and Templar Operating, LLC

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

• Chief Executive Officer

  • Apr 2019 - Apr 2021

  Templar Energy was a Midcontinent Operator with 1250 producing wells and 900 non-operated assets, generating peak EBITDA of $500M annually, formerly known as Le Norman Operating, with peak production of ~62,000 gross BOE/D. *Delivered year over year expense reductions of $30mm after management changes while improving base decline. Templar sold its assets to Presidio Petroleum based in Dallas Fort Worth in July of 2020. *Responsible for 150 employees with a dual CEO and COO function, including all business operations, crafting retention plans and active employee engagement while managing the organization through an uncontested sell of assets via a 363 sale through a Chapter 11. *Led Chapter 11 preparation and coordination with advisors delivering an uncontested Chapter 11 and company exit on schedule and efficiently. *Led Q&A, data room, and materials for the sell-side process, optimizing the divesture results for creditors. *Responsible for back-office support through the TSA period and the eventual wind-down of Templar Entity. *Served as the Plan Administrator to effectuate the Chapter 11 Plan and eventual wind-down of Templar.



Le Norman Operating, LLC

• Chief Operations Officer

  • Nov 2017 - Apr 2019

  • Operational and P&L responsibility for assets generating revenue of $250M/year with $170M of adjusted EBITDA. • Successfully reduce drilling and completion costs in emerging play by 40% through process-driven management to address key cost drivers resulting in a 50+% reduction in drilling days (spud to rig release). • Functional responsibility up to 100 employees including contract staff. • Mange Operations, Production Accounting, Marketing and Midstream, Procurement, Regulatory, and Environmental health and safety team with an industry-leading G&A metric of less than $1.80/BOE.• Drove 18% sustainable reduction of lease operating expenses, generating YOY savings of $6mm through focused workover program and cost optimization, while adding additional well count through small acquisitions and organic growth through drilling.• Prepared and managed operational budgets ranging from $160-200M in Drilling, Completion, Midstream, Workover CAPEX within 1% of AFE vs. Actual spend on approximately 300 wells. • Challenging leadership transition created the opportunity to retain all critical staff through the development into the COO role with a focus on clear goals, expectations, and improved confidence in teams ability to openly communicate towards better solutions. • Peak company gross operated production of 62 MBOE/D (40 MBOED net). 1,300 operated wellbores and 800 non-operated assets

• Vice President Strategic Planning

  • Oct 2016 - Oct 2018

  • Lead communication with the Board of Managers for operational and development plans and results and investor presentations including quarterly equity updates challenged to improve communication and transparency with new Board after the conclusion of financial re-organization and non-traditional equity stakeholders.• Provide multi-discipline oversight and advisement related to the development of our corporate assets with logistical responsibility for drilling and completion programs and budget targets for capital expenditure.• Supervise the drilling and completion schedule, financial modeling, and strategic planning for a 3-rig drilling program. Key role in business development with evaluation and recommendations approximately $1B of potential strategic acquisitions and merger opportunities. • Responsible for the team preparing a 144a debt offering memorandum, legal collaboration for $400M offering, which was canceled prior to the Road Show. • Reduced total IT spend by $200k YOY 2015 to 2016 by transition IT services from third party structure to in-house model and successfully roll out an ERP system to integrate corporate systems. • Effectively navigate service contracts with responsibility for supply chain management for all drilling contracts, stimulation contracts, OCTG purchasing, water logistics, and related services. Able to opportunistically lock in service pricing improving D&C capital spend by ~15% with industry peers. • Lead team to develop an analytics dashboard with Spotfire to improve financial, operational, and reservoir decision making.

• Operations Manager

  • Aug 2013 - Oct 2016

  • Grew gross operated production by 35M BOE/D through organic drilling operations. • Executed drilling and completion operations of $440M capital expenditures program generating $358M EBITDA within budget guidance.• Successfully recruited and built out an operational staff of 7 engineers and supporting team during peak drilling operations.• Responsible for optimizing rig logistics to ensure the highest potential development of all asset areas, including rig equipment and engineering responsibilities. • Oversee JIB approval with non-operated properties to help control costs and monitor competitor activity. • Realized a 40% increase in efficiency on days to TD on eight rig drilling program through analytics and rolling out best practices across all rigs.• Actively manage fracture stimulation services utilizing six separate service companies through opportunistic bidding of services to maintain top tier cost structure while keeping operational efficiency and safety metrics.



Spontaneity KidCare

• United States
• Individual and Family Services
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Emotional Support Specialist ;)

  • Oct 2015 - Mar 2018

  Proudly supporting my wife, Kristy Simmons, the founder and entrepreneur behind Spontaneity KidCare. Spontaneity is a drop-in play care center with an on-demand spontaneous childcare business model perfectly suited for today's remote work environment. Whether it's an hour for a conference call or a date night on the weekend, Spontaneity KidCare has you covered. Proudly supporting my wife, Kristy Simmons, the founder and entrepreneur behind Spontaneity KidCare. Spontaneity is a drop-in play care center with an on-demand spontaneous childcare business model perfectly suited for today's remote work environment. Whether it's an hour for a conference call or a date night on the weekend, Spontaneity KidCare has you covered.



Chesapeake Energy

• Oil and Gas
• 700 & Above Employee

• Completion Superintendent - Haynesville

  • Oct 2011 - Aug 2013

  • Achieved 1M man-hours without an OSHA recordable incident in the Haynesville Shale District while serving as Production and Completion Superintendent.• Executed completion activities in the Haynesville Shale with approximately 600 producing assets growing Gross Operated Production by over 400%.• Coordinated operations for up $1.2B per year capital spend budget, including service company selection, invoice approval, and bidding strategies.• Successfully deployed four coil tubing units, five fracture stimulation crews, eight workover rigs, three slickline units, five wireline units, forty-five consultants, and two foremen. • Actively involved in safety training, incident investigation(s), scheduling, monthly and weekly meetings with staff, and onsite audits of operations and service company equipment and teams. Implement an aggressive bidding process to reduce the overall cost of services by 25% accounting for pricing, safety performance, and service quality.

• Operation Engineer - Haynesville

  • May 2010 - Oct 2011

  • Developed and implemented a training program for four Field Engineers with rotations in Drilling, Completion, and Production activities in the Haynesville Shale. • Includes daily Supervision of Field Engineering Staff. Additional job responsibilities include onsite technical support for completion and production operations. Liaise with Asset Managers in Oklahoma City and Completion / Production Superintendents in Field. • Reduced Lease Operating Expenses by 50% through chemical optimization. Designed and developed new coupon deployment method to test film life in flowing well conditions in the wellbore on the upstream side of choke for HPHT wells.• Implement cost tracking program and rig scheduling KPI’s. Participate in development and implementation of district barrier policy, BOP policy for completion activities, fracture company rig-up audits, and quarterly stimulation performance review to target increase gains in safety and efficiency.

• Asset Manager / Production Engineer - Oklahoma

  • Jan 2005 - May 2011

  • Responsibilities included blow-out investigation and holistic design approach for casing, stimulation, packer, tubular, and chemical program for the Haynesville region. Working a 7/7 rotation between the corporate office and Haynesville field as a well site supervisor.• Improved design within Haynesville region including casing design, packer design, chemical program, and completion operations in HTHP environments.• Team Lead responsible for the development of unconventional horizontal Granite Wash Play and vertical Deep Conventional Play in Southern Oklahoma.• Oversee daily operations economic evaluation of all projects for Southern Oklahoma Region. Stimulation designs include gelled diesel, CMHPG, HPG, Slickwater, hybrid, reverse hybrid, and open hole fracture stimulation jobs. Artificial Lift designs include rod pump, plunger lift, gas lift, dead string assist, and velocity string applications. • Decreased completion costs of Deep Conventional play in Southern Oklahoma by approximately $1,000,000 per well as an early adopter of slick water stimulations, limited entry completions, and efficiency gains during well completions.• Responsible for production monitoring and work-over / recompletion recommendations for conventional vertical and horizontal wells in the Southern Oklahoma region under the supervision of Asset Manager. • Responsible for well site supervision of completion and drilling operations, including stimulations, wire-line operations, coil tubing operations, snubbing operations, plug drill-out operations, squeeze cement jobs, artificial lift installations, and flow-back of stimulated wells. • Night Drilling foreman during drilling rotation including experience in vertical Granite Wash wells with lost circulation problems, and deep, high-pressure wells utilizing weighted oil-based mud systems. Involved in fishing, sidetrack, logging, casing, and cementing supervision.



Silver Star Corporation

• United States
• Restaurants

• Worker

  • May 1996 - Jun 2005

  Roustabout, Swab Rig Hand, Backhoe Operator, Front End Loader Operator, Dump truck Driver, and rig transport driver for family owned business. Roustabout, Swab Rig Hand, Backhoe Operator, Front End Loader Operator, Dump truck Driver, and rig transport driver for family owned business.