Experience

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  RigUp

  • Eagleford

  • Drill Site Manager

    • Apr 2019 - Present
    • Eagleford

    DRILLING CONSULTANTDrill Site Manager, Comstock Resources, Eagleford

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  RigUp

  • Eagleford

  • Drill Site Manager

    • Nov 2017 - Jan 2019
    • Eagleford

    DRILLING CONSULTANTDrill Site Manager, Sanchez Oil & Gas, Eagleford• Ensured detailed “Black Book” instructions were consistently and completely followed.• Selected by Superintendent to represent DSM’s in multi-disceplenary performance improvement meeting.• Kept on as Sanchez downsized from 7 to 3 rigs, moving between days and nights as needed.• Released – Financial issues and down from 3 to just 1 rig.

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  Vestas

  • Blue Canyon Wind Farm - Carnegie, Oklahoma

  • Wind Turbine Site Manager

    • Jun 2016 - Jun 2017
    • Blue Canyon Wind Farm - Carnegie, Oklahoma

    • Learned an entirely new career for the first time since graduating college.• Rebuilt manpower to 15 technicians and increased capability after numerous transfers and high turnover prior to my arrival. Mentored, trained, and promoted from within as well as hired 5 new technicians.• Continuously making triage-level decisions due to manpower issues, troublesome machines, and being behind on scheduled maintenance services.• Responsible for the site budget, cost center management, and operational efficiency.• Responsible for customer account management and service contract compliance.

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  Chief Oil & Gas

  • Oil and Gas
  • 1 - 100 Employee

  • Drilling Manager - Marcellus

    • Jan 2015 - Jan 2016

    • Took over as Drilling Manager in January of 2015, tasked with down-sizing the drilling campaign and improving efficiencies• Successfully negotiated 2 rig shop-outs, earning a Presidential Award• Broke “silos” between the major groups: Land, Permitting, Geology, Reservoir, and Drilling• Implemented numerous “industry standard” processes and procedures: “Readiness to drill” tracker, WellView implementation, Compass as a system-of-record, revised the D&C accounting codes, phase-level AFE detail, prespud checks, and facilitated a step-change in field cost accuracy (>20% down to <5%).

  • Senior Drilling Engineer - New Ventures

    • Sep 2014 - Jan 2015

    • Brought on-board to do detailed engineering workups for multiple new venture prospects, including Florida and Deep Bossier wells. Utilized Landmark software package for directional design, rig sizing, and casing design.• Worked up Basis of Design for logistically and technically difficult Sunniland wells in Florida• Researched offsets and worked with contacts to provide accurate drilling and completion costs for decision analysis

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  Hunt Oil Company

  • dallas/fort worth area

  • Senior Staff Drilling Engineer

    • Apr 2013 - Aug 2014
    • dallas/fort worth area

    Lead Drilling Engineer (Bakken):• Moved to Bakken group in June 2014Lead Drilling Engineer (Eagleford):• Project Manager – Worked directly with Asset Team, driving deliverables and ensuring wells ready to spud• Operational Control – No Superintendents, Rigsite Consultants working directly under my supervision• Working together with a newhire first-time Drilling Engineer, brought uniformity and technical refinement to the drilling procedures. • Again proved my ability to quickly get up to speed and optimize the drilling program.• Main accomplishments in last year: streamlined casing design, secured contingency equipment, reduced well costs significantly, lowered cycle time, and formalize tracking and accountability of the well readiness process.• Successfully planned and executed 2 Buda wells on short notice.

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  Minuteman Oilfield Consulting

  • Oklahoma City, Oklahoma Area

  • Senior Drilling Engineer and Drilling Supervisor

    • Jun 2012 - Apr 2013
    • Oklahoma City, Oklahoma Area

    Started my own consulting company mid-2012 and have worked in the following areas:• Night Supervisor – Provided night supervision for what was normally a 1-man operator while they were drilling a known fluid loss / well control problem zone near OKC.• Drilling Engineer & Field Consultant – Worked with a small operator in attempting to reduce costs drilling the difficult Niobrara field outside of Cheyenne, WY. Spent approx. 1/3 of my time at the rigsite becoming familiar with the operation and recommended numerous changes to equipment and practices.• Day Supervisor – Worked for a major operator on Utica exploration wells, using my knowledge of the area to help optimize operations and reduce cost.

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  Chesapeake Energy

  • Oklahoma City, Oklahoma Area

  • Senior Drilling Engineer

    • Apr 2011 - May 2012
    • Oklahoma City, Oklahoma Area

    Took over as the one-man drilling engineering team for the new Utica Shale district after a very short handover. My ability to quickly adapt made sure that both operations and permitting kept up with the heavy workload. My everyday responsibilities included:• Permit submittal and AFE preparation.• Individual Drilling Program creation – capturing LL/BPs and working extensively with Mud/Cement/Directional/Bit vendors to ensure equipment preparation and performance.• 24-hour Operations support – close operational control via constant liason with Field Superintendents• Quality control of Daily Drilling and Cost Reports.• Lead a “Well Control while Fluid Drilling” presentation/Q&A session for Ohio regulatory personnel.• Hosted numerous rig tours for regulators, politicians, and landowners.My achievements in this role include:• Improvement of execution to reduce average well time from 45 days to 25 days.• Liased with Ohio Regulators and helped develop Well Design and Spacing regulations.• Facilitated Utica Division Wellview rollout by creation of Utica Wellview Coding Guidelines.• Proved EM MWD efficiency, increasing on-bottom time by 15%+.• Greatly increased coring performance via corehead selection and parameter control.• Implemented Rotary-Steerable technology by completing a detailed performance comparison and negotiating pricing so to ensure economically feasibility.

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  Chevron

  • United States
  • Oil and Gas
  • 700 & Above Employee

  • Drilling Engineer

    • Feb 2008 - Dec 2010

    Served in 5 unique roles while in the Australian Business Unit, each transition requiring instantaneous onboarding and collaboration. My utility allowed the Business Unit to fill critical roles in an under-resourced environment. Role descriptions:• Wheatstone MCP –Extended-Reach Development with Horizontal Gravel Packs.• Rig Engineer – Operations role responsible for liaison with Rig, Logistics, Vendors, Engineers, and Superintendent.• E&A – 3 Iago exploration wells.• WA Oil – Vertical & Horizontal well planning onshore Barrow Island.• Gorgon CO2 – Directional well planning, CO2 Sequestration project.

  • Field Drilling Engineer & Wellview Engineer

    • Jan 2007 - Jan 2008

    While waiting on visa credentials, served as an assistant Field Drilling Engineer in Deepwater GOM. Performance Management group sequestered me due to my experience with the Wellview daily reporting package.• Earned praise for my quick onboarding as FDE from both my peers and supervisor.• Provided input from my Field and Office experience and instituted changes in the updated Wellview rollout.

  • Drill Site Manager

    • Jan 2006 - Jan 2007

    Supervised operations on a land rig in remote area of Bangladesh. Developmental wells. Difficult drilling due to Rock Mechanics issues and limited availability of equipment. Transitioned into office at end of project to complete End-of-Well reporting and liaise with service companies on equipment deportation.• Rock Mechanic/Shale Instability issues .• Pad-based batch drilling.

  • Drill Site Manager

    • Jan 2004 - Jan 2006

    Supervised operations on Jack-up rig in the fast-paced Gulf of Thailand. Worked on exploration wells (Thailand and Cambodia) in addition to the developmental wells with a dual-activity derrick over producing platforms.• Promoted from Night to Lead Supervisor after only a year with the company.• Batch drilling in an extremely focused Process Improvement culture.• Extreme SIMOPS environment, due to fast pace of drilling and low-margin production environment.

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  Pathfinder Energy Services

  • Directional Optimization Engineer

    • Jan 2003 - Jan 2004

    Collected and processed all available data in order to optimize directional wellbores by evaluating offset bit records, logs, assemblies, and mud systems in order to suggest the best well profiles, casing points, assemblies, and equipment.• Developed advanced directional skills including: BHA design, cost estimation, directional difficulty prediction.• Learned firsthand how to select the right Motor/Bit tandem to accomplish the particular needs of an individual wellbore.

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  Halliburton

  • Houston, Texas Area

  • Wellplanner

    • Jul 2000 - Jan 2003
    • Houston, Texas Area

    Designed wellbores by running torque-and-drag and hydraulics models to assess feasibility, and monitoring daily rig operations. • Assigned many of the larger projects, including large platforms where anti-collision concerns are high.• Assigned many of the short fuse projects, due to my efficient work and quick turn around.

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  Mobil Oil

  • Dallas/Fort Worth Area

  • Drilling Engineer

    • Jan 1998 - Jan 2000
    • Dallas/Fort Worth Area

    Worked in many different locations and capacities while gaining both international rig-site and in-country office experience. • Worked as Night Company Man in the environmentally-sensitive Mobile Bay area (Extended Reach, Horizontal, HPHT, Turbine Drilling, & Zero Discharge).• Liaised for the drilling group designing subsea workovers in the New Orleans domestic drilling department.• Supported remote drilling operations in the Peruvian rainforest, in-country office and rig-site roles.• Used technical software to design and optimize wellbores for an entire 40-slot platform in Equatorial Guinea (Extended Reach, Horizontal Open Hole Gravel Pack Completions).