Experience

HTX4Ukraine

• United States
• Non-profit Organizations
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Co-founder / Spokesperson

  • Feb 2022 - Present

  As one of the co-founding members and a spokesperson for HTX4Ukraine, my role is to engage with Houston and a wider Texas community to raise awareness about the ongoing brutal and unprovoked war waged by russian federation against Ukraine, as well as seek support, material and financial aid to help HTX4Ukraine on its mission to PROTECT & SAVE LIVES IN UKRAINE. As one of the co-founding members and a spokesperson for HTX4Ukraine, my role is to engage with Houston and a wider Texas community to raise awareness about the ongoing brutal and unprovoked war waged by russian federation against Ukraine, as well as seek support, material and financial aid to help HTX4Ukraine on its mission to PROTECT & SAVE LIVES IN UKRAINE.



ExxonMobil

• Oil and Gas
• 700 & Above Employee

• Business Intelligence Developer

  • Jan 2022 - Present

  Collaborating with engineers, geoscientists, data engineers, and other business intelligence developers to define, build, and deliver solutions to support Exxon’s Unconventional operations. Responsible for architecting, implementing, deploying and supporting TIBCO Spotfire based analytics solutions. Instructor of Exxon Unconventional’s monthly internal Spotfire training. Collaborating with engineers, geoscientists, data engineers, and other business intelligence developers to define, build, and deliver solutions to support Exxon’s Unconventional operations. Responsible for architecting, implementing, deploying and supporting TIBCO Spotfire based analytics solutions. Instructor of Exxon Unconventional’s monthly internal Spotfire training.



Ukainian American Cultural Club of Houston

• United States
• Non-profit Organizations

• Member Board of Directors

  • May 2022 - Dec 2022

  The purpose of UACCH is: - To preserve Ukrainian national identity and cultural heritage. - To promote a greater understanding of Ukrainian history and culture. - To encourage active participation of Ukrainian Americans in promoting the welfare of the Ukrainian community. - To initiate and uphold ties with other Ukrainians, as well as Americans and international organizations for educational and charitable purposes. - To provide charitable assistance to Ukrainian organizations within and outside the United States. www.facebook.com/UACCHouston Show less



Chevron

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

• Reservoir Engineer

  • Dec 2019 - Dec 2020

  Owner and key contact for the Tengiz field dynamic modeling work.* Delivered annual model updates, supporting field development planning and reserves booking activities.* Developed a versatile TIBCO Spotfire multi-page dashboard for streamlining the annual field and well performance analysis, history matching quality assurance, and updates.* Mentored national and ex-pat staff on the use of subsurface dynamic modeling tools as well as business intelligence and analytics.* Launched “Dashboards for Reservoir Engineers” video series to streamline and increase analytical capabilities of fellow petrotech professionals. Show less

• Appraisal Reservoir Simulation Engineer

  • Apr 2016 - Dec 2019

  Provide pre and post-drill recovery efficiency evaluation of deepwater Gulf of Mexico prospects and discoveries. * Provided early appraisal reservoir engineering support for two of the largest oil discoveries in GOM of the last 5 years: Shell-operated Whale field and Chevron-operated Ballymore field.* Performed Whale field appraisal well count optimization analysis, developing interactive multi-scenario Spotfire-based dashboard which was directly used to drive decisions and influence partners on the project.* Developed and deployed TIBCO Spotfire and Microsoft PowerBI dashboards for reservoir data pre and post-processing, field performance, and project analytics.* Graduated from Chevron’s internal 2019 Data Science Development Program (7 months long program to increase one's understanding of data science, analytics & ML).* 1st place prize in GOM PowerBI Hackathon as both project owner and project lead delivering a universal asset development analytics dashboard solution.* Part of an initial/MVP1 team developing a corporation-wide web-based analytic tool for asset monitoring and forecasting, using the Agile DevOps framework. Show less

• Petroleum Engineer

  • Jan 2013 - Apr 2016

  Well Planning Project Lead for 3 new drills offshore Angola (West Africa), additionally serving as owner and key contact for the subsurface dynamic modeling work.* Delivered a new 14-well asset development plan, with an expected incremental recovery of 66MM barrels of oil. * Developed an analytical factory model workflow for maturation of 3 new wells with projected 17.6MM barrels of incremental recovery.* Analyzed historical drilling data, allowing for better prediction of loss of circulation events during drilling.* Headed a multidisciplinary team of geoscientists, drilling, completions, and facility engineering professionals in planning of the new wells (working across multiple time zones and locations). * Produced a versatile TIBCO Spotfire dashboard to be used during annual Well Jacket Reviews (annual audit) to simultaneously review well specs, well performance, well work, surveillance tracking, and jacket slot inventory analysis. Show less

• Lead Reservoir Engineering Consultant

  • Apr 2011 - Dec 2012

  Represented Chevron at the Schlumberger Abingdon Technology Center, working on the INTERSECT dynamic reservoir simulator testing and deployment within the Triple Crown industry initiative (Chevron, Schlumberger, and Total E&P). * Performed benchmarking studies, provided consulting services and project support for INTERSECT software deployment.* Co-authored and facilitated in-house training courses related to uncertainty assessment, assisted history matching, and optimization.

• Reservoir Simulation Consulting

  • Sep 2008 - Apr 2011

  Reservoir simulation engineer conducting reservoir simulation studies for a variety of business units.* performed studies on onshore and offshore fields in Kazakhstan, Nigeria, USA (CA) and Angola. * executed projects ranging from OOIP uncertainty estimation to field development optimisation studies with the application of Design of Experiments and a variety of heuristic optimisation techniques* developed and facilitated two internal technical courses (Uncertainty Management Using Design of Experiments, Assisted History Matching)* coordinated a monthly Lunch & Learn seminar series where internal and external petrotech professionals were invited to share their work with CVX audience. Show less



Ukrainian American Cultural Club of Houston

• United States
• Non-profit Organizations

• President

  • Dec 2013 - Dec 2017

  Served 2 terms as the club president, with the following key responsibilities: - implemented a new vision for Club's growth and future development; - worked closely with the executive board on developing fundraising opportunities and balancing budgets annually; - developed a diverse network and collaborated with other cultural organizations locally & nationally, as well as the City of Houston officials and the local media on a multitude of joint cultural projects; - achieved a greater member outreach and recruiting, as well as developed programs aimed at supporting local Ukrainian-run businesses. Key achievements during the two terms of club presidency: - solid growth in paying membership numbers (~35% annually); - solid growth in online social media engagement (Facebook page subscriptions grew ~800% since December 2013); - introduced Houston Ukrainian Business Directory, an online based resource for the Ukrainian community of Houston (http://anyflip.com/mcre/hema/) The purpose of UACCH is: - To preserve Ukrainian national identity and cultural heritage. - To promote a greater understanding of Ukrainian history and culture. - To encourage active participation of Ukrainian Americans in promoting the welfare of the Ukrainian community. - To initiate and uphold ties with other Ukrainians, as well as Americans and international organizations for educational and charitable purposes. - To provide charitable assistance to Ukrainians within and outside the United States. www.uacch.net www.facebook.com/UACCHouston Show less



Society of Petroleum Engineers

• 1 - 100 Employee

• Steering Committee Chair for the SPE GIWS on Production Forecasting

  • 2012 - 2015

  Headed the steering committee for the SPE Global Integrated Workshop Series on Production Forecasting. * Lead a team of SPE volunteers, comprised of academia and industry professionals, successfully organizing 3 SPE GIWS workshops in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (March 2013), Banff, Canada (October 2013) and Dubai, UAE, May 2014 Headed the steering committee for the SPE Global Integrated Workshop Series on Production Forecasting. * Lead a team of SPE volunteers, comprised of academia and industry professionals, successfully organizing 3 SPE GIWS workshops in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (March 2013), Banff, Canada (October 2013) and Dubai, UAE, May 2014

• Intern

  • Jul 2007 - Oct 2007

  Using the existing dynamic model of the Tengiz filed: * Performed a comparative study of Population-Based Incremental Learning algorithm and Genetic Algorithms for probabilistic history matching; * Performed a comparative study of the commercially available and the in-house optimization software packages, both running Genetic Algorithms as optimization engine * Collaborated with CVX R&D department, incorporating research code written in C within the in-house optimization software package written in C++ within the span of 1 week, including appropriate testing and debugging Show less



Total E&P

• France
• Business Consulting and Services

• Intern

  • Mar 2007 - Jun 2007

  Internship at the Total’s Geoscience Research center in Aberdeen, Scotland. History matching of Middle Eastern oil field using Eclipse reservoir simulator, with application of advanced evolutionary-based optimization algorithms and geostatistical modelling tools Internship at the Total’s Geoscience Research center in Aberdeen, Scotland. History matching of Middle Eastern oil field using Eclipse reservoir simulator, with application of advanced evolutionary-based optimization algorithms and geostatistical modelling tools



Schlumberger

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

• Guest Tester

  • 2004 - 2006

  * Conducted regression testing and benchmarking studies of the following software products: Eclipse 100 Black Oil, E300 Compositional, E100/300 PARALLEL. * Responsible for testing and preparation of the manual material for the first commercial release of Petrel RE (specifically the Well Completions module) * performed parallel scalability studies for a variety of model types and geometries, investigating a number of model partitioning approaches * Conducted regression testing and benchmarking studies of the following software products: Eclipse 100 Black Oil, E300 Compositional, E100/300 PARALLEL. * Responsible for testing and preparation of the manual material for the first commercial release of Petrel RE (specifically the Well Completions module) * performed parallel scalability studies for a variety of model types and geometries, investigating a number of model partitioning approaches



University of Bremen

• Germany
• Higher Education
• 700 & Above Employee

• IAESTE exchange student

  • Jul 2002 - Sep 2002

  Internship at the Institute of Material Science (Institut für Werkstofftechnik) focusing on the application of hot wire anemometry for gas quenching of metal part of variable geometry. Key responsibilities: * conducted experiments to support and benchmark existing CFD numerical results; * designed and manufactured the experimental setup, including drafting of plans and manufacturing of actual setup in a workshop setting; * investigated quenching efficiency of solid and hollow cylindrical metal parts and proposed design improvements to the quenching setup; * created experimental setup visuals in CorelDraw, which were used in technical publications and presentations. Show less