Experience

barreleye
• Canada
• Software Development
• 1 - 100 Employee
• Founder & CEO

  • Jan 2020 - Present


Chequer Court Consulting ltd.

• Owner

  • Feb 2020 - Present

  Chequer Court Consulting ltd. (3C) is a consultancy with expertise in upstream oil & gas business planning processes. Specializing in software, 3C ensures efficient data flow within company software architectures and more importantly, how that relates to the personnel involved in each process. With its focus on the development, execution, & accounting groups within companies, 3C ensures efficiency during planning processes, software scoping, software implementations, and other digitalization initiatives requiring change management. With expertise in this area of business, 3C can bring your company's planning department into the digital age. James Burke, 3C’s owner, has over 9 years planning experience in corporate, asset, operations, and accounting processes. This includes 7 years within upstream oil & gas companies and 2 years with Aucerna, an upstream planning software provider. This exposure has given 3C knowledge of over 87 upstream oil & gas companies planning processes that extend around the world. Let 3C change your companies tire while it speeds into the future Show less



Aucerna

• Canada
• Oil and Gas
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Solution Architect

  • Sep 2017 - Dec 2019

  Experience • Expert in company data and management workflows with a specialization in capital management • Industry experience alongside software experience in upstream planning • Expertise in capital management, reserves management, production management, field development, corporate consolidation, economics, financials, and portfolio optimization workflows • Trusted adviser to over 85 upstream companies worldwide • Data management, consolidation and planning software architecture • Consulting experience & business planning problem solver • Upstream change management expertise • Sales strategy and sales process expert Proficient Oil & Gas Upstream User Of... - Power BI, Spotfire (Business Intelligence and Data Visualization) - Palantir Planning Space - Dataflow, Economics (Corporate Data Repository & Consolidator Software) - Valnav (O&G Production Management, Economics, Reserves & Resources) - Aucerna Execute (AFE Nav, Budgeting & Forecasting, Operational Scheduler, RTD) - Enersight (Wellsping) ( Field Development Software and Constraint Optimizer) - PetroVR (Exploration and Field Development Software) - Hyperion Essbase (Data Repository, Financial Reporting) - esi.execute (intercalm) (Budgeting & Capital Management Software) - Wellman (Field Operations Cost Reporting Software) - PVR (Field O&G Production Reporting) - Envision (Accounting) - Accumap (O&G WCSB database) Show less



Birchcliff Energy Ltd.

• Canada
• Oil and Gas
• 100 - 200 Employee

• Drilling & Completions Engineer

  • Jan 2017 - Aug 2017

  • Created and tracked metrics & performance indicators in drilling & completions operations• Capital tracking, budgeting, & accruals for all Drilling & Completions Projects• Managed workovers, abandonments, swabbing, coil tubing, and service rig operations from Calgary office• Shift work near Dawson Creek during frac’ing operations, drilling operations, service rigs, & other field operations

• Internal Business Processes & Change Management Consultant

  • Feb 2015 - Jan 2017

  In this role, I acted as a change management and business process engineer. With knowing the companies software systems, I was able to leverage these to change business processes throughout the company to provide efficiencies in time, error minimization, and reduction of personnel.• Expert at program integration for data exchange, communication, and change management• Resident expert at company for data tracking & flow specific to capital, Oil & gas production, budgeting, reporting, and processes• Sole change management employee for teams, groups, departments, and companywide business processes• Solely created and implemented companywide electronic AFE process, fully integrated electronic accruals process, and operations group scheduler• Implemented and integrated facilities group field capital tracking program as well as drilling & completions field capital tracking program into company architecture• Created workflow processes to identify inefficiencies in data exchange and communication between groups. Acted as facilitator for change in processes• Created business process flow diagrams for company oil & gas production flow, surface land processes, frac water budgeting/tracking, request to abandon (RTA) process, accruals process, field capital management, AFE process, Request to Drill (RTD) process, Complywork's process,• Created budgeting process and 5 year plans for company abandonment's and reclamation's• Expert at capital flow through field, operations group, accounting system, capital management program and reporting system Show less

• Buisness Development Engineer

  • Jul 2012 - Feb 2015

  As a business development engineer, I managed the company's business processes in the corporate & asset planning portions of the company. This included managing the companies software's and integrations between them from accounting, production management, capital management, asset development, and corporate reporting. This also included process efficiencies in monthly, quarterly, and yearly tasks.• Managed the capital management software including forecasting/re-forecasting based on actuals and field estimates. Over 600 projects & $400 Million dollar budgets annually• Managed oil & gas production forecasting software and business processes• Ran economic evaluations on future assets including potential drills, land, gas plants etc• Managed the companies production forecasting processes• Managed the budgeting processes throughout the year• Managed the tracking of budgets, latest forecasts and accounting cycles for the company• Managed the company business intelligence tool including its integrations with other systems• Managed the team & company stewardship and corporate reporting packages Show less



CNRL

• Canada
• Oil and Gas
• 700 & Above Employee

• SAGD Production Engineer

  • 2010 - 2011

• Heavy Oil Operator

  • May 2010 - Aug 2010



ATCO Gas

• Canada
• Utilities
• 700 & Above Employee

• Flame Ionization Technician

  • May 2008 - Aug 2008

  Detected gas leaks on ATCO Gas lines and meters around Edmonton area. Detected gas leaks on ATCO Gas lines and meters around Edmonton area.



MMM Group

• Italy
• Advertising Services
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Surveyor Assistant

  • May 2007 - Aug 2007

  Shadowed a number of senior surveyors and learned surveyor techniques and learned about land development Shadowed a number of senior surveyors and learned surveyor techniques and learned about land development