Experience

• 

  Bonanza Creek Energy, Inc.

  • Greater Denver Area

  • Senior Production Engineer

    • 2006 - 2015
    • Greater Denver Area

    - Integral to all phases of early vertical well development at BCEI in DJ Basin: permitting, drilling, completing and production, 200 wells drilled prior to going horizontal- Kicked off horizontal well development in 2011. 340 HZ wells drilled and completed to date. Worked as part of Operations team on drilling, completions and production optimization. During this time:. . - Horizontal drilling program evolved from single to multi-well pads with preset surface and batch drilling to improve spud to release times and reduce costs. . - Production facilities moved from individual batteries to fully instrumented centralized production facilities- Managed McCallum field and North Park development, waterflood operations and exploratory well programs- Designed and supervised workover operations including recompletions, artificial lift design and install, production optimization and P&A's- Implemented cost control and containment of both capital and LOE expenditures by way of budgeting and performance review- Current on EHS and Regulatory requirements for safe operations in Colorado and on Federal land

• 

  Pinnacle Technologies

  • Greater Denver Area

  • Diagnostic Engineer

    • 2002 - 2006
    • Greater Denver Area

    - Member of Pinnacle fracture diagnostics team analyzing tiltmeter data for real-time and post treatment fracture geometry- Designed an implemented tiltmeter fracture diagnostics in Western and Central U.S. and Canada- Supervised injection-falloff testing for determination of permeability in low perm, water saturated formations- Wrote AFE's and installed 2 CBM pilot projects with associated well site supervision

• 

  University of California, Santa Barbara

  • Santa Barbara, California Area

  • Research and Teaching Assistant

    • 1986 - 2000
    • Santa Barbara, California Area

• 

  SOHIO Alaska Petroleum Company

  • Anchorage, Alaska Area

  • Petroleum Engineer

    • 1981 - 1984
    • Anchorage, Alaska Area

    - Planning and execution of reservoir surveillance operations involving flow testing, pressure build-up analysis and formation logging of both open and cased holes with a variety of active and passive devices.