Dallas, Texas, United States
Experience and Expertise: Business, technology, science, and engineering leader with 20+ years of energy industry experience building and leading impactful multi-functional teams with up to 50 staff and $75 million annual budgets. Broad expertise in carbon emissions mitigation solutions, water management, subsurface fluid injection/storage, and petroleum appraisal, development, and production operations, focusing on technology innovation, sustainability strategies, and digital transformation. Technical concentration in reservoir engineering, hydrogeology, organic/inorganic geochemistry, surface chemistry, and petroleum systems analysis. Professional Motivations: ► Solving complex, multifaceted, customer-facing problems that materially contribute to top-line and bottom-line growth and sustainable firm value ► Uncovering new technologies, applications, and markets by working across technical disciplines, business functions, industries, and geographies ► Working in a teamwork‐oriented environment where diversity in people, places, functions, and ideas is deemed essential to maximizing company, customer, and societal value ► Protecting and preserving natural resources ► Contributing to the development and advancement of staff and the greater professional community Academic Background: ► M.B.A., University of Chicago Booth School of Business ► Ph.D., Hydrology (Chemical Engineering minor), University of Arizona ► B.A., Geosciences, Franklin and Marshall College ► Environmental Engineering Lecturer, Research Associate, and Carbon Mitigation Initiative member, Princeton University Key Skills: Business Acumen, Business Planning, Carbon Management, Coaching, Communication, Complex Analysis, Critical Thinking, Customer Engagement, Energy Management, Engineering, Environmental Permitting, ESG, Geospatial Analysis, Oil and Gas Development, Performance Management, Petroleum, Project Management, Public Speaking, Quantitative Analysis, Regulatory Engagement, Relationship Building, Research and Development, Stakeholder Management, Strategic Planning, Strategic Thinking, Troubleshooting, Sustainability, Team Leadership, Water Management E-Mail Contact: [email protected]
B3 is a technology firm specializing in collecting, aggregating, integrating, and disseminating water disposition and fluid injection data with expert-driven derivative analysis for oil and gas and energy transition clients. As inaugural Product Director, Executive Team member, and energy, water, and carbon management subject matter expert, drive the organization's product vision, market trend research, commercialization strategy, project prioritization, product planning-to-launch process, quality testing, performance reporting, and customer engagement to execute B3's mission as the definitive source for water/carbon management data and insight. Report directly to the President. Key Accomplishments: • Scaled the product suite from a single state geospatial visualization software platform to multiple product lines serving E&P, oilfield services, water midstream, carbon management, finance, legal, consulting, and government customers covering business development, asset performance, cost management, risk identification, disclosure verification, land/real estate management, and regulatory compliance. • Developed the energy industry's first independent water-related ESG performance assessment and benchmarking software and data tool, providing a standardized set of absolute, normalized, and ranked time-series metrics aligned with principal sustainability disclosure frameworks (e.g., CDP, GRI, SASB, IPIECA). • Leading the first commercial initiative to deliver a nationwide subsurface fluid injection data and analytics product focusing on injection well operations, formation pressure response, and water composition description to support location screening, site characterization, and complementary water use/reuse opportunities for carbon capture, utilization, and storage (CCUS) project planning and UIC Class VI permitting.
As the first Subsurface Manager for Pioneer Water Management, LLC, assembled, led, and coached/mentored a cross-functional 20-person engineering, geosciences, geochemistry, and field-based operations team with a ~$50 million annual operating budget. Delivered industry-leading operational and technology solutions for cost-effective, environmentally responsible, and scalable water supply and oilfield produced water management. Reported directly to the President of Pioneer Water Management. Key Accomplishments: • Guided inception of first-of-kind data acquisition, subsurface characterization, and predictive modeling to provide local and field-wide assessments of fresh, brackish, and saline water utilization trends, compositional description, equipment/facilities compatibility, beneficial reuse/mineral extraction opportunities, and disposal impacts (e.g., increased formation pressure, induced seismicity) to support current and future petroleum resource development. • Led engagement and collaboration with internal (Drilling and Completions, Environmental, Regulatory, and Innovation) and external stakeholders to communicate, promote, and expand operational and environmental benefits of Pioneer Natural Resources water sourcing and subsurface disposal strategies and best practices.
Utilized internal drilling, completions, and production data alongside competitor information to quantify child well impacts on parent well performance.
As an internal technical consultant, subject matter expert, and project manager, analyzed, modeled, and interpreted aqueous and petroleum fluid properties for reservoir characterization, enhanced oil recovery, flow assurance, and souring prediction to reduce development costs, improve productivity, and mitigate safety hazards for several of BP's most prominent offshore fields. Key Accomplishments: • Completed hydrogen sulfide (H2S) souring studies for Gulf of Mexico waterfloods to assess influences of injected water chemistry and provide mitigation/adaptation strategies. • Provided compositional and fluid property assessments, including equation of state (EoS) modeling, for Itaipu (Brazil), Polvo (Brazil), Rahamat (Egypt), Mad Dog (Gulf of Mexico), Atalantis (Gulf of Mexico), Thunder Horse (Gulf of Mexico), Moccasin (Gulf of Mexico), and Shah Deniz (Azerbaijan) fields. • Supported laboratory quality oversight and implementation of BP's first globally integrated fluid property database.
Coordinated, integrated, and communicated production accounting (250,000+ barrels per day of oil production), forecasting, and performance review activities for executive leadership and global finance/investor relations. Key Accomplishments: • Overhauled and automated production forecasting and incident reporting tools, enhancing and expediting centralized evaluation, management, and communication of Gulf of Mexico operations. • Leveraged BP's internal software development team to innovate and modernize production tracking and reconciliation software, dramatically improving data load times (from hours to seconds) and nearly eliminating persistent system failures.
In cooperation with the US Coast Guard, established ~50-member Incident Command System (ICS) organization and managed multi-million dollar budget to construct and maintain critical infrastructure and supply chains for ~5,000 emergency spill response personnel in Venice, LA., seventy miles southeast of New Orleans.
• Member of Princeton's $20 million Carbon Mitigation Initiative; Designed, performed, and supervised physical and numerical investigations of geologic CO2 sequestration, including in situ mineral dissolution/precipitation kinetics and well cement stability, for emissions management/avoidance. • Instructor for “Environmental and Civil Engineering Systems Planning and Design” and “Introduction to Environmental Engineering.”