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EDUCATION:
B. Sc. Chem. Eng., 1992, University of Western Ontario, London, Canada
B. Sc. Geol., 1984, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada.
B. Education, 2002, University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, Canada
CURRENT WORK EXPERIENCE:
August, 2006– Present; Drilling Fluids Engineer, Baroid: Oman. Working as a Drilling Fluids engineer onshore in the desert of Oman. Evaluating client specifications and designing, building, and maintaining water based drilling fluids. Supervision of work force required for developing systems. Troubleshooting, implementing action plans and follow up to ensure safe and reliable results. Generating daily client reports on PC's and/or laptops. Offering advice to clients on optimizing fluid circulating and cleaning systems. Direct customer contact on a daily basis. Completion of fluids sections of OpenWells
July, 2005 – August, 2006; Drilling Fluids Engineer Consultant for MI Swaco/Baker Hughes: Aberdeen, Scotland/Brunei. Working as a consulting Drilling Fluids engineer on offshore rigs in the North Sea and Brunei. Evaluating client specifications and designing, building, and maintaining both water based and Oil based fluid systems. As above. Completion of fluids sections of Dims.
June, 2000 - September 2001; Drilling Fluids Engineer Consultant for Baker Hughes Inteq and MI Drilling Fluids: Huston, Texas. Working as a consulting mud engineer on offshore rigs in the North Sea., and onshore in Southern Sudan.
Jan, 1999 - May, 2000; Technical Account Executive: SWT Specialty Products Group, Windsor, Ontario. Provided technical/sales support to a specialty products company which designs, manufactures, and sells paints and corrosion control coatings to various clients meeting ISO9000 specifications. This position required providing product design, quality control, marketing and technical support for clients.
Feb, 1996 - Dec, 1999; Fluids Engineer Dowell: Schlumberger Dowell, Paris, France. Working as a fluids engineer on offshore rigs in Angola, Gabon, and Equatorial Guinea.
Jan, 1995 - Feb, 1997; Data Engineer: Geoservices Overseas Int., Paris, France. Supervision of the operation and maintenance of a real time database of electronically gathered data including the monitoring of fluid systems. Generation of daily reports and special request trouble shooting involving direct customer contact. Supervision of the collection and evaluation of geological and fluids data for the drilling of oil/gas wells on offshore drilling platforms. Monitoring of drilling process and offering real time observations and advice.
Jan., 1992 - Sept., 1992; Reservoir Engineer: TransCanada Pipelines Ltd., 111 5th Ave. S.W., Calgary, Alberta. Compilation and modelling of gas reserves data to support facilities applications. Collection, verification, and evaluation of gas reserves data throughout North America. Updating reserves determinations from in-house reserves data and reservoir models. Providing reserves data for both pipeline and economic forecasting models. Use of Macintosh and VAX computer systems.
1984 - 1987; Wellsite Geologist: Amarok Petroleum Consultants (currently inoperative) Geologic Wellsite consulting including collection and description of geologic samples, and quality control of wireline logging data. September, 2002 –
June, 2005; Secondary Science Teacher, TVDSB: London, Ont.
Summer, 1991; Summer, 1989; Engineer in Training: Western Gas Marketing Ltd., 505 8th Ave S.W., Calgary, Alberta. Evaluation of contractual commitment of reserves of individual producers of natural gas within a large producer pool. Direct contact with producers and suppliers of natural gas, as necessary, for information acquisition and problem solving. Use of Macintosh computers.
Summer, 1990; Research Assistant: Surface Science Western, University of Western Ontario. Design and implement a lab bench process to attach enzymes to a Nitrogen Plasma Altered Polyethylene Surface. Use of DOS based PC's.
OTHER RELATED EXPERIENCE:
COMPUTER SKILLS:
DOS PC's: Scholastic and work place experience with DOS, Windows95/98, MSOffice, Word Perfect, Lotus123, Freelance, Harvard Graphics, etc.
Macintosh: Work place experience with Apple IIc, including Word, Excel, Mapmaker, Filemaker, HyperCard, etc.
PERSONAL DATA:
Born: March 2, 1959, Canada, English Speaking Canadian Citizen
Married, 2 boys ( 22 and 15 years of age)
Hobbies: Golf, reading science fiction, fishing, participating in sports with my children, ballroom dancing
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