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CFI's Financial Modeling & Valuation Analyst (FMVA®) Certification imparts vital financial analysis skills, emphasizing constructing effective financial models for confident business decisions. The comprehensive program ensures mastery in modeling, budgeting, forecasting, and overall competency in accounting and finance.

The hands-on FMVA® curriculum and real-world applications prepare individuals for roles in investment banking, private equity, M&A, business valuation, and corporate finance.

Skills: Business Valuation · Financial Modeling · Data-driven Decision Making

Supervising, problem solving, and innovating operations for Cache Energy that has developed an ultra-long duration [inter-seasonal to annual timeframe] energy storage technology.

Skills: Rapid Prototyping · Product Development · Resource Allocation

Advised geothermal developers [EGS and AGS] to accelerate deployment.

Skills: Geothermal drilling

Led the execution of programs, including the Aerospace Innovation Hub/Campus, the U.S. Department of Energy's Energyshed Project, Port of Alaska’s Defense Community Infrastructure Project, and Equipment Installation and Techno-Economic Analysis for Peter Pan Seafoods. 

Teamed up with government, industry partners, and startups to deploy $1 billion in technical projects in Alaska by the year 2030. Collaborated with founders and CEOs of cutting-edge tech startups in renewables, aviation, and space.

Skills: Program Management · Cross-functional Team Leadership · Contract Negotiation · Resource Allocation

Worked alongside the CEO, with focus on business organization and programmatic function. Championed initiatives that enabled smooth transitions for organizational-level change.

Established company policies and procedures for IT/Cyber security, knowledge-, financial-, and human capital-management.

Skills: Technical Requirements Gathering · Optimization

Advised leadership by deploying my software products and identified compelling cost reductions; for one field/location these amounted to an average savings of 26% of operational cost over a three year period. 

Completed a comprehensive Geomechanical / Wellbore Stability Study for an offshore field.

Skills: Optimization · Big Data Analytics · Technical Leadership · Critical Thinking · Argumentation · Data-driven Decision Making

Recommended redesign of tools and automation technologies; an example of such prescriptive guidance was a 54% reduction in operational costs.

Scaled my software solution suite to push the boundaries of Extended Reach Drilling [ERD]. 

Process-critical role in the successful implementation of a first-of-its-kind [FOAK] hardware tool.

Skills: Optimization · Machine Learning · Big Data Analytics

Bootstrapped a startup to commercialize a drilling optimization machine learning software suite. Pitched the product suite to secure contracts with two major oil & gas companies.

Automated the data ingestion, transformation, and analysis workflows to assure data quality, consistency, and scalability.

Designed unique and insightful data visualization dashboards to provide prescriptive guidance, correlate complex relationships, and track key performance metrics to enable aggressive continuous improvement.

Skills: Technology Leadership · Startup Development · Product Development · Machine Learning · Rapid Prototyping

Subject Matter Expert in upstream engineering planning. Directed implementation teams to consistently execute high-profile projects on schedule and within budget.

Skills: Data-driven Decision Making · ERD (Extended Reach Drilling) · Optimization

Planned and implemented technical products / solutions as a Subject Matter Expert and directed teams during deployment.

Skills: Directional Drilling · Data-driven Decision Making · ERD (Extended Reach Drilling) · Data Analysis · Optimization

Led the field-testing and refinement of a prototype drilling tool. Set up procedures and wrote technical user manuals.

Successfully introduced and supported a real-time monitoring and communications solution on the extremely remote North Slope of Alaska.

Skills: Rapid Prototyping · Drilling Engineering

• Petroleum Engineering, Reservoir

• Graduate Student of the Year Award, 1997

• Research & Teaching Assistantships