Technical Manager, Engineer with 20 years of offshore drilling technical leadership, engineering, project, marketing, contracts and business development experience.

I have approximately 20 years of offshore drilling project management, contracts, engineering, sales and strategy experience. After graduating from Texas A&M Galveston in 1996 with a B.S. in Maritime Systems Engineering, I was employed with Waller Marine, a marine consulting firm providing structural and naval architectural support to the offshore and marine transportation industries.

I then moved to Reading & Bates Drilling Company (Transocean), where I performed various structural and project engineering duties, including general rig modifications, upgrades, and mobilizations which often required travel to SE Asia, Brazil, India and West Africa. I was also assigned to an Operations Technical Field Support Group supporting numerous ultra-deep water drilling units in the Gulf of Mexico and Eastern Canada. Immediately before joining Atwood in 2005, I was employed with Technip Offshore where I led various project disciplines including deep water anchor system design.

I then joined Atwood, and was assigned to the Engineering group, assisting with daily support functions as well as several projects, including a new-build semisubmersible program in Singapore. In April of 2012, I joined Integrated Drilling Equipment, a turn-key rig manufacturer, where I was tasked to develop an offshore group. During that period, IDE completed a public offering and dramatically expanded its presence in the offshore space including the award of four modular offshore platform rigs for PEMEX (US$350MM+).

In May of 2013, I moved to ExxonMobil to help with the planning of a new modular rig intended for extended reach drilling off Sakhalin Island, Russia. I then moved to Transocean, assisting with arctic upgrade feasibility studies. I was most recently with KBR-GVA developing and marketing new rig concepts and engineering services. In parallel to my daily responsibilities, I have consistently tracked offshore drilling market trends and studied all available investor information for over ten years. I am currently an independent industry technical consultant for litigation, investor diligence, market analysis, etc.

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