4415 E. 38th
Street · Tulsa, OK 74135 · 918-749-4855 · [email protected]
Scientist
Goal-oriented professional
with engineering, mathematical, computer science and statistical analysis
skills. Extensive background in the
petroleum and aerospace industries.
Highly organized. Manages
multiple projects simultaneously and meets deadlines. Strong work ethic and commitment to excellence. Team player. Works effectively with all departments to solve problems, improve
processes and generate new ideas and methods.
Project Concepts &
Implementation
Leadership Skills
Design & Engineering
Oral & Written
Communications
Applied Mathematics
Instruction & Training
Scheduling &
Coordination
Computer Skills
Analysis & Problem
Solving
Project Concepts, Analysis
& Problem Solving.
1. X-Ray
Diffraction: Automated an X-Ray
Diffraction Laboratory. Studied the
X-Ray diffraction process, invented a quantitative analysis algorithm, and
designed and created a computer system.
Decreased required staff by a factor of two, doubled the throughput,
halved process time, and added quantitative information to laboratory reports.
2. Seismic
Ray Tracing: Designed, created, and supported a multicomponent seismic ray
tracing facility. Studied seismic ray
propagation. Designed, created, and supported a computer system. Created instructional materials, web pages,
and user manuals. Instructed users.
Provided ways of evaluating proposed multicomponent seismic illumination
plans and efficient methods for improving seismic velocity models.
3. Airplane
Simulation: Studied KC10 airplane
simulators. Visited and evaluated simulation facilities. Modified existing
computer codes. Maintained a computer
network. Wrote a status and upgrade report which is the basis for currently
ongoing work upgrading KC10 simulators.
4. Fluid
Flow: Resolved problem of multiple stable flow regions in producing
wells. Studied multiphase fluid flow in
pipes, well flow computer programs, and ambiguous predictions. Concluded that
there can be several stable flow rates
consistent with each well configuration.
5. Metal
Alloy Testing: Built a high temperature impact tensile testing
machine. Studied impact tensile
machines, and elevated temperature stress/rupture machines. Designed, built, and tested an elevated
temperature impact testing machine.
6. Apollo
Space Program: Tested the ablation shield of the Apollo reentry module.
Applied Mathematics.
7. Offshore
Structures Dynamics: Modified
drilling jacket trajectory computer programs. Studied the dynamics of three
dimensional marine structures. Generalized differential equations of motion,
modified computer programs, produced display software, and instructional
materials, instructed users, and published the results. The improved programs allow barge motion
which absorbs much of the launch energy, reducing the motion of the jacket
during the launch, thus reducing the jacket launch stresses, and allowing the
design of lighter, more economical structures.
8. Singularity
Free Rotations: Invented a
singularity free representation for rotation. This representation is used in
the BP barge launch program, the borehole survey program, and the generalized
elastic coefficient measurement.
9. Matrix
Multiplication: Applied Strassen’s
matrix multiplication algorithm to speed up matrix multiplication on high-speed
computers. Wrote and tested the
algorithm, found it to be significantly faster than the standard methods, and
provided the resulting codes to vendors who incorporated it into their
software. The resulting codes made
possible the processing of much larger seismic surveys, increasing the
resolution, and making possible prospecting in seismically complex regions.
Leadership Skills.
12. Petroleum
Reservoir Modeling: Lead a group
that designed and created the Amoco Functional Reservoir Model. Translated the
100 man-year GCOMP program from Fortran 77 into the Functional programming
language, Miranda, using 3 man-years of effort. This demonstrated that the functional programming style could be
used to reduce programming effort and improve parallelization for a significant
programming application
13. Athletic
Programs: Produced monthly reports
of Amoco employee usage of the Saint Francis Health Zone. Designed, created, operated, and maintained
the Amoco exercise monitoring system for the Amoco exercise program with the
Saint Francis Health Zone. This
motivated employees to exercise conscientiously and provided the Amoco medical
insurance department with a database of information justifying the expense of
the exercise program.
14. Corporate
Challenge: Lead the Amoco Corporate
Challenge team for the first 10 years.
Studied physical fitness, studied the corporate challenge rules, wrote
data base, report writing, and communication software, organized 200+ employees
into event teams, and support crews and coordinated the support and event
teams. As a result, Amoco was the
strongest team in the challenge for those years.
Computer Skills.
15. Parallel
Computation: Produced standards for parallel extensions for general
programming languages for Amoco Production Company and Bruce Leasure of Kuck
and Associates and the American National Standards Institute. As secretary of ANSI committee X3H5 from
1986 to 1992, I maintained the proposed standard for parallel extensions for
programming languages and verified that those extensions are parsable by
standard compiler generation tools by writing a successful parser. Our proposals laid foundations on which High
Performance FORTRAN (HPF) and other ANSI committees developed their standards.
16. Sand
Production Prediction: Improved
algorithms for the prediction of sand production from oil reservoirs for Ian
Palmer of British Petroleum. I cleaned
and integrated data sets, created Visual Basic extensions for Excel, performed
least square optimizations using Excel and Mathematica, executed Excel
spreadsheets, and created PowerPoint presentations showing potential sand
production from BP offshore production development projects. The resulting computations allows BP to
compare production schemes such as the installation of $500,000,000 worth of
sand control equipment versus reduction of production and production rates in
the Crazy Horse prospect.
17. Sorting: Increased the speed of Amoco seismic
migration and stacking software. I
studied sorting algorithms, and wrote and tested a sorting subroutine designed
to increase the speed of the sorting step in seismic processing software. The resulting sorting codes were two to ten
times faster than the previous codes allowing processing of much lager data
sets and provided timely seismic images.
18. Gamma
Ray Spectroscopy: Developed quantitative Gamma Ray spectroscopy for Wally
Herbert of Amoco Production Company.
Studied algorithms for relating gamma ray spectra to estimates of rock
composition, coded a least square algorithm into a computer program, measured
standard samples, and evaluated the accuracy of the algorithm. The new algorithm allows estimation of rock
types from well bore or laboratory derived gamma ray spectra.
PCM TECHNICAL (Tulsa, OK)
2001 - Present
TULSA COMMUNITY COLLEGE
(Tulsa, OK) 1999 - Present
BP-AMOCO (Tulsa, OK) 1973 -
1999
The University of Colorado
(Boulder, CO), 1973
Ph.D. in Aerospace
Engineering Sciences
M.S. in Aerospace Engineering
Purdue University (West Lafayette, IN), 1964
B.S. in Engineering Science