Shannon D. Sorrell
Charlestown, IN 47111
Cell: 812-***-****
**********@***.***
PETROLEUM LANDMAN /TELECOMMUNICATIONS TECHNICIAN
QUALIFICATIONS AND ACHIEVEMENTS
• Oil and Natural Gas:
Worked in Appalachian, New Albany and Barnett Shale Oil & Gas Lease Acquisition Crew.
Strong negotiation skills. Adept at dealing with a wide variety of land owners.
Demonstrate ability to be highly effective in the fast paced, ever changing oil and natural gas and telecom industries.
Familiar with county courthouse records, have the ability to identify surface ownership and obtain cursory deed and Plat information.
Quick learner with the ability to troubleshoot and take corrective action on projects with little or no supervision.
Telecommunication:
Knowledgeable background in the installation of routers, servers, ADSL equipment, digital phone systems, Category cabling, DDM 1000, 2000, OC12, OC48 and OC192 Multiplexers & Fiber Terminal Shelves.
Installation knowledge of Fujitsu, Teltrend, Allcatel and Realtec. Lucent and Motorola CDMA cell equipment installs and integration. Cisco routers for BTS circuit to packet and EVDO; repeaters, channel banks, battery back ups, alarms, fiber optics, cable racks, (bay’s) PWR 500 and 750 cables to CO BDFB’s.
Land leasing for cellular sites (negotiate with property owners on behalf of the client) Ex. right of ways and power easements.
Achievements:
University of Central Oklahoma (RL) Registered Landman Course. Associate Membership into the AAPL (American Association Professional Landman).
Oil and Gas Seminars.
Time management courses and knowledgeable in PC skills.
EMPLOYMENT
Bryson Kuba Inc. – Fort Worth, TX –Tarrant County 01/08-11/2008
Agency for XTO Energy, Oil and Natural Gas Production
• Petroleum Landman
• Oil and Gas lease acquisition.
• Interdepartmental interaction and cooperation to help accommodate drilling schedule.
• Pay off drafts for new lease purchases and check associated documents for adequacy.
• Maintain spreadsheets to monitor proposals.
• Data, ownership and order for payments reports for Plan.
• Right of ways (roads and pipelines), Oil & Gas pad locations and Surface Damages.
• Notary State of Texas.
• Presentation and signing parties with HOA and Coalition.
• Mapping; Deed plotting (Plotter).
EMPLOYMENT
Myers & Myers Inc. – Oklahoma Market. Cameron, OK 04/07-12/2007
Agency for El Paso Oil and Natural Gas Production
• Petroleum Landman
• Oil and Gas lease acquisition.
• Interdepartmental interaction and cooperation to help accommodate drilling schedule.
• Pay off drafts for new lease purchases and check associated documents for adequacy.
• Maintain spreadsheets to monitor proposals.
• Data, ownership and order for payments reports for Plan.
• Right of ways (roads and pipelines), Oil & Gas pad locations and Surface Damages.
Myers & Myers Inc. – Indiana Market. Jasper IN 02/07-04/2007
Agency for El Paso Oil and Natural Gas Production
• Petroleum Landman
• Landman Oil and Gas lease acquisition.
• Interdepartmental interaction and cooperation to help accommodate drilling schedule.
• Pay off drafts for new lease purchases and check associated documents for adequacy.
• Maintain spreadsheets to monitor proposals.
• Data, ownership and order for payments reports for Plan.
• Right of ways (roads and pipeline), Oil & Gas pad locations. Surface Damages.
• Notary State of Indiana
Robert Powell Inc. - Bluefield, VA & WV 11/06-02/2007
Agency for Dart Oil & Gas Production
• Petroleum Landman
• Negotiating for the acquisition of mineral rights
• Negotiating agreements that provide for the exploration or development of minerals
• Conducting lease availability, title research, mineral take-offs
• Lease and pipeline right-of-way negotiations
• Title curative and other duties which customarily apart of the energy land function
• Oil and Gas lease acquisition, Damage and Site release forms.
Robert Powell Inc. – Oak Ridge, TN 07/06 -11/2006
Agency for Atlas America Inc.
• Petroleum Landman
• Negotiating for the acquisition of mineral rights
• Negotiating agreements that provide for the exploration or development of minerals
• Conducting lease availability, title research, mineral take-offs
• Lease and pipeline right-of-way negotiations
• Title curative and other duties which customarily apart of the energy land function
• Oil and Gas lease Acquisition, Damage and Site release forms
Myers & Myers Inc. - Indiana Market. Jasper, IN 11/05-07/2006
Agency for El Paso Oil and Natural Gas Production
• Petroleum Landman
• Oil and Gas lease acquisition
• Interdepartmental interaction and cooperation to help accommodate drilling schedule
• Pay off drafts for new lease purchases and check associated documents for adequacy
• Maintain spreadsheets to monitor proposals
• Notary State of Indiana
Infracell Inc., Portland, OR 01/05-10/2005
Field Technician CDMA Wireless
Installation; upgrades and downgrades for Motorola BTS. Circuit to packet. EVDO Cisco router programming and Installation, Network integration for all wireless providers, hot swaps, EBR-IBR, Calibration- BBX’s (ATP), program MCCDO cards (loading Spa files) SCFT testing all sectors and carriers ride out using CAIT system, Carrier adds and surveys. More upon request.
Spencer Technologies, Worcester, Mass 10/04-0120/05
Data Communications Technician
Installed, maintained and repaired wireless systems, access point (AP), traffic counters, phone systems, time & attendance systems, data communications and CCTV. Site surveys and network planning
Ubiquitel/Sprint PCS, Evansville, IN 10/03-1220/03
Wireless Field Technician
Serviced and maintained Lucent cell sites which included, land leasing for cell sites, on call duty, communicating w/ Switch or NOC to resolve cell site issues, auditing, perform up/downgrades, spans tested with T-bird from NIU or smart jack, Telnet repeaters, battery backups, RF drive tested and swept antennae’s w/ spectrum analyzer.
Lucent Technologies, Orlando, FL 10/97-0920/03
Associate Communications Service Technician/ Index 3
Installed equipment from surveying & small field engineering, MOP in Central Office and Co locations.
• Verizon Wireless: Installation/Integration and Audits Lucent CDMA Mini, Mod and 1 BTS
• Bellsouth: Toll and Transmission, Switch- 5ESS and some TDMA Wireless. Installed just about everything that goes in a Central Office or wireless. Too much to List.
• Suitcase Coordinator for the Lucent Training Center
• Coordinated classes for 10-12 new students
• Provisioned and repaired mobile training equipment for instructors
AOL/Time Warner Com , Orlando, FL 5/88-11/1996
Service Technician 2
• Use of bucket truck to service and maintain subscriber’s cable and data feed, fiber ring systems and battery back ups from head in to customer premises.
• Performed cable locates with Dynatel equipment.
EDUCATION
NCTI Institute, Denver, CO
Majored in Telecommunications and Electronics – College Course Work Technical Diploma Attained
09/1995
Certificates Of Completion (RL) Registered Landman - College Course Work - 12/2008
Motorola: BTS610 SC 4812 ET CDMA BTS (trunked) - 01/2005
Lucent Technologies Flexent Autoplex: CDMA wireless 1 BTS, Mod and Mini cell BTS - 08/2000
Lucent Technologies LW Wavestar OLS: 400/800G test & turn up - 04/2001
Lucent Technologies DDM 2000: Multiplexers, SLC 2000 06/88
Lucent Technologies Fiber Terminals 06/88
Lucent Technologies Spec & Drawing School 12/97
Department of Education, Tallahassee, Florida High School Diploma 07/86