Project Manager Software Engineer

DANIEL WILLIAM ENGFER, PH.D.

832-***-**** ********@*****.*** skype: dwengfer 4444 Cullen Blvd #212, Houston, Texas 77004-2635

OBJECTIVE: Ph.D. physicist seeking career change to petroleum industry. Desires F/T position in exploration geophysics.

EDUCATION

M.S., Geophysics Candidate 2013, University of Houston, Houston, Texas

Ph.D., Atmospheric Physics, University of Texas at Dallas, Richardson, Texas

M.S., Physics, University of Texas at Dallas, Richardson, Texas

B.S., Physics, Dickinson College, Carlisle, Pennsylvania

RELEVANT INDUSTRY KNOWLEDGE AND SKILLS

Signal Processing & Imaging Geophysical Data Processing Remote Sensing Computer Modeling ArcGIS Certified

SMT Kingdom Numerical Simulations Physics Geophysics Atmospheric Physics Project Management

AWARDS AND MEMBERSHIPS

Received an Outstanding Achievement Award from NASA for my contribution to the Hubble Space Telescope Servicing Mission 3A.

Memberships: Geophysical Society of Houston. Society of Exploration Geophysicists. American Association of Petroleum Geologists.

PUBLICATIONS

Engfer, D. W. and B. A. Tinsley, An Investigation of Short-Term Solar Wind Modulation of Atmospheric Electricity at Mauna Loa

Observatory, Journal of Solar-Terrestrial Physics, 61, 943-953, 1999.

Reiger, E., D. F. Neidig, D. W. Engfer and D. Strelow, The Role of High-Energy Protons and Electrons in Powering the Solar White Light

Flare Emission, Solar Physics, 167, 307-320, 1996.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

CASSINI ASSET MANAGEMENT June 2003 August 2012

Project Manager / Business Development Manager Texas / Virginia / Florida

Managed employees and contractors on a daily basis; planned company budgets; oversaw multi-million dollar development projects.

Primary person responsible for new property acquisition, including raising $20M of capital, and securing purchase contracts and leases.

JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY APPLIED PHYSICS LABORATORY June 2000 June 2003

Senior Staff Member Laurel, Maryland

Developed critical software tools that enable researchers to study environmental hazards to astronauts during spaceflights by analyzing

geophysical data from satellites.

LOCKHEED MARTIN SPACE OPERATIONS January 1999 May 2000

Senior Software Engineer Greenbelt, Maryland

Programmed safeguards that prevent the submission of dangerous attitude commands to the Hubble Space Telescope.

THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT DALLAS PHYSICS DEPARTMENT September 1996 August 1998

Physics Researcher Richardson, Texas

Planned and managed a team project that increased an atmospheric electricity database used for sun-earth connections research by 50%.

Devised a statistical signal-processing algorithm to measure tiny global electric circuit responses to magnetic storms.

Computed ionospheric potential differences by analyzing telemetry data from the Dynamics Explorer 2 satellite.

ADDITIONAL EXPERIENCE AND BACKGROUND INFORMATION

Remote Sensing / Radiometrics Internship: Launched balloon radiosondes and measured atmospheric turbulence near Dallas / Fort

Worth airport for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) to safeguard commercial airplanes.

Completed Mini-MBA from The Wharton School at The University of Pennsylvania.

Received Dale Carnegie Leadership Training for Managers Certificate.

Will work overseas Have traveled to more than 50 countries

Languages: Novice Spanish proficiency Novice Russian proficiency

NASA / Goddard Space Flight Center Internship: Developed and tested a theoretical model that accurately simulates X-ray emission

mechanisms in the sun s atmosphere using Monte Carlo numerical techniques as a researcher.

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