Derrick M. Dotson

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Tyler, Texas 75706

Home: 903-***-**** Cell: 903-***-****

E-mail: act43o@r.postjobfree.com

Linked In: https://www.linkedin.com/pub/derrick-dotson/18/191/a81

Career Summary: Experienced and driven multi-discipline scientist with 14 years of experience as a

Chemist in a fixed lab, working in the petrochemical and water industries and 8 years of

experience, working in a mobile Chemistry and Geology field lab in the Oil and Gas Industry.

Employment: 6/2015 – 8/2015 Toledo Mudlogging Services, Inc.

Many, Louisiana. Field Geologist, Mudlogger and Unit Manager.

Travel to and from Rigs. Live on Rig Location during Drilling.

Manage the Rig Up of the Mobil Lab and all Equipment.

Supervise and Train Junior Mud Loggers, Field Geologist and trainees.

Manage supply inventory and maintenance, calibration and repair of all on-site equipment.

Communicate effectively with all rig and office personnel.

Monitor Drilling Operations and coordinate operations with drilling engineer, operations geologist and all on-site and office personnel.

Monitor and analyze gas, lithology and drilling mud. Call all requested Formation Tops.

Manage the generation of the Gas and Lithologic Logs and all reports to accurately represent all available data.

Analyze and Evaluate all data to prepare the End of Well Report for the Drilling Engineer, Operations Geologist and Office Personnel.

Conduct Health, Environmental and Safety Audits. Hold Safety Meetings

Recognize opportunities to provide other services to the operator that would aid in the completion of the well or future wells and facilitate the quote estimate for services.

4/2013 – 3/2015 Weatherford International Surface Logging Systems(SLS)

Houston, Texas. Field Geologist, Mud Logger and Unit Manager.

Travel to and from Rigs. Live on Rig Location during Drilling.

Manage the Rig Up of Mobil Lab and all Equipment.

Supervise and Train Junior Mud Loggers and trainees.

Manage supply inventory and maintenance, calibration and repair of all on-site equipment.

Communicate effectively with all rig and office personnel.

Monitor Drilling Operations and coordinate operations with drilling engineer, operations geologist and all on-site and office personnel.

Monitor and analyze gas, lithology and drilling mud. Call all requested Formation Tops.

Manage the generation of the Gas and Lithologic Logs and all reports to accurately represent all available data.

Analyze and evaluate all data to prepare the End of Well Report for the Drilling Engineer, Operations Geologist and Office Personnel.

Received some field training in XRF/XRD.

Conduct Health, Environmental and Safety Audits. Hold Safety Meetings

Recognize opportunities to provide other services to the operator that would aid in the completion of the well or future wells and facilitate the quote estimate for services.

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12/2012 – 3/2013 Paladin Surface Logging, Edmond, Oklahoma.

Field Geologist, Mud Logger and Unit Manager.

Travel to and from Rigs. Live on Rig Location during Drilling.

Manage the Rig Up of the Mobil Lab and all Equipment.

Supervise and Train Junior Mud Loggers and trainees.

Manage supply inventory and maintenance, calibration and repair of all on-site equipment.

Communicate effectively with all rig and office personnel.

Monitor Drilling Operations and coordinate operations with drilling engineer, operations geologist and all on-site and office personnel.

Monitor and analyze gas, lithology and drilling mud. Call all requested Formation Tops.

Manage the generation of the Gas and Lithologic Logs and all reports to accurately represent all available data.

Analyze and Evaluate all data to prepare the End of Well Report for the Drilling Engineer, Operations Geologist and Office Personnel.

Conduct Health, Environmental and Safety Audits. Hold Safety Meetings

Recognize opportunities to provide other services to the operator that would aid in the completion of the well or future wells and facilitate the quote estimate for services.

2/2011 – 11/2012 Geosearch Logging, Empirica and ALS. Edmond, Oklahoma.

Field Geologist, Mud Logger and Unit Manager.

Travel to and from Rigs. Live on Rig Location during Drilling.

Manage the Rig Up of the Mobil Lab and all Equipment.

Supervise and Train Junior Mud Loggers and trainees.

Manage supply inventory and maintenance, calibration and repair of all on-site equipment.

Communicate effectively with all rig and office personnel.

Monitor Drilling Operations and coordinate operations with drilling engineer, operations geologist and all on-site and office personnel.

Monitor and analyze gas, lithology and drilling mud. Call all requested Formation Tops.

Manage the generation of the Gas and Lithologic Logs and all reports to accurately represent all available data.

Analyze and Evaluate all data to prepare the End of Well Report for the Drilling Engineer, Operations Geologist and Office Personnel.

Conduct Health, Environmental and Safety Audits. Hold Safety Meetings

Recognize opportunities to provide other services to the operator that would aid in the completion of the well or future wells and facilitate the quote estimate for services.

8/2010 – 2/2011 The Mudlogging Company(TMC), Houston, Texas.

Engineer and Mud Logger.

Travel to and from Rigs. Live on Rig Location during Drilling.

Rig Up of the Mobil Lab and all Equipment.

Maintain supply inventory and maintain, calibrate and repair all on-site equipment.

Communicate effectively with all rig and office personnel.

Monitor Drilling Operations and coordinate operations with drilling engineer, operations geologist and all on-site and office personnel.

Monitor and analyze gas, lithology and drilling mud. Call all requested Formation Tops.

Generate the Gas and Lithologic Logs and all reports to accurately represent all available data.

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8/2007 – 4/2009 Geosearch Logging, Edmond, Oklahoma.

Mud Logger, Field Geologist and Unit Manager.

Travel to and from Rigs. Live on Rig Location during Drilling.

Manage the Rig Up of Mobil Lab and all Equipment.

Supervise and Train Junior Mud Loggers and trainees.

Manage supply inventory and maintenance, calibration and repair of all on-site equipment.

Communicate effectively with all rig and office personnel.

Monitor Drilling Operations and coordinate operations with drilling engineer, operations geologist and all on-site and office personnel.

Monitor and analyze gas, lithology and drilling mud. Call all requested Formation Tops.

Manage the generation of the Gas and Lithologic Logs and all reports to accurately represent all available data.

Analyze and evaluate all data to prepare the End of Well Report for the Drilling Engineer, Operations Geologist and Office Personnel.

Recognize opportunities to provide other services to the operator that would aid in the completion of the well or future wells and facilitate the quote estimate for services.

4/2006 – 2/2007 Sterling Life Insurance Company. AON Family of Insurance

Companies. Licensed Medicare Health Specialist. Tyler, Texas.

Direct Sales of Life, Health and Supplemental Insurance Plans.

5/1993 – 6/2005 Dallas Water Utilities, The City of Dallas, Texas.

May 1998 – June 2005 Chemist in the Analytical Research Lab – Pretreatment and

Laboratory Services(PALS).

Performed numerous microbiological, wet chemistry, organic and inorganic analyses.

Managed the Laboratory Analyses for the Industrial and Wastewater Pretreatment Programs, bringing the majority of the work back under the Analytical and Research Lab from contract labs saving Dallas many thousands of dollars per month of outside lab fees. Also by generating data that would hold up in court and having the chemist who performed the analyses available to testify enabled Dallas Water Utilities to fine industries and actually collect that revenue.

Managed the Wet Chemistry analyses for the Watershed Management Program.

During spills in the watershed, also assisted with the Organic Analyses Associated with the Containment and Remediation. By keeping these analyses in house, the data generated would hold up in court and having the chemist available to testify allowed the Dallas Water Utilities to estimate the damage from spills for court purposes.

Managed the Laboratory Metals Analyses for the Air Monitoring program for the Department of Health and Human Services for an old Lead Smelter–Superfund Site in West Dallas.

Assisted the Process Control Labs at the Wastewater and Water Treatment Plants with any analyses they could not perform.

Supervised new Method Development and the actual writing of the methods to add to SOP.

Reviewed and Updated the SOP Methods to reflect the way methods were actually being performed.

Assisted with all method validation and verification required for the approval by regulatory agencies.

Assisted with all Permit Renewal Analyses required for the Wastewater Plant's (NPDES) Permit Renewal.

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May 1993 – April 1998 Chemist in the Process Control Lab for the Southside Wastewater Treatment Plant – Pretreatment and Laboratory Services(PALS).

Performed numerous microbiological, wet chemistry and inorganic analyses.

Managed all Wet Chemistry and Microbiology analyses required for the Process Control of the Southside Wastewater Treatment Plant.

Managed the Soil Analyses required for the Surface Bioremediation of the Sludge generated by the Wastewater and Water Treatment Plants. Including the Waste Classification analyses.

Monitored Air(H2S) to reduce and resolve odor complaints.

Supervised the Entire Wastewater Plant Staff on Weekends to stay within Permit Parameters.

Worked closely with the Operations to avoid Permit Violations.

Supervised the Laboratory Staff on Weekends and when the Lab Manager was Off.

Conduct Health, Environmental and Safety Audits.

2/1992 – 3/1993 Temporary Assignment through Lab Support Inc. to Eastman

Kodak, Texas Eastman Chemical Plant in Longview, Texas. Environmental Analyst.

Primary Environmental Organic Lab Reporting to the Regulatory Agencies – Superfund Site.

Performed numerous types of organic extractions, including Liquid Liquid, Sonications, TCLP(Volatile and Nonvolatile), Solid Phase and Supercritical Fluid Extractions.

Performed Inorganic Analyses both by AA and ICP.

Ran Purge and Trap GC for the analyses of Volatile Organics.

Performed Bench Worked for the Method Development of the Super Critical Fluid Extraction Method as an alternative to Sonication Extractions. Took Direction directly from Suprex and On-Site Chemist with Texas Eastman.

Performed Bench Work for a large Research Project between Eastman Kodak and the EPA involving the in-situ bioremediation of contaminated ground water. Took direction from Kodak – Tenn., the EPA and On-Site Texas Eastman Chemist.

Performed Waste Classification Anlyses for all on-site spills.

Education: Stephen F. Austin State University, Nacogdoches, Texas. Attended 9/1987 – 8/1991.

B.S. Biology, Graduated 8/1991.

Major: Aquatic Biology

Minor: Environmental Chemistry

University of North Texas, Denton, Texas. Attended 1/1994 – 5/1995.

No Further Degree Completed.

Performed additional Undergraduate Course work in Physics and Geology.

Performed Graduate Course Work in Geology and Biology.

Carthage High School, Carthage, Texas. 8/1983 – 5/1987

Diploma May 1987. (Top 10% of Class).

Honor Student / Honor Graduate.

Who's Who Among American High School Students.

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