PROFILE Industrial Fluids and Equipment Development Professional qualified by 35 years of experience of experience and a proven track record in the field and the lab delivering results to major participants in highly competitive business operations.

Exceptional business skills, focusing on results and cost-effectiveness combined with high productivity, targeting maximum profit potential on domestic and international projects.

Demonstrated research and testing capability contributing to expertise in state-of-the art technologies and regulatory/environmental issues related to projects involving chemicals, chemical systems, and related equipment.

Customer service orientation resulting in exceptional problem-solving skills in team operations involving professionals from a wide range of disciplines.

EXPERIENCE EOG RESOURCES, San Antonio, Texas 2017-2020

Drilling Fluids Consultant

Test and maintain drilling fluid properties while drilling horizontal wells in New Mexico.

Help design, build, and operate the World’s largest, and only, flow loop built to scale for studying cuttings

conveyance at different pump rates, pipe rotation / reciprocation, rheological properties, and angles.

Research and develop different additives for lost circulation in fractured formations, spotting fluids to free stuck

pipe, surfactants to enhance low gravity solid separation with decanter centrifuges, and effects of oil condensate

on invert emulsions.

PRO OILFIELD SERVICES, LLC, Houston, Texas 2014-2017

Chemical / Mixing Plant Manager

Manage people and operations of Mixing Plants utilized for drilling out plugs after fracking.

Work with chemical suppliers to modify, or reformulate, chemicals used to optimum properties and improved

margins.

Increased Equipment Utilization by 50% and Chemical Sales of $ 600K in 2015. Equipment utilization 70% with

chemical sales on track for $ 1.1M in 2016.

Currently expanding chemical applications for other divisions for improved market share and equipment utilization.

Water Tech, Inc., Fort Smith, Arkansas 2012-2014

Account Manager and Oilfield Product Development

Develop performance chemicals used to enhance liquid-solids separation for oilfield waste streams.

Develop de-emulsifiers for improved separation of water and sediment (BS&W) of crude oil from tank bottoms,

and biofuels.

Individual sales of $ 600K in 2013 and $ 1.2M in 2014.

GTech-HILTECH, Conroe, Texas 2011-2012

VP TECHNICAL APPLICATIONS

Develop performance chemicals used to enhance sludge and waste dewatering.

Develop a “Polymer on Demand” system for coagulants and flocculants in both powder, liquid, and emulsion form for mobile dewatering units.

Develop de-emulsifiers for improved separation of water and sediment (BS&W) from crude oil from tank bottoms,

or OBM slop.

Marketing of performance chemicals to enhance liquid-solid separation from waste streams using dewatering equipment (e.g., decanter centrifuges, disc stack centrifuges, belt press, DAF).

EXPERIENCE KEM-TRON Technologies, Inc., Stafford, Texas 2007-2011

VP TECHNICAL SERVICES – DIRECTOR of PERFORMANCE CHEMICALS and APPLICATIONS

Develop performance chemicals used to enhance sludge and waste dewatering of municipal and industrial

effluent including the first winterized organic liquid coagulant.

Developed and invented an all climate liquid/emulsion polymer make-down system to optimize dosage and improved hydration prior to dewatering.

Developed business plan, chemistry, training, and managed field service technicians in three states within 3 months and later selling the division to a large oil field service/equipment rental company for $8M in 2008.

Negotiated contracts and commissioned equipment, or chemicals, in the United States, Middle East,

North Africa, and former Soviet Union.

Individual sales of $ 750K in 2008 and increased by 30% each year until resignation in 2011.

OFI Testing Equipment, Houston, Texas 1998 - 2007

PRODUCT and BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT

Developed new and less hazardous formulations of reagents used according to API recommended practices.

Assisted in development of pressurized and low shear viscometers used for evaluating frac and drilling fluids.

Developed water and waste water testing equipment used including one used to simulate “rise rate” with Dissolved Air Flotation (DAF) on a bench scale.

Developed techniques and standards required for test for non-aqueous drilling fluids according to EPA procedures.

Business development manager for testing equipment sold in the rocky mountain and mid-continent states.

Individual annual sales 2001 was $ 400K and increased 22% each year until resignation in 2007.

Liquid Casing, Houston, Texas 1996 - 1998

BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT

Help develop and market products for seepage and lost circulation of drilling fluids used for oil and gas exploration.

KEM-TRON Technologies, Inc., Stafford, Texas 1991 – 1996

PRODUCT MANAGER

Managed international projects, innovating and marketing products such as water soluble polymers to the oil and gas industry and for waste water and effluent management in petrochemical, textile, mining, and paper industries.

Introduced high performance Linear Motion Shakers and Decanter Centrifuges to the former Soviet Union that led to over $ 13M sales during a 3 year period.

Developed chemical processes for waste water treatment and sludge dewatering facilities.

Generated clientele according to a corporate philosophy of tailoring products and services to particular clients projects in the United States and former Soviet Union.

Triton USA, Stafford, Texas 1987 - 1991

DRILLING FLUIDS SPECIALIST

Analyze test results on the drilling fluid being utilized for oil and gas exploration and make recommendations to sustain optimum properties.

Assist the drilling foreman during well control operations and overall drilling management.

Operate and maintain all types of liquid – solids separation equipment.

Submit post-well analysis at the conclusion of each well, to disclose ways of improving methods used to drill wells in the future.

Assigned to first turn-key horizontal well in North Dakota, “Closed Loop” (zero discharge) system, and other special drilling projects.

O’Brien-Goins and Simpson, Houston, Texas 1986 – 1987

LABORATORY ASSISTANT / DRILLING FLUIDS SPECIALIST

Participated in the formulation and testing of drilling fluids utilized on micro bit drilling with Downhole Simulation Cell under triaxial stress.

Assigned to wells utilizing drilling fluids on special projects.

EXPERIENCE Milpark, Inc., Houston, Texas 1980 – 1986

DRILLING FLUIDS ENGINEER

Gained extensive background and expertise in drilling fluids applications through contributions to special projects utilizing new products and techniques for enhancing oil and gas drilling operations.

Special projects included Deepwater Drilling for SOHIO and using invert and inhibitive WBM drilling fluids off the shores of Texas and Louisiana coast in the Gulf of Mexico.

EDUCATION University of Texas at Austin 1977

TRAINING Milchem Mud Technology Certification, Solids Control Certification, Carbonate Certification,

Triton Engineering Well Control

SafeLand Certified

Environmental Options Hazardous Material Training

HACH Applied Analytical Chemistry

Activated Sludge Process Control

Biological Nutrient Removal

Principles of Partnership Selling

H.U.E.T.

H2S

PUBLISHED Managing Mud While Mitigating Impacts to Real Estate, the Environment and the Budget

Offshore Technology International, June 2010

Saving Money, Time, and the Environment through Chemistry

Trenchless Technology, October 2010

PATENT US PATENT 201********

(Applied) System Method to De-Water Waste Drilling Fluid, March 2010

US PATENT 201********

Portable Polymer Hydration – Conditioning System

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