Michael Barth
Commerce City, CO *******.**************@*****.***
303-***-**** https://www.linkedin.com/in/michael-barth-a2620b4a/ Professional Summary
Executed strong ability to abstract and analyze deeds, deeds of trust/mortgages, easements, judgments, tax assessments, mineral reservations, and other related instruments to ascertain title ownership of residential and/or commercial properties and complex ownership.
Demonstrated efficient and effective usage of online official search services and the official grantor and/or grantee indices to search public records, retrieve recorded documents, and the chain of title to residential and commercial properties across multiple states and counties.
Implemented professional leadership and excised title expertise in team environments for the operational success in processing 750,000 acres below a 1% error margin in captured data on title and leasing projects that surpasses $1 billion in total allocated budgets.
Work Experience
Bear Logic, LLC 2013 - 2025
Title Abstractor
Abstracted county records on residential and commercial properties across multiple states, such as CO, KS, WY, NM, AZ, OH, IL, PA, WV, FL, TX, and Alaska, and proficient with the different record search software used by the counties including title plant online search services.
Routinely analyzed the deeds, deeds of trust and/or mortgages, encumbrances, liens, judgments, probates, easements, tax assessments, reservations, and related recorded instruments to ascertain ownership.
Compiled title reports on residential and commercial properties that have had 48-hour deadlines upon receiving the title order request.
Percheron, LLC 2011 - 2013
Land Administrator
Validated all the oil and gas leases and clauses and/or addendums at the incoming velocity rate of 5,000 minimum leased acreage per week.
Managed a professional relationship with Landmen in resolving complex heirships and reviewing the legal evidence, such as LW&Ts, probates, and affidavits, relating to oil and gas leasing before being accepted.
Assigned to develop a project MS Excel spreadsheet to extract unleased titled land, which ended up becoming the entire project’s land tracking tool that captured all the leased, unleased, held by production, storage, and so on status tags for capturing data on 750,000 plus acres.
Processed all the title abstracts and examined title documentation and verified the reported net mineral interest sums to 1.0 and/or 100% with supporting deeds and title evidence at the rate of 10,000 titled acres per week.
Implemented an optimized approach and convention for inserting land records to improve the usability of the MS Excel built-in features, in so far, being 100% accurate when compared to the main database system. Education
Colorado Technical Institute
Bachelor of Science in Information Technology
Concentration: Software Systems Engineering (GPA 3.81) Alaska Institute of Technology
Associate of Applied Science in Web Application Development Concentration, Web-based technologies (GPA 3.89)