Highly accomplished members have volunteered to mentor young professionals and students. Anyone seeking a mentor can search the list of volunteer PiF Mentors below and reach out to the mentor through their LinkedIn profile. Then arrange to meet perhaps at a training session to strike up natural and lasting friendships that are win-win.
Guidelines for Mentors*
• What is expected of a Mentor?
– Communicate with your mentee at least one or two times per month through in person meetings and/or email, telephone, Skype or other forms of social media
– Your role as a mentor is to inspire, encourage, and support your mentee and to contribute to his/her professional and personal development
• What do mentors typically share with mentees?
– Professional experience
– Industry trends
– Advice for defining and reaching goals
– Job interview tips and resume reviews for students
– Recommendations for additional education or development
– Academic guidance for students
• Mentors do not typically provide mentees:
– Supplemental tutoring with school projects, papers and research
– Internships or job offers
– Technical consulting
* Guidelines for Pay-it-Forward Mentoring Program follow best practices from SPE eMentoring Program in a fit-for-purpose fashion
Guidelines for Mentees*
• What is expected of a Mentee?
– Communicate with your mentor one or two times per month in person and/or by email, telephone, Skype or other forms of social media
– Take a proactive role in shaping the relationship
– Communicate what you want from the mentoring relationship, including your goals and aspirations
– Be open and honest with your mentor about your strengths and weaknesses
– Set aside time for the mentoring process and keep all scheduled appointments with your mentor
– Put your time with your mentor to good use by planning topics ahead of the meeting / call
– Respond to your mentor’s feedback in a timely manner
| Name: | Tag Line: | Nearest Major Location: | Discipline #1: | Discipline #2: | Function #1: | Function #2: | Key words |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Terry Reed | Supply Chain Manager/Consultant | Houston | Management | Supply Chain | Purchasing | ||
| Griffin Smith | Oilfield Chemistry Problem Solver | Houston | Reservoir | Research and Development | |||
| Gary Althoff | Global Product Development Manager – Formation Evaluation, Wellbore Placement, Telemetry and Applications | Houston | Drilling | Project Management | Product Development | Program Management | Product Manager/Champion | Project Manager | Product Development | Technology Engineering Manager | Global Experience | Problem Solver | Team Builder | Decision Maker | System Design | System Integration | Multi-discipline Technical Knowledge & Experience | Downhole Tool Design | Formation Evaluation | Drilling Systems | Surface Data & Application Systems | Research & Development (R&D) | Sustaining Engineering | LifeCycle Management | Idealization to Commercialization | Innovative |Disruptive Solutions | Oil Field Environment | Training | |
| Tarek Ghazi | Geoscience Software and Data Management Solutiuons | Houston | Geology | IT/Data Management | Management | Subject Matter Expertise, SME, Testing, Training, Customer Support, Technical Sales, Demos | |
| Selim Hannan | Reservoir engineer/Upstream technical advisor | Houston | Engineer | Finance | Engineer | Simulations | |
| Hanh Ngo | open, subsea engineer, project manager | Houston | Engineer | Management | Design Engineer | Facilities/Construction | Project Management, Grant Writing, Product Development, HSE, QAQC, Subsea Engineering, Facilities Management, Installation, Construction, Design/Build, EPC Engineering Procurement Construction, FEED Front End Engineering Design, Alternative and Renewable Energy, Solar, Wind, Turbine, Public Infrastructure, Water, Wastewater, Sanitary Sewer Systems, Systems Engineering, Hyperloop Advanced Research Partnership, Transportation, Mobility, Startups |
| Alex Ortiz | Well Completions Business Professional | Houston | Management | Business | Business Development | Operations | Well Completions, Upstream, Operations, Business Development, Product Management, Project Management |
| Rajan Rekhi | Consultant | Houston | Engineering | Project Management | Engineer | Management | facilities engineer, structural engineer, engineering manager, project manager |
| Walt Laflin | Director of Engineering | Houston | Engineering | Management | Design Engineer | Product Development | |
| Debra McCall | Manufacturing Operations Manager and Chemical Engineer | Houston | Engineering | Manufacturing | Management | Manufacturing | chemicals, manufacturing, chemical engineering, upstream, fracturing, completions, cementing, management, operations, process engineering |
| Marcia Jones | Project Manager | Houston | Project Management | IT/Data Management | Project Manager | Software | |
| Tad Bostick | Business Development and Technology Commercialization | Houston | Completions | Production | Product Development | Business Development | Completions, Production, Monitoring, Data, Digital, Sensing, Sensors, Fiber, Optic, Management, Technology, Development, Business, HTHP, HPHT, Operations |
| Oluwatosin Oladeji | Petroleum Engineer/Supervisor | Calgary | Completions | Management | Engineer | Management | Petroleum Engineer, Subsurface Engineer, Supervisor, Drilling, Completions, Workover, Well Integrity |
| Angel Callejon | Petroleum Systems Assessment Expert | Houston | Geoscience | Chemistry | Other (explain) | Data Analytics | |
| Tekin Kunt | Product Manager | Houston | Management | Production | Product Manager | Software | Energy Value Chain Software Agile Development Production Optimization Software Management |
| Bob Pearson | Consultant | Calgary | Engineering | Completions | Design Engineer | Operations | Peer Reviews, Development Concepts, Production Optimization, Unconventional Projects, Completions, Training |
| John Bagzis | Consultant | Houston | Completions | Production | Engineer | Operation | |
| Maggie Dalthorp | Geologist Manager A&D Analyst | Houston | Geoscience | Business | Asset Manager | Business Development | Technical Evaluations /Development and Exploitation / Business Development / Unconventional and Conventional Plays/ Resource Planning / Partnerships / Program Management / Sequence Stratigraphy / Risk & Competitive Analysis / Environmental Studies / Communication / GovÛªt Relations |
| Eno Akpaninyang | Petroleum Engineer | Houston | Production | Reservoir | Engineer | Asset Manager | Forecasting, Well performance, Reserves, Risk analysis, Economics |
| Jean Hugh Fillacier | Geoscientist/ Operational Excellence | Houston | Exploration & Devlopment | IT/Data Management | Customer Service | Data Analytics | Geoscience/Software/Data Management/Data Science & analytics/field production and asset optimization |
| George Basta | Reservoir Engineer | Egypt | Reservoir | Engineering | Engineer | Business Development | |
| Rodrigo Serrano | Drilling Application Engineer | Houston | Engineering | Drilling | Engineer | Data Analytics | Data Analyst, VBA, R, Advance Excel, Technical Sales, Project Engineer |
| Doug Havlik | O & G Software – Sales and IT | Houston | IT/Data Management | Operations | Account Manager | Software | account management, analysis, C-suite appointments, C-suite communication, client retention, closing, delivery oversight, effective verbal and written communication of complex messages, forecasting, farmer, key account management, MS CRM, MS Excel, negotiation, networking, opportunity development, prospecting, relationship management, renewal, RFP response, sales experience winning deals ranging in transaction size from $10K to over $600K, sales pipeline building, sales quoting, Salesforce.com CRM, Sandler Training (sales), Siebel, team selling (including sales engineering), Industrial IoT and mobile application provider enabling the digital oilfield. Through its Enalysisã¢, Enbase㢠and Fieldlink㢠product lines, Detechtion offers solutions for chemical injection, compression, and other production operations. These products and services span telematics, monitoring, control, predictive analytics, visualization and integration with other systems, engineering design and analysis services, Multidisciplinary Design Exploration – To stay ahead in the innovation race, engineers need to be able to quickly predict the outcome of design changes on the real-world performance of their product. Together, multidisciplinary simulation and design exploration help engineers discover better designs, faster, integrated systems and security management solutions that empower IT organizations with the knowledge and ability necessary to assure IT service |
| Kelly Jackson | President/CEO AKOS Energy Services | Calgary | Other (explain) | Completions | Management | Operations | FIber Optics |
| James Rodgerson | 2812214085 | Houston | Completions | Engineering | Design Engineer | Other (explain) | Completions Field Supervision, Training and Mentoring, Multi-Stage Horizontal Completions hardware selection and implementation, Advanced Log Analysis, Project Management and Support, Perforating ÛÒ Design and Implementation, Fiber Optic (DAS/DTS) analysis and deployment, Real-time bottom-hole pressure analysis and history matching, Post job and DFIT pressure analysis, Well Control Certification, Product Champion of the Excape Completion Process, Hydraulic Fracture Stimulation Design Software, Simulation and history matching, Production History Matching, Gohfer, Meyer, FracPro, StimPlan, Well View, Predict-K, RPI (Reservoir Analysis Tool used in production History matching), PowerLog, Log Analysis Software, NNLap, Log Analysis Software |
| Roy Luck | Staff Geologist | Houston | Geology | Exploration & Development | Simulations | Engineer | Geology, Reservoir Simulation, Field Development Planning, Petrophysics, Geophysics, Reservoir Engineering, New Business Development, Opportunity Screening |
| Angel Callejon | 2818108795 | Houston | Geoscience | Exploration & Development | Other (explain) | Research and Development | Geology, geochemistry, data analytics, exploration, unconventionals, source rock, reservoir management |