QUALIFICATIONS

                                        Registered Petroleum engineer and project manager with outstanding experience in the following areas:  contract and budget management, vendor and purchasing management, development and management of operating, production and capital budgets, and technical program direction and management.  Planned, engineered and managed multiwell programs including hookup, gathering, transmission, treating and compression facilities.  Versed in field safety issues, including but not limited to rig safety, production flash fires, cell phone and radio hazards, handling and processing of sour gas (H₂S), NORM and chemical spills.  Planned and managed a $5.2 M project for church parish as volunteer project manager.  Planned for, implemented and supervised environmental and regulatory permitting in Louisiana, Texas, Mississippi, Alabama and New Mexico including federal processes as necessary.  Supervised federal drilling and completion permitting.  Coordinated these functions with all levels of government and industry.  Led the BLM effort to validate 160 and 80 acre spacing for coal bed methane wells.  Qualified in Federal Court as an expert in several areas including petroleum property management, field operations, drilling engineering and production engineering.  Testified in State Court on COPAS (accounting) issues as an expert.  Qualified as an expert in New Mexico, Texas, Mississippi and Louisiana.  Co-Author of a joint SPE paper with New Mexico Tech describing a joint study of the San Juan Gas Basin evaluating it for future production potential and well densities (evaluation included tight shale potentials and evaluating future CBM spacing requirements for full development).