Anonymous

EDUCATION:  Baytown Sterling High School - 2000 University of Texas at Austin, BS in Petroleum Engineering

My favorite college memory was learning from all of the highly experienced professors in the UT petroleum engineering department. I started my career at Anadarko Petroleum, working coalbed methane and tight gas.  After 3 years there, I moved on to Exco Resources and entered the great gas shale rush of 2008-2011.  I worked primarily on completions in the Haynesville Shale.  In 2013, I moved to a small, private-equity backed start-up company called Brigham Resources, where we began assembling a large acreage position in the Permian Basin to drill horizontal Wolfcamp oil wells.  The SPE Scholarship was the primary driver in me switching from mechanical to petroleum engineering. My advice to students is that you will be cycle tested throughout your career.  Use every moment as a learning opportunity, especially the failures.