A petroleum engineer and licensed Professional Engineer with more than 25 years of hands-on experience, he focuses on drilling operations, well control, and oilfield production systems across complex and high-risk environments. His background includes direct involvement in directional drilling, hydraulic fracturing, artificial lift design, and well construction, as well as advanced workover, plugging and abandonment, and production optimization efforts. He has extensive experience responding to critical well control events, including blowouts and well fires, and has developed and executed contingency planning, rig inspection protocols, and safety systems for high-pressure, high-temperature operations.

His career spans senior operational and executive roles, including Principal consultant, Vice President of Engineering, and Drilling and Well Control Supervisor, with responsibility for overseeing drilling programs, managing engineering teams, and evaluating assets and operations for technical and financial performance. He has been retained in multiple expert witness and consulting engagements involving subsurface trespass, catastrophic well events, and operational failures, including high-profile incidents, providing technical analysis of causation, safety practices, and industry standards.