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TED graduated with a BS degree in Geophysics from the University of
Oklahoma in 1988, a MS degree in Geology from the University of New
Orleans in 1990, and a MBA from Rice University in 2002.
He began his career in 1990 as an interpreter in the Offshore Gulf of
Mexico Production group for Texaco. His responsibilities included
prospect maturation of operated and non-operated properties utilizing 2D
and 3D seismic and well data. In that time he drilled over 20 successful
producing and wildcat wells. In 1993, in addition to his prospect
maturation duties, he was assigned to the Offshore Risk Evaluation Team
responsible for assigning risk and volumetric estimates for all offshore
production well opportunities. Additionally, he became a college recruiter
assigned to the University of Oklahoma.
In 1996, after a brief assignment in Australia, he transferred to the
Deepwater Gulf of Mexico Exploration team pursuing new acreage for
potential drills where he participated in six offshore Gulf of Mexico lease
sales. He became Lead Geoscientist for the Western Deepwater Team in
1999 in charge of managing both prospect maturation and employee
development. In 2001-2002 Ted was involved in drilling the deepwater
BAHA prospect.
After the merger of Chevron and Texaco, Ted decided to leave the
company to join an independently owned seismic data processing
company – NuTec Energy Services – as a senior interpreter. He served
as a liaison between the company’s data processors and the client’s
interpretive teams searching to solve seismic data imaging problems,
specifically leading edge 3-D seismic pre-stack time and depth migration.
He has served on the Executive Committee of the Board of Visitor’s for the
College of Geosciences and the Geology and Geophysics Alumni
Advisory council at the University of Oklahoma.