Friday Afternoon Panel Discussion: Skills Evaluation and Career Management
Friday, October 25, 2019
1:10 pm to 2.50 pm
Grand Ballroom, Westchase Marriott
Mike Erpenbeck
The Skills Evaluation and Career Management Panel, moderated by Mike Erpenbeck, is oriented to the early-mid career geoscientists attending the conference. Those wanting to broaden their hard and soft skills as an overall plan to prepare for the changes that will occur throughout their careers. Those simply needing career direction (or motivation) in a realm they haven’t thought too much about.
The panel includes an eclectic mix of representatives from the skills training industry, some well experienced, seasoned individuals who have built a successful business by recognizing and adapting to the twists and turns of the industry, and some younger visionary entrepreneurial minded folks who are in the trenches, helping to make the rapid changes of E&P technology happen, by building businesses around it.
Panelists will include:
- Hal Miller, President, Subsurface Consultants
- John Sneider, Technical Director of Geoscience, Petroskills
- Robert Pledger, President, Ashford Oil & Gas LLC
- Tom Bowman, President, TBD Oil Corporation
- Geoff Davis, Senior Advisor, Morgan Stanley Investor Banking
- Susan Morrice, Co-Founder and Chairperson, Belize Natural Energy Ltd.
- Ted Kernan, Founder, Well Log Data
- James J. Willis, Founder, Willis School of Applied Geoscience
