ALLY Energy Professional Profile: Jennifer Calderin
Jennifer Calderin
Project Manager | Drilling Engineer | Digital Transformation
Houston, TX, US
Professional Summary
I am a proud, bilingual petroleum engineer with 10 years of technical software product lead and drilling engineering experience in both customer-facing and operations-driven roles with an aptitude for fostering shared understanding across diverse audiences. I have a unique combination of strengths, both interpersonal and technical, with broad-based experience across global markets. My strong attention to detail facilitates immediate team integration and the production of innovative solutions. Inclusion in the oil and gas industry is a passion of mine and I hope to bring about that change with any current and future positions I hold.
Experience
ExxonMobil
Houston, TX, USA
Sakhalin Well Planning Engineer
Dec, 2019 - Feb, 2021

- Managed complex drilling and completion well design and operations on Sakhalin Island (Russia) which supported long-term, strategic field development of an ExxonMobil major capital project - Forecasted and submitted AFE funding packages to upper management for approval and achieved minimum kit well savings of $10.9MM on first well re-design - Led well design feasibility studies between multifunctional Houston and Sakhalin global teams based on current and forecasted market conditions - Mentored new team members in designing innovative technical and cost-saving tools

XTO
Midland, TX, USA
Permian Basin Drilling Engineer
May, 2018 - Dec, 2019

- Led planning and operations for a 3-rig drilling program and delivered 40+ wells within time and budget constraints over 15 months - Standardized a 3rd party mud system through operational changes across 30 wells reducing mud system remediation and additive consumption - Identified and corrected software competency gap for 20 engineer team by just-in-time training delivery - Designed an iterative, single variable effectiveness test of high-efficiency motor options resulting in $50K per well-drilled reduction

ExxonMobil
Houston, TX, USA
Offshore Gulf of Mexico Rotating Surveillance Engineer
Nov, 2016 - May, 2018

- Produced daily operations reports for on-shore engineers and contributed to the development of drilling programs for well abandonments and exploration projects - Communicated complex scope developments to all levels of management and execution team - Standardized 5-7 independent, 3rd party reports to a once-a-day surveillance review delivered to all partners, including the Vice President of Drilling - Reconciled costs between joint AFEs for P&A activities, re-assessed spending moving forward as abandonment strategy changed, and provided final working procedures

ExxonMobil
Houston, TX, USA
Technical Software Product Lead
Aug, 2011 - Nov, 2016

- Managed and optimized software suite of 20+ engineering applications ($3-5MM budget) through competitive scoping and benchmarking to deliver best-in-class technical capabilities - Supported 500+ ExxonMobil Upstream Engineers while conducting technical application testing, producing product strategy roadmaps, completing asset-specific problem-solving, and collaborating with business customers and stakeholders - Designed and executed deployment plans and training for proprietary well-planning software - Led cross-functional team of software developers, wells engineers, and technical leads to define customer requirements and enable targeted product enhancements

Actively job-seeking during Covid-19
Houston, TX, USA
Project Engineer
Feb, 2021 - Present

- Re-instated Engineer-In-Training status through the Texas Board of Professional Engineers - Earned Project Management Professional certification and completed 6-course Google Project Management Professional training - Gained subject matter expertise in 3D laser scanning and the digital energy transition through strategy and information technology consulting with Global Design Solutions (GDS) from November 2021

Education
The University of Texas at Austin
Bachelor of Science Petroleum Engineering
Aug, 2007 - May, 2011

- ATCE PetroBowl Chair - SHPE PE Representative

Skills
  • Diversity & Inclusion
  • Economic evaluation
  • Strategic planning
  • Training & Mentoring
  • Stakeholder coordination
  • Budget reconciliation
  • Budget forecasting
  • Risk assessment
  • AFE projection
  • Cross-functional teams
  • Continuous improvement
  • Presentation Delivery
  • Communication & Interpersonal
  • Project Management
  • Petroleum engineering
Awards
  • Excellence in Instruction (ExxonMobil)