Noble Energy is an S&P 500 company with reserves of 820 million barrels of oil equivalent and assets totaling close to $12 billion at year-end 2009. In addition to U.S. properties, both onshore and in the deep-water Gulf of Mexico, Nobel also operates in West Africa, Israel, the North Sea, Ecuador and China.

My role as Implementation Consultant was for the successful implementation conversion planning, testing and training of the following Oracle based Enterprise Upstream ERP systems:

• Enterprise Upstream Joint Venture Accounting
• Enterprise Upstream Authorization for Expenditure
• Enterprise Upstream LOS Administrator
• Enterprise Upstream Production Sharing Agreements
• ORACLE Core Financials
• Provide documentation and training to ensure successful transition to the new system

CNX GAS CORPORATION is a Pittsburgh-based independent natural gas exploration, development, production and gathering company operating in the Appalachian and Illinois Basins of the United States and one of the largest producers of coal bed methane (CBM).

My role as consultant was the successful implementation of EU Joint Venture Accounting module to:

• Reduce the cost of operations through improved information processing and analysis.
• Easily track, calculate and allocate direct and indirect costs, create and manage cash advances, generate invoices and analyze your operating costs.
• Provide documentation and training to ensure successful transition to the new system and the successful implementation of EU Authorization for Expenditure module to:
• Reduce overhead costs and risks while maximizing cost recovery from partners using this flexible project cost tracking application specifically designed to support global petroleum operations.

Sempra is one of the largest participants in trading and marketing of physical energy, energy derivatives products, including natural gas, power, crude oil and associated commodities in the U.S. and Europe. My role as consultant was to evaluate Risk Management systems and Controls. To determine:

• Are the tools employed by management to measure and monitor risk exposure adequate.
• Is the level of risk exposure appropriate given the institution’s size, sophistication, and financial condition?
• Are the risks in the portfolio of products and activities recognized, understood, measured, and managed?
• Are the trading activities conducted consistent with the goals and risk tolerance of senior management and board of directors?

The European Shared Service Center, located in Barendrecht, The Netherlands, provides finance, information technology, human resources, communications, legal and environmental, health and safety support to all Ashland Inc. divisions in Europe: Ashland Distribution, Ashland Performance Materials, Valvoline and Ashland Water Technologies. My role as implementation lead was for the successful creation of the ESSC and implementation of the JD Edwards Financials ERP system.

• Responsible for the creation of the (ESSC) to consolidate the financial administration of 70 division offices at 45 locations throughout Europe into one “shared” service center. Ashland is a U.S. based, multinational petro-chemical company, with worldwide sales of $13.2 billion.
• Centralized broad range of financial functions to the ESSC including General Accounting, Accounts Payable, Accounts Receivable, Multi-Currency Processing, Fixed Assets and Financial Modeling & Budgeting to reduce costs by using JD Edwards Financial Systems.
• Received the President’s Award for employee excellence for the successful creation of the ESSC and the successful consolidation of 70 division offices via the implementation of the JD Edwards financial system.

Ashland Exploration, Inc. is engaged in exploration for and production of crude oil and natural gas in the United States and overseas

• Managed all phases of accounting through financial statements, including monthly Joint Interest Billing, Revenue, Accounts Payable and Receivables, Payroll, Intercompany reconciliation and Cash Management.
• Ran monthly JIB, COPAS allocations, audited AFEs, Joint Venture & Consolidated Financial Statements
• Establish and maintains operated and non-operated authority for expenditures (AFE’s).
• Generate joint interest billing (JIB) invoices for the company and reconcile joint interest billing (JIB) and general ledger accounts
• Establishes well allocations for all operated properties.
• Analyzes lease operating variances for the company, calculates salt water disposal (SWD) and platform fees for the company’s operated properties.
• Reconciles joint interest billing (JIB) and general ledger accounts, review and report to management monthly variances and reasons for variance on lease operating cost.