Led enterprise cybersecurity and data center networking for one of the largest independent E&Ps in the U.S., reporting directly to the EVP and Chief Financial Officer. From June 2025 through the merger with Devon Energy, also served as acting VP of IT, leading the Core IT organization: enterprise and field applications, infrastructure, networking, and support. The organization was 50+ employees plus up to 40 external consultants. Maintained continuity of operations and projects while representing IT to the executive team and the Board.

Notable Contributions

• Board and governance: Briefed the Board's Audit Committee quarterly on the threat landscape, vulnerabilities, and the company's cyber risk posture. Was the management position designated in Item 1C of the 2025 Form 10-K as responsible for cybersecurity risk.
• Executive alignment: Founded and ran a quarterly cybersecurity steering committee of executives and business unit leaders for three years. It gave leadership regular visibility into cyber risk and aligned security priorities with business objectives.
• Merger integration: Named in Coterra's Form 425 SEC filing as one of seven Coterra leads on the joint Devon–Coterra integration management team. Co-led the Technology & AI Roadmap workstream with Devon's CIO, supported by McKinsey & Company.
• Lean operating model: Scaled a hybrid internal/external team up and down with project demand, delivering availability and security outcomes while controlling G&A cost.
• Infrastructure: Directed data center networking supporting more than 800 servers.

Led the infrastructure and support team responsible for around-the-clock availability of all enterprise IT systems and end-user support. Coordinated across multiple departments to deliver projects on time and within budget, and reported strategy and costs to senior management.

Notable Contributions

• Merger integration: Led the IT infrastructure integration of Carrizo Oil & Gas into Callon Petroleum following the 2019 acquisition. Combined the strongest systems and assets of both companies into one unified environment while improving resource availability and reducing cost.
• 24x7 operations: Owned availability of all enterprise IT systems and support, using a results-focused, cross-departmental approach to resolve complex problems.

As National Practice Manager, owned all enterprise networking technologies and oversaw every project in the practice. Approved and validated all customer-facing solutions, developed the team's skills to drive full utilization, and managed relationships with strategic vendors.

Notable Projects

• Global entertainment company: Designed and implemented data centers in North America and Europe supporting thousands of hosts and tens of thousands of virtual guests. Built a highly redundant multi-vendor layer 2/3 network with multiple internet BGP peers.
• Energy E&P company: Designed and personally implemented primary and secondary data centers with at least three redundant site-to-site paths. Used VLAN extension to stretch layer 2 across sites, which simplified recovery and migration.
• Fortune 100 energy transportation and marketing company: Designed and executed a full migration of the corporate data center to a colocation facility, with a disaster recovery strategy built on virtualization and VLAN extension.
• Global power and natural gas developer: Designed and implemented a new colocation data center and migrated thousands of virtual machines live with no downtime, over dark fiber carrying 10Gb Ethernet and 8Gb Fibre Channel.

93 credit hours