Our industry is slowly waking up. It is September and we are in the midst of "Back to School" days. How about a small list of reminders of what you should think about as you're venturing out to find that next position?

On another note, did you know that a U.S. President first came up with a distinction between the words "important" and "urgent"? There is a difference between these two terms, but sometimes we tend to use them a bit too quickly in place of each other.

We thought you might be interested to hear more and to find out how a closer look might help you in planning your organization as we start the next cycle.

Your friends at Collarini

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The following biographies are just a small sampling of the kind of talent available in our talent pool of over 24,000 experts. Please call our placement managers if you are interested in learning more about these professionals, or check out our website for more candidates.

Senior Accountant with a master's degree in accounting and finance and 18 years of experience with a major oil company, consulting firms, and independent producers. Experienced in asset, liability, revenue, and expense entries; verifying, allocating, posting, and reconciling transactions; performing bank reconciliations; and standard journal entries and accrual entries for assigned accounts. Also experienced in preparing financial statements including balance sheets, income statements, cash flow statements, and ensuring compliance with accounting policies and procedures and generally accepted accounting principles. Software proficiency includes Financials and Discoverer, Oracle ADI, SAP, P2ES Enterprise Upstream, Tobin Land Suite, JD Edwards, One World, Hyperion, ACCPAC, Geneva, BOLO, and Microsoft Office. Ask for A1711

Senior Accountant with an MBA and CPA in progress and 20 years of experience with a large independent producer. Expert in detail-oriented financial reporting and analysis and management, developing and executing financial controls to control costs, and ensuring accurate, relevant, and timely information. Recognized for high-level forecasting and budgeting skills and for completing challenging projects with an innovative attitude and a collaborative spirit. As a manager, has coordinated and provided support to corporate management and supervised accountants to prepare monthly and quarterly operating statement reports and managed and prepared a G&A budget for over 500 office staff. Software proficiency in Microsoft Word, Excel, General Ledger, Oracle JD Edwards, Oracle Hyperion Reporting/Ad Hoc, G / L Insight, and Citrix. Ask for A1707

Information Technology Professional with a master's degree in geology and 18 years of experience with a large independent as an IT professional and geologist. Expert in data flow, system integration, business processes associated with the capture and management of hydrocarbon production data from the wellbore to production accounting, and exceptional in software support, continuous improvement, and being able to bridge the gap between business processes and technical requirements. Software experience includes Landmark Suite, OFM, PEEP, Petrel, SmartSection, ArcView, P2ES Enterprise Upstream's Production Management, and others. Ask for DB936

Land manager, CPL with a bachelor's degree in petroleum land management and over 30 years of experience in land negotiations with 23 years working onshore properties, primarily in Louisiana and 13 years working the Gulf of Mexico. Experienced in departmental management, supervision, mentoring and in all facets of land work, including marketing internally generated prospects, screening outside deals, producing property acquisition and sales, negotiation, preparation and interpretation of leases, assignments, servitude agreements, farm-in and farm-out agreements, participation agreements, JOAs, JEAs, funding agreements, production handling agreements, and unitization. Also experienced in dispute resolution with partners, landowners, and lessors and possesses an excellent industry network of land colleagues. Ask for L1230

Senior Production Engineer with a master's degree in reservoir engineering and 11 years of experience with major service companies. Experienced in conventional and unconventional reservoirs spanning the US and international locations and in predicting and optimizing future performance using reservoir simulation. Also experienced with hydraulic fracturing design and simulation. Has performed oil well testing with coiled tubing in an artificially lifted well, been an instructor for well services, been a technical advisor for deepwater GOM abandonment operations, and conducted reservoir evaluation using probabilistic SPE and SEC reserve definitions using simulation and decline curve history matching and forecasting models. Software proficiency in CMG, Eclipse/Petrel, and Petrel RE. Ask for P891

Completion and Well Intervention Engineer with a bachelor's degree in petroleum engineering and two years of experience with a major oil company. Experienced in optimizing production by: creating a program to fix sucker rod and electric submersible pumps, implementing a tubing refurbishment plan via testing and research, and creating a corrosion QA/QC plan for used tubing via analysis of tubing qualities and types. Also experienced in contract restructuring for plugging and abandonment, identifying cost savings opportunities by monitoring daily operational costs, and conducting safety audits in the field for workover rig operations. Software experience includes Excel, Word, SAP, WellCat Modeling, AutoCad, SolidWorks, PIPESIM, and CMG's IMEX. Ask For P898

Drilling and Production Engineer with a bachelor's degree in petroleum engineering and 38 years of experience working for mid-sized and major operators, a major service company, and as a consultant. Expert in the design, development, implementation, and management of new well completions, workovers, and well interventions for horizontal wells and HPHT completions and the design and testing of new drilling equipment for deepwater. Additionally experienced in regulatory filings, cost estimations, AFE preparation, and budgeting. Geographic areas worked include the Gulf of Mexico shelf and deepwater, south Texas, the mid-continent and South America. Ask For D253

Reservoir Engineering Technician with a bachelor's degree in business administration and 18 years of experience with small to mid-sized E&P companies. Experienced in maintaining reserve and production databases, building and managing databases for field management, acquisition opportunities, and business development, providing ARIES training to users, updating type curves for forecasting, and creating monthly budget and lease operating expense spreadsheets. Additionally experienced in corporate reserve reporting for both mid-year and year-end. Software proficiency includes Landmark ARIES, OpenWells, TOWcs, OFM, PEEP, IHS Enerdeq, Petra, and Microsoft Access, Excel, Word, and Power Point. Ask For TE647

Reservoir and Production Engineer with a Bachelor's Degree and 20 years of diversified experience with a major oil company and a large service company. Experienced in completion design and offshore operations. Strong in acquisitions, field studies, and design and evaluation of frac pack systems for low resistivity formations. Excellent analytical skills and administrative abilities. Areas worked include the Gulf of Mexico and offshore California. Proficient in Production Analyst, OGRE, PEEP, and WEM. Ask For PR86