Jim Whitfield

Education - Holds a degree in Engineering from the Colorado School of Mines and an M.S. in Geophysics from the University of Houston. Jim also completed the Southern Methodist University Cox Business Leadership Program.

Career - Jim Whitfield joined Tenneco Oil Exploration and Production in 1985 as a programmer analyst where he made significant improvements to the company's geoscience, reservoir engineering, and commercial software applications with the help of Mark Spicer, Gary Williams, and Rick McCartha. In 1988 Jim left Tenneco in the wake of their break-up to join Standard Oil Production (British Petroleum) in their Offshore Exploitation department under the leadership of Barry Cohn and Mike Neese. He teamed with Dean Chergotis and Bill Rathke to vastly improve the departments ability interpret and quantify reservoir potential so that discoveries could be quickly assessed and sanctioned.

In 1992 Jim was promoted to the position of team leader of information technology to support BP Houston's Regional Geoscience Community under the leadership of Ray Mohundro and Ralph Alexander. In this position Jim's team implemented many improvements that were considered to be best practices and were soon implemented at other BP regional sites (London, Venezuela, Colombia, and Alaska), and then commercially marketed outside of BP. Jim, along with Patrick Talley and Jack Allen (Landmark Graphics), and Stuart Lunn (SAIC) constructed one of the first ever outsourced support agreements of its kind for the Oil and Gas Industry.

In 1995 Jim assumed the role of Gulf of Mexico Exploration Geophysicist. In this role he worked with Graham Hickman and Bruce Wilcoxon to determine the remaining regional potential of the Mars Basin. Jim also teamed with global stratigraphy expert Ciaran O'Byrne to assess the area potential of the Walker Ridge protraction unit. He participated on the BP Group Knowledge Management Team with Andrew Mackenzie and Kent Greenes. The results of their team established the peer review and assist processes by which business units within the BP Group review and approve projects for investment and development.

In 2001 Jim worked for both BP and Hi Country Wire and Telephone in Denver, Colorado. With the help of Jim Farnsworth and John Pritchett he established the first ever remote VPN interpretation configuration and established a Gulf of Mexico wide regional digital project to help the petroleum systems team (Cadi Santiago, Jennifer Villinski, Jason Lore, and Andy Pepper) analyze the basins overall potential.

In 2003 Jim formally left BP to devote his efforts completely toward managing Hi Country Wire and Telephone. He is responsible for corporate network operations, sub-agent and supplier business partnerships, network payroll, network accounts receivable, and website marketing and development. He also helps lead advertising, CPE relationships, and information technology efforts. In 2003 he completed extensive project work with Tom Clark which would implement county wide government supported internet access for all Jefferson County businesses. Currently Chief Financial Officer (CFO) of the startup, Centennial Broadband, that sells shared internet access to office complexes. Jim provides detailed reviews and network audits and physical-logical topologies for small to large sized enterprises.

External Roles:
Coach and Staff trainer for the Colorado Edge Soccer Club
Volunteer for the Rolling Hills Country Club Foundation
Apex Park and Recreation Board of Directors
Red Rocks College Foundation Board of Directors
Former coach for the Arvada Hockey Association
Former non-executive director: Arvada Soccer Association

Certifications
Linksys LVS 9000
Cisco Lifecylce Services - LCSE
Cisco Internet Telephony Express - IPTX
Cisco Certified Design Associate - CCDA
AVST CallXpress Certified
AVST Seneca Speech Server Certified
Nortel Networks Qualified Sales Associate
Polycom Video Sales and Technical Certification
Qwest Communications Essentials Certified
Certified U.S. Soccer National Coach
Certified U.S. Hockey National Coach

Memberships
AAPG
Denver Telecom Professionals
Denver Kickers Soccer Club
Kappa Mu Epsilon

Publications
Thesis: "The relation of net pay to amplitude versus offset (AVO) gradients : a Gulf of Mexico case study"
Primary author: An aid for subsalt interpretation on time-migrated seismic data: The estimation of spatially variant and time dependent “pull-up” correction surfaces (Graham Hickman - co-author).
Primary author for the technical internal report: Using SeisWorks and EarthCube as a tool for the compilation and visualization of mega-regional surfaces for petroleum systems analysis in the Gulf of Mexico basin.