Cristofer Byers

Experience

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  NCS Subsea

  May 2006 - Sept 2008

  Project Manager

  Led off-shore survey crews in domestic and international operations. Acted as the interface between clients and operations personnel. Developed software for GPS data processing systems. Created as-built maps of construction projects. Processed survey data and was responsible for approving all surveyed points. Provided potential clients with project models tailored to specifications.

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  Global Geophysical

  Apr 2010 - May 2011

  Chief Navigator

  Managed survey operations and personnel on marine seismic crews. Established standardized work procedures and created task-specific processing documentation. Served as troubleshooter for all data and navigation systems. Calibrated all navigation equipment, trained navigators, and troubleshot on equipment and data malfunctions. Created topographical hazard and culture maps in survey areas. Interfaced with landowners and permit crew. • Trained navigation team from new hires to accomplished field technicians. • Established standardized work procedures and created task-specific processing models without previously existing documentation. • Maintained navigation downtime to under one day during six-month, 24-hour project. Show less

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  Byers Enterprises

  May 2011 - Apr 2012

  Owner / Geomatics Consultant

  Provided GIS and geodetic consulting services for oil, gas, and agricultural positioning. Created custom mapping designs and publications to client specifications. Designed ESRI-based Geodatabases for seismic survey data. Performed quality control on GPS positioning data acquired by third parties. Served as client representative and made operation decisions regarding field survey crew. • Taught classes in geoprocessing for client employees, with team going on to alter existing geoprocessing models and decrease processing time for geodetic audits by 20%.• Reduced positioning errors by 90% on average for all survey projects. Show less

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  Devon Energy

  Apr 2012 - Feb 2016

  Geoscientist

  Functioned as project manager with primary decision-making responsibility on logistics, timeline, and cost for $15,000,000 projects. Coordinated several ongoing projects simultaneously, with more than 100 personnel and five contract companies on each, lasting six to 12 months. Negotiated agreements with contractors, landowners, mineral operators, and federal regulatory agencies. Consistently finished projects on time and within budgetary constraints while maintaining the highest level of safety, quality of data, and community respect.Provided geodetic support for seismic survey operations, coordinate systems and transformations, oil & gas well coordinate checks and spatial analyses. Developed geoprocessing tools in ArcGIS Model Builder and Python script for geospatial analysis and co-founded and moderated the Geospatial Knowledge Management community.• Managed eight seismic acquisition projects from design to data delivery, saving company $10,000,000 by remaining under budget on all projects. • Wrote automated data-cutout geoprocessing models, and python scripting, reducing data-cutout processing time from full day to one to two hours per project. • Performed geospatial analysis to identify possible licensees for proposed seismic project in Wyoming, following up with maps and geospatial data for each potential licensing company, and leading to $9,000,000 in licensing commitments and acquisition of $15,000,000 for net cost of $6,000,000.• Implemented journey management procedure for geophysical services, setting up standardized method of tracking personnel in transit to and from distant projects, reducing risks, and decreasing response time in case of emergency. Show less

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  Strategic Geomatics

  Apr 2016 - now

  Geomatics & GIS Consultant

  Provided clients with GIS mapping and data management services, survey quality control, and geospatial analytics. Created custom datasets from acquired survey data, commercially available sources and digitized orthophotography. Managed GIS projects from start to finish, with a fully packaged data model deliverable consisting of geodatabases, raster, vector and tabular datasets ready for integration within the existing environment.• Developed solution for creating infrastructure and well pad location extraction from aerial imagery over 450 square mile area• Created GIS projects for pipeline, SWD and infrastructure planning, with mobile-enabled maps for use by personnel in the field. Show less

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  Oseberg

  Sept 2016 - Aug 2021

  Senior Product Manager

  Designed, produced, and managed datasets, software, and APIs for the Oil and Gas market. Worked with customers to establish feature requirements and functionality, managing timelines and expectations. Researched and documented regulatory statutes and procedures necessary for creating business rules and written requirements for software development. Managed project timelines, logistics, contractors, and engineering personnel to develop new datasets and software. Negotiated and wrote contracts and agreements for data and services. Built and maintained GIS web services and online GIS portal.• Researched, designed, and guided the development of Oil and Gas regulatory datasets in New Mexico, including data retrieval, extraction, structuring, and presentation in a final product, leading to a positive ROI on the new dataset within 3 months of release and the addition of an entirely new market for the product with a $3,500,000 TAM. • Re-designed and released an updated dataStream API model for accessing structured Oil and Gas regulatory data through both a transactional JSON API and a bulk flat file accessible through AWS, reducing client-side integration complexity and leading to a doubling of total dataStream clients.• Managed the product development for an AI/NLP annotation platform, building time and cost-saving improvements into annotation processes, and reducing overall annotation cost for a given document by 70% while also improving annotated data quality. • Built a Federal Oil and Gas Lease dataset for the Continental US from the ground up, providing users with bi-monthly updates to a quarter-call level mapped dataset which includes links to source records, flags for leases containing stipulations, detailed royalty and operator information. Show less

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  Mapbox

  Aug 2021 - now

  Senior Data Product Manager