Lisa Denke

Experience

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  Monsanto Company

  Jan 1992 - Jan 1992

  Electrical Engineering Intern - Monsanto Chemical
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  SLB

  Jan 1994 - Jan 1996

  Field Engineer - Dowell Schlumberger
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  Texaco

  Jan 1997 - Jan 1998

  Operations Engineer
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  Aera Energy LLC

  Jan 1998 - Jan 2003

  Drilling Engineer

  Drilling engineer in a company with a strong focus on process improvement and BBSM (Behavior-Base Safety Management). Project management, cost estimates, well designs for step-outs and new opportunities. Provide engineering support for rapid paced oil well drilling program (up to 8 rigs for my team, 14 rigs company-wide). The engineering was an individual effort, and for project management, I worked as a member of a multi-disciplinary team. SAP accounting system.

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  T. J. Cross Engineers

  Jan 2003 - Jan 2006

  Staff Mechanical Engineer

  Platform Grace Return to Production Project, Project Manager McKittrick Diatomite Plant Project, Project Mechanical Engineer Feasibility study for City of Bakersfield municipal plant to add an electric generator to burn gas from sewage tanks. Specify equipment. Specify instruments and control valves. Application of codes and standards, including ANSI B31.3, ASME Section VIII (pressure vessels), electrical hazardous area classifications, NACE MRO175 (corrosion), API 2000, API RP 14C. Estimates (rough or detailed, depending on needs) Show less

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  Berry Corporation

  Jan 2006 - Jan 2009

  Senior Operations Engineer

  Supervise engineers, construction foremen, and purchasing. Directly involved in hiring. Train people. Work to build consensus with people who did not report directly to me.Expedite and purchase materials. Write bid specs for construction labor, evaluate bids, award bids. Monitor jobsite performance for conformance to scope of work, quality and timeliness. Lead engineering and design process, with attention to operability, reliability and technical quality. Directly supervised engineering, in addition to doing engineering myself – “working team lead.” Well equipping, including downhole and surface equipment selection and procurement. Installed fiber optic, using coiled tubing assembly to push the fiber around the curve of horizontal wells. Casing vapor recovery system for hot gas, 80% CO2 and 2000 ppm H2S. Evaluated injection zones, managed wells. Installed 2 compressor sites for capacity increase: eliminated a less efficient site. Manage construction, installs, and maintenance of separation plants, natural gas compressors, softeners and filters, interconnecting piping & valves. Planned maintenance/shutdowns. Obtain regulatory approvals for water injection and workovers. Scope development and implementation. Management of change orders and competing priorities. Heat management, including calculation of surface and subsurface losses. Show less

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  KSI Engineering, Inc.

  May 2009 - Oct 2010

  Project Manager

  Engineering, project management & project scheduling for an oilfield manufacturing company. Project Manager for Hess Corporation projects (50% travel). Scope, manage and close out multiple projects with 3D piping design, electrical, controls, & structural engineering disciplines. Typical projects included skidded separators, LACT's, pig launchers, automated valve manifolds, or field-fabricated facilities such as tanks and larger (20' diameter) treaters & FWKO's. My role varied with project needs: I did engineering & design on some projects, while others had a schedule (MS Project) or project management focus (manloading, budget). Show less

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  Stantec

  Oct 2010 - May 2012

  Project Manager - Processes Unlimited International, now Stantec

  Example Project: Facilities Plan for Kern Front Oilfield. Confirmed economics, developed implementation plan for constructing a gathering systems and processing facilities expansion. I led a multidisciplinary team, working as a Mechanical Engineer and Project Manager, in the following: o In my role as Project Manager, I estimated capital costs for all systems, providing a modularized estimate so the client could choose options at a later date. I used a combination of high-level estimating (factored estimating) and detailed estimating (requesting costs from vendors). o In my role as Project Manager, I provided a construction schedule for the most likely scenario in MS Project, with costs over the next five-year's time. o In my role as the Project Manager, I tracked costs for our time against the proposal we had presented to the client, and worked with Accounting to bill the project, and Project Scheduling to allocate resources. I was also responsible for comparing Earned Value to Cumulative Cost.o As-built of processing plants and emulsion/gas gathering systems. o Data gathering of existing documentation. o Developed documentation for existing systems, including Block Flow Diagrams, Process Flow Diagrams with Mass and Energy Balances, and estimation of system capacities for oil/water/solids separation plan, oil shipping pumps & LACT's, gas handling system, steam plant, produced water cleaning, filtration & softening. o Analyzed water sources for saturated steam injection. o Analyzed water disposal options for wastewater, such as softening for steam, injection in wells, and reclaim for irrigation. o Performed preliminary design for system expansions, including development of Block Flow Diagrams, Process Flow Diagrams with Mass and Energy Balances. o P&ID’s and layout diagrams were created for selected items. o Analyzed piping systems of several miles extent for steam and wastewater distribution. I performed hydraulics analysis on pipelines. Show less

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  Platte River Group

  May 2012 - now

  Consulting Engineer

  Engineering & design for residential, commercial & industrial clients. Developing and teaching short courses.

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  Coffey Engineering & Surveying

  Aug 2016 - Jul 2017

  Project Engineer

  Prepare land development designs and reports, including drainage, grading, and site plans. Joined Coffey after merger with Quality Engineering. Example Projects:* Surface and Subsurface Drainage Evaluation, Weld County, CO – Assist with field survey as rodman. Analyze slopes and draft map in Civil 3D. Develop poster exhibit for presentation to a diverse audience, including non-technical individuals, to explain problems in both storm sewer (pipes) and surface system (gutters). Incorporate photos from fieldwork to provide a spatial reference for viewers and make drawing more concrete. * Fort Collins Nursery Site Development Plan, Larimer County, CO – Develop options for expanding greenhouse facility in the flood plain/flood fringe, including location of flood plain data, compiling map and listening to client to understand the situation, understanding County requirements and options for flood proofing/flood venting membrane structure greenhouses. Discuss options with County personnel and kick off permitting process. Show less

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  Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)

  Jan 2020 - Jan 2023

  Church Music Coordinator - First Presbyterian Church of LaSalle, Colorado

  * Currently continuing in a volunteer role, co-leading singing for worship services. * Played piano and sang during COVID when the other musicians were not able to attend in-person services. * Coordinated with the Worship Leader and Pastor to ensure that the music and other materials work together.* Solicited feedback from congregation on music. Incorporate feedback to improve people’s experience.* Incorporated songs that people requested, or mentioned that they enjoyed. In addition to traditional hymns, looked for pop and country western songs that worked for our congregation.* Repaired our church's Carillonette bells. Wrote to the manufacturer, traced wires and reconnected controller. Connected to P.A. system.* Researched and wrote bulletin inserts relating the history of hymns and special music pieces with local history, such as Germans from Russia, or with holidays, such as Saint Patrick's Day. * Transposed music to keys that are not too high or too low. Located highest and lowest pitches in melody line, used solfegge names of highest and lowest pitches in melody line to determine what the notes would be in various keys.* Used Musescore software to prepare scores. * Arranged music for available musicians, including arrangements for trumpet, organ, piano and vocalists. * Took the initiative to facilitate weekly Fellowship over Zoom, since we were not having fellowship time (time to chat over cookies and coffee after church) due to the pandemic. * During 2020 and 2021, I worked with several different ministers, as our regular minister retired at the beginning of the pandemic. Each week, I would find out who was going to be preaching and then coordinate with that person to either learn the songs they wanted, or pick out songs that coordinated with their sermon.* Used Revised Common Lectionary to find weekly scriptures. Find hymns and songs that match those scriptures.* Advocated for updating our approach to copyright licensing. Show less

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  Smith Environmental and Engineering

  Jun 2021 - May 2022

  Project Engineer

  Research & write Phase I Environmental Site Assessments (Phase I ESA). Create Grading, Erosion and Sediment Control Plans in AutoCAD and Civil 3D. Estimating:* Compute hard money costs for bids from materials lists. * Compute Engineer’s Opinion of Costs from generalized scopes. * Estimate cost for engineering & design given drawings of a general nature and/or project description. Design engineering plans and write reports for construction projects and development permitting.File permits with jurisdictions for development & construction projects. Show less

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  Chayah Consulting Group

  May 2022 - Jan 2024

  Senior Project Manager

  Civil engineering & project management for residential, commercial & industrial clients, such as: * Developed Site Development Plans. * Developed construction drawings in AutoCAD & Civil 3D, for example, Civil Site Plans, Utility, Grading, Drainage, Profiles/Sections, Details, and other sheets as required. * Prepared documents/spreadsheets in MS Office/Google Documents for submittal to permitting agencies:* Provided construction support. * Gathered data on sites, draft as-builts and submitted same to agencies. * Wrote permit application for a drinking water plant. * Prepared permit applications for On-Site Wastewater Treatment Systems (OWTS, septic).Used software including but not limited to Microsoft Teams, Excel, Word and Outlook; AutoCAD and Civil 3D, & EPANET. Created cost estimates and proposals in Word and Excel. Performed Gantt chart scheduling, time tracking, and pulling cost reports in Harvest and Forecast. Used MHFD (Urban Drainage) spreadsheets and Mohave County, Arizona software for stormwater planning.Learned new bodies of knowledge in new jurisdictions and used same to prepare submittals. Show less