John Boyd

Experience

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  Air Force Research Laboratory

  Jan 2004 - Jan 2007

  Research Physicist / Deputy Group Lead

  Accountable to Branch manager for 15-person, $4 million a year research team managing projects to develop next generation space electronics. Managed 25 contracts and $4 million in lab equipment, including Air Force's strongest radiation source.• Selected by division staff over 34 peers as Junior Military Engineer of Year and Company Grade Officer of the Quarter.

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  Shell

  Jun 2007 - now

  Global business owner and Deepwater deployment lead for the global time & cost estimation tool. Enabled capture of $Billions in forecasted cost at the phase & component level in one cloud based database system by Well Engineering teams.Associate Subject Matter Expert for well costing – delivering Best composite well time and statistically derived cost estimates for hundreds of Shell wells with high degree of accuracy.Led software development teams automating various well engineering deliverables (schematics, time & cost estimates, well blowout containment screening, regulatory permit submittal) to support Shell’s efforts to digitalize engineering workflows.Diversity and inclusion champion fostering productive conversations on a wide variety of topics with management support. "Breaking the Silence" series received directors award for a thriving and inspired community, and continued to lead the initiative with topics such as global injustice and the energy transition. Show less Drilling Lead for the Whale Field Development Plan, securing $80MM in identified savings from drill center & casing design optimizations, contributing to Final Investment Decision.Lead engineer role for multiple subsea drilling projects through various phases of design and/or execution. Complexities managed include extreme extended reach, gas lift, smart wells, tiebackless & tieback design, severe depletion, exploration / appraisal, expandable liners, sour service design, seawater drilling, high dogleg severity, injectors.Championed and deployed multiple new technologies that have demonstrated value for extended reach deepwater well: Expandable Top Down Squeeze Tool (Industry 1st ), Plug Activated Gatekeeper Valve (Industry 1st), Borehole Strengthening in (Shell GoM Floater 1st ) Show less Accountable to Lead Foreman for HSSE performance, operational status, and improvement opportunities for a 70 person, $500k/d spar rig in 7800’ of water drilling and completing extended reach wells up to ~17,000’ measured depth.• Led the multi-disciplinary Root Cause Analysis team on the GA-13 well (4 failed sidetracks, 11 ¾” casing could not get to bottom) to reach an action plan that directly contributed to successes on GA-11, GA-2, and GA-19. Reinforced execution offshore.• Key contributor to the offshore continuous improvement effort at the Spar, mentoring rig personnel to realize improvement ideas and improve HSSE performance while ensuring implementation of improvement plans. Show less Accountable to multiple Asset/Operations Managers for prioritizing and allocating resources for all activities offshore in order to maximize production and minimize downtime and safety risk for 100 MBEQ/d production assets. • Revamped the offshore activities planning and coordinating process, leveraging web tools to improve plan quality, enforce HSSE requirements, and improve collaboration across asset teams, leading to improvements to the Global planning process. Reduced break in work by 56% and improved work done as planned by 36%.• Performed or supported numerous additional project initiatives in a broad range of areas, including Operations Manager Relief, Development Well Lead, Bad Actor Improvement Initiatives, Hydrate Remediation, Project Integration, Shutdown Coordination, Collaborative Work Environment Design, and HSSE Control Framework Audit Coordinator. Show less Directly accountable to Executive Vice President level leadership teams for all production, downtime, and forecast data of 1 MMBEQ/d production capacity.• Consolidated, standardized, and streamlined production reporting for all downtime, forecast, and production information for the Shell Exploration and Production business. Innovations required detailed coordination of IT, field, engineering, and finance resources to achieve quality data, providing detailed business impacts of all well delays. Show less

  • Well Engineer - Business Planning & Digitalization

    Jan 2020 - now

  • Deepwater Lead Wells Engineer

    Jun 2016 - Jan 2020

  • Business Improvement Lead - Deepwater Platform Wells

    Nov 2015 - Jun 2016

  • Drill Site Supervisor

    Apr 2014 - Nov 2015

  • Staff Wells Engineer

    Mar 2013 - Apr 2014

  • Senior Integrated Activity & Production Planner

    Jan 2010 - Mar 2013

  • Hydrocarbon Allocation Engineer

    Jun 2007 - Dec 2009