KEVIN J.

HOFF
4913 East 22nd Street
Tulsa, OK 74114

kjhoff@yahoo.com (918) 557-4699

CAREER SUMMARY

Petroleum Engineering Technician with 18 years experience in the Oil & Gas Drilling regulatory and
technical areas, including Woodford Shale horizontal drilling technical and legal issues. Previous
experience in database administration, database reporting, and application support. Strong contributor in
a project-oriented environment. Demonstrated strengths in interpersonal skills. Skilled in creative, as
well as analytical, problem solving.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

NEWFIELD EXPLORATION MID-CONTINENT, INC., TULSA, OK 2004-2009

Lead Drilling Regulatory Analyst / Engineering Technician
Managed compliance with state and federal regulation associated with the drilling and completion of new
horizontal oil & gas wells in an ambitious and very successful asset development program expansion.
• As Lead Regulatory Analyst, personally managed the state and federal regulatory compliance
requirements for as many as 100 drilling/recompletion projects per year.
• Worked closely with drilling engineers as a member of the Drilling and Completions team, and
also with state officials, helping to maximize drilling and completion cost efficiency with the use
of pre-set rigs and pad drilling operations as Newfield dramatically increased drilling activity.
• Implemented, utilized, and supported online permitting for nearly 100% of the company’s new
Texas and Oklahoma wells.
• Worked with reservoir engineers, legal counsel, and Oklahoma Corporation Commission officials
to help establish new rules and procedures for filing initial flow tests on Woodford shale
horizontal gas wells.
• Worked with legal department and consultants to make changes in Texas Railroad Commission
Field Rules applicable to the company’s operations in the Texas Panhandle.

CONOCOPHILLIPS COMPANY 1983-2004

Petroleum Engineering Technician / D.I.M.S. Administrator (1991-2004)
Responsible for implementation and training for the new D.I.M.S. daily drilling reporting and database
system and for all regulatory permitting and reporting for drilling / recompletion operations.
• Trained and supported field supervisors on laptop computers and applications, including DIMS.
• Supported over fifty engineering, geological, and administrative personnel with first-line help for
DIMS and various database reporting applications dealing with oil and gas drilling and operating
data.
• Provided project cost estimates and implemented cost networks in new SAP project accounting
system.

Assistant Project Scheduler / Advanced Composites Technician (1989-1991)

Phillips 66 Advanced Composites, Bartlesville, Oklahoma
• Utilized Viewpoint project scheduling and management software and worked closely with project
engineers to produce graphic project schedules for all phases of prototype aerospace / defense parts
made from advanced high temperature plastic composite.
• Wrote inventory tracking program in Superbase and dBase database programming software to track
all material inventory from initial order through production, testing, inventory, and shipping phases.
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R & D Plastics Technician (1985-1989)

Phillips 66 Research and Development, Bartlesville, Oklahoma
• Equipped and operated tooling shop to produce thermoformed aerospace / defense prototype parts
with high temperature thermoplastic composite laminates being developed by Phillips.
• Received award for mold building development using silicone mixing and injection machine to allow
quicker and better mold matching tolerances.
• Operated large high temperature thermoformer to produce prototype parts used for research and
development of high temperature thermoplastic applications.

Seismic Processing Technician (1983-1985)

Phillips Petroleum Exploration & Production, Bartlesville, Oklahoma
• Loaded seismic data into mainframe IBM and Cray computers and utilized large color plotters to
assist geophysicists in their seismic data processing requirements.

TECHNICAL EXPERIENCE AND CERTIFICATIONS

• Drillwell (Drilling Daily Report System)

• Microsoft Excel
• Microsoft Access
• Microsoft Word
• Microsoft Project

Currently certified or have extensive training:

• CompTIA A+
• CompTIA Network +
• Landmark D.I.M.S. (Drilling Information Management System)
• Numerous training classes and seminars with the Oklahoma Corporation Commission
and the Texas Railroad Commission
• Lean Six Sigma

EDUCATION

Completed a total of 79 University and College Credit Hours with a 3.56 GPA
• 35 Hours Computer Science/Programming
• 29 Hours Math and Science
• Petroleum Engineering for the Non-Engineer from University of Tulsa