Quarum
Darren W. Gloss
Title
Olean,NY
Summary
Focused professional Title Agent known for exceptional productivity and accuracy in title research, analysis, document review, and compiling title reports. My strong interpersonal skills aligned with my industry knowledge, ensure positive client interactions, with high levels of satisfaction while delivering quality work, even under the tightest of deadlines.
Overview
13
13
years of professional experience
1
1
Certificate
Work History
Title Agent
Rally Point Resources
Pittsburgh, PA
11.2022 - Current
- Provide full back to patent title searches and ownership reports for all information specific to clients' title needs.
- Researched title for purposes including title insurance, the leasing, and development of oil, gas, coal, renewable energy, and rights of way.
- Field title completed on-site in courthouses across MO, IL, IN, MI, OH, PA, WV, VA, and TN.
- Remote title completed for Due Diligence and Lease Analysis projects.
Abstractor
Western Land Services
Ludington, MI
11.2021 - 04.2023
- Performed back-to-patent title searches for all surface and subsurface ownership.
- Provide reports detailing research findings regarding surface, minerals, leasehold WI, NRI, ORRI interests, and status.
- Compile and report on all current/historical well and mine information.
- Field title completed on-site in courthouses across PA, IN, IL, OH, MI, and MO.
Operations Manager
Williams Contracting and Home Remodeling, LLC
Olean, NY
02.2020 - 11.2021
- Oversaw day-to-day operations for exterior residential projects.
- Setting priorities and goals for accurate and timely project completion.
- Maintain and adhere to all safety protocols specific to the job, i.e., roof replacement, lead abatement, or asbestos removal.
- General bookkeeping of accounts payable, accounts receivable, and completing weekly payroll.
Abstractor
Mark A. O'Neal & Associates
Washington, Pennsylvania
06.2019 - 01.2020
- Job duties included researching and reporting on all surface and mineral interests for multiple counties in northern WV, and southwestern PA.
- Used the Totaland database system for reports.
- Gather all historical and current well information, and show status.
- Completed a detailed flow chart for the subject tract.
- Made all necessary deed plots, maps, and plat overlays to firmly establish and support tract boundaries.
Abstractor
Percheron LLC
Bridgeport, West Virginia
07.2018 - 06.2019
- Completed back to patent abstracts in Ohio and Marshall County, WV.
- Completed title searches for pipeline ROWs in counties across Texas.
- Completed title opinion 'bring downs' in North Dakota for mineral and leasehold interests.
- Managed land administration tasks by analyzing leases and related agreements within the land department.
- Ensured correct payments to rightful storage recipients.
- Entered all information into the clients' Quorum database system.
Abstractor
Ohio Valley Land Services
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
02.2018 - 07.2018
- Ran 150-year oil and gas searches in Marshall, Ohio, Wetzel County, WV, and Greene County, PA.
- Entered all documents gathered into an Excel runsheet in chronological order and uploaded them into the client's TPF website.
- Adverse all leases, rights of way, and easements to the current date.
- Searched for and provided all relevant information, land book records, plots, flowcharts, and well information.
Abstractor
Percheron, LLC
Bridgeport, West Virginia
06.2017 - 01.2018
- Performed a 100-year condemnation title search for a pipeline right-of-way across Marshall, Wetzel, Tyler, Ritchie, Doddridge, Calhoun, Wirt, Jackson, Roane, Mason, Putnam, and Cabell Counties, WV.
- Research all third-party interests to the present day from courthouse and Secretary of State records to provide the current business entity, and correct address for condemnation processes.
- Compiled courthouse records onto a spreadsheet.
- Provide all pertinent well information, deed plots, and flowcharts.
Abstractor
Title Town, LLC
Marietta, Ohio
07.2016 - 06.2017
- Completed 'drill site' title back to patent for designated units to be established in Belmont, Jefferson, and Harrison Counties, OH, and Wetzel, Marion, Monongalia, Harrison, Tyler, Doddridge, Ritchie, and Wirt Counties, WV.
- Documentation entered into the iLandMan system.
- Created flow charts for surface, coal, oil, and gas, leasehold, and royalty, as well as necessary plots and overlays.
- Maintained consistent communication with leads regarding clouds in title, reservation issues, and heirship requirements.
Land Technician
Level 3 Communications
Broomfield, Colorado
07.2015 - 06.2016
- Managed tracts for assigned area and examine searches, for the verification requirements of a class action lawsuit.
- Collected weekly updates from vendor-approved brokers and field abstractors, ensuring a steady, accurate file turnaround.
- Reviewed and finalized title package before submission to Legal team.
Abstractor
Long Consulting Group, LLC
Olean, NY
09.2011 - 06.2015
- Duties included conducting 150-year oil, gas, and surface searches for leasing, due diligence projects, in 24 various courthouses throughout NY, OH, PA, and WV.
- Entered data collected from the courthouse into Long Consulting's database management system.
- Completed large acreage 'lease runs' in the Appalachian Basin to establish entire leaseholds, which included HBP leases, establishing all working, net royalty, overriding royalty interests, along with depth restrictions, clauses, and provisions.
- Completed title examination and review of 150-year title searches for oil, gas, other minerals, and surface interests.
- Also, I had the invaluable opportunity to work alongside our client in their office in Parkersburg WV, with the goal of making standardized lease files. By analyzing and organizing the clients many boxes of loose leaf papers that included the original South Penn lease, some lease amendments or ratifications, random division orders, hand written land owner letters directing payments, and much more. After correctly cross-referencing and including each document in each associated lease file that we then compiled into the client's standardized format, ensuring all proper documentation was included, mapping, lease status, HBP or expired, and royalty/storage/shut-in payment recipients, as reflected in title, title opinions, DEP/DNR, client-provided lease files, and accounting information. Also, I made a digital copy of each completed file for clients' records.
Education
Advanced Regents Diploma - Business
Olean Senior High School
Olean, NY06.2011
Skills
- Title research
- Title examination
- Legal document review/preparation
- Title insurance proficiency
- Surface and subsurface rights
- Title Opinions/commitments
- Real estate law
- Lease analysis
- Probate matters
- Title curative measures
- Royalty calculations - NRI/ORRI
- Leasehold interests
- Heirship
- Easement identification
- Providing ownership reports
- Negotiation
- Records evaluation
- Deed plotting
- Mapping
- Field proficiency
- Deadline management
- Consistent attention to detail
- Proficient in Microsoft Office
- Thorough quality assurance
- Strong written communication
- Strong digital literacy
- Cross-functional collaboration
- Industry networking
- Professionalism and ethics
Certification
AAPL Member, 1000664916
Work Availability
monday
tuesday
wednesday
thursday
friday
saturday
sunday
morning
afternoon
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Affiliations
- AAPL
- Pennsylvania Land Title Institute
Quote
Every problem is a gift—without problems we would not grow.
Tony Robbins
Work Preference
Work Type
Full TimePart TimeContract WorkWork Location
HybridRemoteOn-SiteImportant To Me
Career advancementCompany CultureSoftware
North map
RFFlow
Metes and Bounds Plotter
Microsoft Excel and Word
Google Sheets and Docs
Teams Share Point
Laredo
Landex
Citrix
SRA VA
Timeline
Title Agent
Rally Point Resources
11.2022 - Current
Abstractor
Western Land Services
11.2021 - 04.2023
Operations Manager
Williams Contracting and Home Remodeling, LLC
02.2020 - 11.2021
Abstractor
Mark A. O'Neal & Associates
06.2019 - 01.2020
Abstractor
Percheron LLC
07.2018 - 06.2019
Abstractor
Ohio Valley Land Services
02.2018 - 07.2018
Abstractor
Percheron, LLC
06.2017 - 01.2018
Abstractor
Title Town, LLC
07.2016 - 06.2017
Land Technician
Level 3 Communications
07.2015 - 06.2016
Abstractor
Long Consulting Group, LLC
09.2011 - 06.2015
Advanced Regents Diploma - Business
Olean Senior High School
References
- Bradley Caldwell, Supervisor for Percheron, LLC, 1-412-269-4800
- Parker Warren, Owner of Title Town, LLC, 1-205-242-9492
- Shay Frost, Title lead for Title Town, LLC, 1-256-613-8353
- Coreen Lawless, Title analyst Title Town, LLC, 1-716-378-3019
- Erin Robertson, Title Manager, Rally Point Resources, 1-724-622-3376
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