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Stephanie Poole

Advanced Flow Assurance Engineer
Spring,TX

Summary

I am an experienced engineering professional offering foundation in engineering project management and design. History of success in performing load and cost calculations and establishing clear parameters. Experienced with applying engineering principles to real-world problems, leading to impactful solutions and utilizing analytical skills and technical knowledge to enhance operational efficiency. Track record of effective team collaboration and project completion.

Overview

16
16
years of professional experience
10
10
Certifications
4
4
Languages

Work History

Flow Assurance Engineer

ExxonMobil
Spring, Texas
01.2022 - Current
  • Delivered all required technical scopes and optimized on material (~$30Million) and equipment (~$3Million) specification while maintaining the 50% reduction Guyana project deliverable schedule for the fifth (5th) Floating Offshore Vessel. Led Guyana Project 7 from early concept design to full project definition in under 12 months—a significant milestone for a complex (heavy oil, non-Newtonian) development in Guyana. As the Flow Assurance Lead, I provided technical recommendations and leadership for an unprecedented fluid system, tackling design pressures and temperatures, fluid compatibility, and Topsides conditions. By implementing cutting-edge technologies, and chemical optimizations we addressed challenges head-on.
  • Collaborating with engineering service contractors (TFMC, Saipem, NOV), and internal teams, we achieved a 1,000-ton reduction in topsides weight and cut greenhouse gas emissions by 264,000 metric tons annually. My work also drove financial and operational efficiencies. I delivered $10 million in CAPEX savings and $140 million in OPEX reductions while achieving project design targets through topside vessel testing and implementation. Additionally, optimizing the piping design and maintenance philosophy further reduced topside facility weight by 100 metric tons and cut costs by an additional $10 million.
  • Led startup optimization for Guyana's third development to assess and manage transient operations, and topside fluids arrival to optimize on chemical dosage. After start up, I enabled a 25% increase in production and injection rates, unlocking an anticipated $20 million value by 2025. I also streamlined operations by refining restart sequences to eliminate trips, minimizing chemical usage, and ensuring accurate maintenance tool arrival times. My efforts in leading advanced testing technologies also enabled a $60 million OPEX reduction for Organic and inorganic solid management.

Production/Reservoir Engineer

ExxonMobil
Spring, Texas
09.2018 - 12.2021
  • Collaborated and partnered across Upstream and Downstream functions to integrate workflows, expand capabilities and align on data integration strategies to deliver a 3-year staged system deployment linked with Dynamic Matrix Control (DMC)/Automatic Process Control (APC) systems resulting in multi-million worth of uplift per year [SPE-193144-MS].
  • Served as an Asset engagement lead, which meant partnering with high frequency data teams to ensure data consistency across environments, establish new global partnerships for future workflow enhancements, developing roadmaps for the technology/capabilities, understanding any potential patent infringement risks, lead conversations with business to ensure alignment on priorities, and enhance sustainability of deployed technology by documenting testing plan framework and leading workflow validation criteria.

User Support Engineer

ExxonMobil
Spring, Texas
11.2014 - 08.2018
  • Provided cross-functional (i.e. Research, Development, Production and Downstream) support (which included knowledge of End User contract agreements and cost structures) for multiple technical tools related to steady state and transient flow, process engineering, thermodynamics, water chemistry, sand, Computational Fluid Dynamic (CFD), and Finite Element (FEA) modeling while establishing key working relationship with major vendors such as Schlumberger and Siemens. The support scope also included aiding Project managers with onboarding Engineers globally for multiple functions and defining respective support models for each of the roles.
  • While providing support for this vast array of technical tools over various types of computing resources, I provided technical engineering consulting for several multi-billion dollar capital projects, was the engineering point of contact for a proof-of-concept with Microsoft and Altair for rigorously testing CFD and FEA code performance in the Microsoft Azure cloud environment and actively contributed in the budgeting process to communicate with procurement and planning advisors on negotiations and future functional costs.
  • As a technical broadening exercise, I partnered with the Offshore, Infrastructure, & Environment (OIE) group in the research section of the company to perform validation of CFD turbulence modeling in STAR-CCM+ to create a corporate-wide “Best Practice” guideline regarding CFD. Additionally, used CFD in a more production support capacity by refining a production process (slugcatcher) model to as-built conditions to assess feasibility of increasing gas production.

ExxonMobil, Upstream Technical Computing Company
06.2014 - 08.2014
  • Benchmarking Computational Fluid Dynamic (CFD) and Finite Element Analysis (FEA) tools on a spectrum of High-Performance Computing (HPC) system configurations to understand how different numerical method codes "interact" and perform on a variety system configurations. The main applications of focus were: Fluent (Vendor: ANSYS), STAR-CCM+ (Vendor: Siemens), Abaqus (Vendor: Dassault Systems).

Cybersecurity Intern

Attack Research, LLC
White Rock, New Mexico
06.2013 - 08.2013
  • I was a student employee for Attack Research where I learned aspects of computer science and computer security. Additionally, I worked on some website forensics, and working with communication devices and GPS analysis. Furthermore, I attended the DEFCON conference in Las Vegas, NV in order to enhance my knowledge of computer security.

Data Analyst Intern

FairFieldNodal Inc.
Houston, TX
06.2012 - 08.2012
  • During the summer of 2012 I worked on a project for FairFieldNodal Inc., as a contractor for Intelligent Systems and Innovative Software, LLC. The project I worked on was focused at looking at innovative ways to use existing data from seismic surveys and recorded seismic data and start the process of doing data analytics and data fusion. One of my tasks was to develop some of the initial modeling and start the process this summer. This was an exploratory study in Data Analytics from the non-Seismic point of view. I wrote codes and algorithms in MATLAB, Python and started the C code. It involved doing data conversion, data analysis and data display. Seismic data can be considered a time series, so I used FFT's to evaluate any potential "hidden" information in some of the seismic survey data. This along with a project I did earlier in school on steganography exemplified the necessity to learn additional mathematics. I was invited to attend the Discovery 2020 workshop. This is a by invitation only workshop focused on DoD/DOE requirements.

Computing Intern

Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Oak Ridge, TN
06.2010 - 08.2010
  • Company Overview: National Center for Computer Science (NCCS)
  • During the 2010 summer program at ORNL, I was working in NCCS (National Center for Computational Sciences), which is where the Supercomputer “Jaguar” is housed and operated. The project I was assigned was to take a large collection of codes and prepare them for production release, which meant I had to “document” all of the codes. The codes were written in C/C++, Perl and Python. Together they were the elements of another database project. My mentor was called away the very first week I arrived and was put on a crash project. So, I decided to figure out how to solve the problem myself. I first looked at the codes to see how well documented they were already. They were fairly well commented. I then decided to learn Doxygen and apply that technology to all of the routines in the package. Once I had finished all of this I added in the necessary rules and directives to Doxygen to produce the requested guide book (Reference Manual) for the system. It produced call-graphs and the like. I had to install Doxygen on my own personal Mac as well as the Linux machine at the office. This all was done on my own. I handed in my completed assignment and finished off the summer. While there I was also involved as a mentor to a group of High School students and High School teachers from around the USA. I have included a link to one of my mentoring projects. I was part of the mentoring team for ARC (Appalachian Regional Commission). I was invited to attend the Discovery 2015 workshop. This is a by invitation only workshop focused on DoD/DOE requirements.

Computing Intern

National Institute for Computer Science (NICS) UT
Oak RIdge, TN
06.2009 - 08.2009
  • Company Overview: Joint Institute for Computer Science (JICS) ORNL/UT
  • Worked in the systems administration and installation team as an intern. All of the interns were taught the basics of system installation and administration. As part of the team I helped build from scratch a small cluster, which we networked together installed all of the necessary software to make all of the nodes work together as cluster. This entailed setting up all the networking, user ID's, applications software and ensuring all of the software was working properly. Once we finished this we downloaded from the network, the Linpack Benchmark. We then built and ran the Linpack benchmark on our system and ensured we got the correct answers. We also disassembled several desktop systems and had to be able to identify the components within the systems. We ran diagnostics to try and track down posed problems with the machines. We installed printers and devices on the network as well as installed and enabled workstations for users when required. I attended many interesting lectures while at ORNL/JICS. I also wrote code in C/C++, Fortran, Perl and Python. One of the other programs that I wrote and modified was a database program written in Perl which tracks all of the run times of the uses. It is then submitted so at to understand the allocation times for various researchers. This was for the NSF machine Kraken, which is the machine I ran on. This was done with VERY limited guidance from my mentor, as he was occupied with other projects of his own. I wrote programs using the MPI library for processor communications. This is one of the methods used in the Linpack benchmark. I prepared and delivered presentations before the members of the team and invited guests. The presentations were on Programming in Python, C, Fortran and How to use MPI. I have included both of them for reference. I have also included the links to some of the work I did or participated in while at ORNL. I was invited to attend the Discovery 2015 workshop. This is a by invitation only workshop focused on DoD/DOE requirements.

Education

Bachelor of Science - Chemical Engineering, Mathematics Minor

Tennessee Technological University
Cookeville, TN
05.2014

Skills

  • Team collaboration

  • C, C, Perl, Python, MATLAB, Fortran, VBA, Excel (Microsoft tools), Visual Studio, Linux, GIT, R

  • Agile methodologies

  • Project planning

  • Engineering documentation / Technical writing

  • Time management

  • Team collaboration

Certification

Member of the Dean's list 2009- 2014

Interests

  • Played the violin for 15 years
  • Black Belt in Tae Kwon Do martial arts
  • Kempojuitsu
  • Riflery
  • Samurai Sword
  • Reading

Leadership

  • ExxonMobil
  • Asset engagement lead role. Worked alongside high frequency data teams to ensure data consistency across environments, established contacts in various reservoir, pipeline and production teams for future workflow enhancements, led conversations with asset to ensure alignment on priorities, built interim visualization dashboards for Proof-of-Concepts (i.e. Tableau, PowerBI) and updated technical workflows as necessary based on business priority and team capacity
  • Served as the Subsea Pipeline and Flow Assurance Mentorship coordinator to enable a formal mentoring process within ExxonMobil to facilitate New Hires' successful transition to ExxonMobil
  • Course Coordinator for an Upstream Facilities Surveillance 2-week long course. As course coordinator, I was responsible for putting together the course schedule, prerequisites, delivering some lectures and collaborating with several subject matter experts.
  • Led Lunch &Learns on how to build Raspberry Pi clusters, Doorbell alarm systems with Raspberry Pis and building annotating robots.
  • Community outreach chair for ExxonMobil's Veteran's resource group and on the community outreach committee for the Women's Interest group.
  • ORNL
  • Prepared and gave lectures on computer programming languages such as C, and Python for ARC high school students and prepared hands-on in class activities.
  • Tennessee Tech. University:
  • Team leader in the following classes:
  • Process Design I & II (7-8 total members)
  • Process Dynamics & Controls (5 total members):
  • Senior Capstone project (5 total members):
  • Teacher's Assistant for Reaction Kinetics (Senior)

Additional continual learning course work

  • 2004-2011 Chinese Tutorial
  • 2007 Sino Language Camp in Beijing, China.
  • 2010 Spent a month in China/Tibet
  • 2009/2010 Web based C/C++ programming course
  • 2017 Stanford Machine Learning Course by Andrew Ng
  • 2019 Johns Hopkins Machine Learning Course
  • 2024 American Nuclear Society (ANS) Nuclear 101 certification course (Passed)
  • 2024 - 2025 Georgia Tech Data Analytics Masters courses (Introduction to Analytics Modeling, Data Analytics in Business)

Timeline

Flow Assurance Engineer

ExxonMobil
01.2022 - Current

Production/Reservoir Engineer

ExxonMobil
09.2018 - 12.2021

User Support Engineer

ExxonMobil
11.2014 - 08.2018

ExxonMobil, Upstream Technical Computing Company
06.2014 - 08.2014
W.A. Howard Award (Spring 2014)
05-2014
Rising Renaissance Engineer Award (Spring 2014)
03-2014

Cybersecurity Intern

Attack Research, LLC
06.2013 - 08.2013
Member of Omega Chi Epsilon (Chemical Engineering Honor Society) 2012- 2014
08-2012

Data Analyst Intern

FairFieldNodal Inc.
06.2012 - 08.2012
Honor Graduate from Pellissippi State Community College 2010
08-2010

Computing Intern

Oak Ridge National Laboratory
06.2010 - 08.2010
Member of the Dean's list 2009- 2014
08-2009
Member of Phi Theta Kappa 2009 – 2011
08-2009
Hope Scholarship (2009-2012)
08-2009

Computing Intern

National Institute for Computer Science (NICS) UT
06.2009 - 08.2009

Bachelor of Science - Chemical Engineering, Mathematics Minor

Tennessee Technological University

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