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John O. Bennett
601 Tulsa Street
Norman, Oklahoma 7307
Home: 405.364.6461
Office: 405.325.2921

Lecturer/Adjunct Professor
Mewboure School of Petroleum &
Geological Engineering

Resume

Twenty-five years of industry/government/academics technical research and development of in areas of Algorithm Development, Statistical Modeling, Pattern Recognition, Image Processing, Computer Mapping, Digital Data Base Analysis, Numerical Analysis, Numerical Solutions of Ordinary and Partial Differential Equations, and Computer Graphics.

Work Experience

Present
University of Oklahoma:Lecturer/Adjunct Professor, Mewbourne School of Petroleum and Geological Engineering

President and CEO, Paradigm Imaging Inc.
601 Tulsa Street
Norman, Oklahoma 73071

2002-2003
Adjunct Professor, Department of Mathematics, University of Oklahoma;Tutor Athletic Department.

1989 - 2002
Department of the Interior/Minerals Management Service (MMS), Reston,Virginia, Mathematician doing Statistical Modeling and Offshore Petroleum Reserves Forecasting. Received MMS Innovator Award for digital algorithm to determine the foot of the continental slope used in United Nation's Law of the Sea, Article 76, Mineral Rights claims.

1986 - 1989
The Analytic Sciences Corporation (TASC), Reston,Virginia. Member of technical staff supervising computer graphics animation of satellites in orbit for top secret CIA contract.

1982 - 1986
Superior Oil(Houston,TX)/Mobil Oil(Dallas,TX), MEPSI, (Merger) Supervised 12 person computer mapping team at Superior Oil; Superintendent of Geological Developement for Mobil, Developed geological computer mapping and digital data base system for Mobil.

1979 - 1982
Chevron Geoscience Corporation, Houston,Texas
Geophysicist, Developed computer program for de-convolution of noisy seismic traces to recover input wavelet signal. Wrote 3D gravity and magnetic's programs. Wrote computer programs to remove baseline drift from gas chromatograph program to pick elute time peaks. Wrote synthetic seismogram program.

1973 - 1979
EXXON/MOBIL (EPRC,Houston,TX) Senior Research Mathematician, Designed and developed EXXON's first digital LANDSAT image processing system, Instructed personnel worldwide in the system's use, Developed methods for detecting subsurface hydrocarbon reservoirs from LANDSAT satellite images of the surface.s

1967 - Summer
Mathematician/Programmer, Conoco Research Laboratory (Ponca City,Oklahoma), Wrote systhetic seismogram program.

1962 - 1964
AMOCO (Jackson,MS/Oklahoma City, OK), Geophysicist,
Prepared geophysical maps for drill sites, Worked on project using synthetic seismograms amplitudes to determine the thickness of geologic beds from seismic section amplitude anomalies for drill sites.
This was the first petroleum industry use of this method.

Security Clearances

1987

Top Secret + (EBI) , CIA

1998
Secret,2 DOD

Education

1970 - 1973

Ph.D. Mathematical Sciences, Rice University, Houston, Texas. NASA Grant Supported thesis entitled, "Estimation of Multivariate Probability Density Functions Using B-Splines."

1967 - 1970
Instructor Department of Mathematics, Graduate work, University of Texas, Austin, Texas.

1964 - 1967
MA, Mathematics, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK.
Graduate Teaching Assistant in Mathematics.

1958 - 1962

BA, Petroleum Geophysics, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK

1957 - 1958

Attended US Naval Academy, Annapolis, Maryland

1954 - 1957
HS Diploma, The Bullis School, Potomac , Maryland.

 

Contact John Bennett for more information - jobennett@ou.edu - 21-Jul-2004
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