The Staff

Brian Fuller, PhD  Senior Geophysicist/Managing Member E-mail: bfuller@hipointreservoir.com Brian has twenty-seven years experience in the oil and gas industry as a seismic data processing geophysicist and software developer. He worked for Amoco Production Company in Denver as an Exploration Geophysicist beginning in 1980. He then attended graduate school at the University of Wyoming where he earned M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Geophysics with an emphasis on signal processing and AVO analysis. For seven years Brian worked for Landmark Graphics Corporation where he was a primary developer for the ProMAX/VSP package and ProMAX AVO software. Prior to joining Sterling Seismic Services, he worked for Paulsson Geophysical where he was a lead software developer and lead 3D VSP data processor. In 2003 Brian joined Sterling Seismic Services and with Marc Sterling co-developed the VSP processing technology used today by HiPoint Reservoir Imaging. At HiPoint, Brian focuses on delivering client results in a timely manner and general company management.  Additionally he continues to work as a member of the HiPoint data processing and software development teams to continually improve HiPoint's products and services.

Marc Sterling  Senior Geophysicist/Managing Member E-mail: msterling@hipointreservoir.com Marc has over twenty-eight years of experience on a wide array of processing platforms in exploration, production and engineering applications. He has been actively involved in 3D processing and development for twenty years. At Western Geophysical, he was the Group Leader of "Research and Special Projects Group". Following his years at Western, Marc moved on to work with Aspen Geophysical, Bolt Technology, Production Geophysical Services and Geosignal. In all cases, enjoying senior positions of responsibility and managing projects that have included shear wave research and software development. As President of Sterling Seismic Services, Marc's technical support and involvement in all aspects of company operations are a result of his dedication to the customer and adherence to his own high standards of quality assurance. His shear-wave and engineering experience has consistently lead to unsolicited work. He is a proven explorationist in both structurally complex and stratigraphic exploration provinces. He has consistently shown the ability to develop innovative processing sequences to better delineate the exploration objectives.

James A. Byerrum, J.D., CPA Manager/Member E-mail: jbyerrum@hipointreservoir.com With over 25 years experience as a CPA and over 15 years as an attorney, Jim functions as the CFO and In House Counsel for the company. Prior to law school Jim was an auditor for an international accounting firm and was controller for 2 oil service companies. He subsequently practiced law and became the director of corporate benefit compliance for a fortune 100 company.

Rich Van Dok Senior Principal Geophysicist E-mail: rvandok@hipointreservoir.com Rich Van Dok received his B.Sc. in Geophysical Engineering 1984 from the Colorado School of Mines.  He joined Western Geophysical in Houston in June of 1984 and worked for them in various positions for just over 22 years, ultimately attaining the position of Senior Area Geophysicist.  Throughout his career he has been involved in all phases of surface seismic data processing including land, marine, OBC and multicomponent applications.  In 1988 he transferred to Western's Denver office.  In 1996 he began working on azimuthal anisotropy issues related to both P-waves and converted waves primarily for fractured detection and reservoir characterization. Rich has co-authored numerous papers and articles on these subjects for the SEG, EAGE, CSEG, AAPG and various other local geophysical societies.

Les Engelbrecht Senior Programmer/Geophysicist E-mail: les@hipointreservoir.com Les graduated from the Colorado School of Mines in 1983 with a degree in Geophysical Engineering. Before HiPoint he was a partner in Renegade Geophysics, LLC where he wrote Renegade's velocity analysis application. He has 22 years in the industry where he spent the first 3 years processing seismic data with Western Geophysical. He then became a seismic applications programmer. He spent the next 9 years working on Graphical User Interfaces and geophysical applications for Western and 7 years with PGS (with the exception of a brief stint working on Space Shuttle software at NASA in the early 90's). He is one of few programmers in the seismic business who started in seismic processing and moved in to programming.