Thought Leadership

Thought leaders provide leadership and insight in matters related to the specific domains of vital interest to the energy industry, providing expertise and advice to clients that leverage their considerable experience and knowledge.

Edgard Castillo, Product Manager, Drilling Software

Edgard Castillo is Product Manager for the Petris Drilling Software product line. Edgard was educated in Venezuela (MBA and EE degrees), and he has worked in the industry since the early 90s for Lagoven, Sperry Sun, Halliburton and Schlumberger. In these organizations he held a variety of roles in drilling engineering, well planning, business development and management of professional services. Edgard has primary responsibility for the DrillNET product line on a global basis– including product definition, product marketing and support of Petris drilling sales efforts.

Michael Dumm, Vice President

Mr. Dumm is currently responsible for Petris' Delivery of Products and Services which includes Quality Assurance and the Quality Management System. He has thirty-nine years experience in software development and general business management, and has held senior management positions where he was involved with development of GIS software packages (Cremans Inc), Document Management Systems (Handle Technologies, Inc.), Database Management Systems (Microprocessor Laboratories, Inc.) and Supervisory Process Control Systems (Pioneering Controls Technologies, Inc.) Mr. Dumm earned a Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering from the University of Texas at El Paso.

Chris Hamley, Vice President, Well Data Products

Chris Hamley is responsible for Well Data Products and is the Product Manager for the PetrisWINDS Recall system. Chris has worked in software development in the exploration and production industry for over twenty five years. Chris joined Z&S Consultants in 1984, and was the principal architect and developer of the Recall Database. He was the Recall Software Development manager at Z&S Consultants and continued in that role following the takeover of Z&S by Baker Hughes in 1998.

Chris has been involved in all areas of Recall activities, including software architecture, software development, client liaison, technical sales support, marketing and the integration of Recall with other database systems. Chris is also active in the customization of PetrisWINDS Recall for clients and the organisation of large scale Recall population and database migration projects. Recall has been tightly integrated with several third party database systems, and Chris was responsible for the integration of Recall with the Finder and PetroBank database systems. His current interests include the increased automation of the loading and processing of borehole data and the integration of the Recall with PetrisWINDS Enterprise. Chris has also been active in industry standards initiatives such as the POSC PWLS. Chris holds a BSc in Cybernetic and Psychology from the University of Reading, UK

Abhijeet (Abhi) Narvekar, Product Manager, Data Management

Mr. Narvekar is responsible for strategic initiatives towards project deliverables and product releases of the Data Management suite. Abhi has more than 13 years of experience in IT projects, 8 of which have been within the oil and gas industry with Schlumberger and now Petris. During Abhi’s time at Petris, he has successfully managed multimillion dollar projects for NOC’s from inception to production. Abhi has a very strong people management, project management and quality assurance background.

Abhi holds a Masters in Industrial Engineering and Management from Oklahoma State University and a Bachelor of Engineering in Production Engineering, from Mumbai University. He is also certified in PRINCE2.

John Zangwill, Software Architect

Dr. John Zangwill is involved in the architecture and product strategy for PetrisWINDS Recall. John has over twenty-five years experience in software development in the oil exploration and production industry. He was a founder and Technical Director of Z&S Consultants Limited, the original creators of Recall, which was later acquired by Baker Hughes Inc. There he worked to ensure that the software products were “future-proof” without losing state-of-the-art capability. His specialities include interactive graphics and web technology.

Dr. Zangwill holds MSc and PhD degrees in Mathematical Logic from the University of Bristol (UK), with a BA/MA in Mathematics from the University of Cambridge (UK).