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About Me

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Summary

Software Development Manager with 18 years experience in scientific desktop application development for the Oil and Gas industry. Leverages proven experiences in software engineering and leadership to assist organizations in developing innovative solutions to deliver value to customers and meet market requirements.

Sees career as creating cosmos out of chaotic processes and interactions, which are inevitable components in a multicultural and intercontinental software development environment. As a leader, constantly seeks creative ways to foster a dynamic work environment through an ideal mix of people, process and technology skills. As a developer, thrived to combine different tools and technologies to create value for customers.

Prior to working at Shell, and for fourteen years, heavily committed, as an undergraduate student, a software engineer, and finally a team leader, to the success of the GOCAD project, an Oil and Gas 3D subsurface modeling application. Graduate of Institut National Polytechnique de Lorraine in Nancy, France, holds a PhD in Geosciences.

Publications

SEGONDS David, DUBRULE Olivier, BIRRELL S., From seismic interpretation to 3D earth model, EAEG’96 Technical Program, 1996.

DUBRULE Olivier, BASIRE Christophe, BOMBARDE Sébastien, SAMSON Philippe, SEGONDS David and WONHAM J., Reservoir Geology Using 3-D Modelling Tools, SPE, 1997, SPE 38659.

SEGONDS David, MALLET Jean-Laurent and LÉVY Bruno, Smooth triangulated surfaces: G1 continuity for ray-tracing, SEG’97 Technical Program, 1997, vol. 2., ST 10.4, p. 1719-1722.

SEGONDS David, BENNIS Chakib and MALLET Jean-Laurent, 3-D Structural modeling: a new approach to interactively modify complex surface, SEG’98 Technical Program, 1998.

SEGONDS, David, BENNIS and MALLET Jean-Laurent, A New Way To Interactively Modify Complex Interfaces Modeled Using Triangulated Meshes, AAPG Annual Convention Technical Program, 1999