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John R. Schuyler
CAM, CCE, CMA, CMC, CPIM, PMP, PE
John Schuyler helps clients gain competence in risk and economic decision analysis and in project risk management. He established an independent training and consulting practice in 1988, focusing on project and corporate economic analysis and on decision policy.
The Decision Precision® trademark identifies John's evaluation process and educational services. He has over 30 years business and engineering experience in training, consulting, analysis, and management. His industry experience mostly in the petroleum industry and also includes mining, utilities, manufacturing, pharmaceuticals, information technology, finance, professional services, retail, and government.
His
short courses deal principally with
capital investments, corporate planning, engineering design and project
management decisions under uncertainty. He is associated with OGCI-PetroSkills
for whom he has presented his 3- to 6-day course, Petroleum Risks and
Decision Analysis, and variations, more than 210 times. John has trained
in 33 countries on six continents. He is the author of
Risk and Decision Analysis in Projects
published by Project Management Institute (1997 and 2001) and is the revisions
author of the second edition of Paul Newendorp's classic,
Decision Analysis for Petroleum
Exploration. John frequently presents short talks and
workshops for professional organizations. He has written over 40 articles,
conference papers, and handbook chapters published in the professional literature.
You may contact John at:
Decision Precision®
15492 East Chenango Avenue
Aurora, CO 80015-1703 U.S.A.
Phones: 800-214-3916 (US and Canada) or 303-693-0067
Fax: 303-693-2827
E-mail:
(checked frequently when a connection is available; please include "risk" or
"decision" in the subject line)
Web: http://www.maxvalue.com
John's previous work experience includes (most recent first):
- Six years (1982-88) as VP and evaluation engineer for Security Pacific Bank (then U.S. 6th largest). Appraised collateral properties for approximately half of a $2 billion energy loan portfolio. Developed automated evaluation tools and practices.
- Manager - Business Systems for Cities Service Co.'s $600 million Petrochemicals Division. Led developing an information systems plan and a grass-roots data processing organization.
- Senior Management Consultant with a national CPA firm. Systems planning and design; operational reviews; EDP auditing.
- Planning and Evaluation Analyst for Cities Service Oil Company (now part of Occidental Petroleum). Capital project evaluations; budgets; corporate plans.
- VP - Administration, CFO, and co-founder of a small commercial products company.
Other credentials include:
- M.B.A. from University of Colorado at Boulder (management science emphasis)
- B.S. and M.S. in Mineral-Engineering Physics from Colorado School of Mines (instrumentation thesis: "A Data Acquisition System for an Electron Spectrometer")
- CAM - Certified Administrative Manager
- CCE - Certified Cost Engineer
- CMA - Certified Management Accountant
- CMC - Certified Management Consultant
- CPIM - Certified in Production and Inventory Management
- PE - registered Professional Engineer (Colorado)
- PMP - certified Project Management Professional
Member: Association for the Advancement of Cost Engineering (AACE International), Institute of Management Accountants (IMA), Institute of Management Consultants (IMC), Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS), Project Management Institute (PMI), Rocky Mountain Association of Geologists (RMAG), Society of Petroleum Engineers (SPE), Society of Petroleum Evaluation Engineers (SPEE).
Selected bibliography Articles, papers, handbook chapters, and books by John Schuyler
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Phone: 303-693-0067 (in the U.S., Mountain time zone. Winter GMT-7, Summer DST GMT-6)