Krista Walter – Innovation Professional | Oil & Gas Enthusiast

Experience

Intellectual Ventures

Assistant Director | Oct 09 to Present

Macquarie Group

Senior Analyst | Oct 07 to Sept 09

•    Utilize industry experience in the oil and gas and health care sectors to facilitate fundamental analyses of companies and make investment recommendations across all the Macquarie Funds based in Sydney, Australia ($8B in FUM)
•    Maintain global comparatives and global sector knowledge; Prepare market evaluations including oil price forecasts and device/drug market potential including patent research
•    Assist the Portfolio Manager for the Macquarie MicroCap fund. Assist the Portfolio Manager for the Small Companies Fund, a $300M fund that invests in a diversified portfolio of ex 50 ASX listed companies;
•    Adapt quantitative screening to maintain manageable investable universe and optimize portfolio weightings
•    Facilitate participation in pre-IPO, IPO, and placement opportunities through developing relationships with appropriate Executives within the industry, enabling the fund to be involved with 5 oil and gas placements and 3 pre-IPO opportunities in 2008.
•    Meet with consultants and advisors regarding fund strategy, philosophy, and screening techniques in order to increase funds under management

Project V

Project V is a global platform which fosters collaboration among experts and users of any product or service.  The Project was designed to take advantage of the global Web 2.0 online market research and product innovation market, including user generated online-ad revenue which currently stands at 1 Billion USD and is projected to grow to 4.3 Billion USD by 2011.

Managing Partner (Entrepreneur), Australia | Oct 06 to Oct 07

•    Researched and developed a business plan for a new consumer innovation and global market research company; gained practical experience in understanding business cases and budget planning
•    Initial commercial analysis indicated an investment of 250,500 USD over two years for technology and 50,000 USD initially in launch marketing costs, increasing logarithmically based on SEO and network size
•    Final strategic analysis indicated long-term feasibility to be a high risk due to lack of defensible IP and barriers to entry

Eli Lilly Pharmaceuticals Australia

MBA Management Program, Australia | Jul 06 to Oct 06

•    Three month sales cycle as GP Sales Representative for a Western Sydney territory
•    Graduated with 100% average from Lilly Sales ID training school

Schlumberger Ltd.

Schlumberger employs over 50,000 people of more than 140 nationalities working in 100 countries. Schlumberger is the leading oilfield services company supplying technology, project management and information solutions that optimise performance for customers working in the international oil and gas industry.

Training and Development Manager (Instructor), Egypt | Feb 03 to Oct 04

•    Lead Manager for 120 new engineers and 60 experienced engineers and assistant manager for 120 engineers; Restructured training programs for clients and engineers, improved delivery structure by introducing self- learning tools and revalidating necessary information contributing to attrition rates declining from 20% to 7% for new engineers
•    Acquired clients in order to fill training schedules per quarter to meet revenue targets.  Designed the course schedules to maximise participants
•    Minimised costs to the training center by establishing long-term preferred vendor contracts and negotiating improved pricing relationships
•    Managed career development including: hiring and termination decisions; procedures for engineers in training through mentorship, coaching, and formal appraisal and facilitating the roll out of the new global Learning Management System (LMS) to engineers and managers

Project Manager (Field Test Coordinator), Schlumberger Product Center (SPC), USA | Sep 01 to Jan 03

•    Managed the lab development, field testing, and manufacturing design of the next generation NMR wireline technology through collaboration with the President of Royal Dutch Shell R&D
•    Secured major clients as customers for the new technology in order to meet commercialization metrics; expanding the base to 5 major clients leading to orders for more than 30 units over 3 years through effective presentation and communication of product and service specs, and data and analysis outcomes

Senior Field Engineer, Offshore Louisiana (GOM) and New Mexico, United States | Sep 98 to Sep 01

Promoted to Senior Field Engineer within 18 months compared to average 2 years and transferred to the highest profile location in North America within 2 years

Primary Achievements and Responsibilities:
•    Coordinated and conducted operations for major clients on high profile oilfield evaluation projects  in SW US territories and Gulf of Mexico territories, leading to increased long-term contracts and selection as premier engineer for US$2 million+ deepwater projects
•    Actively developed management skills to gain full control of multiple client contracts which included equipment delivery, personnel assignment, pricing, data quality and delivery of final presentation to the client which contributed to obtaining future work from expanding client base
•    Managed P & L for operations manager when absent from location and acted as Field Services Manager at base during time as Senior Field Engineer in preparation for next assignment
•    Successful as a field engineer due to the ability to perform under pressure in stressful situations with minimal sleep and still be able to make critical decisions and perform troubleshooting when necessary while effectively communicating to the client and rig personnel in order to efficiently complete services