Eric is a licensed Professional Petroleum/Mechanical Engineer in the state of Oklahoma with over 15 years of experience in the petroleum industry, including drilling and production engineering. He has managed drilling and production operations across multiple states and in multiple basins including basins solely operated on Federal Lands. He has special skills in understanding cement quality and design parameters after leading studies in the Haynesville shale to understand the Quality Assurance requirements of cement in high temp and high-pressure wells. In addition to his skills in petroleum engineering, Eric has a passion for land restoration.

He operates the Double P Ranch in Mounds, Oklahoma as a Savory Institute Global Business Hub to provide restoration grazing education and guidance for local ranchers in the methods of holistic management to create the conditions that lead to the regeneration of our native grasslands. He is recognized by the Audubon Society as a ranching operation that is a bird friendly ranch and is recognized as a Monarch Way station for providing habitat for endangered Monarch Butterflies. In addition, Eric is working closely with the USDA NRCS wildlife biologist for their Bobwhite quail EQIP program. Eric graduated from the University of Tulsa with a Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering.