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Houston

Object Reservoir has ongoing interest in exceptional candidates with strong credentials in petrotechnical professions with shale reservoir experience and in petroleum industry technical sales.

Account Manager:

Object Reservoir, Inc. (OR) is searching for a Houston-based software account manager to pursue software sales of our new modeling products. The software allows OR’s clients the ability to rapidly and accurately characterize reservoir assets and to assist in improved management and recovery of those assets.

Key Result Areas:

Revenue Generation
Revenue Projection
New account targeting and penetration
Proposal Generation
Market Expansion
Accounts Receivables

Skills Profile:

Technical

Understand reservoir characterization in unconventional resources
Understand the exploration and production cycle and how we fit therein
Understand the sales cycle
Understand Value Selling
Understanding of customer’s business needs (from P&L to Cash management)
Understand OR’s business needs (where are we in the company development)
Marketing knowledge of segmentation, productization, and strategic planning
Knowledge of client company structure to help reduce A/R.

Performance

Manage the sales cycle
Negotiate with client companies to meet margin targets
Sell strategically within an account at the highest level to insure that Limits becomes a mission critical part of the client’s reservoir engineering workflows
Forecast business (dollar amounts and dates)
Develop creative solutions to penetrating new accounts
Ability to dig into a client account and uncover areas where we can directly affect client company’s goals (Reservoir management, reserves analysis, etc.)

Position Summary:

Meet sales projection for assigned territory.
Contract Negotiation with client organizations
Must work with clients to define two to five year plans for services and products.
Responsible for sales worldwide. Must be able to forecast on a quarterly and annual basis, and deliver promised forecast.
Responsible for collections of receivable for same
Manage all accounts to provide returns specified by product line, by service line, and by cost ratio
Insure that all client support needs are fulfilled
Maintain open communications to development group

Desired Requirements:

BS degree
Five to ten years experience in oil industry
Sales experience in oil industry
Familiar with reservoir engineering
Familiar with software industry

Minimum Requirements

Sales experience (preferably in High Tech or Oil & Gas)
Entrepreneurial, taking attitude
Ability to work with little or no supervision
Dedicated to customer satisfaction
Ability to learn all facets of OR’s business.
Ability to create clear and concise reports of business opportunities, problems, and solutions.
Professional appearance and deportment
Ability to create presentations and work with upper level management of any oil & gas company in region.
Ability to work with all OR staff.

Please submit resumes to: resumes@objectreservoir.com

Austin

Senior Application Designer/Developer

Object Reservoir seeks an experienced Application Designer to lead the continuing architectural evolution of our design to support our products not only from the end-user’s perspective, but also from the standpoint of our in-house team in terms of development, scalability, and maintainability.

Experience Requirements Guideline:

Object Reservoir applies an Agile process to develop its products in Java using a Netbeans IDE and technologies such as RCP and OSGi. The candidate should have at least 10 years experience including:

Experience developing infrastructure for a Java desktop application
Experience with modular application architecture development (OSGi, Netbeans RCP)
Experience designing and developing a multi-threaded application
Knowledge of Agile software development methodologies (Scrum, Kanban, etc.)
Experience designing, implementing, and documenting APIs
Experience performing code reviews
Knowledge of Object-Oriented design patterns
Experience developing unit tests
Experience estimating work for planning purposes
Experience with Maven, Subversion
Experience with the above in developing an enterprise application for commercial deployment.
Must be self-motivated, able to work independently and on projects with other team members

Other:

The job position is available immediately.
The compensation will be competitive, based on relevant experience.
A stock option in Object Reservoir will be proposed.
Object Reservoir offers benefits competitive with the industry, including company contributions to health/dental/vision insurance; fully paid life, ST/LT disability insurance; paid vacation time; access to 401K and FSA savings programs; and visa/immigration assistance.

Please send a resume with a covering note to: mcovington@objectreservoir.com

Software Developer

Object Reservoir seeks an experienced Software Developer to implement, maintain, and extend the interaction between a Java-based desktop application (NetBeans RCP and Swing) and the database persistence layer for both embedded and external systems. The successful candidate will be responsible for areas such as database schema, release-driven schema migration, import and export capabilities, and overall performance of the persistence layer.

Experience Requirements Guideline:

Object Reservoir applies an Agile process to develop its products in Java using the NetBeans IDE and technologies such as RCP and Swing. The candidate should be proficient with the following:

Working with JPA implementations (EclipseLink or equivalent)
Working with open source and commercial databases (Derby, MySQL, MSSql, …)
Developing J2SE software
Using standalone and embedded databases
Developing and maintaining database schema, database migration, and application interactions
Database-to-Database importing
Unit testing
Knowledge of provenance collection techniques
Estimating work for planning purposes
Working with Maven, Subversion
Using the above in developing desktop applications for commercial deployment.

The candidate must be self-motivated, able to work independently and on projects with other team members

Other:

The job position is available immediately.
The compensation will be competitive, based on relevant experience
A stock option in Object Reservoir will be proposed.

Please send a resume with a covering note to: mcovington@objectreservoir.com

Please submit resumes for general job inquiries to: resumes@objectreservoir.com

Careers at Object Reservoir

Object Reservoir employs a diverse, multi-talented workforce with emphasis on specialized technical fields such as Reservoir and Petroleum Engineering; Geology and Petrophysics; Geomechanics; Software Engineering, GUI and Visualization, QA and Validation; Fluid Flow Physics; and Finite Element Numerics and Meshing. OR’s commitment to recruiting and retaining a high performance team is evident in the competitive compensation and benefits packages that include employee paid medical, dental, vision, life, short/long term disability, vacation, sick days and holidays; additional benefits include 401K, stock options, FSA and work schedule flexibility. As an employee of OR, your potential for achievement, fulfillment and career growth are substantial. The culture at OR is rich in diversity, welcomes camaraderie and encourages professional growth and expression of talent. We hope you will consider Object Reservoir as a place to invest your career and enjoy your work experiences. Object Reservoir, Inc. is an Equal Opportunity employer; all qualified candidates will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, national origin, gender, age, religion, disability, sexual orientation, veteran status, marital status or any other protected status designated by federal, state or local law. Employment is contingent upon successful completion of a background investigation.