Dr. McDonald,

            I have a contract position opening.  If you know of anyone interested, have them send a resume to Bryan Alexander at Quicksilver Resources:  balexander@....  This position is in Fort Worth Texas and open ended contract.  We do not have anything permanent, but that is subject to change.  An experienced contractor will get top consideration if a position opens.  We are accepting resumes now and interviewing in the next two weeks.

Job Description: Contract position responsible for accurate and timely creation of data for oil and gas leases, units, contracts, pipelines, easements and rights-of-way in an ESRI-based GIS environment. Using ESRI general editing tools, will digitize data from various sources, such as legal documents, land plats, metes and bounds descriptions and township & range descriptions (Jeffersonian Survey), in order to create and maintain project data. Coordinate with landmen, lease analysts, geologists, engineers and other customers to provide mapping support for ongoing projects and to reinforce data quality and accuracy. Create custom maps on demand. Provide GIS solutions for both technical and non-technical personnel.

Requirements: Required skills: Working knowledge of ESRI ArcGIS. Microsoft Office applications including Excel and Powerpoint. Knowledge of projections and conversions.

Plus skills: MS Access or other relational database (especially SQL queries), GeoGraphix, or Petra. Oil and gas industry experience a plus.

Education and experience: Associate's degree in GIS, Geography, Geology, Cartography or related field with GIS emphasis. 1-2 years of experience working with ESRI ArcGIS Desktop software. Experience working with, or the ability to learn, township and range and metes and bounds legal descriptions.

Regards,

Bryan Alexander