“Perception is reality.” This was the very first career pep talk I heard, as a freshly minted petroleum engineer graduate in 2015. At the time, I had no idea how much power this sentence would have over me. Power can mean a lot of things in our oil and gas…
Chris Dao is an accomplished energy industry tech leader. He graduated in 2015 from the University of Texas at Austin and has worked as a software engineer with big names like Microsoft and Chevron. In his free time, he serves on engineering society leadership boards, like the Society of Petroleum Engineers (SPE), and is passionate about shepherding women and minorities into the tech industry.
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Oil and gas operations are commonly found in remote locations far from company headquarters. Now, it's possible to monitor pump operations, collate and analyze seismic data, and track employees around the world from almost anywhere. Whether employees are in the office or in the field, the internet and related applications enable a greater multidirectional flow of information – and control – than ever before.