Wayne B.

Key Skills

Software

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Top Subject Matter

Upstream oil & gas

petroleum engineering

Geoscience Domain Expertise

Top Data Types

Text

Document

Top Task Types

RLHF

Tracking

Classification

Freelancer Overview

Senior Petroleum Engineering & AI Training Consultant — RLHF and LLM model evaluation in the energy sector. Brings 51+ years of professional experience across legal operations, contract review, compliance, and structured analysis. Core strengths include Internal and Proprietary Tooling. Education includes Bachelor of Science, University of Southern California (1976). AI-training focus includes data types such as Text and labeling workflows including RLHF, Evaluation, and Rating.

Labeling Experience

Senior Petroleum Engineering and Technical AI Evaluation Consultant - Independent Technical Consultant

TextTrackingRLHF

Provided technical consulting in petroleum engineering and geoscience, with a focus on evaluating and improving AI model outputs for energy-sector use. Applied domain expertise in reserves evaluation, petrophysical analysis, and economic modeling to validate technical correctness and reasoning quality. Worked with expert review workflows requiring strong analytical rigor and structured technical communication. • Conducted RLHF-style evaluation tasks and created gold-standard expert responses for LLM outputs • Performed domain expert advisory for energy clients including AFE tracking, compliance, and reserves valuation • Led technical due diligence for acquisitions using forecasting and NPV/IRR economic models • Reviewed system- and reasoning-level determinism for petrophysical, reservoir, and geopolitically linked datasets

2023 - Present

Senior Petroleum Engineering & AI Training Consultant — RLHF and LLM model evaluation in the energy sector

TextRLHF

Provided RLHF and structured expert feedback to refine large language model behavior for energy-sector petroleum engineering and geoscience tasks. Performed expert domain review to identify factual errors, reasoning failures, and ambiguities in AI-generated outputs, then generated gold-standard responses for training. Refined model outputs using deterministic “System 2” reasoning over complex petrophysical, reservoir, and geopolitical datasets. • Evaluated AI-generated engineering/geoscience text for technical correctness and plausibility • Created or approved gold-standard expert answers for post-training and evaluation • Delivered structured feedback to improve model reasoning reliability • Conducted domain expert advisory supporting compliant expert assessment for court/creditor review

2023 - Present

Manager, Engineering and Geology - XP Oilfield Consultants

TextClassification

Led reserves classification, production forecasting, and economic modeling to support acquisition and exploitation decisions. Directed horizontal well engineering work including resource estimation, trajectory planning, and regulatory permitting. Combined reservoir engineering analysis with SEC/PRMS-oriented reserves practices and financial evaluation skills. • Managed reserves and production evaluation across Texas and Oklahoma • Performed horizontal well engineering for a 15,000-foot well, validating operator projections before capital commitment • Coordinated regulatory permitting and technical documentation for drilling plans • Developed economic models and decision support tools for field development choices

2020 - 2023

Manager, Engineering and Geology — technical validation supporting model/decision quality

Text

Contributed to technical evaluation workflows that validate engineering assumptions and ensure economic and reserves reporting quality. While not explicitly framed as AI labeling, this role involved producing expert assessments that could be used to score or validate AI-generated technical content. Worked with reserves classification, production forecasting, and economic modeling outputs intended for acquisition and exploitation decision-making. • Led reserves classification and production forecasting evaluations • Produced economic model outputs (e.g., NPV/IRR) for decision support • Validated technical projections before capital/exploitation decisions • Supported structured technical content review for upstream acquisition decisions

2020 - 2023

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