Bryan McDowell is a geologist/reservoir engineer at Sabata Energy Consultants LLC. He specializes in integrating geologic and engineering datasets for a fuller understanding of productivity controls in unconventional reservoirs and has taught Spotfire short courses for three years. Bryan received a B.Sc., Geology at Texas A&M University and a M.Sc., Petroleum Engineering at Colorado School of Mines. He is currently completing his Ph.D., Geology at Colorado School of Mines.