Our instructors bring an incredibly diverse array of working knowledge into their respective classrooms. What sets them apart is their ability to merge the technical knowledge with real-world examples so that the knowledge and concepts taught are clear and understandable.
Howard G. Blunk is founder and owner of OGC Consulting, an independent oil and gas consulting firm. He held a variety of accounting/audit supervisory and managerial positions, both domestically and internationally, in a 23 year career with Chevron before founding OGC. As author of PDI’s course books for both Joint Interest Accounting and Joint Venture Auditing, Mr. Blunk has combined these works into an integrated course book and teaching guide for PDI’s NAASJIO program. Having held a variety of leadership positions in COPAS, Mr. Blunk provides an authoritative, and insightful, look into the application of the COPAS guidelines that impact the Joint Interest arena.
Mr. Hoffman is National Director of Business Development and Sales for the Professional Development Institute of the University of North Texas. Prior to joining PDI, he worked in sales for Enertia Software and was Vice President of Business Development for Novoforum, a technical infrastructure that routes transactions among trading companies. He is former Global Director of Solutions Architecture for Oracle Energy, and former Director of Sales for PricewaterhouseCoopers. He has a BS in Systems Science from Michigan State University.
Mr. Looney has more than 25 years supervisory experience in all phases of finance and accounting for the energy industry. He is a registered CPA for both Oklahoma and Texas. He is a former manager of Amerada Hess Corporation, where he supervised a revenue department of 75 people. He was responsible for recording all gas, gas plant and oil revenue.
Mr. Miranda has been a CPA since 1984. As a former tax partner for KPMG, he worked with a variety of clients of different sizes in different industries. While there, he became editor for the annual updates to the oil and gas text that began as Burk & Bowhay’s “Income Taxation of Natural Resources” in 1954. This book was updated annually every year from 1954-2000. As editor, he rewrote a lot of material in the book as tax laws changed over the years and eventually became a co-author. He also worked on advising clients on the income tax aspects of e-commerce, the Internet, and other technology ventures as part of the KPMG e-Tax team.
Dick Moore has more than 30 years experience in the energy industry including jobs in both regulated and unregulated segments of this industry. He has held senior management positions in oil and gas production companies, interstate and intrastate natural gas pipelines, gas and electric utilities as well as natural gas gathering, processing and marketing companies.
Dr. Nichols is Professor and Director of Accounting Programs at Texas Tech University. After a successful career in the oil & gas industry, she pursued her PhD in Accounting at Louisiana State University. Linda continues to be heavily involved with the oil industry through consulting and providing training for oil companies in Angola, Nigeria, Malaysia, Indonesia, China, Thailand, Hungary, the United Kingdom, Australia, and in the U.S. Linda is co-author of a textbook in the field, Fundamentals of Oil and Gas Accounting, published by PennWell. She also serves as Associate Editor of the Oil, Gas and Energy Quarterly, and serves on the Editorial Board of the Petroleum Accounting and Financial Management Journal.
Mr. Porter is a former associate professor from the College of Business at Eastern New Mexico State University. He is a CPA and has taught seminars in energy accounting for PDI and the American Institute of CPAs since 1976. He has worked as a consultant for firms including the Humble Oil and Refining Company (Exxon).
Mr. Reeder has worked as an oil industry accountant since 1979 including positions with Exxon Corp., Kerr-McGee Corp. and today as an independent financial consultant. He focuses primarily on exploration and production work and was posted in Guangzhou and Beijing, China and now travels frequently to China as a consultant.
Jay Roy, CMA, MBA, is president of Strategic Compliance Group, Inc., which is a dedicated compliance company specializing in SEC and Sarbanes-Oxley requirements. He is a financial professional well versed in SEC regulations, financial audits and SOX initiatives.
Marty Stetzer’s specialty is downstream petroleum operations, especially supply and trading. In 2001, he led supply chain evaluation work with Shell in Europe. He has developed a participative-interactive training course covering petroleum upstream, midstream and downstream, including OPEC, supply-demand, upstream and midstream operations, refining, transportation and distribution, trading, risk management and marketing. The course has benefited more than 250 multi-national staff across the USA, Russia, Europe and India. He has a bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering from Kettering Institute in Michigan and an MBA from Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh.
John C. Tripp, Ph.D., CPA is a Professor of Taxation in the Graduate Tax Program and the School of Accountancy at the University of Denver. Dr. Tripp has been teaching income taxation at D.U. since 1979, specializing in the taxation of natural resources, property transactions and consolidated returns. He has worked at Ernst & Young as a Visiting Professor. He is an active member of the American Taxation Association; a former Trustee of COPAS-Colorado a past member of the Washington, D.C. S Corporation Study Group, as well as past Treasurer of the Denver Tax Group. He has served on several tax committees of the Colorado Society of CPA’s; and is a member of the University of Denver’s Tax Institute Planning Committee.
