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Life mottos: 

No Reserves. No Retreats. No Regrets. 
#TheBestIsAhead #KeepImpacting

Personal Values:

- Relentless Optimism
- Bias Toward Action
- Team > Self
- Aggressive Learning
- Focus on People & Results

How I think about life:

Healthy things grow w/ the right soil, sunlight, and root system to produce 30x, 60x, 100x impact. Creating maximum conditions for growth; Pruning all aspects of life that don’t produce fruit.

1, 5, 10, 20 year and Lifetime Targets:

- Impact 100 Lives: in 1 Year
- Impact 1,000 Lives: in 5 years
- Impact 10,000 Lives: in 10 Years
- Impact 100,000 Lives: in 20 years
- Impact 1,000,000 Lives: in my lifetime

Josh Etress ⚡️

It’s Sunday night, so this post will probably get buried…

But my wife is an unbelievably talented artist.

Like really freakin good. And not in an “I’m her husband and have to say this” kind of way. But in a “her art is actually that good” kind of way.

She painted this Cowboy Santa at her parents’ kitchen table with kids and family running around during Thanksgiving week.

Every December she does a limited release Santa print. This year’s goal: sell all 100.

I told her she could 100% do it if she got it in front of enough people.

So let’s show her the power of the internet.

Want one? 

Comment SANTA and I’ll DM you details.

- 8x10 or 11x14 prints
- high-quality archival paper
- Numbered 1-100

Just want to encourage her? Drop a kind word below as she grows Shelby Etress Art. And I’ll share every comment w her.

Feel free to reshare or tag someone who’d love this. 

For real though. 

Cowboy Santa is on another level.

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It’s fun when worlds collide. 

I’ve known Parker Pursell for years. 

Before LinkedIn. Before the pictures of Pursell Farms (beautiful). Before his excellent writing integrating faith and business. 

But the best part (or one of) the best parts about Parker is that he’s the same online as he is offline. 

Same passion. Same zeal. Same energy. 

Same thoughtfulness and determination and raw and honest leadership you see here. 

If you’re not following Parker. Go follow him now. 

And Parker — great spending time together today. 

The best is ahead. 

Always.

At the end of the day. 

It’s my goal in life to live:

On message. On mission. In ministry. 

To follow the creation mandate, “to be fruitful and multiply”

The great commandment “to love God w/ all of my heart, soul, mind and strength” and to “love love my neighbor as myself” 

And the great commission “to go therefore and make disciples”

To live w/ no reserves, no retreats, and no regrets. 

And to do all things for the Glory of God. 

Will I do it perfectly? No
Do I have a Savior who did? Yes. 

Will I fail? Yes
Will he ever fail me? No

These are the reminders I give myself. 

To never forget I have one short life. 

To live it. Fully. With intention and clarity. 

In marriage. In fatherhood. In business. 

In all of life…

-- 

The best is ahead. Always. 

Keep impacting,
-Josh

One radically simple lifehack you can implement today…

Here it goes:

- Pick someone you love, care about, or appreciate. 
- Open the messages app on your phone. 
- Drop an audio text, telling them that. 
- Repeat for 2 more people. 

That’s it. 

If you do 3 per day for 30 days. You’ll be astonished by the rewards. Not for you. But for all parties involved.  

Don’t know where to start? 

Start w/ your parents, if they’re still w/ you. 

That alone is blessing enough to keep going. 

Comment “I’m in” if you’re willing to send three of these today. Nah, I don’t know for sure…

But I’m 99% you won’t regret it. 

P.S. oh yeah, the gurus I trust say don’t use the comment strategy above, but for something like this, the more action the better!

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It’s been an amazing year and I’m just here to say thanks for all of the calls, clients, coaching sessions, wrapping up an amazing 4.5 yr run at Anchor, my wife and kids and friends, our local move, my sabbatical…

All of it. And all of you. 

Thanks y’all. 

The best is ahead. Always. 

Keep impacting,
-Josh

The right friends will make you a little bit uncomfortable. Not because they’re putting you down…

But because they’re challenging you to more. 

Find those friends.

Don’t have them. 
Please fight to find them. 

“The best way to make new friend is to be a good friend” and recognize few people will ever come up to you and say “want to be friends?” as an adult. 

Go look for people doing the things you want to be doing and do your best to join them. 

Or, simply do the things you want to be doing and invite others to join. 

My two favorite paths above.

The day you realize you are 100% responsible for your life, your thoughts, and your actions. 

Is the same day you become free.

And the possibilities for your life…

Are now nearly limitless. Or at the very least, much larger than they’ve ever been before.

Dropping my raw & honest reply to a question I was asked this week. 

Real talk, I’d like to hear your thoughts too. 

Here it goes: 

“I’m 6-7yrs into my career in supply chain so still early on, and I’m trying to figure out what I really want to do - role/area, company, etc. I know I want to do really meaningful work and make a big impact. What advice would you give me?”

My reply: 

1. Take your last 6 yrs and write down the work that’s given you the most life and energy. Keep this document updated. 

2. Think on the areas of your work where you are asked for advice or input most often (this could be an indicator). Track this. 

3. Start spending time w/ peers or leaders at companies you may want to work for in the future. Do it now when you don’t need for a job. So when you do explore. You can start w/ them. 

4. Look for companies that have a vision you can get excited about it. In the meantime, create a vision for your work today that you can get excited about. 

5. Ask yourself: how can I have the biggest impact today in my current job? Then go do that. 

Ultimately, treat your job today like the best and last job you’ll ever have. That goes a long way. 

-- 

That’s my initial take.   

Curious to hear from others…

What might you add or change on this list?

10 winning strategies your boss can’t ignore. 

A two-minute guide to getting promoted. 

Let’s begin. 

1.     Think. Pressure-test your ideas and assumptions before bringing them to the table. What's the upside? downside? etc.

2.    Execute and Own your role from top to bottom. 

3.    Don't grumble and complain. You can vent for 5 minutes. After that, start attacking the problem.

4.    Address issues w/ other people, directly w/ other people. Only bring it to your boss if you can't resolve it. Or it's a repeated pattern.

5.    Enthusiasm is contagious. Spread it. 

6.    Help your boss tackle their biggest challenge. Learn what you can take off of their plate. Then do it.

7.    Aggressive Learning. If you don't know how to do something, build a plan to learn it, or find someone who does.

8.    Focus on the 20% of your activities driving 80% of the results. Don't let small checklist wins get in the way of big revenue wins.

9.    Do what you say. When you say you’ll do it. 

10.   Tell your boss when you're overloaded. Then, process what you can automate, delegate, delete or delay. 

The more your boss has to think about your job.  

The less safe your job is.

→ If you’re a boss, what would you add?

→ If you're a team member, what # stands out?

Bonus Tip: Have bad news? Get it to your boss quickly. Tell them you have bad news, your plan to address it, and how they can help.

Do this for 6 months and you’re on the fast path to more pay and a promotion. 

At least, if that’s what you want.

Continental Resources

Working in the Project Management Group implementing, developing and supporting company-wide initiatives through GIS analysis, scripting and exhibits. Utilizing ArcPro, FME, python and other tools to accomplish this.

Senior GIS Analyst

Luna Data Solutions

Consulting at TxDOT Department of Transportation as a GIS Developer in IT. Primary duties include developing and supporting GIS web sites utilizing ESRI's tech stack (ex: Web AppBuilder, QuickCapture, Survey123, Collector). Also supporting/creating near real-time services through ESRI's GeoEvent Server. Utilizing FME Server and python to support various ETL activities.

GIS Developer

Self Employed

2020's natural gas and oil market crash and COVID-19 gave me the unique opportunity to focus on extending my GIS data science skills and to perform GIS based volunteer work. I was also able to obtain some small or part-time GIS projects.

- 2020 July to November: Part-time midstream data creation and Q/C for Gemini Arklatex LLC
- 2020 April to June: volunteer for Texas COVID-19 Resources Center - researching/inputting/updating GIS data on the resources available for students in 25 ISDs in/around Houston, TX
- Actively learning data science tools with a geographic component to better analyze GIS data
- Completed ESRI's 'Spatial Data Science: The New Frontier in Analysis' MOOC on 4/2020

GIS Professional -- Analyst | Management | Python | Data Science Novice

Southwestern Energy

Since Jan 2016
Embedded in SW Appalachia division, primarily supporting Land, Geology, Reservoir and Drilling groups with GIS analysis and map based reports. Highlights include:

- Automating depth severance analysis in ArcMap using grids of formation depths from Kingdom and formation and depth descriptions from TEL and spreadsheets.

- Writing advanced label expressions in python for better presentation of well lateral and lease information.

- Actively learning python data science tools (ex: numpy, pandas, matplotlib, etc.) to utilize them with GIS to better manipulate, analyze and report against various E&P data with a spatial component.

Until Jan 2016
Provided back office GIS support including python scripting, GIS desktop/server software installation, upgrading, maintenance and planning. GIS web site creation using Geocortex, and spatial analysis in GIS and Spotfire. Highlights include:

- Designing, developing and running SWN's 2015 Geospatial Technology Fair. This included engaging vendors and internal business groups for poster and presentation sessions. This was on my "career bucket list", very thankful to have had this opportunity.

- Working with Water and Planning teams to help design tools and capabilities around the routing of personnel and field assets.

Senior Staff GIS Analyst

BHP Billiton

* Acquired Petrohawk * I started working with the BHPB IM staff approximately in May 2012, managing a combined group of 10+ GIS professional staff in IM (Information Management). This included support and back office staff along with embedded GIS resources in Land and Surface Engineering (Midstream activities). Highlights include:

- Developing and documenting GIS workflows around Land (ex: data creation standards and tracking issues).

- Developing and documenting the service model used to support the web GIS application created while at Petrohawk.

GIS IM Supervisor

Petrohawk Energy

Managed GIS group in IT focusing on the development of GIS web capabilities (general  GIS web tool and departmental dashboards) and integration with various well systems. Did some python scripting to support ETL tasks between SDE and vendor data. Highlights include:

-	Worked with development team to design a general GIS web tool  that had basic capabilities that are usually only associated with desktop GIS (ex: plotting, adding spatial data on the fly, linking existing map layers to eternal data (Excel or RDBMS) and symbolizing on linked attributes).

-	Developed workflows to keep land grid up to date with surveyor information and propagating the changes through various departments including Exploration, Land and Drilling.

GIS Manager

EOG Resources

Managed GIS group in IT focusing on integration of GIS with Land (TLS) and Geoscience systems (PETRA, GESx, Landmark). Also performed GIS desktop/server software installation, upgrading, maintenance and planning. Highlights include:

- developed pipeline GIS standards to meet regulatory requirements like T4 submittals in TX which included the training and support of field personnel across the US.

- developed and supported company’s imagery needs including the purchase, storage and deployment of approximately 12 TB of satellite/aerial photos and USGS scanned quads (DRGS). This included maintaining a central imagery server with remote servers in division offices. At the time, this almost doubled the total amount of digital data in the company.

- helped support and administer SpotFire, SDE (9.2 on Oracle 10g) and developed various scripts in Avenue, SQL, PERL and other tools to support ETL and business analysis. Examples include lease mineral interest and creating map layers to analyze lease provisions like continuous drilling and minimum production required.

Geodynamic Solutions, LLC

Consulted mainly at EOG Resources, but also maintained/extended in-house developed label placement tool for ArcView 3.x written in Avenue.

GIS desktop/server software installation, upgrading, maintenance, planning and support. ETL scripts (Avenue, AML, C-shell, PERL) to/from SDE and Geoscience packages like GESx 97 (including TLS to LDF (Lease Data Format used in Lease Data module), written prior to P2's Tobin to GeoGraphix Import).

Consultant

Coral Energy (Acquired by Shell Trading)

Moved into web development group after company restructure and help develop departmental web sites (HTML and javascript) along with database creation in Sybase and Oracle.
 
GIS desktop/server software installation, upgrading, planning and support. Supported ArcView users and developed ArcView extensions based on business needs. For example, wrote an energy marketing analysis extension which allowed users to track competitor/client information, acquisitions and energy usage. This required tying in diverse data sets and linking spatial data (shapefile and SDE) with data stored in RDBMS tables (Oracle and SQL Server) based on user queries

Assistant Manager GIS/Developer

Modis Solutions

GIS consulting and tool/software development (AML, Avenue, NAWK, Perl, tcl/tk, C-shell), SDE installation and administration.

Senior Consultant

Senior GIS Analyst at Continental Resources

Well experienced in visualizing/analyzing location based data along with the process, development and delivery of Enterprise GIS - especially in the oil & gas space.

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