About Us

QED Energy Associates is committed to providing the best engineering technician training and consulting services in the upstream petroleum industry.  QED’s team of expert consulting technicians is managed by the QED Executive Team.  Email any of QED’s Executive Team members listed below to get started with services today.

Erin is a former math teacher and started at QED in 2012. She has served our clients in the role of reservoir engineering technician in a number of on-site assignments at oil and gas operators, non-operators, investment banks, royalty firms, and more.

As our lead curriculum designer, Erin creates training modules to optimize our process for making great reservoir engineering technicians.  Also a database conversion lead, Erin has triumphed over thousands of database conversions making sure to always preserve the original modelers intentions in a dynamic way. Erin is an expert in ARIES and PHDwin V2 and V3.

Erin graduated Summa Cum Laude from Sam Houston State University with a Bachelor’s degree in education and a specialization in secondary mathematics in December of 2003.   She was an 8th grade math and algebra teacher from 2004 – 2012 in the Cypress-Fairbanks Independent School District.  Erin is a QED Level 9 Technician, the highest certification ever awarded to any technician by QED.  Email Erin at erandolph@QEDea.com.

Ashley started at QED as a temporary receptionist in March 2015 and quickly rose up the ranks at QED.  Her can-do attitude and her professionalism are second-to-none.

By Summer 2015, Ashley was managing all of QED’s contract negotiations and operations of our on-site and off-site technical teams.  Ashley serves as a non-technical project manager and is responsible for management of all client and staff relations.  Ashley’s style of business development is non-confrontational and relaxed.  A former bartender, Ashley listens to our clients and figures out how QED can best serve them both accurately and economically.  Ashley designs all QED promotional rates and marketing, and she oversees the invoicing and accounting personnel.

Ashley graduated Summa Cum Laude from the University of Houston, C. T. Bauer College of Business in 2013 where she majored in Business and minored in Accounting and Marketing.  Email Ashley at aanez@QEDea.com.

Frankie joined QED in 2016.  He manages day to day consulting for a variety of our clients.  He leverages the power of our in-office consulting team to meet tight deadlines at client request.  Frankie is QED's Lead Technical Consultant for any projects in PHDwin v3, ValNav, Obsidian, or Mosaic.

As a reservoir engineering technician, Frankie provides excellence in services in a variety of products and is our resident expert for GIS and SQL projects.  Frankie holds the record at QED for fastest Rubik’s Cube solve on-site. Frankie is an expert in ARIES and PHDwin V2 and V3.

Frankie graduated from Texas State University with a Bachelor of Science degree in Urban and Regional Planning in December of 2012.  Frankie is a QED Level 8 Technician.  Email Frankie at fdelgado@QEDea.com.

Sarah is a former educator, curriculum designer, and professor.  Prior to joining QED, Sarah worked for over ten years in education at Spring ISD and Tomball ISD.  Sarah also serves as an Adjunct Professor at Lone Star College.  Sarah oversees QED's recruiting efforts for new trainees in the QED Career Launchpad program.  In 2024, Sarah's duties expanded and she now manages ongoing engagement with all QED'ers she successfully brought to the program.  Although QED's operations are exclusively domestic at present, Sarah handles all international relations.  QED is happy to serve our clients in accordance will all laws of the United States of America.

Sarah graduated from Sam Houston State University with a Bachelor’s degree in mass communications and media studies in December of 2012.  She has a Master in counseling from Prairie View A&M University.  Email Sarah at scarpenter@QEDea.com.