Woody has over 35 years of experience across multiple basins in North America, starting his career with Marathon in Cody, Wyoming. He was directly responsible for field operations in many of the primary, secondary, and tertiary flooded fields in Wyoming. He managed shale operations for Chesapeake in the Barnett, Appalachia, and Eagleford, where he successfully implemented very active horizontal development of those fields that included multi-billion dollar per year capital programs and thousands of wells. Prior to Sabinal he was the Operations Manager for Lewis Energy Group whose focus was in the Western Eagleford play.

Woody grew up in Central Texas and brings significant experience with secondary and tertiary fields, and horizontal drilling programs

Woody holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Petroleum Engineering from Texas Tech University.