YPE Oklahoma City

YPE Oklahoma City Leadership

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    Jared Punjabi

    President & Chairman of the Executive Committee

    Jared is a Crude Oil Marketing Representative at Devon Energy supporting the Delaware Basin .His current responsibilities include implementing commercial solutions to maximize revenue and price realizations for 60kbpd+ (over $1B in annual revenue).

    jared.punjabi@dvn.com

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    Kelli Frieling

    Treasurer & Chairman of the Membership and Development Committee

    Kelli is an office manager at Black Mamba Rod Lift and has been a part of the management team since 2020 at their Oklahoma City facility. Her role as Office Manager for Black Mamba Rod Lift includes the development and implementation of corporate policies and procedures, additionally managing and overseeing the administration of HR policies, programs and practices within the group.

    kfrieling@blackmambarodlift.com

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    Caleb Padilla

    Member of the Social, Speaker and Charity Committee

    Caleb works as an Account Manager for Reservoir Data Systems. His focus is on providing data acquisition solutions for well completions and reservoir modeling to oil and gas companies in Oklahoma and North Texas. Prior to working at Reservoir Data Systems, Caleb was a territory sales account manager for Toro Downhole tools and a measurement while drilling technician at Nomac Services Directional.

    cpadilla@andium.com

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    Sheldon McCrackin

    Member of the Social, Speaker and Charity Committee

    Sheldon is a Senior Software Manager for Visual Inspection at Waygate Technologies. His current responsibilities include leading a team of Software Engineers and Computer Scientists to design and develop production software and analytics for Waygate Technologies Remote Visual Inspection solutions.

    sheldon.mccrackin@bakerhughes.com

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    Mackenzie Smith

    Member of the Membership and Development Committee & Co-General Counsel

    Mackenzie Smith is an attorney at Devon Energy. Her practice currently focuses on assisting the supply chain department in negotiating various types of contracts. Prior to joining Devon Energy, Mackenzie was an attorney with McAfee & Taft in Oklahoma City.

    Mackenzie.smith@dvn.com

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    Michael Day

    Member of the Golf Tournament Committee

    Michael is a Downstream Crude Oil Marketing Representative at Devon Energy, supporting the Oklahoma and South Texas regions.

    michael.day@dvn.com

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    Andrew DeWitt


    Andrew is an Operations Accountant at Chesapeake Energy, where he started in 2019. His primary responsibilities include monitoring and reporting payouts, OPEX accruals, financial reporting for subsidiaries, and various cost allocations.

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    Hayley Stephenson

    Chairman of the Social, Speaker and Charity Committee

    Hayley is a reservoir analytics engineer at the Baker Hughes Energy Innovation Center. Her experience is in large scale data analytics and algorithm development, with an emphasis in reservoir data.

    hayley.stephenson@bhge.com

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    Tre Watson

    Chairman of the Golf Tournament Committee

    Charles “Tre” Watson is currently an energy market operator at Oklahoma Gas and Electric (OG&E) in Oklahoma City. His work is primarily focused on monitoring and coordinating real time dispatch of power generation facilities.

    watsonca@oge.com

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    Josh Jordan

    Member of the Social, Speaker and Charity Committee

    Josh is a motivated Account Manager for Energy and Environmental Services. His work is primarily focused in the Midcontinent and Permian Basin supplying both production and stimulation chemistries.

    jjordan@eesokc.com

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    Alyssa Gillette

    Secretary & Member of the Social, Speaker and Charity Committee & Co-General Counsel

    Alyssa Gillette is an associate at Hall Estill who practices in the areas of energy, environmental and litigation. She assists clients in a variety of matters.

    agillette@hallestill.com

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    Tayler Stanley

    Member of the Membership and Development Committee

    Tayler is a Public Relations Representative at Continental Resources. Her current responsibilities include assisting in driving Continental’s student and field engagement strategies, processes, and overall efforts. In addition, Tayler also assists the Public Relations team with community relations, industry advocacy, and organization wide events.

    Tayler.Stanley@clr.com

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    Connor Drake

    Member of the Golf Tournament Committee

    Connor is a Reservoir Engineer for Ascent Resources. He is responsible for optimizing production and recovery rates by analyzing and evaluating subsurface reservoir data. He also conducts reserves estimation and economic evaluations for Ascent’s Ohio Utica Shale position.

    connor.drake@ascentresources.com