Michelle Burnside

2017- Present- Purple Land Management
Abstracting/Acting Crew Chief- EQT
 In charge of a second acquisition. Locating and mapping out wells, obtaining leases and compiling a spreadsheet of parcels that need run, ordering by lease expiration. In charge of assigning title, answering questions and assisting abstractors in completing title.
 Both reviewing and running title and extensive curative work
 Running title in multiple Counties in WV, to include: Wetzel, Doddridge, Ritchie, Tyler, Marion, Gilmer, Lewis, Upsher.
 Running full title on properties as well as title for Special Projects. Utitlizing all resources within courthouses to provide necessary information in title packets.
 Identification of mineral ownership and following of leasehold.
 Ensuring all documentation is present and accounted for and title packets were in good working order.
 Extensive use of Microsoft Office. Word, Excel, Visio. Extensive use of online resources to access courthouses online.
 Utilizing multiple online resources to locate heirships for individuals with mineral ownership. Ancestry.com, Rootsweb.com, etc.
 Identifying wells owned by company being acquired, mapping them, identifying properties needed run to assign to the crew for full title.
 Answering questions from crew and ensuring fast and accurate work by crew.
 Reporting directly to project manager at EQT and keeping up spreadsheets of all properties included in the acquisition. Informing project manager of any issues arising from the title as reported by the crew.

20013-2017- Tioga Resources/Honor Resources
Abstractor/Acting Crew Chief- EQT
 In charge of an acquisition. Locating and mapping out wells, obtaining leases and compiling a spreadsheet of parcels that need run, ordering by lease expiration. In charge of assigning title, answering questions and assisting abstractors in completing title.
 Running title in multiple Counties in WV, to include: Wetzel, Doddridge, Ritchie, Tyler, Marion, Gilmer, Lewis, Upsher. As well as extensive curative work.
 Running full title on properties as well as title for Special Projects. Utitlizing all resources within courthouses to provide necessary information in title packets.
 Last Well on Lease- Title updates and full title.
 Identification of mineral ownership and following of leasehold.
 Ensuring all documentation is present and accounted for and title packets were in good working order.
 Extensive use of Microsoft Office. Word, Excel, Visio. Extensive use of online resources to access courthouses online.
 Utilizing multiple online resources to locate heirships for individuals with mineral ownership. Ancestry.com, Rootsweb.com, etc.
 Leading up the Marion County crew in the acquisition of Trans Energy properties and holdings.
 Identifying wells owned by company being acquired, mapping them, identifying properties needed run to assign to the crew for full title.
 Answering questions from crew and ensuring fast and accurate work by crew.
 Reporting directly to project manager at EQT and keeping up spreadsheets of all properties included in the acquisition. Informing project manager of any issues arising from the title as reported by the crew.

2011- 2012- Western Land Services
Abstractor/ Team Lead
 Ran Title work in multiple Ohio Counties and some WV title work.
 Team Lead position was obtained after 2 weeks of employment, then acting Team Lead/Crew Chief for multiple projects. Emailing daily reports to Upper Management that included progress of title examiners and progress of specific projects.
 Training new staff with varying levels of experience on title work specific to projects, billing procedures, and code of conduct expected by the company.
 Reviewing title and assisting staff with changes and avoidance of future errors. Extensive curative work
 Extensive mapping. Mapping well plats from emergency well locator and tiff files on ODNR to tax maps and historical maps. Assisting crew in locating wells that may hold their property and teaching them to use the plats of the wells to check production status of their property. Teaching about Pugh Clauses and how to determine what part of the property is held when a Pugh Clause does exist.
 Identifying depth reservations and/or severances in Oil & Gas Leases and teaching how to identify current owners of the Working Interest and Overriding Royalties in the different depths. Assisting title examiners in following very difficult leasehold chains in which many or all depths sever and follow separate paths. In many cases, dealing with 90-150 marginals on original leases and teaching crew how to include all those documents in a chain and/or run sheet, as well as to identify the various severances and follow to present.
 Using old well names to identify and obtain leases for lease and/or well purchase for clients.
 Starting projects and closing out projects.
 Placing examiners and in charge of firing staff on my projects, if necessary.
 Meeting with Upper Management for reporting on project status and in order to begin or close out projects. These meetings involved constructive criticism among all parties to ensure the project/s were being handled in the most effective ways.
 Creating user friendly spreadsheets for projects to track title accurately.

2007- 2011- Hawkeye Record Search
Abstractor
 Ran title work in the Marcellus Shale for an Oil and Gas Company and ensured all necessary documentation was provided with completed title packets.
 I have 2 years experience with Citrix system for online searches.
 Acting Crew Chief to cover time off of Crew Chief/Lead Abstractor.
 Running a Third Party Leasing Project to identify all leases on properties and identifying specific strata that leases covered within individual Units for drilling purposes.
 Extensive heirship work to identify all owners of oil and gas on properties within assigned districts. Proficient in utilizing Ancestry.com and roots.com to assist in identification of possible heirs.
 Extensive work with Greenbrier Graphics and some experience with Metes & Bounds. Extensive curative, as well
 Training new abstractors on how to use courthouse resources to search for surface and mineral owners and determine status of property: HBP, OPEN, LEASED. Taught how to use WV DEP & ODNR for well searches.
 Assisted in training new abstractors by answering questions and teaching proper format and documentation of deeds, wills and court documents.
 Used MS Office programs in all aspects. Very proficient in MS Word, Excel, Visio, PowerPoint and Publisher. Used most programs on a daily basis to ensure all work was neat and organized. Also proficient in use of Adobe Acrobat and Nuance PDF Creator.
 Proofing of crew members title to ensure all work was correct and title was in order.
 Putting together digital files of entire crew, when necessary, for review and submission.
 Special projects as assigned.

2007- S & A Property
Abstractor

 Ran title work for Oil and Gas Company and ensured all necessary documentation was provided with completed title packets.
 In charge of collecting work from other abstractors and getting work to crew chief.
 Assisted in training new staff by answering questions and teaching proper format and documentation of deeds, wills and other court documents.

2000-2002 University of Maine Orono, ME
 B.A., Psychology- specialization in behavior of human and animals.
 25 extra credits taken in Biology and other science based courses on top of the 120 credits needed for graduation.
 Graduated December 2001, with a 3.33 GPA.

1998-1999 West Virginia University @ Parkersburg Parkersburg, WV
 Graduated December 1999 with A.A., with an emphasis in Psychology.