VP Field Operations Mr. Garner, Jonny, earned his Associates Degree in Business Management from Garrett College in McHenry, MD. He went to work helping his father; managing two crews in the family’s electrical and plumbing business. As soon as his father’s business was running smoothly, he moved to a position with Support Group, Inc., where he managed Tier One support for CompuServe and WordPerfect. Jonny was responsible for Quality Control for the WordPerfectionist Newsletter, a WordPerfect® accompanied publication which many publishers still remember as the first from home desktop-publishing newsletter. After years of success at Support Group, Jonny decided that he wanted to run his own business. His love of music allowed him to become a 20-year business veteran in Maryland, Pennsylvania and West Virginia. As owner and operator of Sounds Fun Entertainment / JonnyRock Mobile Services, he became the preferred event and wedding DJ in the tri-state area, growing to operations of 9 simultaneous sub-contracted DJ’s, all directed through his company. As a DJ, Jonny is most proud of volunteering his time and services for various charity and non-profit events, most notably the wildly-popular “Deep Creek Dunk”. The Dunk is a major fundraiser for Maryland Special Olympics, which routinely raises between $80,000 and $100,000 during every year’s event. Never sitting back, he decided to act on a challenge to jump into the Energy industry as an opportunity to travel and work in different areas of the country. While contracting with Trinity Energy, he worked on many different projects from abstracting to leasing, ROW and seismic permitting. After a short time he would be managing those crews using the same techniques that brought him previous successes in motivating teams of contractors. While working in Ohio for a client dealing with decades-old wells and pipelines, Jonny started putting the pieces together that would end up satisfying an industry-wide puzzle; to find, map, to analyze and automate the legacy systems that today hold new value in HBP status, and Marcellus and Utica trade. Working with Jim Garner, GroundScouts, LLC was born! Jonny is the field connection for our clients. Every client has assets in the field that are more than just the pipes and wells and charts. Each leased property owner represents a future deal, and every one of the well-tenders and managers has unique knowledge about the producing systems they oversee. Jonny is the “every-man’s man” that pulls those things together so that Management can finally see the pieces. Responsible for the raw data that builds the management picture, Jonny handles any field- related issue from schedules, to property owner contacts, to data. If it happens outside of the office Jonny is making it work properly. In fact, our company has had such a high level of success due to his ability to interact based on a client’s business needs. His expertise at managing in both realms, specialized data acquisition and people, will make you wonder why you didn’t have GroundScouts digitizing your systems, and helping you into compliance, long ago. |
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