About SKEE Group, LLC
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The SKEE Group launched January 2020 and is based in Denver, CO. Learn more about our founding members and their certifications and affiliations here.
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Our Founders
Amy Stoodt
Amy Stoodt has worked for more than 30 years in the Oil & Gas Energy sector. Her objective is to provide value and expertise across industry versus within one organization, leveraging over a quarter century of experience. She has a keen focus on the details to achieve desired results. Ms. Stoodt has developed tools and processes that are universal across many industries.
Throughout her career, she has had the opportunity to work for fully integrated operating companies, engineering firms and pipeline operating companies with unique design and operational challenges in Alaska and the US Gulf Coast. She has been able to build and apply expertise in pipeline and pipeline facility operations, including petroleum measurement. In addition, she has had the unique challenge of successfully managing projects with a total installed cost in excess of a billion dollars. Her greatest contributions was as an internal consultant - leveraging her skills in facilitation, process improvement, management of change and overall operational excellence. Ms. Stoodt holds a Bachelor degree in Computer Science, a Masters degree in Business Administration and continuing education in engineering studies. She is a certified Project Management Professional (PMP) and lean Six Sigma Green Belt certified. |
Cortni Ward
Cortni Ward has more than 25 years of engineering, industrial and oil and gas business experience including business startup and development, business leadership, and operations strategic planning. Core competencies include sales management, strategic planning and implementation and operational excellence, all based on a diverse technical background bringing a wide range of problem solving and organizational abilities to the team.
Prior to joining SKEE Group, Ms. Ward held positions in executive sales and marketing, operations and engineering leadership for companies in industrial distribution, oil and gas and engineering. Ms. Ward is a licensed structural engineer with a BSCE in Civil Engineering, a certified Project Management Professional (PMP), and has conducted multiple sales training courses focusing on technical sales and marketing. |
Meet Our Team
Sheri SaundersSheri Saunders is a Civil Engineer with a strong pipeline operations background an intense dedication to teamwork. Her 15 years of experience on projects and teams with Marathon Oil Company, coupled with her innate work ethic and desire for learning gives her the ability to solve complex problems and deliver in diverse environments.
Sheri’s core strengths are understanding of the needs of management, empathy for the frontline worker, and an ability to see the root of the problem to be solved. Through strong communications skills up and down the organizational structure Sheri delivers valuable and long-lasting solutions. |
Jack "Jbob" JonesJack “Jbob” Jones is a veteran with an impactable background. He is an adaptive leader with diverse experiences in planning and executing strategic and time-sensitive projects and operations with local and remote teams. Jbob is a value-based, client-focused, and results-oriented leader who cultivated successful teams.
Core Strengths include: Leadership and Management, Portfolio-Program Management, Process Re-engineering / improvement, Strategic, Operational and Organizational Planning. He is known to some clients as the ‘question guy’ because he helps organizations think through their challenges. Jbob is a bit of a ‘utility player’ with a proven record of successfully leading teams across a diverse portfolio of industries and projects with different missions, functions, and cultures. |
Erin O'HearnErin O’Hearn is a Chemical Engineer with a deep process engineering background. Combined with this engineering expertise, Erin brings project management and project field execution skills to the work she executes.
She understands the operations and maintenance challenges working to ensure design to meet those needs and collaborate with clients and peers alike. |
Dave SaundersDave Saunders is a project and engineering leader who goes beyond deliverables and stage gates. As a mechanical engineer and project professional who knows how things work, Dave helps business leaders decide what is a good project, and what is a good execution strategy. Dave recognizes value in small to large endeavors. He can help any client get from point A to point B, whether Point A is just an idea, or a strategic vision, and whether point B is a decision support package or a commissioned plant. Dave is a deep questioner, an active listener, and a proactive partner in achieving the client’s goals and objectives.
Dave is a mechanical engineer who understands that it takes more than good design to get things done. While Dave knows how things work, and what tools and plant are required to produce a product, Dave’s strengths lie in the processes required to move the team to the goal line. Whether it is drawings or calculations, construction, installations, or commissioning, from business decision facilitation, to business process development, to billion-dollar plants, Dave has been there to help the team get the job done. |
R. Jeremy Montoya, PER. JEREMY MONTOYA, PE is an accomplished Electrical Engineer with over 10 years of electrical engineering and consulting experience in oil and gas, mining, pharmaceuticals, food and beverage, water/wastewater, and other industrial, commercial, and residential applications. Expert in voltages 13.2kV and below. With an eye for quality, engineering and design support is unrivaled. Able to execute work in an organized fashion, efficiently, and on schedule. Not afraid of new processes or projects and look for opportunities to be creative in coming up with the best solutions that are both technically sound, but fit the client needs and provide the best value. Volunteered engineering services in Mexico and Africa.
He has core competencies in Power Distribution, NEC Code Compliance, Permit Drawings, Electrical Grounding, Hazardous Area Classifications ETAP, SKM, Power System Analysis, Protective Device Coordination, Arc Flash Hazard Analysis, Motor Starting Analysis, Relay Programming, As-Builts, PLC and Junction Box Wiring, Equipment Specification Project Management, Program Management, Client Coordination, Construction Support, AutoCAD Drafting, Personnel Management, PE Registration in CO, IN, LA, ND, OH, TX, WY |
