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TED W. WALTERS
OWNER & FOUNDER
Ted W. Walters, Owner and Founder of Ted W. Walters & Associates, L.P., has been in the oil and gas business since 1974. A native of Texas, Ted earned a Bachelor of Business Administration degree in Management from The University of Texas in Austin in 1970.
From 1974 until 1976, Ted worked as a Contract Landman in East Texas, gaining his first experiences in courthouse title work and lease trades and negotiations. In late 1976, Ted went to work for Herd Producing Company, L.P. as a Landman, and quickly progressed through the ranks as Vice President and Land Manager, Exploration Manager, and Executive Vice President, respectively. He also served as Executive Vice President of Horizon Natural Gas Corporation, a wholly-owned pipeline subsidiary of Herd Producing Company, L.P.
While employed at Herd, Ted achieved his Certified Professional Landman designation (#3105, in May of 1982), served as President of the East Texas Association of Petroleum Landmen (1983), and was honored as Outstanding Landman by the ETAPL with the Brantley Jackson Award (1985). He also received his MBA an emphasis on Economics and Finance from the University of Texas at Tyler (1985) and served as AAPL Director, Region III (1985 – 1987).
In 1987, Ted became President and Chief Operating Officer of Destiny Oil & Gas, L.P., a small oil and gas exploration company involved in the acquisition and sale of drilling prospects in the East Texas Basin, the Mississippian Reef play in North Texas, and the Pennsylvanian play in New Mexico.
While at Destiny, Ted also served as Assistant Chairman of the Industry Affairs Committee of the AAPL (1989 - 1990).
In 1992, Ted left Destiny to serve as Certified Environmental Inspector and Representative in the Ark-La-Tex Area for Enact, L.P., an environmental firm providing complete service beginning with Phase I Environmental Inspections through Phase III, Cleanup and Remediation. Also in 1992, he earned the designation of Certified Environmental Inspector (#8369).
1992 was also the year Ted founded Ted W. Walters & Associates, L.P., where he serves today as Owner and Broker. He has led the organization from one or two Landmen and no office staff to over 150 Landmen and four office staff, from one office to four, and from serving the East Texas area to serving seven states. He is accomplishing his goal to build an organization that will continue to thrive long after he has moved on, by creating the environment, building the structure and empowering the people who work with him.
Ted is an active member of the AAPL, ETAPL and the ArkLaTex Landman’s Associations. He enjoys the outdoors and resides in Tyler with his wife, Chelsey.
JEREMY WHEAT
CHIEF ASSOCIATE AND CREW LEADER
Jeremy Wheat has been with Ted W. Walters & Associates since February 2001. He currently serves as Chief Associate and Crew Leader, responsible for overseeing and analyzing the everyday activities of 25 to 30 contract landmen as well as reporting progress and status to clients.
Jeremy also serves as the Human Resources Department for Ted W. Walters & Associates. In this role he is responsible for bringing in new contract landmen, individual and crew placement, and handles the day to day issues that arise with the landmen and/or clients.
Prior to becoming Crew Leader, Jeremy did contract land work in East Texas, South Texas and Northwestern Louisiana for TWW. In that role, he ran initial lease checks, did title research and curative, negotiated and prepared lease documents, developed prospect status reports, purchased right-of-ways or easements, settled surface damages and various other projects as required.
Jeremy has been a Notary Public and a Licensed Right-of-Way Agent since 2001. He attended East Texas State University and is an active member of ETAPL. He and his wife Angie, live in Tyler with their two children, Jaylen and Braden.
LINDA RUSSELL
OFFICE MANAGER
Linda Russell has served as Office Manager for Ted W. Walters & Associates since 2004. Born and raised in East Texas, she brought over twenty years of Accounting and Office Management experience to the company, where she is an invaluable part of the TWW team.
Linda has four children and five grandchildren.
STUART BRANDON
LEAD BROKER
Stuart has been in the oil and gas business for over 16 years. His first five years were in the oil field, where he worked as a Roustabout and as a member of a Drill Pipe Inspection Crew out of Palestine. From there, Stuart worked for BJ Services in their Cement and Fracturing R&D Group out of Tomball. He started his career as a Landman in Tyler in 2001 when he went to work for Brandon Energy/Basin Exploration. After 2-1/2 years there, he worked with Brooks Petroleum in Palestine before joining Ted W. Walters & Associates in early 2005. Stuart started out at TWW as a Field Landman, where he quickly applied his years of first-hand field and land experience to become a Lead Broker in early 2008.
Hailing from Houston, Stuart attended Stephen F. Austin State University, pursuing a degree in Communications, earned an Associates Degree in Computer-Aided Drafting from TSTI in Dallas, and studied Engineering at Tomball College.
Stuart has two children, a teenager and a preteen.
CLIFF BRATTON
LEAD BROKER
Cliff Bratton started his oil and gas career with Ted W. Walters & Associates in 2006. He started out as a field landman, running title and buying leases throughout the state. His conscientious nature and demonstrated leadership abilities quickly moved him to his current position as lead broker in 2009. Cliff continues to hone his skills by taking advantage of continuing education courses offered by the American Association of Petroleum Landmen.
Cliff has been a member of the AAPL and the East Texas Association of Petroleum Landmen since 2008. He is a licensed Right-of-Way Agent and a Notary Public for the State of Texas.
Cliff is from Pensacola, Florida; he now lives in Tyler, Texas with his wife April.
PAUL BREVARD
LEAD BROKER
Paul Brevard has been with Ted W. Walters & Associates since 2006. He is responsible for leasing projects in both Texas and Louisiana, where he oversees and analyzes the daily activity of 8-10 contract landmen. In addition, he is responsible for communicating status and progress to clients.
Before joining TWW, Paul spent the prior six years working as a Landman and Forest Technician for Phillip Baldwin in Marshall, TX, and as a Landman and Forest Consultant for Brevard Land Services. In those roles, among other things, Paul ran surface and mineral title, assessed surface damages, worked with landowners on timber theft, acted as a tree farm consultant, and with the land management of timber. This diversified background prepared Paul for the multitasking required by his current position, where he often manages multiple prospects at once.
Paul is a 2000 graduate of Panola College, where he earned the title of Forest Technician with a 4.0 GPA. He is a member of the East Texas Association of Petroleum Landmen and the AAPL. He is also a Right-of-Way Agent and Notary Public. Outside of work, he keeps busy with the Carthage Lions Club, the Masonic Lodge 922 in Beckville, the Panola County Chamber of Commerce and the Panola County Cattlemen’s Association. He serves on the Board for the Panola College Alumni Association in Carthage and is Co-Owner of Trophyroom Stables in Beckville.
If you want to get something done, ask a busy person: Paul is also quite active in a number of charitable causes in East Texas. He has served as President of Langley Cemetery Association since 2006, and has volunteered at nursing homes since 1982. He ran for Panola County Commissioner in 2006, and was elected Board Member of Panola County Precinct #2 Freshwater District.
Paul’s wife, Amber, also works at TWW, and his father, R. W. Brevard, Jr. is a retired Plant Foreman for Natural Gas Pipeline Company of America, where he served for 31 years.
BRENT DEDEAR
LEAD BROKER
Brent W. DeDear has been with Ted W. Walters & Associates since 2006. He serves as a Lead Broker for the organization, bringing to the position extensive experience in oil company acquisitions, due diligence and curative work as well as all aspects of field land work. Brent earned his degree in Ranch Management at Texas Christian University. This education, combined with practical hands-on understanding of landowner issues, uniquely qualifies him to negotiate surface damages between landowners and oil and gas companies. He is a licensed Right-of-Way Agent and a Notary Public.
Brent is a member of the American Association of Petroleum Landmen and the East Texas Association of Petroleum Landmen, as well as the TCU Ranch Management Alumni Association. He served for two years on the Board of Directors for the 1,000-Acre Mineola Nature Preserve, and he currently serves as Vice President of the Lindale Gifted and Talented Association at the Lindale ISD.
Originally from Victoria, Texas, Brent has lived in East Texas since 2003 with his wife Rhonda and their five children.
KATHLEEN OSBORN DUFF
LEAD BROKER
Kathleen Osborn Duff started her career spending twelve years as a High School and Middle School English and Spanish teacher. From there, she became a Counselor at Hubbard Middle School in the Tyler ISD for eighteen years. In 2005, she decided to re-wire (not retire!) and joined her husband in the oil business, where he’d been for 32 years. She discovered she has a knack for the business. Starting as a Landman and progressing to Lead Broker was a natural fit for Kathleen, as the organizational and communication skills she’d honed as an educator and counselor served her well in this business.
Kathleen earned an Associates in Arts degree from Tyler Junior College (General Studies) in 1973, a BA in English/French/Spanish from Stephen F. Austin University in 1975, and a MS in Psychology and Counseling from UT Tyler in 1988. She is a member of the East Texas Association of Petroleum Landmen and the AAPL.
Kathleen is also a member of the Critical Incident Stress Management Team of East Texas, where she serves as a mental health member of the team. This team does debriefings with emergency responders (police, fire, EMS) after they have worked a particularly critical incident. Kathleen and three officers from the Tyler Police Department had the honor of spending a week in New York City, debriefing NYPD officers after 9/11, at the invitation of the International Critical Incident Stress Foundation.
Kathleen lives in Tyler with her husband, R. Lewis Duff, who works with El Paso Exploration and Production. Her son Austin is a Surveyor and her daughter Lezley also works for TWW.
TONYA FOSSETT
LEAD BROKER
Bio coming soon.
DAVID GREEN
LEAD BROKER
David Green serves as South Texas Lead Broker for Ted W. Walters & Associates. In that role, he performs leasehold checks, prepares drill site runsheets and directs curative projects, while at the same time overseeing his crew and keeping his client apprised of progress. He has been with TWW since September 2005, bringing extensive oil and gas and management experience to the organization.
David’s oil and gas experience dates back to 1979, when he prepared drill sites and negotiated surface use and damages across the Texas Gulf Coast Region. After five years in that industry, he worked as a Manager in the Heavy Equipment Industry, spending seventeen years in the Southeastern United States. In 2003, he moved into Management in the Home Improvement Sector, until joining TWW in 2005. Before becoming a Lead Broker at TWW, David worked as a Field Landman in East and Central Texas and Northern Louisiana.
David is a member of the American Association of Petroleum Landmen, is a Notary Public and a Licensed Right-of-Way Agent for the State of Texas. He is actively involved and is a Past Master of the Roanoke Masonic Lodge #668 and enjoys participating in the Ranger Springs Skinners historical re-enactment. David and his wife Brenda live in Roanoke, Texas.
THOMAS HAMBY
MAP & IT CONSULTANT
Thomas Hamby joined Ted W. Walters & Associates in January 2008 and quickly proved himself to be an integral part of the TWW team. He serves as TWW’s map and IT consultant but is willing to help out with almost any task around the office, even if it doesn’t involve his normal job duties.
Thomas started a Surveying Degree at Tyler Junior College in 1999, but his night job working for GeoInfo, L.P. got him interested in mapping, and after one year studying Surveying, he switched to GIS and continued to develop his knowledge in that field. At GeoInfo, Thomas started out learning the basics of producing and maintaining GIS data but quickly progressed past the knowledge level of his professor and decided to get more hands-on experience. He soon became night manager at GeoInfo and managed several projects for that firm.
After maximizing his career opportunities at GeoInfo, Thomas moved to Plano in 2003 to work for True Automation, L.P., which is the fastest-growing tax and appraisal software company in Texas. In his five years at True Automation, Thomas and his co-workers mapped over 40 counties and over a million ownership parcels. With a former co-worker from GeoInfo, Thomas developed the largest map coverage area offices in Texas.
When Thomas heard Ted W. Walters & Associates was looking for a mapping guru in January of 2008, he couldn’t pass up the opportunity to get back to East Texas near his family, and he has proven to be an invaluable part of the TWW team.
Thomas enjoys football, baseball, softball, tennis, racquetball, motorcycles, four-wheelers, personal watercraft, fishing and hunting, and just about every other activity that involves being outdoors.
JASON HUGHES
LEAD BROKER
Jason Hughes has been with Ted W. Walters & Associates since 2003. He serves as a Lead Broker.
Jason earned his Bachelor in Business Administration degree from The University of Houston in 1997.
JOSEPH MILBURN
LEAD BROKER
Joseph Milburn has been with Ted Walters & Associates since early 2008, running initial lease checks, compiling runsheets, doing title research, negotiating leases and preparing lease documents. When a lead broker opportunity presented itself it late 2009, Joseph was a natural fit for the position.
Joseph has been a landman since graduating from Texas A&M University in May 2006, where he earned a Bachelor of Science degree in Recreation, Park and Tourism Sciences. A native Tylerite, Joseph’s title experience began much earlier than that: for six years, during high school and junior college, he worked for Landmark Title in Tyler where he learned to run title and gained his first exposure to the oil and gas business.
Joseph is a member of the ETAPL and the AAPL; he is a Notary Public and a Registered Right-of-Way Agent. He is engaged to Haley Marburger who is also a landman with Ted W. Walters & Associates.
MIKE MROZ
LEAD BROKER
Michael E. Mroz has been with Ted W. Walters & Associates since September 2005, addressing all issues in the acquisition and exploration of leasehold for numerous energy companies. For three years before coming to East Texas and TWW, Mike provided field land services for Anadarko Petroleum and Hunt Oil Company. Prior to that, he spent three years researching surface title in Tennessee for mortgage company acquisitions.
Mike is an active member of AAPL, a Notary Public and has been a licensed ROW Agent since 2003.
Originally from Dearborn Heights, Michigan, Mike studied Metallurgy at Henry Ford Community College, General Studies at the University of Michigan and earned a Certificate in Computer Technology from Control Data Institute in 1982. He currently resides in Brownsboro, Texas with his fiancé, Caroline, who is also employed as a landman at TWW.
MICHAEL STURROCK
LEAD BROKER
Mike Sturrock has been in the oil and gas business since early 2003, and with Ted Walters & Associates since the Fall of 2003. He started out as a Field Landman and has worked his way up to Associate and Lead Broker. Mike is experienced in lease checks, negotiating leases and surface damages, title work, runsheets, curative, Right-of-Way, and land farming. He has also done seismic permitting, working directly with seismic and surveying crews as a liaison to surface owners.
A native of Port Arthur, Texas, Mike has lived in Nederland, Houston, San Antonio, San Augustine, Conroe & Lufkin. He moved to Tyler in 1969. He received an Associate in Arts degree from Tyler Junior College and holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Business Management from LeTourneau University.
Mike is an active member of the ETAPL and the AAPL. He is a licensed Easement and Right-of-Way Specialist and a Notary. Outside of work, Mike is active in church activities and various charities. He enjoys spending time with his wife, family & friends, studying the Bible and Creation, sightseeing, hiking, and listening to good music.
Mike and his wife Teresa have two children and five grand-children. His son (Michael J. Sturrock) and daughter-in-law (Angela Sturrock) also work for TWW.
LARRY TEDFORD
LEAD BROKER
Bio coming soon.
CHARLOTTE THOMPSON
LEAD BROKER
Charlotte was the eighteenth person to join Ted W. Walters & Associates back in 2004. Before coming to TWW, Charlotte had spent two years with the Smith County Tax Office, abstracting and tracking down delinquent taxpayers. That experience served her well when she came to TWW, as she started out on a crew working with Jeremy Wheat doing title work. And she quickly discovered that potential Lessors are much more willing to be “found” than delinquent tax payers, although sometimes it takes quite a bit of work to find them.
Charlotte now serves TWW as Lead Broker, overseeing the daily activities of a seven-person crew. She is a Notary Public and a Licensed Right-of-Way Agent. She is also a member of the East Texas Association of Petroleum Landmen. She attended Tyler Junior College and now lives in Whitehouse. She has two almost-grown children.
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