Dallas SWE is pleased to recognize Thi Dao as a Member of the Month for May, 2019! With our Member of the Month program, Dallas SWE seeks to recognize some of our non-officer members whose technical contributions, leadership accomplishments, or SWE volunteer service are particularly noteworthy. If you would like to nominate a Dallas SWE member for his/her contributions, please email us at dallas.swe@gmail.com.
Thi Dao serves as a Reservoir Engineer for Fleur de Lis Energy, overseeing CO2 enhanced oil recovery assets in the Rockies. She received her Bachelor of Science in Petroleum Engineering from the University of Texas at Austin. She began her career at Denbury Resources, Inc. where she oversaw reservoir management and surveillance along with field planning, optimization, and economic evaluations across CO2 EOR and waterflood assets in the Gulf Coast.
She joined the Dallas SWE chapter in 2017 in search of a women’s engineering network. She recognized how strongly she identified with their mission and wanted to involve herself more. Since then, she has served as FY19 Program Committee Chair, Nominating Committee Chair, and Spring & Fall 2018 Design Your World Volunteer Coordinator. She has served on multiple committees-Outreach DYW, Programming, Nominating, and Membership-and volunteered at many outreach events. At the society level, she has served as an Upperclassmen Scholarship Reviewer.
In addition to SWE, she serves as the Sponsorship Director for the Women’s Energy Network of North Texas. Beyond her profession and her involvement in these organizations, she backpacks hiking trails and loves extreme sports. For her, these experiences have been something out of this world, and it’s been her home away from home. When she is in Dallas, she obsesses over OrangeTheory Fitness and volunteers for STEM outreach.
My favorite about SWE: “I love how involved Dallas SWE is in STEM outreach in our community. It was an incredible discovery to find a community of women in STEM with a mission to advance women in STEM and expand the image of STEM fields in the community. Even more incredible was watching these inspirational women provide an enriching STEM program to students and leaving them with a heightened confidence in their skills to succeed in STEM fields.”
Thi Dao