Jeff Blinn is Training Manager for Baroid Industrial Drilling Products. He has a geology degree from the University of Arizona and has worked as a drilling fluids engineer since 1978, holding several field positions in New Mexico, California, and Nevada. He joined Baroid Industrial Drilling Products in Nevada in 1997. In 2001 he transferred to Fort Worth, Texas, as the Senior Field Sales Representative for North Texas, and in 2008 transferred to Houston, Texas, as Senior Technical Professional. Mr. Blinn assumed his current position as training manager in 2011.