Kurt Ranzinger is a Principal Technical Advisor at Halliburton Landmark and is responsible for the architecture and implementation of the Scalable Earth Modeling-related micro services. He is also the architect for the geometry/topology engine, and LithoTect® software. He has 30 years of industry experience and before joining Landmark in 2009 held various roles as an entrepreneur, business owner, and staff software engineer/architect/geoscientist. Kurt has a Master's in Geophysics from the Colorado School of Mines.