FRANK 'CHIP' KERN
KATHY KERN
50 Red Sable Drive
The Woodlands, Texas 77380

832-660-6018    fkern@att.net

Sr. Project Management Advisor...Retired from ExxonMobil 2009, but continued contract work until 2016.    Now fully retired.

After grad'g from Northwestern in Chicago w/MSEE degree in '68, joined Exxon (then Humble Oil) in South Texas. Assignments included New Orleans (20 yrs!), Pensacola, Aberdeen Scotland, Paris (not Texas) and Houston. More recently, spent two years (and three winters!) in Halifax, Nova Scotia. Returned to Houston. Most time spent as Project Manager and Sr. Project Management Advisor for offshore oil and natural gas development projects. Retired from ExxonMobil late 2009 after >41 years. Since there was only so much stuff to look at in Home Depot, and becoming a WalMart greeter didn't sound good, I hung out my shingle as Project Management Consultant early 2010. Consultancies included several major ExxonMobil projects.

Married Kathy while in Corpus Christi in 1971...we have two offspring...Hillary is married, graduated from U of Louisiana at Lafayette, is teaching school here in the Houston area and picked-up her Master's; Frank III ("FB") graduated from NC School of the Arts with a degree in (theatrical) Design and Production. After several “gigs” with the technical aspects of some resident Cirque du Soleil productions, he’s currently with TAIT Towers in Lititz, PA which specializes in large scale theatrical sets and automation for both resident and touring shows (e.g., Elton John). He’s married and we have two grand-kiddos.

My current interests include radio controlled model aircraft and reading.