Leadership Team

Dennis Cooley, President

Dennis Cooley has over 21 years of experience in the Oil & Gas industry.  Dennis started in the industry as an Instrumentation & Controls designer.  He began working with INtools (SmartPlant Instrumentation) in 1997.  Over the many years Dennis headed up the deployment of engineering software within companies such as SNC – Lavalin, Fluor Calgary, and Syncrude.  Dennis went on to work for Intergraph for three years. In 2007 he joined ENGlobal Automation where he headed up the Engineering Applications business unit.  In 2009 Dennis joined Nexen and in 2010 became the IT Engineering Applications lead for Nexen Oil Sands, and Conventional and Natural Gas Divisions.  Dennis’s team supported SmartPlant Foundation, SmartPlant Owner Operator, SmartPlant Electrical, SmartPlant P&ID, SmartPlant 3D, SmartPlant Review, SmartPlant Instrumentation. Dennis is a leader in the Engineering Application space and speaks at international conferences.  He has gone on to grow CooleyCore Associates Inc. to 25 Associates.

Tim Anstett, Program Manager 

Tim has worked in industry for over 32 years and has a unique combination of experience in operations, maintenance, engineering and project management.  Tim has led teams using various Engineering Applications.   His experience in operations and maintenance is quite useful when understanding the needs and requirements of field personal.

Tim provides CooleyCore with a consistent fit for purpose project management philosophy.

CooleyCore’s business development is managed by Tim.

Carsten Jaeger, General Manager

Carsten Jaeger has over 30 years of experience in the IT industry.  In 2008, he formed a team to support Nexen’s implementation of Intergraph’s SmartPlant tools.  He and his team ensured these and other tools used by both Capital and Operations in the Oil Sands, Conventional and Natural Gas Divisions integrated into the overall Information Management environment.  Interfaces to transform information, portals to access this information and other solutions to help ensure data reliability and completeness were developed and deployed through his leadership and guidance.