Laura Bandura
About Laura Bandura
Laura Bandura is the Value Driver Coordinator at Chevron in Houston, Texas, managing opportunities and initiatives impacting performance metrics for the Gulf of Mexico Business Unit.
Current Role at Chevron
Laura Bandura currently serves as the Value Driver Coordinator at Chevron in Houston, Texas, United States. She started this role on November 1, 2020. In this position, she manages the queue of opportunities and initiatives impacting the Cost of Finding performance metric for the Gulf of Mexico Business Unit. Additionally, she collaborates with Gulf of Mexico Exploration & Appraisal to build the business case for new, high value opportunities and tracks the impact of in-flight projects on Business Unit performance metrics.
Past Experience at Chevron
Before her current role, Laura Bandura served as a Digital Portfolio Manager at Chevron from 2019 to 2020, also based in Houston, Texas. Prior to that, she worked as a Research Geophysicist at the same company from 2014 to 2019. Her tenure with Chevron began as a Geophysicist from 2012 to 2014. All of these roles were based in the Houston, Texas Area, showcasing her long-standing association and diverse experience within the company.
Early Career and Research Roles
Laura Bandura’s early career includes positions as a Physicist at the FRIB-Facility for Rare Isotope Beams from 2011 to 2012 and as a Research Associate at Michigan State University from 2009 to 2011. Concurrently, she was a Resident Associate in the Physics Division at Argonne National Laboratory from 2009 to 2011. This period highlights her strong foundation in physics and research before transitioning into the energy sector.
Educational Background in Physics and Biology
Laura Bandura holds a Ph.D. in Physics from Northern Illinois University, which she completed between 2004 and 2009. She also earned an M.S. in Physics from the same university, completing the program from 2001 to 2003. Before her graduate studies, she achieved a B.S. in Biology from Aurora University, where she studied from 1998 to 2000. This diverse educational background contributes to her multidisciplinary expertise.