Interviewer : Jason Theriot

Affiliation: University Of Houston

Denis Weber was born and raised in Donaldsonville, Louisiana, and took an engineering degree in 1975 from Nichols State University. The following year, he was hired by McDermott as a cost estimator, and through a career of thirty-four years with the firm, worked in a number of capacities. Weber served as a senior project manager for Shell Oil’s Auger tension-leg platform in the early 1990s, helping to oversee its fabrication and assembly. In 1993, as the Mars TLP development began to come into shape, Weber was tapped to be the overall project manager for Mars. At the time of interview, Weber was a Division Chief Engineer for McDermott.