About Us: The Team Behind the Platform

Leadership

Founder, Lead developer, The mind behind the patent

Ivan Sager

Ivan is the mind behind XPC’s patent-pending correlation method: the part of XPC that turns separate records into one finding an operator can act on.

Ivan has built software that businesses run on since he founded Sager Systems in 2000. In 2018 he took that to the oil field. XPC Water was built on live produced water sites, not in an office — and when a new measurement goes in, Ivan is still the one standing at the tank.

He designed and wrote every part of the platform: the pipeline that reads the crews’ field spreadsheets, the SCADA and MQTT telemetry, the correlation engine the patent application covers, the reports customers receive, the software on the AIBox and the deployment behind it all.

Since 2000building software businesses depend on
US 19/645,295patent application, co-inventor
198,560field records read by what he built
CS + MBAcomputer science background, MBA

Co-inventor, Head of AI, Designer of AI Model Studio

Ryan Sager

Ryan is the brains behind XPC’s AI: every model that looks at the water, and the studio they are built in.

Ryan is XPC’s AI lead. He designs and trains the convolutional neural networks that look at the water — zone segmentation, colour depth and spill detection, built on U-Net segmentation and YOLO object detection — and he designed AI Model Studio, where XPC’s models are labelled, trained, versioned and released to the sites.

He graduated from Texas Tech University in computer science and mathematics, magna cum laude and through the Honors College — and then went to the field. Ryan mounts the cameras, wires the AIBox units and connects the sensors across the Permian Basin himself, so the models are trained on the sites they run on, in the light and weather those sites actually get.

Texas TechCS and mathematics, magna cum laude, Honors College
AI Model Studiodesigned by him: label, train, version, release
In the fieldcameras, AIBox and sensors installed by him
Co-inventoron the pending patent

Used every day by the people who run the sites.

“Managing a fleet of dissolved air flotation systems, including the largest one in the Permian Basin, requires an analytics platform that can scale and be responsive to rapid change. The XPC platform does that, and our customers and staff depend on the reporting and alerting.”

Evan HeminwayTechnology Director

“When you oversee operation facilities with 600+ million barrels, you need a system that can rapidly bring together field data securely and accurately while being notified of critical alerts. XPC Water and their team has been a proven platform for us over the years.”

Adam CerrilloDistrict Manager

“Ivan and the team continually innovate and expand their platform. It is a great pleasure to be using, growing and helping enhance the platform.”

Gary GriesenbeckCEO

“Managing and monitoring hundreds of Excel files that are used in some of the field operations would be impossible without XPC. The platform is accommodating and scales to our needs.”

Dennis RodarteWater Reuse Engineer

“XPC Water and their team have earned my trust and respect. This platform is solid and does what is needed.”

Michael AnayaEagle Ford Supervisor

“Our invoice requirements were complex, but the XPC Water platform integrated with Open Link, the supplier platform, and automated the process in days. We could not have managed without it.”

Danny ConnerAccounting Director

“I have worked on a lot of systems in my career. XPC is simple, complete, and great to run a business with.”

Lambert GonzalezPermian Basin

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Built on working sites, with the crews who run them.

Ryan Sager checking a camera position from a tank catwalk — **On the catwalk**Camera positions are checked from where the operator stands.

Ivan Sager at the weir of a treatment tank — **At the weir**The models measure what the crew already judges by eye.

Checking readings at a treatment unit — **Readings at the unit**What the screen says is checked against the unit itself.

Jim, equipment lead, in the shop — **Jim, equipment lead**Keeps the treatment equipment running in the field.

Walking a produced water pad with the crew — **Walking the pad**Every install starts with a walk round the pad with the crew.

Operators, engineers and field crew together on a pad — **Together on the pad**Operators, engineers and field crews on the same problem.

Ivan with Lambert on the pond bank — **Ivan and Lambert**Walkthroughs with the operators decide what gets built next.

Ivan, Ryan and a crew member on site — **With the crew**Hard hats on, on the pad where the data comes from.

Inspecting a pond with the crew — **Pond inspection**What the crew judges by eye is what the models learned to measure.

Walking a chlorine dioxide line — **ClO2 line**Pipe and dosing checks with the people who run the line.

Reviewing the field sheet with an operator on site — **Checking the record**The field sheet reviewed with the operator who filled it in.

Wiring a control panel in the shop — **In the shop**Panels wired and tested on the bench before they go to a pad.

Walking the tank line on a produced water site — **Along the tank line**Following the water from the tanks to the unit.

Camera kits being prepared in the shop — **Building the camera kits**Cameras and mounts prepared and tested in the shop with Jim.

Ryan wiring equipment at a site — **Ryan, wiring a site**Cameras, AIBox and sensors installed by the people who built them.

Two crew members talking beside a treatment trailer — **At the trailer**The crew that runs the unit is the crew we build it with.

An operator working on a transfer pump and hoses — **At the transfer pump**Hoses, pumps and valves: the readings start here.

Ivan at the edge of a treatment pond — **Ivan at the pond**Standing where the camera looks, before trusting what it measures.

Customer crews shown here work for our customers, not for XPC, and appear with their agreement.

A software company that decided to go stand in the mud.

Sager Systems has been building software since 2000. XPC Water is what happened when that experience was pointed at an industry where the data was real, the conditions were hostile, and nobody had connected the pieces.

We are a senior technology team. A customer request becomes a deployed change in days, not quarters, because the people writing the code are the people standing on the catwalk.

“If I am asking an operator to trust the number, I should be standing at the tank when we take it.”Ivan Sager, founder

Ivan and Ryan Sager on a produced water site

2000Sager Systems founded: enterprise software and consulting.
2005Laennec Society: building awareness and managing fundraising campaigns.
2010Operation AC: a complete application for delivering air conditioning systems to deployed service personnel.
2018XPC Water AI Intelligence platform in production.
Today1,041,962,134 barrels recorded across the Permian Basin and Eagle Ford.

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