Eric T. Maray / Where I’ve Been

Where I’ve Been

A career without straight lines.

The Journey

Different paths. Shared perspective.

A path built through
curiosity.

I've never approached my career as a ladder to climb. It's been more of a collection of experiences, opportunities, and occasionally unexpected directions. Each role brought something different, and none of those lessons stayed confined to the job where I learned them. Looking back, what connects them isn't an industry or a title, but a persistent curiosity about how things work and how they might work better.

2025 — 2026Aubrey, Texas

Mustang Special Utility District

Senior Safety Specialist

September 2025 – November 2026

Led utility safety and program development through a systems-oriented, employee-centered approach. The role expanded across workforce operations, HR processes, onboarding, reporting, and organizational improvement.

Selected impact
  • Developed a respiratory protection program and coordinated medical clearance, fit testing, and training; corrected prospective occupational health screening and clearance processes.
  • Designed a unified Jotform safety-reporting experience and advanced a broader EHS platform using Microsoft applications and workflow automation.
  • Modernized outdated pre-hire workflows, introduced role-specific learning paths, and rebuilt orientation around Respect, Integrity, Safety, and Innovation.
  • Redesigned the employee uniform program around consistency, usability, and more efficient procurement.
$45KProjected annual savings · safety-reporting form
$7.5KProjected annual savings · EHS platform
$37KProjected annual savings · uniform program
2014 — 2025Denton, Texas

CoServ (Denton County Electric Cooperative)

Training & Development Specialist

February 2024 – July 2025

Designed and delivered learning across eight departments for a 500+ employee workforce, connecting compliance, leadership development, new-hire learning, and technical education to operational priorities.

Selected impact
  • Administered UKG Pro Learning, improving completion visibility and supporting a 97%+ company-wide training completion rate.
  • Led onboarding learning for 100+ employees and created a redesigned learning catalog and monthly Training & Development newsletter.
  • Coordinated vendor-led learning, facilitator selection, training budgets, and contracts; identified approximately $15,000 in annual cost improvements.
  • Supported leadership development, individual development planning, and psychologically safe learning environments.
500+Employees supported
97%+Reported training completion
8Departments

Job Training & Safety Specialist

November 2020 – February 2024

Led technical and safety learning for natural gas operations, using field knowledge and incident trends to design practical training and track readiness.

Selected impact
  • Delivered Smith System defensive driving training to more than 300 employees.
  • Migrated paper and shared-file training records into UKG Pro Learning to improve access and compliance visibility.
  • Used incidents, near misses, and changing procedures to target training; contributed to organization-wide safety efforts during a period with no major OSHA-reportable incidents.
300+Employees trained · defensive driving

Field Operations Supervisor

July 2016 – November 2020

Led day-to-day natural gas field operations, balancing safe execution, service reliability, scheduling, performance, and team development.

Selected impact
  • Developed a structured career-progression program that supported 67% team growth.
  • Coordinated field assignments, coaching, performance evaluations, and operational standards.
  • Provided NISC and ArcGIS subject-matter expertise to support employee adoption and workflow efficiency.
67%Team growth supported

Field Technician

2014 – 2016

Built hands-on expertise in utility service and field safety, grounding later work in the realities of frontline operations.

Selected impact
  • Performed service installations and disconnections, leak investigations, and maintenance.
  • Applied operational procedures, hazard awareness, and practical troubleshooting in the field.

IT / GIS Analyst

2014 – 2016

Connected geospatial data, mapping tools, and enterprise systems with operational decision-making.

Selected impact
  • Created and analyzed location-based operational information with ArcGIS and ArcFM.
  • Contributed to testing, documentation, and deployment of enterprise GIS system architecture.
2006 — 2014United States & Afghanistan

United States Army

Staff Sergeant · Senior Geospatial Engineer / Operations & Training Leadership

2006 – 2014

Served in geospatial intelligence, operations, and military leadership roles, combining mission-critical technical analysis with personnel development and readiness.

Selected impact
  • Led and trained 70+ personnel while coordinating training and deployment readiness for 200+ service members.
  • Produced geospatial intelligence supporting planning, targeting, and operations during deployments to eastern Afghanistan.
  • Managed the 101st Airborne Division Terrain Team website and terrain database supporting NATO/ISAF operations.
  • Established and trained forward geospatial support teams; served as Senior Geospatial Analyst, GIS Operations Manager, and Platoon Sergeant.
70+Personnel led and trained
200+Service members · readiness coordination
Across the journey

The thread that connects it all.

Understand the problem.
Connect the pieces.

Across very different environments, I've gravitated toward unfamiliar challenges, disconnected processes, and opportunities to help people do their best work. The tools and titles have changed. The approach hasn't.

Build something useful.
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