CURRICULUM VITAE

Name Raleigh Wayne Potter

Nationality US Citizen

Education B.S. Chemical Engineering, 1983, University of Tennessee

Contact Information:

Mail: 1707 Cobblestone Ct, Richmond, TX 77406

Phone: +1-281-***-****

Email: adlbmv@r.postjobfree.com

CAREER SUMMARY

I am a 40+ year Senior Project Director and Chemical/Process Engineer with experience in a wide variety of industries including oil & gas (upstream, midstream and downstream) both onshore and offshore, LNG, chemical, petrochemical, environmental and mining with the last 25 years focused in O & G. I have led design and engineering efforts for all phases of engineering from concept development through startup, for brownfield and greenfield projects up to $12B US. I have led and managed projects with full P & L responsibility up to $1.5B US. I have worked in many international locations, especially the Middle East and South America, on very challenging projects. I am well versed in the Stage Gate project execution process and I use the concepts and methodologies of the PMI to manage projects. I have experience in both project planning applications (Primavera and MS Project) as well as estimating procedures. I have led Procedure and Training System development for operations and maintenance systems. The project summaries herein are a representative sampling of the experience in my professional career. They demonstrate the range of flexibility in the work I have performed. During my diverse experience, I’ve held positions ranging from process engineer to complete bottom line responsibility for business units in both corporate and project management roles. I have experience with business development applications including proposal preparation, business unit development and management, contract development, contract interpretation and contract negotiation. I fully understand risk management and the overall control of projects through risk minimization. I understand the importance of financial reporting and the long-range strategic planning necessary for sustainable profitability to the health of a company.

I have provided value added engineering of over $400M on projects. I have led project planning, scheduling and execution development that saved millions in time and effort for design projects. I have participated in Operational Readiness planning that led to on time minimal issue startups that saved 100’s of millions in lost operations time due to the proper planning of operations and maintenance teams ready to operate at capacity from day one.

EXPERIENCE SUMMARY

2016 – Current Viking Project Execution Consultants, LLC Owner

Owner of a project specialist organization, where I manage a company focused on providing highly experienced specialists in project execution and delivery. Viking PEC delivers highly experienced and vetted Project Execution and Technical Specialists to work under contract directly in an existing project team.

•Current Projects - Confidential Clients - Developing the HSE Operating Safety Case for a significant upgrade for two existing operating refineries.

2014 – 2016 Exterran, Inc.

Director of Projects - Western Hemisphere

Director of Projects for the Western Hemisphere, I directed, mentored and oversaw the project execution teams for all projects in the Western Hemisphere for the Integrated Projects group of Exterran, one of the world’s largest gas compression and processing companies. The group included Project Managers ranging from junior level to very experienced. The projects included everything from simple compression stations to complete oil and gas processing facilities, including mechanical refrigeration, cryogenic gas plants, amine units, dew point plants, and stabilization units along with all utilities required to deliver a complete operating facility. I had complete management responsibility for the scope, schedule and budget to deliver the projects in both a facility lump sum turnkey (LSTK) sale and a company build, own, operate environment. It was a very fast paced position with a strong leadership role required as part of the IP group leadership. I drove the development of procedure driven execution process with predictable and consistently successful project outcomes. The project teams I managed successfully executed projects ranging from $10M to $300M US in some very challenging situations in Brazil, Bolivia, and Mexico and in many locations in North America.

2011 – 2014 Petrofac Inc. Houston

Director of Engineering and Consulting

Director, Engineering and Consulting Services, I was charged with developing and growing a new engineering and consulting business unit in the Houston oil and gas market. The effort included building the group from zero while developing the business base to support that unit. The goal being to penetrate the highly competitive Houston engineering services market and build name recognition and reputation for excellence for the Petrofac name, especially in the upstream area. I was a member of the Petrofac Houston Leadership Team and managed a group of highly experienced engineers and consultants while assisting in project and proposal development. I was the Project Manager responsible for developing the project described below and actively led that project for more than a year while it gained momentum and evolved into a highly efficient functional project.

I was the Project Development and Deputy Program Manager for the Chevron Wheatstone Downstream Training and Procedures development project. The project was tasked with developing all the operations and maintenance manuals, facility procedures and complete training systems to meet the Australian Qualifications Framework requirements to assure competency of the operations and maintenance personnel for the Wheatstone LNG what will be one of the world’s largest LNG facilities. The project team provided all document and training systems development as well as training facilities and approach for competency assurance. I planned the project execution and staffed it from the ground up to achieve a very successful project.

2005 - 2011 Jacobs Engineering

Project Director

Process Engineering Manager

Project Director, Jacobs Engineering SA (JESA). JESA is a Joint Venture (JV) between Jacobs Engineering and the Groupe Cherifien Des Phosphates (OCP) in Casablanca, Morocco. Assigned as Program Management Consultant responsible for the process technical design, schedule and budget oversight of approximately $1.7 B US in phosphate strategic investment projects for OCP. Also responsible for helping develop the JV into a major North African engineering office to service the region, especially in the oil and gas industry. The initial projects were centered on the world’s largest phosphate slurry transport pipeline (200 km, 36 in ID) and include a number of first technology applications. The group of projects included two existing beneficiation plant adaptations to develop slurry with the necessary properties for the transport pipeline and two grassroots beneficiation plants to increase capacity of the mining operations. The projects also included a specialty handling system to receive, prepare and ready for ship loading the export phosphate ore transferred by the pipeline. The JV was at about 250 employees and seconded personnel by the end of 2010. The goal was to be at about 2000 employees within five years and to be recognized as a major supplier of engineering services in regional projects in a wide range of industries, including infrastructure, oil and gas and of course, phosphate and fertilizer.

Partnership Coordinator, Jacobs/ExxonMobil (EM) US Production Upstream Partnership. Responsible for business alignment between ExxonMobil and Jacobs to assure that project execution and control processes are aligned between JE and EM processes, including contract interpretation. I was responsible for all project estimate development and execution oversight including scope, schedule and budget as well as proper resourcing to assure that projects were executed efficiently. Estimated yearly budget for all projects was $500 MM with typical projects ranging from $1 – 20 MM with the estimated number of projects approximately 20 per year.

Project Engineering Manager, Yanbu Refinery Crude Upgrade, Saudi Aramco, Saudi Arabia.

The project goal was to upgrade the refinery throughput from approximately 240 KBPD to 320

KBPD including a complete revamp of the crude system and addition of new hydrotreating capacity. The engineering work was done in Al-Khobar, Saudi Arabia by a multi-national team of 150+ engineers. The team developed the final FEED and estimate package over a very intense 6-month period. This was a very fast track project with an understaffed and inexperienced team that depended heavily on the senior leadership. There were both staffing and client management challenges to keep the project moving forward and to generate a quality effort. The project was completed on schedule and received a letter of commendation from the client expressing their thanks for our effort and appreciation of the quality work performed. Responsibilities included both management of the engineering and design team as well as direct client interface to assure that the project was meeting the clients’ needs and expectations while maintaining schedule and cost control.

Process Engineering Manager, Grass Roots Upgrader Complex for PetroCanada Oil Sands. Scope included development of Phase 2 of a grass roots upgrader to process oil sands bitumen. The Phase 2 project estimated value is $7+ billion. The second phase of the overall facility development plan includes ISBL units for diluent recovery, vacuum distillation, coking, hydrotreating/hydrocracking, sulfur recovery and all the necessary offsites and utilities to support the ISBL units. Significant integration with the Phase 1 OSBL’s was necessary to create a value-added engineering effort for Phase 2. The process engineering had several significant challenges including the incorporation of the Phase 1 design work into the Phase 2 effort in a way that both minimized redundant effort and leveraged the work already performed without incorporating the negative aspects of the Phase 1 work. That included effective use of process engineering teams from various silo contractors as well as technical licensors to incorporate into the Phase 2 team. The team was made up of both in-house engineers and designers as well as teams from four other engineering contractors, all of whom reported to me and for whom I was responsible for their work effort. It was my responsibility to meld the more than 60 engineers into an efficient working team that effectively communicated to execute the work on a very aggressive schedule.

Process Engineering Manager, Canadian Extra Heavy Crude Upgrade Project, BP Products NA, Whiting, Indiana. Responsible for overall leadership, technical direction, quality of effort and management of a team of 30+ Process Engineers to define the necessary unit additions and revamps to the refinery to allow the efficient and effective processing of Canadian Extra Heavy Crude. The team developed the engineering package(s) necessary to define the process changes required as well as the basic equipment data to support the estimate basis. The effort included the refinement and development of both unit models and an overall refinery model to predict the various unit operations and support the economic basis for the project. The process design effort touched every unit in the refinery. In 2012 I received an email from a BP Project Manager acknowledging the quality of work and decisions made during the FEED effort that directly resulted in a successful project that is now nearing completion.

Process Engineering Manager, Refinery Planning Project, Chevron USA. I provided technical and regulatory consulting to Chevron to assist in the strategic planning for a new 500 KBPD refinery to be located on the US Gulf Coast. I led the regulatory analysis effort and made strategic recommendations on the permitting effort. I led the process technical consulting and plan development to optimize the refinery processes and overall facility conceptual design. Developed screening methodologies to allow life-cycle economic comparison of alternative processing schemes and participated in process screening workshops to assist Chevron in down-select of the most promising processing schemes. Also provided process design and estimating support to estimate the options chosen to develop the economic basis for selection of a final option for pre-FEED design.

2000 – 2005 Foster Wheeler USA

Program Management Consultant

Chief Process Engineer

Program Management Consultant, Project Leader, North Oil Sector, Kirkuk, Iraq, US Government. Responsible for both technical (process design) and budget/schedule oversight of the design/build contractor (Worley Parsons) as the US Government representative for the rebuilding of the Iraqi oil infrastructure. I helped to develop program scope and project priorities as well as expedite the government defining process to secure funding; oversight responsibility for program execution and monitoring of scope, schedule and budget; provided process technical expertise to the PCO and performed technical reviews on the project designs to assure that the designs met requirements. The projects ranged from well work over to production lab equipment procurement to grass root gas oil separation and wet crude treatment plants to rehabilitation of gas compressor stations and a complete gas processing plant rehabilitation as well as evaluation of overall upstream capabilities and offshore platforms. The assignment required evaluation of projects both for feasibility to execute considering personnel safety and risk of completion as well as overall cost effectiveness in application of the $1.2 billion program to achieve the program objectives.

Chief Process Engineer. Responsible for the management and supervision of process

engineers engaged in the design and development of refinery and petrochemical plant projects

for all utilities, offsites and environmental support. Responsible for the technical accuracy,

quality, and economy of process design packages. Responsible for all aspects of process

design from front end design (FEED) through detail including, process reviews, HAZOP reviews,

bid reviews, project planning, and proposal preparation, as well as inter-departmental, client,

and licensor technical interface. Responsible for environmental process and regulatory support

for permitting. Listed below are a few of the process projects on which I worked directly as Process Lead during this time, of course, as a Chief Process Engineer, I also provided oversight and supervision to many other projects simultaneously.

Process Lead, Grass Root Refinery Complex, KNPC, Middle East. Participated in the strategic

planning for development of the project design basis.

Process Lead, Overall Utilities Balance Development, Valero, Port Arthur, Texas. Managed development of a rigorous overall utilities balance in support of long term strategic planning.

Process Lead, Clean Fuels Project, Valero, Port Arthur, Texas; Lima, Ohio; and Hartford, Illinois. Managed the FEED of offsites and utilities.

Process Lead, Refinery Feed Rate Expansion Project, Valero, Port Arthur, Texas. Managed development of permit modification documents. All permits received on time. Also managed the FEED for the utilities and offsites.

Process Lead, Radioactive Waste Processing Facility, US Department of Energy, Savannah River Site, South Carolina. Managed Phase II design of utilities and offsites systems. Provided specialty materials handling and environmental permitting support for the SALT Waste Processing Facility.

1993 - 2000 Foster Wheeler Environmental

Director of Remediation Technologies

Process Engineering Manager

Director of Remediation Technologies. Responsibilities included managing the evaluation of technologies for application to FWENC business interests, developing new markets, and development of personnel to facilitate these efforts; managed development and commercialization of new wastewater treatment processes including development of joint ventures for commercial application to the domestic and international markets; responsibilities included developing, managing, and supervising numerous projects during this 5 year period. Responsible for initial contract development and negotiation and for managing the final selected partnership approach, i.e. LLC.

Project Manager/Process Lead, Sludge-To-Oil-Reactor-System Pilot Plant Demonstration, ThermoEnergy Corp., Colton, California. Managed development of a commercial design for large scale demonstration of the STORS process in actual plant conditions directly from a lab scale process design. Responsible for the construction of the facility and the 12 month demonstration operations.

Project Manager/Project Engineering Manager, Accelerated Waste Retrieval Project, US Department of Energy, Fernald, Ohio. Managed the proposal effort and served as the Project and Engineering Manager for this design/construct/operate project to relocate 8,900 yds3 of radioactive k-65 material through the design phase. Responsible for process design, project scope, schedule and budget development and construction execution planning.

Project Manager/Process Lead, Centrate Ammonia Recovery System Pilot Plant Demonstration, ThermoEnergy Corp., New York City, New York. Managed design, equipment selection, construction and operation of the pilot plant, including, design of the test plan, management and supervision of the operations, evaluation of the pilot plant data and development of the final report. Managed development of the full-scale design based on lessons learned from the pilot plant. This project resulted in receiving an award as one of the 100 Most Technologically Significant New Products of 1999 by R&D Magazine.

Operations and Engineering Manager, Superfund Site, Bridgeport Rental and Oil Services, Bridgeport, New Jersey. Managed the operation and maintenance of the Thermal Destruction Facility (TDF), the primary method of site cleanup; redesigned original TDF to effectively process the wastes encountered during excavation; managed and supervised the permitting, start-up, operations and maintenance, troubleshooting and debottlenecking, and environmental compliance of the facility. Duties also included QC, technical and reporting support, design engineering, operational guideline/procedure development and supervision of a crew of up to 100 union craft and professionals; also responsible for contract interpretation in relation to regulatory requirements and change order development and documentation for thermal operations.

1991 - 1993 Rollins Environmental Services

Senior Project/Process Manager

Senior Project/Process Manager. Responsible for support of commercial incinerator operations in New Jersey, Texas, and Louisiana. Responsible for process engineering, construction, equipment, and other technical reviews; provided strategic business planning support; and managed development of hazardous and toxic materials handling and feed preparation processes. Managed the design and construction of a $13 MM stabilization facility for the Texas plant. Managed the design and construction of feed preparation and handling systems for all facilities.

1990 – 1991 Chemical Waste Management

Senior Project/Process Manager

Senior Project/Process Manager. Responsible for treatability studies on a low temperature thermal desorption system for hazardous waste treatment. Project Manager for combustion and mechanical systems in support of commercial incinerator operations. Responsible for plant process evaluations, incineration facility design, permitting review, and equipment evaluation support.

1984 – 1990 International Technology Corporation

Project/Process Engineer

Senior Project/Process Engineer. Participated in or led many process design efforts for a variety of technologies, water/wastewater, incinerators, etc. from conceptual through detailed design. Prepared numerous RCRA Part B permit applications for facilities and hazardous waste operations; prepared trial burn plans with sampling, analytical and quality control plans; wrote bid specifications and evaluated vendor bids; developed and implemented remedial site investigation plans; and managed and supported numerous hazardous waste incinerator design projects.

Quality Control Supervisory Engineer. Responsible for IT’s Hybrid Thermal Treatment System (HTTS) during a CERCLA site remediation for decontaminating explosives contaminated materials at the Cornhusker and Louisiana Army Ammunition Plants (CAAP and LAAP). QC responsibilities included, contract specification assurance, regulatory reporting, site sampling plan development and implementation, operation procedure development, and analytical lab supervision. Responsible for process operations/development and assisting maintenance in troubleshooting. Also managed subcontractors to perform specialized process operations or maintenance. Authored the complete and final contract QC report for the CAAP project.

Project Site Manager, Tooele Army Depot, Utah. Responsible for sampling and process engineering evaluation of the gas cleaning system of the Chemical Agent Munitions Disposal System (CAMDS) nerve gas incinerator. Managed operations of the TSCA trial burn on the CAMDS rotary kiln incinerator used to destroy chemical agent rockets.

Project/Process Engineer, Systems Operator/Shift Supervisor, Denney Farm Superfund Site, Missouri. Responsible for operations on the USEPA’s mobile incineration system and for supervising craft labor during cleanup of a dioxin contaminated site. Additional responsibilities included developing the QC plan, feed preparation and sequencing plans, field sampling plan and project work plans.

Patents and

Publications

Patent No. 6,112,675 issued September 5, 2000 for “Process and Apparatus for Treating Process Streams from a System for Separating Constituents from Contaminated Material”.

Numerous leadership and technical training course along with many white papers and conference presentations

United States Marine Corps, 1974-1976 Aircraft Electrician/Avionics Tech, RF4B Phantom, Vietnam Era Veteran

Languages:

English – native language

Arabic (small amount)

Spanish (small amount)

French (small amount)

References:

•Bill Bayard – Program Director - 713-***-****

•Mike Blanco – Senior Project Manager - 713-***-****

•Bob Egan – HSE Manager – 832-***-****

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