Paul Robert Stevenson
Spring
Texas 77379
M: 832-***-****
**************@**********.***
September, 2014
Subject: Vice President Business Development
Dear Sirs, I am uniquely qualified for the above captioned position, from my International Oil and Gas
Industry Experience in Europe and the USA. Please note also that one of my primary duties at GL ND was
to be responsible for business development of the asset integrity management business stream.
I have significant contacts in all the major Oil and Gas Companies. I have had hands on experience with full
project life cycle, from project identification through to project completion. I have over 25 years in the
offshore industry with over 15 of them in senior management. During that time I was deeply involve with
many new product launches along with supervising mergers acquisitions and due diligence. I have a
detailed understanding on all commercial, contractual and risks involved throughout project development. I
have attached my resume.
Summary of capabilities:
Successful Sales and Marketing Manager
Entrepreneurial sense of urgency
Major Project Management and planning
Rapid understanding of new technologies
Ability to visualize new markets for existing concepts and develop new concepts for new and existing
markets through customer needs assessments
Development of Successful Business Plans and Sales and Marketing Plans
Experienced forecasting and financial analysis skills
Matched product to market through interaction with inventors and refined offering with
engineering. Found new markets as products matured
International and Domestic Experience
Author and presenter of Product Technical Papers.
Authored and Published in Industry Journal Publications
Team player and problem solver
Mature Leadership Skills
My philosophy is constant improvement of management, quality, sales, cost, and profit. My leadership skills
combined with my persistence, drive, initiative, and knowledge will bring even more success to your
company.
Sincerely yours
Paul Stevenson
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Paul R. Stevenson
M: 832-***-****
**************@**********.***
Strategic Project Management, Sales, Marketing, Business Development and senior Senior Manager with ideal
blend of technical and commercial experience. Ability to effectively communicate and present across all
company levels.
Additional experience in the following areas:
Corporate Strategy Relationship
Long Term Forecasting Technical Pre-Sales
Development Management
Tactical and Strategic Customer Project Tactical Account Sales
Business Development
Marketing Management (TAS)
Additional experience in developing the business lines:
Asset Integrity
Structural IM Floating SIM Pipeline SIM
Management
Advanced engineering Offshore Engineering
Risk and Safety Technical Assurance
analysis Consultancy
CVA & IVA Fire and Blast Flow assurance Geotechnics
Marine Warranty DP assurance Project Management SEMS
Structural Earthquake engineering
Structural Monitoring Marine Casualty
Instrumentation assessment
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EXPERIENCE:
July 2014 to Independent Contractor – Business Management and Business Systems
Present
Contracted to Braemar Technical Services
Training of current and new staff in business management. Transfer all prospects
and leads to individual business streams.
October 2011 to VP Business Development – Braemar Technical Services
July 2014 Maintained annual revenue target of $M 75
Braemar Technical Services, Inc. (BTS) is a wholly owned subsidiary of Braemar
shipping and has five practices associated with group. The practices are Braemar
Adjusting, Braemar Engineering, Braemar Offshore and Braemar Salvage
Association, Braemar Environmental and Braemar logistics.
Reporting directly to the Managing Director for BTS, primary responsibilities are:
Business development of all services provided by BCI.
Covering North America and Trinidad.
Integration of BCI into Braemar Engineering.
Develop consistent business development practices with in the group.
Build up prospect pipeline and develop KPIs for Sales Team.
Revenue forecasting.
Major Client liaison.
Develop Sales and marketing budgets and plans.
Integration of all Braemar Technical Services business practices.
to V. P. Sales and Marketing North America, GL Noble Denton.
October 2010
October 2011
Maintained annual revenue target of $M 48, with a pipeline of $100M and
probability of $M 20. Responsible for all business lines, Technical Assurance,
Engineering Consulting, Project Execution, Marine Operations and Software.
Identification of opportunities within the Region that fall within the strategic
focus of the business.
Maintenance of the CRM system to present clearly the Opportunity pipeline
for each of the strategic Practices offered in the Region. Specifically
opportunities at the Identification and Qualification stages.
Communication and handover of Opportunities to the relevant Business
Stream / Practice Managers and Sales leads.
Maintenance and reporting of sales quotas for the strategic Practices offered
in the Region.
Monitoring and reporting performance KPIs of each of the Sales leads
against their assigned quotas.
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Working with the Regional Business Stream / Practice Managers and Sales
teams to develop the Regional Marketing plan, ensuring that a clear calendar
of activities is communicated which directly aligns to business strategy and
growth.
Implementing the plan, ensuring the delivery of key marketing activities
across the region which include events, webinars, client email campaigns,
client briefings and advertising.
Ensuring that all marketing activity is appropriately followed up and recorded
and ROI is measured in a manner consistent with Divisional best practice.
Developing and delivering sales material including presentations and related
media which directly support and demonstrate the value propositions of the
strategic Practices for the Region and ensure that Brand message and
company values are appropriately reflected.
Monitoring Regional marketing budget spend and reporting spend
against budget as well as forecast to year end on a monthly basis.
Working with Marketing team members in other Regions to ensure that key
Regional requirements and issues are captured and reflected in the global
marketing plan.
Working with the Regional Business Stream Managers to ensure that client
Case Studies are documented and signed off for use by the client.
Supporting the GLIS Head of Marketing to deliver the global marketing
agenda for the year, ensuring that key Regional stakeholders are engaged
and aligned to the plan.
Driving the PR team with appropriate news items from within the Region
which will contribute to raising Brand Awareness and understanding of the
value proposition.
December 2009 to Sr. Business Development Manager, GL Noble Denton.
October 2010
Shored up a declining annual revenue target of $M 58
• Primary responsibilities are for the business development and responsible
for all technical and commercial aspects of the Assurance and
Consultancy business stream within North America and Trinidad and
Tobago. Reporting to GL Noble Denton’s Global VP of business
development.
• This includes the services for Asset Integrity Management, Structural
Integrity Management, DP Assurance, Marine Engineering, Advanced
Analysis and Marine Warranty.
• Business development interface between GL Noble Denton and GL’s
renewables group GL Garrad Hassan.
Other responsibilities also include but not limited to:
Meeting sales, and marketing goals and overall quality of service.
Call and personally visit potential, new and existing customers to facilitate
new business.
Perform client presentations articulating the value proposition of product,
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solution, and service offerings.
Coordinate efforts to improve the customer relations
Manage product and service sales growth and individuals’ effectiveness
by reviewing activity schedule.
Inter-company marketing and business development, domestic and
international.
Developed and implemented plans for strategic accounts to improve
revenue retention/growth, account profitability, and customer satisfaction.
Identified target companies and key decision makers.
Perform performance evaluation on line staff.
Support promotional programs including, but not limited to: reactivation,
retention, leads and knowledge based marketing programs.
Coordination of marketing activities such as exhibitions, conferences,
technical papers, advertising and internal workshops.
Support of personal development programs for staff.
Regional Manager, for Fugro Structural Monitoring in North and South America.
March 2001 to
2009
Responsible for all technical and commercial aspects of Fugro’s Structural Monitoring
Services sourced from the USA.
Responsibilities include but not limited to:
Meeting sales, and marketing goals and overall quality of service.
Call and personally visit potential, new and existing customers to
facilitate new business.
Perform client presentations articulating the value proposition of product,
solution, and service offerings.
Coordinate efforts to improve the customer relations
Manage product and service sales growth and individuals’ effectiveness
by reviewing activity schedule.
Inter-company marketing and business development, domestic and
international.
Developed and implemented plans for strategic accounts to improve
revenue retention/growth, account profitability, and customer satisfaction.
Identified target companies and key decision makers.
Perform performance evaluation on line staff.
Support promotional programs including, but not limited to: reactivation,
retention, leads and knowledge based marketing programs.
Responsible for overall P & L of Structural Monitoring in the USA.
Project Director and Technical Authority.
Coordination of marketing activities such as exhibitions, conferences,
technical papers, advertising and internal workshops.
Support of personal development programs for staff.
Proposal and contract authorization.
1994 to 2001 Major Projects Manager, Fugro Structural Monitoring
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Technically and financially responsible for large and major capital projects, supervising
multiple teams worldwide.
1998 to 2001
• Project Manager for the ExxonMobil Suction Caisson Research Project. The
objectives of the project are to establish the evolution of suction piles when
used in deep water mooring applications.
• Responsible for Business development for Fugro Structural Monitoring.
• Project Manager for the Design and Implementation of the Statoil Kvitebjørn
Structural and Environmental Monitoring System.
• Project Manager for the Design and Implementation of the Structural
Monitoring instrumentation system for the Tamar Bridge (UK).
1998 to 1998
• Fugro Geotechnical Services (Hong Kong) Limited as Deputy Project
Manager for Ting Kau Bridge (Hong Kong) On Structure Instrumentation
System (TKB OSIS) 1998
• Project Manager for the Design and Implementation of an instrumentation
system for the control and monitoring of the re flotation of Phillips Maureen
Production Platform.
1997 to 1998
On Structure
• Project Manager for Ting Kau Bridge (Hong Kong)
Instrumentation System TKB OSIS).
1996 1997
• Project Management, Engineering, Installation and analysis of results from
Structural Instrumentation system on the “Rolling Stones” stage bridge
“Bridge to Babylon”. The Bridge is a 100 ft portable telescopic bridge. The
bridge instrumented with accelerometers and strain gauges in order to verify
the design.
1996 –1997
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Seconded to Fugro Geotechnical Services (Hong Kong) Limited.
• Installation Manager, Lantau Fixed Crossing Wind and Structural Monitoring
System, Hong Kong.
1995 1996
• Lead Hardware Engineer Responsible for engineering, design, procurement
and manufacture of the Lantau Fixed Crossing Structural Instrumentation
package at Fugro Structural Monitoring in Glasgow.
1994 1995
Supervision of the Installation, Pre commissioning and commissioning of the SEM
•
system offshore at 16/11 E.
1984 – 1994 WA Fairhurst and Partners (Structural Monitoring Division)
Instrumentation Engineer, subsequently sold to Fugro McClelland Ltd, in 1995.
• Team lead on small to medium sized projects. Involving project management of
teams of up to 5 personnel.
• Performed dynamic response measurements on numerous onshore and offshore
structures. Analyzed results using various techniques from FFT, correlation and
statistical math. Produced report of results, conclusions and recommendations.
• Assisted in the development of structural monitoring techniques and automatic
systems.
• Developed of early versions of switch capacitance filtering technique for
Butterworth, Elliptical and Bezel anti-aliasing.
1978 – 1984 South of Scotland Electricity Board (SSEB)
Instrumentation Engineer.
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1982 - 1984
• South of Scotland Electricity Board, East Kilbride research and development,
Instrumentation required to trouble-shooting design failures in all SSEB power
stations boilers and Turbines.
1978 – 1982
• Four year apprenticeship at SSEB residential training center in Cumbernald
Scotland and at Inverkip Oil fired power station South West Scotland.
Qualifications:
1979 City and Guilds 220 (General), Cumbernauld College, Scotland
1981 City and Guilds 225 part 3, Instrumentation and Control, Cumbernauld College, Scotland
1982 Ordinary SCOTEC (ONC) Electrical/Electronic Engineering, Falkirk College, Scotland
1984 Higher SCOTEC (HNC) Electrical/Electronic Engineering, UWS Bell College, Scotland
2007 Harbin Engineering University 3 year Professorship
2010 Tactical Account Sales Course (TAS)
Publications:
1998: “Large scale structural monitoring systems”, presented at SPIE International
Symposium on Non destructive evaluation and Health Monitoring of Aging
Infrastructures.
2001: “IRIS 3D, Integrated Riser Instrumentation System 3D (IRIS 3D)” Presented at
IBC Conference Deep Water Anchors and Moorings.
2002: “Chart B Characterization of Riser Touchdown Point Behavior from Field
Investigation and Analysis” Presented at IBC Conference Deep Water Anchors
and Moorings.
2003: “Advances in Instrumentation to Monitor and Assess the Structural Integrity of
Steel jacket Platforms”. 22nd International Conference on Offshore Mechanics
and Arctic Engineering June 8–13, 2003.
2006: “Online Structural response monitoring”: Structural Integrity Management
Workshop April 27, 2006.
2007: “Riser Management and Riser Instrumentation Systems”: PetroChina Deepwater
Riser and Moorings Workshop, Tarjin PRC.
2008: API RP2 SIMS Commentary 7 : “Alternative Integrity Management Techniques”
2009: “Deepwater Meets the Shelf”: National Ocean Industries Association – MMS
workshop, Herndon, Washington DC. Sept 9 2009.
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References
Name Current Position Relationship Years Known Phone Number
Sr. Vice President -
Bob Conners Vendor 14-832-***-****
SURF at Prysmian
Group
Sales Director at Ex Boss at GL Noble
Bob Laing 4-713-***-****
Denton
Baker Hughes
Owner of Brown
Dr Rollins Brown Client 10-281-***-****
Geotechnics
*********@*****.**
Technip Regional
Dr Ruxin Song Client 20 m
Technology Manager
Ex Boss at GL Noble
Justin Bucknell Owner of InteliSIMS 10-832-***-****
Denton
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