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Sugar Land, Texas 77479 acvu1r@r.postjobfree.com

Summary

Experienced Oil & Gas professional in General Manager, Engineering Manager and Project Manager roles. Business acumen and operations experience with hands on leadership approach to all phases of Project Management and execution including FEED, project initiation, planning, execution, controlling, P&L, monitoring and closing. Project responsibilities ranged from working with external & internal clients to determine their needs and customize a strategy and a team structure to ensure mutual success from inception thru engineering, construction and facility start-up.

Responsible to build project teams, to lead, mentor and guide, a key attribute to ensure project efficiency and profitability. Ensuring projects were complete, on schedule, on budget and within specifications by use of appropriate controls to report performance deliverables and provide early detection of changes prior to adverse effects on the project as well as the company or client management.

Experience

Orbital Engineering, Inc. 10/2014 – 5/2016

General Manager – Sales, Engineering & Project Management Houston, Texas

Key Accomplishments:

Lead development of the Houston Office of Orbital Engineering, a $50M annual sales company

Lead, Mentored and guided staff of 15 – 20 sales, designers, engineers and project managers

Developed Oil & Gas Industry strategy and executed business plan

Provided all Piping, Structural and Civil design to support the $200M Kinder Morgan Pasadena Terminal Expansion Project

Provided Piping, Structural and Power/Controls to support small CAPEX process improvement project execution at Marathon-Galveston Bay Refinery

Description of Responsibilities:

Full service Oil & Gas Industry Engineering company with civil/structural, mechanical/process and power/controls disciplines. Providing engineered designs and drawing packages to the Upstream, Midstream and Downstream segments of the Oil and Gas Industry. Responsible for sales, project execution and P&L. Ensured designs meet client and industry technical specifications, schedule and budget. Direct ongoing project execution with routine engagement with Orbital and client project personnel.

OsComp Systems (Start-Up Company) – Virtual Pipeline 12/2013 – 6/2014

Director of Engineering – Natural Gas Compression Stations, Transport & Delivery Systems Houston, Texas

Key Accomplishments:

Successful establishment of corporate strategy and systems for the Engineering, Manufacturing, Purchasing and Sustaining needs of the business.

Design enhancement of mechanical process equipment and PLC control systems to support the business needs for expandability, maintainability and commonality.

Project Management strategy development and implementation.

Description of Responsibilities:

Provide technical solutions and management expertise to lead, develop and mentor an internal team of Project Managers, Engineers and Designers. Manage engineering consultants and outside engineering and design firms. Set strategy and manage all manufacturing and purchasing functions required to support the business. Perform scope of supply, schedule and budget analysis relative to contractual obligations and regulations and create solutions to confirm compliance and address deviations.

Ensign Energy Services 4/2013 – 12/2013

Project Manager – Drilling Rig Design & Manufacture Houston, Texas

Key Accomplishments:

Successfully completed specifications and design for new 1500 HP drilling rigs and all auxiliary equipment (Power Generator System, Mud System, BOP & Pipe Handling) for contract use by Ensign for the Operator Santo to be used in the high specification region of Barrow Island - Australia.

Manage daily workflow, lead and guide a team of Trade Discipline Leads for Fabrication, Mechanical, Electrical & Hydraulic in a construction environment. Focus on safety thru JRA (Job Risk Assessment) process as well as productivity and workmanship.

Project Managing a $50M project portfolio for the design, construction and commissioning of (2) two 1500 HP drilling rigs and auxiliary equipment. Work with the Business Unit Manager, Engineering & Procurement Departments to establish Project Scope, Project Budget and Project Schedule.

Description of Responsibilities:

Provide technical solutions and management expertise to Project Manage multiple capital expenditure projects for equipment to support Ensign contract drilling operations. Perform scope of supply review and analysis relative to contract obligations and API regulations and create solutions to address deviations. Review and enhance budget as initially generated by sales, engineering and procurement. Expand initial contract project schedule to include engineering, vendor, construction and commissioning activities in order to minimize build duration.

Hydratight 2012 - 4/2013

Engineering Manager - Technical Services for Joint Integrity Deer Park, Texas

Key Accomplishments:

Successfully completed sale of and support for execution of Asset Joint Integrity projects for the operators; Marathon, Shell and Chevron as well as Petrochemical Companies such as Dow Chemical.

Manage, lead and mentor a team of Application Engineers, Project Managers and Design Engineers

Worked with Commercial Manager and existing departments to generate and execute strategic plans to implement Joint Integrity for brownfield (Shell Oil – Scotford near Edmonton, Alberta) and greenfield Oil and Natural Gas midstream compression stations (Marathon Pipeline Company), Refineries (Chevron - Pascagoula), Petrochemical Facilities (Dow - Freeport) and as well as Offshore Production Platforms (Statoil - North Sea).

Description of Responsibilities:

Provide technical solutions and assist in formulating sales strategy for the company’s Joint Integrity initiative to approximately 40 sales personnel in the Americas region as well as the UK North Sea region. The Joint Integrity focus is on multiple valve pressure and flow control systems in natural gas and oil piping systems and compression stations. Supported and guided LEAD continuous improvement projects to identify and resolve deficiencies in existing internal technical and business processes.

Atlas Copco 2011 – 2012

Engineered Products Sales Manager - Custom Air & Gas Compression Systems Houston, Texas

Key Accomplishments:

Successfully developed technical and sales approach on high specification custom Skid Mounted Air Compression systems for the operator Chevron Phillips for the PCC project in Saudi Arabia

Successfully reviewed technical needs for and sold stand-alone Combustion Air Compression system for the operator Shell Oil on the high profile Arctic Containment System to support drilling exploration off the coast of Alaska

Description of Responsibilities:

Responsible for generating sales by conceptualizing, selecting and selling multi-million dollar Custom Engineered Air & Gas Reciprocating, Rotary Screw and Centrifugal Compression systems to EPC Companies Jacobs, Worley Parsons, Technip and Bechtel . Reviewed complex bid specifications, data sheets and terms and conditions documents in order to develop and set technical as well as commercial strategy for the system to be proposed. I negotiated technical and commercial terms with the client engineering and procurement groups to secure a mutually beneficial contract. These Rotating Equipment projects focused on domestic and international operators such as in the upstream segment Land Drilling Rigs (Pacific Drilling), Offshore Drilling Rigs (Diamond Offshore), Offshore Production Platforms (BP) (Marathon-Alba Platform) and FPSO’s (BP) as well as the downstream segment Refineries (Shell-Dear Park), Petrochemical Facilities (LyondellBasell-Houston) and LNG Facilities (Bechtel-APLNG) and (Bechtel-GLNG).

KMC International, LLC 1998 - 2011

President - Owner Sugar Land, Texas

Key Accomplishments:

Directed FEED, Detail Engineering, Project Management & supported sales of custom designed mechanical handling, processing and rotary equipment for Steel Industry and Oil & Gas Industry

Directly managed sub-contract Fabrication Shop, Machine Shop and Assembly Shop assets to ensure cost effective and timely manufacture of custom mechanical equipment

Managed construction projects for mechanical handling ($650 Nucor-Berkeley) ($400M Nucor-Hertford), strip processing and rotary equipment including, P&L, negotiation of original contracts and change orders. Set strategy and planned startup/commissioning of mechanical equipment and control systems

Multiple Oil & Gas Industry - American Petroleum Institute (API) 10000 PSI Pipe Hydrotester Projects

70 Ft. Continuous Natural Gas Fired Hearth Wire Mill Reheat Furnace (Contours, Ltd)

New Takeup Coiling Mandrels for wire processing operation (Contours, Ltd)

Innovative Custom Rotating Shear for wire processing operation (Contours, Ltd)

200 Ft. Roller Hearth Furnace natural gas combustion and pressure control system (ISG)

Oil & Gas, American Petroleum Institute (API) Pipe heating barrel furnace – Bayou Pipe

Natural Gas Fired Inline molten lead tempering furnaces (Contours, Ltd)

Complete 80000# Capacity Coil slitter line coil handling system with civil foundation design

Natural Gas Systems including multiple valve pressure and flow control systems

Multiple Hydraulic Power Units designed, manufactured and commissioned

PLC Control Systems created from the Functional Requirement Specification (FRS) phase thru the field device/sensor selection, hardware determination, programming, simulation test, cold test, hot test and culminating with system handover to production

While living in China provided Sino-American relations needed to be successful in the contract execution, technical implementation and personal relationship areas of concurrent multiple projects in China. Addressed the challenge of working with multi-layered Chinese customer project teams by having the willingness and patience to understand the complex personal and business cultural details of the Chinese culture, this was key to success.

KMC International, LLC (Cont.)

Description of Responsibilities:

To develop and manage company sales, engineering, project management, P&L, sub-contract manufacturing, sub-contract construction and startup activities. Maintained supervision of employed and contract engineers as well as EPC’s, also managed several independent sales representatives. Forward, critical thinking and analysis used in order to provide clarity to the department or project team, this would allow the teams to focus on the task at hand and provide a working environment that minimized outside distractions.

Responsible to create flexible project/business strategies for new and retrofit projects using root cause analysis, collaborative problem solving techniques and custom innovative process designs. This resulted in improvement of the customers’ productivity, process flow and rotating equipment reliability. Also, custom designed and manufactured Modular Packaged Skid Mounted Systems in order to minimize field scope of work and field construction time as well as cost.

Work in partnership with Fabrication Shop, Machine Shop and Assembly Shop assets to ensure cost effective manufacture of custom Mechanical Equipment. Designs were created that were economical to fabricate by minimizing quantity of pieces and material waste during the fitting process. Machining costs were reduced by minimizing the numbers of set-ups needed to machine the fabrication complete as well as all surfaces were designed to be reasonably reached by the machinist. The results of these planned efforts were that the equipment was accessible to allow efficient shop assembly, piping, wiring and completion.

Created efficient designs for complex processes and equipment by aggressively discovering the key aspects of a project and its design envelope. Then able to categorize the technical disciplines required to optimize a project.

People skills developed over 20+ years of engineering and project management have yielded high level contributions to successful Design Engineering and Project Management, this has created long term client relationships through genuine trust and confidence by using the integration of business ethics and engineering principles. Routinely produce successful interface for Engineering Management, Project Management and company Operations by employing self-motivated use of knowledge, experience and problem resolution.

A through career experience from sales, conceptualization, project management, design, manufacturing, construction and start-up on projects for Custom Mechanical Equipment, both Rotating & Stationary.

Steel Equipment Specialists, Inc. 1994-1998

Senior Project Manager Alliance, Ohio

Key Accomplishments:

Completed multiple custom designed mechanical handling equipment and processing systems

250 Ton Ladle/Tundish transfer cars for Nucor Steel - Hertford

Automated bar chamfering/bundling system for Mac Steel

Complete coil handling solutions for new Hot strip and Cold Strip Mills for Nucor Steel - Berkeley

Description of Responsibilities:

Project management duties included P&L, completing sales design concepts, calculations, computer simulations, general arrangement drawing development and supervision of detailers. Worked with sales engineers and customers to generate custom mechanical designs to solve product flow and equipment issues.

Norandal Aluminum 1992-1994

Maintenance Engineer and Project Manager Scottsboro, Alabama

Key Accomplishments:

Reheat furnace complete rebuild

Specification/purchase/installation of new centrifugal air compressor system and HSM side trimmer

Cold Mill sleeve handling system, and rolling solution process control improvement

Description of Responsibilities:

Maintenance engineer responsible for an aluminum hot strip mill, cold mills, reheat furnaces, and annealing furnaces. Worked with operators and maintenance personnel to redesign and improve existing mechanical and electrical equipment by combining their input and my engineering skills. This work generated expense and capital projects which I project managed from inception to start up with P&L responsibility.

Inland Steel Company 1988-1992

Project Engineer and Project Manager East Chicago, Indiana

Key Accomplishments:

Mass Spectrometer automation project for 12” Bar Mill, small $100K budget

Project Manager-Mechanical for the $120 million budget, 2 year duration, 21” Bar Mill Facility Upgrade Project including bar handling, heat treat furnace & Mill DC MG Set conversion to SCR.

Description of Responsibilities:

Project Engineer in the central engineering department. Responsible to provide capital project scope development and implementation, P&L as well as activities from inception through start up for the rolling mills.

Education

B.S.M.E - 1988 - University of Akron

Machine Design, Stress Analysis, Thermodynamics and Engineering Economics

Professional Development

ACAD (25+ years’ experience)

Microsoft Outlook, Word, Excel, Access, OneNote, Project and PowerPoint

Awarded a U.S. patent (6,364,093 B1) Walking Beam Conveyor & Method, 2002

Interpersonal Skill Training, Root Cause Analysis Program, Sales Seminars, ASME Technical Paper

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