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Power Plant Manager

Location:
Houston, TX
Posted:
November 07, 2016

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Clive Henton

**** ******* ****, ******** ****, Texas 77459

Email: acxeuj@r.postjobfree.com Mobile Telephone: 713-***-****

Creative, Results Oriented, International Power Leader

Energy • Electric Power Plants • Development• Construction• Contracts

Professionally, brings more than 20 years of extensive expertise in the fossil power plants, alternative energy, process, and biodiesel industries. This requires a very broad skill set along with outstanding technical, organizational, communicative, collaborative, and leadership skills. Starting from project development, through contract negotiation, EPC, engineering support, commissioning and O & M to advance the execution of the projects and proactively resolve issues to enhance customer satisfaction, while shepherding strong expense control.

HIGHLIGHTS OF QUALIFICATIONS

Calm, Authoritative Leadership • Regulatory Compliance • Strong Team Builder • Mentor, Trainer & Coach•

Industrial Gas Turbines simple cycle and combined cycle • Diesel Engine Plants • PM Procedures • O & M procedures • EHS Risk Assessments• Wind Turbines• Aero-Derivative Gas Turbines • Skilled Decision-Maker • Budgetary Competence • Effective Contract Negotiator• Project Engineering •Due Diligence • Technical Support • Root Cause Analyses • Process Improvements • Trilingual Communicator (English/Spanish/French)

• Dynamic Problem-Solver • Nuclear Plants • Domestic & International • EPC Project Direction• Operations Management

SELECTED PROFESSIONAL ACHIEVEMENTS

MANAGED the effective Project Development and Construction for power plant projects up to $750M. These were both International and domestic projects which were completed to specifications, on schedule, and within budget. Plants included combined cycle, simple cycle, diesel, wind and coal projects.

STAFFED and managed the construction and directed the operations of a $60M process/biodiesel facility at 90M gallons per year output that exceeded the sales commitments all within the quality specifications.

PILOTED a 36 MW power plant in Mauritania, North Africa as Project Director for EPC construction through commissioning, operations, and warranty period.

PERFORMED as the Director of Operations & Asset Management for global power plants primarily combined cycle, simple cycle and diesel power plants focused on cultivating strong working relationships and teamwork Leading and solving technical issues that improved key performance indicators and reliability of the assets by up to 25%.

DEVELOPED combined and simple cycle power projects including equipment specifications, RFPs, evaluating bid packages selecting the EPC contractor, negotiating contracts and service agreements and overseeing and providing technical support during its execution and commissioning and turning over fully operational facilities to the client.

DIRECTED operational and EHS risk-based audits at power generation facilities collaborating with a third-party audit team and approved and tracked audit items to successful completion.

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LEAD technical due diligence efforts during evaluation of acquisitions of combined cycle and simple cycle power plants and presented recommendations based on the findings to the Stakeholders.

ACADEMIC SUCCESS & PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT

Bachelor of Science (Honors’ Degree); Chemical Engineering – Bath University, Claverton Down, Avon, U.K.

Affiliations:

oChartered Engineer – United Kingdom

oInstitute of Chemical Engineers - Member

PROFESSIONAL SYNOPSIS

Sterling Energy International; Houston, TX MAR-APR 2016

Consultant

oContracted to perform an independent technical due diligence on a 3 X 1 7FA combined cycle project in Monterey, Mexico which was under construction and evaluate the Owner’s staff readiness to take over operations of the plant.

IEM Energy Consultants Inc; Houston, TX OCT - DEC 2015

Operations Procedures/Consultant

oContracted to write operations procedures for a landfill gas power project that contained gas drying and siloxane removal vessels, flare and landfill gas compressors before entering the Jenbacher lean gas engine generating sets and its auxiliary systems to produce electricity to the grid.

GLOBELEQ; Houston, TX and Mauritania, North Africa MAY 2011 – MAR 2015

Project Director/Consultant

oContracted to collection operations and maintenance data and then author the Operations & Maintenance Procedures for a heavy fuel, diesel power plant being constructed in Mauritania.

oPerformed fact finding and due diligence of the actual construction of the Mauritania Plant, drafting the procedures and verifying their employment at the plant.

oEPC Project Director and additionally performed as Technical Manager and Administrative Manager to complete the successful construction; engineer and solve technical issues; coordinate, schedule and implement the necessary upgrades and finally turnover the operational facility to the client.

oFunctioned as the Operations, Maintenance, and Warranty Engineer for all plant operations during the transitional period and piloted the performance testing all necessary modifications and upgrades.

AEI SERVICES, LLC; Houston, TX 2010 – 2011

Director of Operations & E.H.S.

oSuccessfully oversaw operational and EHS risk-based audits at six combined cycle and diesel power generation facilities while collaborating with a third-party audit team and approved and tracked audit items to successful completion.

oDirected technical due diligence of the acquisition of 63MW Amayo Wind Farm in Nicaragua and then directed the operations and issue resolution leading the root cause analysis for kiosk transformer failure, generator replacements, and a lightning strike to one wind turbine and numerous cable connector failures.

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PROFESSIONAL SYNOPSIS (Continued)

oProvided the technology evaluation and site due diligence for the Power Development Team on three potential wind farm projects in Chile, Argentina, and China and developed the technical proposals including manufacturer selections.

oLed the investigation of technical issues at a combined cycle gas turbine plant in Pakistan to resolve compressor surging issues and facilitated and performed the root cause analyses that solved the issues together with selected balance of plant improvement projects.

oInvestigated a steam turbine failure at a diesel plant in Jamaica. Collaborated with the plant insurance company and steam turbine manufacturer to optimize the parts manufacturing process to minimize business interruption and property damage claims saving three months on parts delivery and more than $1M in lost business and $500K in machinery breakdown expenses.

oIssued technical proposals and led negotiations on Long-Term Service Agreements with OEMs and non-OEMs on two combined cycle gas turbine projects, visited repair facilities, and selected the best overall economic service packages valued at $50M and $60M respectively.

oChampioned the 3rd party independent analysis of 3rd stage blade failures on a GE 7EA gas turbine and presented the findings to management. Managed the refurbishment of its compressor at a repair facility in Houston and implemented the latest upgrades.

GREEN EARTH FUELS, LLC; Houston, TX 2007 – 2009

Director of Operations, Biodiesel Facility

oEstablished the operating company, hired the operating staff and was Owner’s Project Manager during plant construction in two phases of a 90M gallon/year biodiesel facility valued at $60M; completed on schedule and within budget and developed monthly operating reports for the stakeholders and was the Plant Manager and Director of Operations for the facility.

oDirected the pilot testing and then prioritized the design changes necessary to meet the new biodiesel cold flow specifications deadline which was also accomplished ahead of schedule and within budget.

oOptimized the temperature of the reaction and reduced the catalyst usage by 30% and decreased the production costs by 5¢ per gallon to increase profitability and modified the retreat system reducing losses by 3%.

CSLM ENERGY, LLC; Houston, TX 2006

President/Consultant

oSuccessfully provided technical due diligence for the evaluation of three fossil power plants in Texas for Nu Coastal; authored technical evaluation report for the Commercial Team; recommended their purchase at 15% less than presented value.

oEvaluated the feasibility to move a 4 unit simple cycle GE 6 power plant from Mississippi to Texas for Suez Energy Generation including physical inspection of all equipment, borescope inspection, and completed a schedule, budgetary estimate, and technical reports to commercial management.

oEvaluated and selected two gas engines for landfill gas plant for SCC Americas for $2M.

oReviewed startup procedures for this SCC Americas plant.

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PROFESSIONAL SYNOPSIS (Continued)

EL PASO CORPORATION; Houston, TX 1994 – 2006

Director of Operations/Development/Project/Asset Manager

Central, South and North America and Asia

oDirected all operations and maintenance, operating budgets, capital projects and plant outages over the 12-year period for the fleet in the various regions which were combined cycle, simple cycle, diesel hydro and coal plants and reported to the stakeholders.

oProgressively reduced operational expenses by 25% while improving reliability and availability above the industry standards for power plants which were industrial and aero-derivative gas turbine, simple and combined cycle, diesel engine, conventional boilers, hydro, and coal plants.

oManaged the successful repowering and start-up of a coal-fired boiler in the Dominican Republic that was converted from a heavy fuel, oil-fired boiler.

oOwner’s greenfield Development Engineer and Project Manager for power plants in El Salvador, Nicaragua, Panama, Guatemala, Pakistan, Bangladesh, and the United States that were all built on schedule and within budgets of $100M to $750M, included combined cycle; simple cycle; diesel and coal plants.

oAs an example developed the 500 MW combined cycle power plant in Colorado Springs through development engineering; RFPs; bid evaluations; equipment specifications; EPC contract negotiations; contractual service agreement; EPC Owner’s Project Manager and engineering support; commissioning and performance testing and reviewing and updating Project and O&M budgets.

oOwner’s Project Engineer for several simple cycle and combined cycle plants both in construction and operation in US and overseas.

oOwner’s performance test manager working with the EPC contractor and Lender’s engineer during performance testing and also coordinating responses and taking action as necessary to various Lender’s engineering reports.

oManaging annual environmental testing at the various plants.

oReview outage scopes of work; schedules; contractor maintenance agreements at primarily gas turbine combined cycle facilities.

oInvestigated a Siemens gas turbine 84.3A annular combustor failure which ultimately resulted in additional cooling requirements for the combustor and coordinated the design improvements and repairs to the gas turbines.

oChampioned Best Practice Guidelines for standardizing the qualification and training of roughly 350 Power Plant Operators which was successfully implemented for three diesel plants in Central America.

oAt stakeholders’ request, investigated and resolved GT 11 hot gas casing failures in Peru and improved reliability to 98% and successfully renegotiated the maintenance agreements saving 30%.

oLead Technical Due Diligence Teams and presented recommendations and action items during asset acquisitions and reviewed the actual return-on-investment for acquisitions as contained in the pro-forma financial presentations.

oSupported and prepared technical evaluation of assets during the divestiture of assets and attended divestiture presentations to potential new Owners.



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