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Last Updated: Sunday, October 31, 2010

My extremely broad international experiences in Senior Level Project Management and Business Development on large ($500million plus) projects can be quickly applied to the benefit of potential employers. This includes:

General Management • Business Development • Marketing & Sales • Project Development / Management

* Key team member in bringing in new business as great as $600 million.
* Led preparation of proposals for major international projects ranging in value up to $1.5 billion..
* Highly experienced at opening new offices to introduce multinational companies into new international market locations.
* Successfully planned and managed multi-hundred-million-dollar EPCI projects responsible for up to 2500 people.
* Extensive experience throughout the United States, Southeast Asia, the Pacific Islands, Europe, and the Middle East.

An innovative and energetic leader, skilled communicator / team builder, and adept negotiator. A record of success at developing new business, with the proven ability to analyze projects’ needs and specifications, then mobilize resources to complete projects on schedule and within budget. A dedicated executive, tireless in the pursuit of customer satisfaction, safety and the highest quality engineering and construction.

Strongly interested to return to the Asia Pacifc Region including Australia and SE Asia.

General Management • Business Development • Marketing & Sales • Project Development / Management

* Key team member in bringing in new business as great as $600 million.
* Led preparation of proposals for major international projects ranging in value up to $1.5 billion..
* Highly experienced at opening new offices to introduce multinational companies into new international market locations.
* Successfully planned and managed multi-hundred-million-dollar EPCI projects responsible for up to 2500 people.
* Extensive experience throughout the United States, Southeast Asia, the Pacific Islands, Europe, and the Middle East.

An innovative and energetic leader, skilled communicator / team builder, and adept negotiator. A record of success at developing new business, with the proven ability to analyze projects’ needs and specifications, then mobilize resources to complete projects on schedule and within budget. A dedicated executive, tireless in the pursuit of customer satisfaction, safety and the highest quality engineering and construction.

PROJECTS

* Turnkey Fixed Price Engineering, Purchasing, Construction, Installation (EPCI)
* Oil / gas producing, processing, and LNG plants - offshore and onshore
* Pipelines - offshore and onshore
* FPSOs - Floating oil / gas production storage offloading systems
* Petroleum storage facilities, terminals, and docks
* Co-Generation facilities for chemical plants, paper mills, hospitals, hotels
* Independent Distributed Power Production
* Energy Service and Energy Conservation
* Utility Power Plants


EXPERIENCE


ESSAR ENGINEERING SERVICES LIMITED (EESL), Houston, TX 2009-2010
Vice President Sales and Marketing (USA)
Opened the Houston and USA business development operations to pursue engineering services contracts for EESL in offshore, upstream, downstream, and power industries. EESL is part of the large Essar Group with major operations based in India including refineries, steel plants, independent power plants, ports/logistics, communications and EPC projects.

HEEREMA FABRICATION GROUP ENGINEERING (HFG ENGINEERING) , Houston, TX 2007-2009
Vice President Business Development – International EPCI Projects and Engineering Services
* Joined the company just after HFG had completed the purchase of a Houston/New Orleans based engineering services company and renamed it as HFG Engineering (HFGE).
* Developed and implemented the Strategic Marketing & Sales plan including detailed budgets and forecasts to introduce HFG and HFGE to the international client companies based in the USA and Houston area.
* Initiated and developed new client relationships including Chevron, Conoco Phillips, BP, Marathon, DCP Midstream, Williams, BHP, Anadarko, EPCO, Hess and others in pursuit of EPCI and T&M engineering services contracts.
* Represented and coordinated with HFG in pursuit of EPCI contracts for large international offshore upstream projects.
* Succeeded in prequalifying HFGE with clients and established Master Service Agreements (MSA) to provide engineering services for conceptual studies, pre-FEED, FEED and detailed engineering.
* Succeeded in acquiring several new engineering service contracts for conceptual studies and detailed engineering for HFGE.


VSHIPS/VPEOPLE, Houston, TX. 2006-2007
Worldwide Business Development
VShips is worlds largest ship management company. Opened USA office in Houston. Reported to Managing Director (Americas) in Aberdeen. Responsible to develop worldwide business opportunities with USA based international companies related to the offshore marine, drilling and construction industry to provide ship management services, agency services, technical services and construction manpower services.

ALLIANCE ENGINEERING, Houston, TX. 2005-2006
Senior Project Manager - International Projects
Worked on several large international offshore projects and project proposals for Indonesia (Husky), Thailand (Unocal), Equitorial Guinea (Hess), Nigeria (Chevron) and Angola (Chevron).

DAEWOO SHIPBUILDING AND MARINE ENGINEERING (DSME), Houston, TX. 2003-2005
Senior Project Manager – Benguela Belize Project (Angola) for ChevronTexaco
Contracted to represent and lead DSME as the Prime EPCI Contractor on this $800million project. The project was the third Compliant Piled Tower (CPT) in the world and first outside the Gulf of Mexico. The project was awarded Project of Year 2005 by the National Offshore Industry Association. The project consisted of the CPT (50,000 tons) in 1280 feet of water with a 220,000 BOD topsides (45,000 ton) with 20inch, 16inch, and 10inch gas, oil and water pipelines tieing into other existing facilties. DSME had as many as 10 major subcontractors operating around the world including but not limited to Mustang Engineering for the CPT, KBR for the topsides, Keiwit Offshore Services for fabrication, Gulf Marine Fabricators for fabrication, Sonamet for fabrication in Angola, DSME Offshore Division for fabrication of topsides, Heerema Marine Contractors for Installation, Stolt Offshore for Pipelines and AG&P for Hook Up and Commissioning. The project had up to 2500 personnel working (24-7) around the world. The project was completed in Nov 2005.

INDEPENDENT CONSULTANT, Houston, TX. 1999 – 2003.
Contracted by various international clients to provide market research, assist with developing business strategy and related consulting services for the Southeast Asia and Gulf of Mexico market regions concerning engineering, construction, engineered packaged equipment, and operations services for the offshore/onshore energy, power, oil, and gas industries. Also provided USA representation for companies needing assistance in developing power and energy projects in SE Asia needing project financing and EPC services .

AGC PROJECT DEVELOPMENT, INC., Houston, TX. 1994 - 1998.
Area Director - Southeast Asia, South Asia, Pacific Islands and Middle East
Start-up company that manufactured newly patented gas turbine mobile co-generation units and other gas turbine power generation packaged units utilized for energy service company contracts, project development, and / or equipment sales opportunities for independent distributed power and co-generation plants in 1.0 MW to 15 MW range.
* Successfully developed and implemented strategic business and marketing / sales plan, reporting to President & CEO.
* Sold 2 projects, both valued at $3.25 million, for installation of co-generation facilities in India.
* Devised and directed combined project, technical, and sales strategies, prepared proposals, plus led presentations and negotiations with clients.
* Searched for and established local in-country sales distributors and affiliates for engineering, installation, maintenance and spare parts service in India, Thailand, Indonesia, and the Philippines.
* Made formal public presentations and industry promotions at International Conferences in the areas.
* Established throughout the assigned areas, extensive contacts and executive level relationships with various foreign and USA government officials, embassies, industry executives, engineering and construction companies, and financial institutions involved in power, co-generation, and oil / gas industries.

INDEPENDENT CONSULTANT, 1987 - 1993
MODEC (USA), INC., Project Proposals Representative, Houston, TX
Conceptualized, organized, and coordinated preparation of proposals for project management, engineering, purchasing, and construction of semi-submersible and tanker-based offshore floating production storage offloading systems (FPSOs) for projects in Brazil, Africa, and Asia/Pacific areas, with proposals ranging in value to $1.5 billion.

AMERICAN SAMOA GOVERNMENT, Resident Project Manager, American Samoa
Project Development, Planning and Engineering to rebuild and upgrade the island fuel terminal, storage and fuel supply system for marine port, airport and local gasoline supply.
NERCO OIL & GAS, INC., Resident Offshore Project Representative, Lafayette, LA
Performed due diligence, technical, cost, and schedule evaluations for purchase of offshore Gulf of Mexico facility just beginning construction. Administered and supervised final engineering, onshore construction, and offshore installation after purchase. Saved over $400,000 of initial project estimates on $4 million project.

THYSSEN RHEINSTAHL TECHNIK GMBH (TRT), Houston, TX. 1980 - 1986
Regional Manager – South and West USA
Project development, management, financing, engineering and construction company of West Germany-based Thyssen group of companies.
* Opened Houston office, including creating strategic business plan to uncover potential projects for electric power generation, oil and gas processing plants, LNG, offshore facilities, pipelines and hotel/office/commercial complexes.
* Instigated and collaborated on a wide variety of multiple and simultaneous projects ranging from $20 million to $5 billion.
* Played key role in bringing in $900 million of business during 6-year period.

SANTA FE ENGINEERING AND MARINE CONSTRUCTION COMPANY, London, England. 1978 - 1979
Manager, Business Development - North Sea & Mediterranean.
Developed over $600 million of contract opportunities for offshore engineering and marine construction on projects in the North
Sea and Mediterranean for Company’s Marine Equipment and Engineering Services.


ARABIAN AMERICAN OIL COMPANY (ARAMCO), Holland, Texas, Bahrain, Saudi Arabia. 1974 - 1978.
Resident Project Manager / Engineer
* Managed and engineered over four-year period, from inception to completion, $300 million combination offshore and onshore project to produce and transport 2,000,000 barrels of oil per day.
* Established project offices and hired personnel for locations in London, Holland, Texas, Saudi Arabia, Bahrain and Dubai.
* Supervised several consultant engineering companies in the preparation of feasibility studies, plans, budgets, schedules, and requests for proposals from international contractors. Performed technical and financial bid analysis.
* Selected and supervised the EPCI engineering and construction contractors. Selected and directed contractor project management support teams.

Previous employment included:
SANTA FE ENGINEERING AND MARINE CONSTRUCTION COMPANY, Orange, CA – Project Engineer
LOS ANGELES DEPARTMENT OF WATER AND POWER, Los Angeles, CA. – Project Engineer

EDUCATION
MBA, Finance, Marketing and General Management, California State University, Long Beach, CA.
BSME, Mechanical / Aeronautical Engineering, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN.

PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATIONS
American Society of Mechanical Engineers
Indonesia American Business Association
Asia Society

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