PROFILE

Professional engineer and senior executive with over 25 years of diverse international experience in the provision of asset management consulting, project management and risk-based compliance assurance services. Industry experience spans the oil, gas, petrochemicals, marine and power generation sectors, focusing on the provision of risk based integrity and complimentary engineering services to safely optimise clients' business performance.

Skill sets include strategy and business plan development, project management, project commercial & contract risk assessment, P&L responsibility, asset management planning, and business development, working across cultures (particularly in Asia) and managing during significant change.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE



Lloyd's Register Capstone Inc., Houston, USA. Jan. '07 to present



Manager, Asset Performance Consulting Business

Responsible for the development and growth of a new asset performance consulting business. Responsibilities include business plan development, recruitment, sales and marketing activities associated with organic growth, project management, as well as identifying potential acquisition targets.

ENTEC UK LTD, Gosforth, England. Jan. '05 to Jan.'07

Technical Director - Commercial. (turnover £45m)

Entec is a UK based environmental and engineering consultancy company. Responsible for compliance with Entec's commercial and project risk policies, providing advice & support to the business groups to maximise revenue and margins. Accomplishments:

• Developed a Risk Register database, now networked, to track project specific commercial & contractual risk issues
• Project Director providing commercial & project risk support to a range of contracts
• Implementing business dev. and key account management framework to diversify & grow revenue, and improve client relationships in the Industry market sector
• Managing service development project to extend existing integrated asset management service offering to wider client base
• Conducted numerous internal training workshops to improve project risk related procedural compliance across the company.

Bureau Veritas Group, Paris, France.Sept '03 to Dec. 04



Vice President, Energy & Process

Responsible for leading a team of 14 senior engineers. Tasked with realigning the HQ function, enhancing support to the global office network, and with facilitating revenue growth in key market sectors of Oil & Gas, Power Gen. and Process industries. Turnover €133m - projected to grow to €150m, profitability of 12%.

Accomplishments:

• Strengthened team by recruiting key positions in Risk and Utilities
• Installed focus & discipline in the market analysis and service dev. processes
• Implemented strategy through disciplined project approach linked to annual budgets, and challenged/monitored implementation through local workshops
• Realigned product portfolio to focus on risk-based asset management solutions
• Negotiated licensing agreements in excess of $200k with key RBI software supplier
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  

Lloyd's Register Group, London. (including 7 years in Asia) 1981 to 2003

Providing engineering compliance and consultancy services to the Marine, Oil & Gas, Power and Process sectors - Group turnover > £350m. Career progression detailed below - latterly during a period of significant change, from process focused to commercially driven organisation.

Energy & Transportation Business Stream

Business Stream Development Manager (Feb.'02-Aug.'03)

• Managed business stream HQ budget (£5m) and staffing/recruitment issues
• Developed divisional commercial strategy and provided support to local implementation to grow revenue by 20% from £70m.
• Worked with senior colleagues to develop and re-align service portfolio and sector communications plan, to offer integrated Asset Integrity Management & Verification services to key client groupings.

LR Chairman's Office

Senior Corporate Development Manager (Apr.'00-Feb.'02)

· Project managed the development and implementation of an Intranet based Commercial Skills Program for 250 authorised signatories across the Group.

· Prepared business case to create new Energy & Transport business stream.

• Developed balanced KPI protocol to facilitate divisional management reporting
• Managed strategic review & sale process for Netherlands based Group subsidiary.
• Worked closely with Corp. Secretary, Legal & Corp. Communications departments

Lloyd's Register Quality Assurance Ltd. (Apr.'99- Apr.'00)

Corporate Marketing Manager (1 yr Secondment - t/o £70m).

• Managed marketing budget development and expenditure control
• Managed the marketing mix, the annual corporate planning round, and performance reviews to achieve significant stretched growth targets in 12 key business centres.
• Reviewed USA business performance and submitted clear recommendations to Group CEO to improve management and profitability.

Regional Business Development Manager (Apr.'98-Apr.'99)

European Regional Office, London. (Regional turnover £90m)

• Oversight of commercial policy, marketing & sales disciplines in line with Regional plan, implemented through key functional relationships with country managers

• Developed new business including new key accounts with clients and 3 ^rd parties

· Researched & developed new service business model to extend Banker's/Owners Engineer & Asset Integrity Management services, to optimise client business performance.

· Led the development of European Directive (PED) service and marketing campaign to penetrate European pressure equipment market

Regional Business Development Manager (Nov.1995-Apr.'98)

Asia Pacific Regional Office, Hong Kong (Regional turnover £30m)

• Researched, wrote and implemented regional business plan
• Managed all industrial business development activities in the region, with focus on Risk Based Inspection and Asset Integrity Management service delivery to key target clients in Oil & Gas and wider process sectors.
• Member of the Industry Division global strategy team

• Developed key business in China, South Korea, HK, Philippines and Taiwan by repositioning as long term partner, tailoring service provision to country risk profile - won several contracts in excess of $300k.
• Established key account relationships and 3 ^rd party trade & government contacts.
• Managed large project tendering/budgets/cash flow process in line with plans & key performance metrics, achieving 17% revenue growth in demanding key sectors.

Business Manager for Korea (based in Seoul) (July '94- Nov. '95)

• P&L responsibility for new/existing engineering integrity project work across Korea.
• Business plan re-written and implemented- exceeded growth targets through more effective commercial activity and overhead reduction by changing staff mix - resulted in 25% t/o growth.
• Implemented & managed EU Directive compliance service - PED/Machinery etc. - with key Korean clients exporting to Europe
• Supervised the work of 5 offices & 25 project related staff servicing heavy pressure vessel fabrication contracts for global clients sourcing in Korea.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  

QUALIFICATIONS

Academic

B.Sc. Mechanical Engineering 1980 Paisley College of Technology, UK

Governors' Prize - top final year student

MBA 1993 Warwick University Business School, UK.







Professional

Chartered Engineer - since 1986

Awarded title of EUR. ING. - 1995

Member, Institution of Mechanical Engineers

Additional career information

Jan. '92-June '94 Manager, Business Development Group, Croydon, UK.

Responsible for drafting first strategic marketing plan and for new product development (UK Pressure Systems and Risk Based Inspection services (RBI)). Project manager for:



- safety, integrity & RBI service delivery to a refinery rehabilitation /upgrade & maintenance project in Greece following explosion damage;



- war damage surveys - Asset Integrity & Management Systems review - of refinery and petro-chem. plant in Bander Imam, Iran.

Nov. '88-Jan. '92 Senior Project Engineer, LR Site Team, Babcock. (Sizewell B Project)

Responsible for quality compliance matters (ASME Design Code - authorized Nuclear Inspector) during quality planned shop fabrication of all heavy primary circuit nuclear island components for Sizewell 'B' PWR Nuclear Power Station. Included review of non-destructive examination (NDE) procedures and NDE sub-contractors.

July '87 -Nov. '88 Project Engineer, Power Sector, Croydon, UK. (Sizewell B Project)

Responsible for review and approval of contract documentation, specifications and quality plans submitted by project contractors.

July '84- July '87 Project Engineer, Brunei. (Seconded to BruneiShell).

Responsible for onshore/offshore/LNG integrity surveys of boiler & process plant, pressure vessels, lifting equipment etc. in accordance with the UK Factories Act, LR's rules and basic risk profiles based on historic inspection data.

April '84-July '84 Project Engineer, Heysham II Nuclear Power Station, UK.

Supervised the installation of reactor plant and heat shield components and reviewed NDE results.

April '83 - April '84 Project Engineer, Glasgow Office, UK.

Shop inspection during fabrication of nuclear steam boiler penetrations for Heysham/Torness AGR's, and for heavy pressure vessels for the Morecombe Bay Gas Field.

Dec. '81-March '83 Design Review Engineer, Croydon, UK.

Design verification of clients' drawings in accordance with international design codes: pressure vessels, boilers, lifting equipment, heat exchangers, columns, rotating equipment (including Francis & Kaplan turbines) etc.

July '81-Sep. '81

Research Eng., Chamber of Mines, Johannesburg, South Africa.

Researched the optimum methodology for cooling deep mines using crushed ice.

July '80-July '81

Shift Engineer, Hunterston A & B Nuclear Power Station, South of Scotland Electricity Board.

Maintenance of all static and rotating station plant

Graduated July 1980 Final year project: Fatigue investigation under random loading of nuclear boiler



spine heat shield components.

Additional information

Fully conversant with MS Windows, MS Office, MS Project, Lotus Notes etc.

Experienced in non-destructive examination: radiography, dye. pen., ultrasonics.

Fully conversant with major international and national design codes and standards, including EU Directives, and in-depth knowledge of ASME Design Code (formerly Authorised Inspector, Inspector Supervisor, Nuclear Inspector, qualified by written exam in USA)

Fully conversant with ISO standard requirements - ISO 9000; API etc.