Affonso Ferreira Email & Phone Number

United States

Houston

Responsible for Global Business Development at New Tech Global (NTG). New Tech Global (NTG) is comprised of 5 different business units:• New Tech Global Ventures: Upstream Oil & Gas consultancy services, and W-2 professional placement services for Oil & Gas field operations.• Auburn Energy Management: Project Management and Engineering consulting services.• New Tech Global Environmental: Environmental solutions and sustainability consulting for the Energy Industry.• New Tech Global Staffing: Full-Service staffing firm serving: Manufacturing & Industrial, Technology, Engineering, Accounting & Finance, and Healthcare.• New Tech Global International: Specializing in personnel compliance in the petroleum industry.

Houston

Advisor to Oil & Gas Operators and Service Providers specializing in Human Resources, Recruitment, QHSE, Product Development and Business Expansion, in the United States and Latin America.

Houston, Texas Area

Led a team of cross functional experts to plan and execute the integration of Saxon into Schlumberger. The integration was designed to focus on processes that provided immediately value to Saxon. It involved all support functions and included high level emotions and complex human resources issues related to status, retention, and job assignments. • All major milestones were completed ahead of plan with minimal disruption to both organizations and its customers.• Finalized the project 5 months ahead of schedule.• Successful retention of key personnel.• Significant savings obtained by integrating finance, legal (risk and insurance), supply chain, HR, QHS-E and IT processes.

Houston, Texas Area

Managed 5 non-Oil & Gas acquired Businesses, with operations in North and South America, Europe, Africa, Middle East and Australia. Operations included water management with application to the mining industry, sales of water management software and meters, water solutions for the Middle East, geothermal and carbon sequestration and storage projects. Total headcount: 500 employees. Managed a team of 7 HR professionals located around the world. Focus was for HR to be recognized by Management as business partners, being able to understand what drives profitability and cost, and therefore be a direct contributor to business performance.• Full implementation of the Water Services training & development program for junior engineers.• Implemented a competence & development program for the senior technical community.• Reduced overall attrition from 12% in 2012, to 7.6% in 2013 despite fierce competition for talent.• Customized and harmonized HR processes across groups and mothership, resulting in improved efficiency and effectiveness.

Houston, Texas Area

- Aligned both companies and cultures. Unified expectations.- Identified opportunities to provide added value to IPM projects and other Schlumberger segments thru the Alliance and explore them.- Diversified the current portfolio to match operational requirements.- Expanded client base from single to multi-segment and landed business in 15 countries.- Selected only the best consultants for the portfolio. - Monitored market trends and costs.- Ensured compliance to local labor & legal, tax and immigration legislation in the various countries where we conducted business.- Ensured formal country agreements were in place.- Defined and implemented meaningful KPIs to measure success.- Significantly improved receivables by using timely and effective communication methods with customers.- Drove the business to generate multi-million dollars in revenue on the third year of the alliance, surpassing the expectations of the alliance partners and securing the investors position within the alliance.