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Contractual Service Agreement negotiation - heavy duty gas turbines. Involved with multiple business aspects, from technical to sales.

Greater Chicago Area

Negotiate Services Agreements for gas and steam turbine generators.- Lead all aspects of contract negotiations including technical, commercial, and legal scope- Successfully closed new advanced gas turbine service agreements, booking over $680MM orders backlog. Contracts typically 12-16 years duration.- Renegotiated existing service agreements to integrate advanced technology into commissioned gas turbine units to improve performance. Closed over $400MM of backlog, $200MM convertible orders and $130MM short term cash.

Commercial operations support for North America region. Primary function to lead deal development through all phases of GE's commercial process.- Facilitate communications across multiple functions for opportunity development, including finance, commercial, legal, engineering and risk.- Lead sales team effort with contract negotiations, including all aspects of terms and conditions.

Greater Chicago Area

Negotiate sales of GE Energy Contractual Services Agreements including Long Term Service and Operation & Maintenance contracts.• Successfully negotiated and closed contractual deals over $30MM in annual Orders and over $500MM in commitments for General Electric, while maintaining margin and revenue expectations. Coordinated all aspects of contract negotiations including technical, commercial, and legal scope.• Provide “pro-forma” information to new power plant customers to assist with evaluating multi-year maintenance projections of gas and steam turbines and associated balance of plant equipment.• Consulted with power plant owners in improving operations of facility and developing ongoing maintenance practices. Projects have included coordinating with other GE businesses to develop solutions for customers

Greater Chicago Area

Plant Manager for a $250MM, 520MW, cogeneration facility at Whiting Clean Energy utilizing GE Frame 7FA technology (207FA). Responsible for profitability, care, custody and control on behalf of owner (Primary Energy).• Created and implemented all administrative, operations, and maintenance procedures to operate facility for reliability and availability. Result in greater than 98% availability during initial operation of facility. • Responsible for P&L on a 20-year, $138MM gas turbine service agreement. • Communicated to power marketers and dispatchers on day-ahead natural gas purchases and hourly electric generation forecasts. Developed process to minimize financial impact on owner during startup of facility. • Recruited, hired and trained all facility personnel, including 6 salaried and 18 hourly employees

Greater Chicago Area

Provided Assistant Plant Manager duties for a $60MM, 62MW combined cycle facility (Portside Energy) utilizing GE Frame 6B technology.• Advised owner of capital investments to improve operation and profitability of facility, including payback analysis and capital budget preparation. Proposed and implemented system upgrade that saved owner approximately $40K per year in chemical costs.• Supervised technical activities for maintenance, repair, and operation of mechanical & electrical equipment (gas turbine, steam turbine, generators, boilers, water treatment and assorted balance of plant equipment).• Determined energy production for facility and established 1-week forward natural gas consumption estimation process that is communicated to gas purchaser. Resulted in estimated gas usage consistently within 2% of actual usage.

Provided global services for gas & steam turbine control system installation, maintenance, and troubleshooting. Worked closely with factory engineering to provide design feedback on new turbine and combustion technology that was being equipped and tested in the field. Implemented Six Sigma quality improvement projects.• Developed Dry Low NOx (DLN) combustion training program that is utilized by the GE Training & Development Center. Program covers all gas turbine frame sizes in GE production.• Implemented $1MM controls and combustion upgrade for Gaylord Container Corporation.• Led the start-up for two power plant projects in Egypt (Damanhur & Mahmoudia).

Syracuse, New York Area

Provided technical direction to power plant customers in the Upstate New York market for the installation, operation, and maintenance of GE turbine technology. Mediated relationship between customers and GE Product Service. • Directed the start-up of gas turbine combined cycle power plants in New York State over 3 years• Supervised union and non-union craft labor crews during turbine installations and maintenance outages.

Master Of Business Administration (M.B.A.), Finance And Statistics

Bachelor'S Degree, Mechanical Engineering