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Oak Park, Il, Us

VEX Energy develops and manages advanced technology low carbon energy projects across North America. Interim Chief Operations Officer to guide investors, select technologies, navigate regulatory requirements, and deliver high-impact environmental projects to maximize investor returns.• Led a $300M Clean Coal plant proposal, managing site selection, environmental permitting, and performance evaluations for presentation to Northeast state regulators.• Coordinated a $100M waste gasification-to-energy project in the U.S., securing consistent feedstock and establishing agreements with commodity off-takers.• Identified and down-selected project sites within two months, enabling partnerships for 100MW energy plants utilizing livestock and municipal waste.

Energy and Environmental Operating Partner doing due diligence on and structuring international energy, waste and services contracts.

Chicago, Il, Us

Road Safe is North America's largest multi service traffic safety company providing traffic control services, sign manufacturing and installation, equipment rental and pavement striping and marking.• Improved sales in underperforming regions generating $10M in new revenue.• Reduced operating costs by $2M through restructuring operating model• Identified $500K in operating efficiency savings• Developed a National Sales team, and implemented a national service sales strategy, doubling sales pipeline.

Bala-Cynwyd, Pennsylvania, Us

A 110 year old family-owned maritime commodity shipping company with 30 ships and 12 wholly owned subsidiaries. Appointed President reporting to the board to return company profitability.• Restored profitability after five years of losses, modernizing sales, operations, financial, procurement and administrative processes.• Recovered $5.1M in lost revenue and saved $2M in avoidable costs through Cost and contract management. • Reorganized the development and chartering team, securing $250K EBITDA in new contracts and proposals worth $3M annually.

Norwalk, Connecticut, Us

Senior Operations Executive with a mandate to guide the board to select, acquire, assemble the team and operate a roll up of small capital collection and recycling companies.

Largest private equity owned district energy provider in North America, Senior Executive assigned to modernize, integrate and turnaround PE owners largest portfolio assets.• Managed a $350M P&L for 8 business units improving sale valuation by $500M.• Increased EBITDA $8M through rate restructuring, added the first new customers in three years, and doubled the revenue backlog.• Executed a $50M asset renewal program, improving operational efficiency by $9M EBITDA.• Led winning acquisition of Michigan’s largest WTE plant, Improved revenues by $10M.

Aubervilliers, Île-De-France, Fr

Paris based nuclear waste company specializing in the design, manufacture, and deployment of systems to treat, stabilize and handle hazardous waste. Recruited to prevent a $300M company write down.• Integrated 6 international companies and grew revenues from $55M to $150M and increasing backlog by $280M.• Secured an $80M Fukushima nuclear clean-up contract, working with Japanese stakeholders to establish a 20-year project timeline.• Merged and integrated three acquisitions, increasing revenues by $70M and adding new business lines for future growth.

Aubervilliers, Île-De-France, Fr

Director of the Board for Japanese Company providing design, manufacturing of equipment, technologies to Japanese commercial and governmental entities supporting Fukushima site clean up and Japanese hazardous waste and nuclear industry.

Aubervilliers, Île-De-France, Fr

Inside Director managing the operation of a federally mitigated foreign owned company providing services across the United States on Department of Energy Facilities.

Aubervilliers, Île-De-France, Fr

Board Member and Private Equity Operational Advisor for this Canadian (Quebec) PE Public Private Venture with Innisfree (UK), OHL (Spain) and Lang O'Rourke (UK) to design, build, commission and operate the largest digital hospital in North America in Montreal Quebec.

Aubervilliers, Île-De-France, Fr

The largest environmental water, waste, energy & facilities services company in North America. Grew P&L responsibility from $80M to $250M, Promoted 3 times in 5 years from Vice President to SVP. • Consolidated 70 international business units into the largest environmental group in North America, reducing overhead by 20%.• Exceeded budgeted net margins by 6% and increased regional revenue growth by 15% through a $35M acquisition.• Turned around a failing waste pelletizer business, saving $50M in avoided write-downs and increasing production by 33%.• Captured $5M capital gain, orchestrated stock sale of underperforming energy plant. • Negotiated $12M EBITDA increase in teaming agreement in the company’s largest Public Private Venture Partnership operating, the largest digital hospital in North America.

Washington, Dc, Us

Chief Executive for a major $2,500,000,000 military complex, serving 24,000 personnel. $300,000,000 annual operating budget and matrix staff of 500 personnel Managed a Major Regional hospital, National Communications Centers, Housing & Recreation Facilities, Regional Prison and Combat Training Ranges

Washington, Dc, Us

Chief Executive of the Joint National Training Center. Budgetary executive for $200,000,000 annual budget and 600 design engineers, technicians and operations personnel. Led transformational Acquisition, Design, Development & Installation world wide for the Department of Defense $1,000,000,000 integrated Information Technology (IT) Simulated Training Platform.Program successfully delivered systems, networks and simulations enabling Military forces to train and integrate around the globe powered by a network of 7 Hubs, 40 nodes and over 300 training sites world wide to enable all services of the US military to train remotely in the Live, Virtual, Constructive Domains.

Washington, Dc, Us

Directly reporting to the Chief Executive (Flag Officer - Admiral) managing all Naval operations around the Globe. Responsible for briefing, schedule, planning and engagement of with the Commander with his staff of over 1500 civilians, military and contractors conducting Manning, Training and Equipping US Naval Assets around the globe.

Washington, Dc, Us

Chief Operating Executive reporting directly to the Commander and responsible for $8,000,000,000 annual operating budget and $14,000,000,000 in assets. Managed global planning, operations, engineering, nuclear safety and training for 7 nuclear powered attack submarines and 1000 military families.

Washington, Dc, Us

Chief Executive for a $2,000,000,000 Nuclear Submarine with an annual operating budget of $1,200,000,000 and 150 personnel operating around the world. 4 citations engineering excellence, 2 citations for overall excellence, and citation as the fleets top submarine.

Executive Certificate Of Management, Business Administration And Management, General

Master Of Business Administration - Mba, Business Administration, Management And Operations

Nuclear Engineering, Nuclear Plant Engineering, Operation & Supervision

Bachelor Of Science - Bs, Mechanical Engineering Specializing In Thermodynamics And Nuclear Engineering.

Master Of Business Administration - Mba