Leveraging technical and business expertise gained over more than 20 years of progressive leadership, I founded an executive consultancy serving the energy market. As a trusted advisor, I focus on developing growth strategies, intellectual property management, and corporate litigation consulting (including risk avoidance/mitigation) for businesses. • Deliver reports, depositions, and testimony for multimillion-dollar legal disputes as corporate, technology, and intellectual property expert. Refine complex issues into simple concepts that facilitate jury understanding and deliberation. Testified in federal court for ongoing oil & gas industry case. • Enabled success for international arbitration of wind energy case, leveraging heavy equipment controls knowledge as a testifying expert to attain favorable verdict.• Consulted with both small and large businesses, developing high technology products and growth strategies to boost top line sales and improve visibility of financial trends and forecasts.

By integrating demand and supply sides while simultaneously establishing strong sales & operations planning frameworks, I drove business growth to a Tier 1 supplier of the customer base.• Held P&L accountability for drilling products and services.• Successfully diversified business to encompass downstream while maintaining core focus on upstream, enabling market expansion despite industry downturn.

I headed global engineering and product development for a $400M+ revenue drilling division, driving maturation and growth of the global engineering organization.• Established critically needed foundational structure and controls, including capacity planning, increased visibility, proper resource utilization, and P&L review.• Addressed eroding capital equipment margins, closing gap by 6%-20%+ through implementation of quotation and purchase order review processes.• Member of M&A team during due diligence activities for acquisition and sale of multiple businesses, providing intellectual property process and procedural, competency, and technical content assessments.• Partnered with sales organization to assess/identify evolutions in client demographics and needs, driving improvements that benefited both client and the business.

My executive oversight expanded to include all oil & gas drilling products (230-person multidisciplinary team of hardware, software, and R&D technical staff) following GE’s acquisition of Hydril, leading unprecedented growth from $435M to $750M.• Provided critical high-profile leadership through BP Macondo incident as technical executive. Attended board meetings and served on 20-person multidisciplinary corporate team representing GE interests.• Presented to government agencies and the National Academy of Sciences Committee on the Analysis of Causes of the Deepwater Horizon Explosion.• Presented to an audience of 1,000+ people at GE Annual Meeting in Florence, Italy, and provided quarterly updates to GE Oil and Gas, distilling highly technical concepts into business impact and recommendations for non-technical audiences.• Served on Board of Directors for JV startup in India.

I spearheaded the division’s continuing rapid growth from $100M per year to $435M in 2007, with accompanying stock increase from $17 per share to $98. From 2007 to 2008, I played an integral role in the sale of the Pressure Control division to GE as a member of the M&A due diligence team.• Executive oversight encompassed manufacturing, engineering (hardware, software, R&D), sales & marketing, and operations, leading team of 125 people. Key contributor to business development presentations and negotiation.• Secured $10M-$150M additional revenue per year, leading NPI development and launch of numerous products. Streamlined development process to focus on customer while encouraging communication.• Expanded international technical footprint by opening three international engineering organizations.

• Transformed team from product support organization to dynamic design and development group while driving division growth.• Led creation of engineering organizations in the US, Canada, and Mexico to improve customer focus, response times, and cost position.

• Member of five-person team partnering with VP Operations to turn around multimillion bottom-line loss for $88M division. Drove company to profitability within three years, allowing IPO and NASDAQ listing.• Served as sole technical liaison between company and customers for subsea drilling equipment projects in excess of $20M.

Performed detailed design, checking, and approval of subsea oilfield equipment (trees, wellheads, and running tools). Designed and developed a modular tubing hanger design used in many of Cameron’s horizontal production trees.