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Sugar Land, Texas, United States

Commercial HVAC Installation, Repair and Preventative Services Coordinator

Sugar Land, Texas, United States

ABDT Properties, LLC established in 2016 to work in communities where underutilized or dilapidated properties are providing diminishing value and the opportunity exist to purchase, rehab and put those properties back to value creating entities for the community and by extension ABDT.

Houston, Texas, United States

• EPA Universal certified and Texas Department of Licensing and Regulation (TDLR) Heating, Ventilation, Air Conditioning and Refrigeration (HVACR) Technician
• Performed preventative maintenance on Commercial and Industrial HVACR equipment
• Performed service repair on Commercial and Industrial HVACR equipment

Houston, Texas Area

• Primarily responsible for modeling, budgeting, tracking, monitoring and reporting business performance for the NGL Assets
• Managed weekly, monthly and quarterly material for asset and leadership team review of financial and operational performance as well as forecast and budget guidance for the NGL and other Core Assets
• Liaise with key operations, commercial and accounting stakeholders in analyzing business performance
• Provide economic evaluations and lookbacks on project performance

Houston, Texas Area

Responsible for business performance monitoring, tracking and reporting.

Houston, TX

• Responsible for managing and delivering customer focused procurement through payables services in support of Mid Continent business unit’s major capital projects.
• Managed sourcing and procurement of over $30MM of material and equipment enabling projects coming on line on-time and under budget.
• Provided subject matter expertise in developing plans that resulted in continuous robust procurement operations services to stakeholders within the constraints of over 50% reduction in workforce.

Houston, TX

• Accountable for the overall development and delivery (end-to-end implementation) of procurement strategies to maximize the value of material and equipment spend (annually $150MM) on a first cost and total cost of.
• Led the development of purchasing / contracting strategies including tender, negotiation and award and the post-award purchase order / contract management and continuous improvements against the deals resulting in.
• Drove spend aggregation, vendor consolidation, and strategic sourcing which reduced capital equipment purchasing cost for standard tank batteries by over10%.
• Led efforts to LEAN material contracting and purchasing resulting in 30% reduction in manpower.
• Provided leadership and management of 8-10 direct reports, including staffing and day-to- day guidance resulting in timely, cost effective delivery of procurement through payables services to stakeholders.

Houston, TX

• Responsible for managing and delivering customer focused procurement through payables services in support of Mid Continent Business Unit East Texas and Oklahoma operations and major gas capital projects.
• Led negotiation of $5MM Polymer delivery skid package for enhanced oil recovery resulting in 15% first cost reduction and on time delivery of the equipment.
• Led effort to document and start optimization of procurement processes which laid the foundation for institutionalization of knowledge and development of procurement personnel competencies in the procurement processes.

Houston, TX

• Responsible for development and execution of strategy for the sourcing, contracting, procuring and delivery of biofuel feedstock and related services for Chevron Technology Venture’s Biofuel and Feedstock team.
• Developed point of view on the feasibility of sugar based technology pathways to economically produce transportation fuel, resulting in management redirecting investments to other technology pathways.

TX, Houston

• Three rotational assignments in the Global Supply and trading operations targeted to develop commercial skills in petroleum product supply chain. Rotation 1: Responsible for the petroleum product exchange desk and Jet.
• Worked with terminal operations, exchange partners, marketing personnel, schedulers, traders and commercial negotiators to optimize each exchange resulting in cost effective products available at the right terminals at.
• Led project to develop approach for managing former refinery infrastructure that was being operated as fuel terminals resulting in recommendation to commercially operate or sell to commercial terminal operators.

TX, Houston

• Responsible for developing and implementing Motor Vehicle Safety (MVS) process in, Chevron’s, Global Supply and Trading (GS&T) organization.
• Developed Computer based Training for MVS which was adopted and implemented by all Global Downstream organizations resulting in lower cost of development and implementation.
• Served as Advisor for other OE processes, Security of Personnel and Assets and Environmental Stewardship, enabling management to not backfill for 2 people who left team.

TX, Houston

• Managed team of 10 contract coordinators located across the continental U.S. and Hawaii in managing all contract administrative functions for the U.S. Global Downstream organizations.
• Led effort in conjunction with legal to develop standard terms and conditions (T&C’s), associated training material and training procurement personnel on those T&C’s thus increasing contracting competencies in.
• Led team to develop procedures to drive standardized implementation of Ariba contracts module across Global Downstream thus achieving higher efficiencies and lower implementation cost.

TX, Houston

• Responsible for material and services contracting, sourcing and procurement for North America Marketing and Terminal organizations
• Sourced and negotiated material and services contracts for N.A. Marketing’s service station maintenance team for outsourcing the maintenance function, which resulted in lower total cost and increased efficiencies.
• Provided direct supervision to two Contract Analysts, including full performance management responsibilities resulting in timely, cost effective delivery of contracting services for stakeholders.

NJ. Perth Amboy

• Converted staffing model from a contractor based system to an employee focused model, thus increasing organizational capability, reliability and efficiency in quality control and assurance.
• Member of refining management team responsible for development and implementation of refinery’s annual business plan.
• Provided direct supervision to four company laboratory technicians, including full PMP responsibilities.
• Stewarded Loss Prevention System to ensure safety was of utmost importance in laboratory operations.
• Prepared, managed and tracked the laboratory expense budget. Developed and recommended laboratory capital budget.

NJ, Perth Amboy

• Co led the effort in developing a crude mix capable of producing a new grade of asphalt, PG 64-28. Production of which gave us a premium priced product that the competition could not provide.
• Responsible for quality control and quality assessment testing for refinery intermediate streams and finished products ranging from Naphtha to Asphalt.

NJ, Port Reading

• Responsible for quality control and quality assurance testing for refinery intermediate stream and finished products ranging from fuel gas to fuel oil.

NJ, Perth Amboy

• Led Chevron Perth Amboy Asphalt Refinery’s research and subsequent implementation efforts for the conversion of the asphalt grading system, from Conventional testing to the Strategic Highway Research Program (SHRP).
• Responsible for quality control and quality assessment testing for refinery intermediate stream and finished products ranging from Naphtha to Asphalt.

NJ, Edison

• Reduced turnover ratio by over 50% in the operation areas that I was responsible for by implementing recognition and awards program that recognized individual and team accomplishments.
• Supervised and trained five to ten employees in the proper sorting and handling of packages.
• Ensured proper handling of Hazardous Material according to DOT and OSHA specifications.

Mba, Supply Chain Management

Activities and Societies: Beta Gamma Sigma

Certificate, Economic Evaluation And Investment Decision Methods

Bachelors Art, Biological Sciences

Hvacr Certificate, Heating, Air Conditioning, Ventilation And Refrigeration Technician (Hvacr)