James Thomas Email & Phone Number

Wokingham, GB

United Kingdom

UK / Europe, Middle East / Africa / CIS / SEA

Consulting for clients in: # Confidential Search assignments # Staffing processes review and analysis # Recruitment and marketing strategy # International “Start-Up business plan preparation # Project Manpower planning and management # International business development and salesSeconded to and representing:

London MENA

Project Management Consultancy ( PMC ) specialising in Project Controls activity and Professional Staffing Services to Oil and Gas Operators and and EPC/PMC contractors

London

Analysis of current Oil and Gas resourcing processes. Revised strategy and built business plan for overseas expansion, Business development ME.

UK/UAE/QATAR/OMAN/BAHRAIN

Technical resourcing of Geo-Science, Petro-Science, Facilities, Operations and Project Management professionals to Operator and EPCC clients in the global upstream sector of the Energy industries.

London - UAE

Business development of Project Management Consultancy ( PMC ) initiated and implemented contract with Saudi partner for major contract at Jubail Refinery International contractor locations during EPC phases

ROME, Italy And Jubail, Saudi Arabia

J/V with ARAMCO )Rome based, in FEED contractor's offices. Formulated for approval, then implemented staffing strategy for EPC engineering and construction phases of 400,000 BOE Jubail export petrochemical refinery. Recruited > 250 Multi-National senior PMT members to manage 8 Global EPC's, total project value $ 10 billion, and engineered in Europe, Korea.

UAE, Houston, Qatar

• Co- founder of OilExec International Ltd, providing traditional and online staffing solutions to the Oil and Gas industry. Developed staffing operations covering the Middle East, South East Asia, the Caspian, West.
• In 2002 launched OilExec.com, an Oil and Gas specific recruiting portal. By 2008, 40,000 professional CV’s accessible online, approx. 500+ current vacancies posted, and website database subscribers in 5 continents.
• Clients include Shell, TOTAL, Exxon, Oxy, Dolphin, ADNOC, ADGAS, DNO, ENI group, MaerskOIL Qatar, BG, BP, Halliburton, and McDermott etc.) CAPEX projects Dolphin Energy, TOTAL Dorood, Oxy ISDN Qatar
• Active with the Society of Petroleum Engineers global initiatives (.SPE.ORG) and academic institutions such as Texas A + M university, in seeking solutions to our industries’ staffing needs.

Houston

Houston based, Chevron founded, on-line procurement B2B market-place. Developed for launch a global Specialist Staffing services portal. Following Chevron' s e-commerce consolidation with Texaco Inc. James acquired the staffing asset with partners, and re-branded it as OilExec.com

Qatar

Wrote procedures and direct hire Fixed Term contract (FTA) Recruited 200+ multi-disciplinary project staff for extended oil recovery projects and introduced contractor recruitment strategies for offshore OPEX operations.

Aberdeen Then Qatar

Founded AOS, an Aberdeen based Recruitment Company specialisingin technical support personnel to the oil and gas industry. (Key Global clients included Occidental Petroleum, Elf, Total, Texaco, McDermott, Rockwater, Stolt Comex. In 1995 the business was acquired by Aquatic Engineering.

European Offices, Fabrications Yards And Offshore

Employed by market leaders in the Oil and Gas construction and Subsea industry. Positions of increasing responsibility while based in Holland, France, Belgium, Ireland and Scotland.

Mba, Economics, Corp. Finance, Marketing, Strategic & Operations Mgt,

Pgdip Mgr Studies

Education record