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Houston, Tx, Us

Cypress, Tx, Us

Founded and currently lead APL Solutions Inc., a leading provider of asset performance leadership for industrial digital transformation, specializing in optimizing asset performance through the alignment of people, process, and technology.* Developed and implemented innovative strategies that have significantly improved the performance of our clients, resulting in increased reliability, integrity, and safety.* Led a team of experts in delivering customized solutions tailored to the unique needs of each client, ensuring maximum impact and value.* Established strategic partnerships with key industry players, expanding our reach and enhancing our ability to deliver comprehensive solutions.* Maintained a strong focus on customer satisfaction, consistently exceeding expectations and building long-term relationships with clients.* Developed and implemented robust processes and methodologies to drive efficiency and effectiveness in our operations.* Communicated the value proposition of our services to clients and stakeholders in a clear and compelling manner, avoiding technical jargon and focusing on tangible outcomes.* Ensured accuracy and professionalism in all communications and documentation, proofreading and editing materials to maintain a high standard of quality.

Cypress, Tx, Us

Commercial representative for Maventic MASSETIC products covering USA and Canada.

Cypress, Tx, Us

Led a team to complete a comprehensive PM Optimization (reverse RCM/FMEA) study to evaluate all rotating equipment for multiple facilities operated by a large multi-national chemicals company. This study aimed to gather crucial equipment data, generate templatized asset strategy actions, and compare those actions with existing asset care practices from corporate systems including SAP EAM, Operator Rounds, PdM, and process data lake (OSI PI and SEEQ). The study also identified data sources for asset health monitoring of the most critical assets. The study aimed to bridge silos, capture knowledge and lessons learned from experts, and digitally transform disparate data sources into a unified APM system.

Cypress, Tx, Us

Led a team that turned a faltering project to successfully going live across multiple plants for a major multi-national chemicals company.o Led a Solution Review, made Recommendations.o Recruited, brought on several experienced APM professionalso Scope included mechanical integrity, instrument calibration, Rounds, and CMMS data transfer.o Helped provide link to SDx 3D plant model.o Facilitated meetings with RBI service vendors resulting in a partner relationship to provide RBI engineering expertise to the customer.

Cypress, Tx, Us

Led a major mid- and down-stream company in a roll-out of v3 & v4 Prometheus Rounds mobile data collection software.o Worked with 14 refineries to develop site-level project schedules for roll-out of Prometheus Rounds v3, based on the defined scope, site and corporate resources available, and competing initiatives. o Coordinated equipment subject matter experts to develop corporate templates to drive process standardization. o Acted as business lead and product expert. Conducted training and workshops, guided deployments. o Supported Operations in their pilots.o Worked to simplify data migration and reporting. Developed round planning tools based on SAP master data, SAP maintenance plans, APM, and Flowserve data. Wrote queries against Postgres database, worked with team to map out a dashboard and reporting approach.o Participated and led review meetings to track issues and make improvement recommendations IT and the software vendor. o Responsible for corporate progress reporting using Percent Complete metrics by site and work category.

Cypress, Tx, Us

Led a business transformation project to unify the equipment taxonomy and helped with the functional location structure standardization following the merger of 2 major process manufacturing companies. Provided cross-reference migration tables. The resulting classification system impacted the design of SAP EAM and GE APM software.

Cypress, Tx, Us

Acted as business lead and trained a major petroleum refining company in GE APM v4 Operator Rounds. Coordinated with IT, developed queries, dashboards. Provided requirements, functional design, and QA for SAP Maintenance Plan interface. Led deployment workshops and meetings. Coordinated with vendor, business leaders, and IT on technical problems. Acted as primary author of company recommended practice Mobile Inspection Testing & Preventive Maintenance document for mobile business processes, and facilitated the cross-functional review team in adopting the procedures.

Cypress, Tx, Us

Led a business process transformation project for a network of oil refineries on defect elimination process and tools. Primary author of company recommended practice document for Identifying and Addressing Bad Actors, facilitated review team in adoption of the procedure, using a number of KPIs. Developed queries, dashboards, and KPIs based in GE APM v4. Provided training for the process, including use of Root Cause Analysis, dashboards, and Metrics & Scorecards. Provided support and QA of custom Production Loss Accounting solution.

Cypress, Tx, Us

Led a business transformation project for a major petroleum refiner to formalize the definition of asset criticality, and configure software tools. Compared the PHA risk matrix and worked with a team to define a risk matrix more targeted to lower consequence, higher frequency events. Drafted a corporate recommended practice document, facilitated a cross-functional team review, configured the process in the GE APM v4 Risk Matrix and Policy Manager software, and participated in several site-level criticality reviews.

Cypress, Tx, Us

Configured a Task Deferral data-sheet based on a major chemical company's standards for task interval extensions and risk, including data configuration, calculations, and hard-copy reports. Utilized an agile development approach with multiple iterations of business review. Provided training materials and start-up support. Utilized the Meridium Asset Performance Management (APM) v3 software.

Cypress, Tx, Us

Led a business digital transformation front-end assessment study to evaluate existing processes and digital tool usage and prioritize targeted initiatives for a major mid- and down-stream process manufacturer. Conducted workshops at multiple production facilities. Process scope included maintenance, reliability, and mechanical integrity work processes, the interactions with engineering, production control, and process safety, and how well those work processes are supported by its various software systems. Developed recommended initiatives, and a multi-generational plan. Presented recommendations, facilitated feedback to/from multiple business leadership groups, and published consensus plan to the business.

Cypress, Tx, Us

Helped a major international oil company convert their Metegrity mechanical integrity database to the Meridium / GE APM Mechanical Integrity module. Became proficient in Metegrity’s software, developed data extraction tools, developed initial data conversion and mapping to proof of concept, wrote specifications and guided technical team members to complete the conversion, provided QA. Guided the project management team to develop work breakdown structure and realistic timelines.

Part of a team leading the Maintenance and Reliability Symposium (MaRS) for the Society of Maintenance and Reliability Professionsals (SMRP) Houston chapter. Recruited speakers, presentation selection committee member, facilitated presentations, performed technical reviews. Recruited sponsors.

Greenville, Sc, Us

aeSolutions is a complete supplier of performance-based process safety engineering and automation solutions, whose goal is to support manufacturing companies throughout the Process Safety Lifecycle. Responsible for:* Software products business line implementations - Responsible and accountable for software implementation standards and processes, documentation development and management, and training development. Managed project managers and managed key projects hands-on.* Process safety project management - Managed scope, budget, schedule for safety instrumented systems (SIS) engineering project execution

San Ramon, California, Us

Managed people, projects for strategic customers in North America, Europe, and Asia. Acted as program manager on most engagements, managed some projects hands-on. * Mentored and supervised a team of project managers, reliability and integrity consultants, technical staff, and administrators, fostering their professional growth and development.* Collaborated with customers to develop Request for Proposal (RFP) documents and Statements of Work (SOWs), ensuring alignment with project objectives and requirements.* Implemented APM programs for Chinese and Japanese Refining/Chemicals organizations, providing services such as application review, requirements gathering, configuration design, and implementation. Conducted partner selection, training and development sessions for local Japanese engineering company, enabling them to act as regional partner for APM initiatives.* Designed front-end loaded (FEL) digital transformation roadmap solutions for several companies, benchmarking existing business processes and defining new processes, multi-year phasing plan, and detailed scopes of work.

San Ramon, California, Us

Assisted in the sales process by providing product demonstrations and by providing answers and solutions to specific customer work process questions.• Developed and worked with Product Managers and other experts to develop standardized product demonstration scripts, in order to facilitate partner demonstration capabilities.• Facilitated training workshop for all Consultants on using the standard demonstration scripts.• Trained Solutions (Sales) Engineers in ways to effectively demonstrate product modules.

San Ramon, California, Us

Acted as Product Manager for a web-based toolset that formed the foundation of v2 web-based modules and configured solutions, and acted as the model for v3 (and later v4) APM Foundation product design. Worked closely with product developers utilizing a lean agile approach. Worked with other product managers and customers to provide product iterations for Inspection Manager and Production Loss Accounting using the toolkit.

San Ramon, California, Us

Led teams to implement the Meridium ERMS (APM) software to customers. Included Equipment taxonomy and detailed equipment data sheets, Mechanical Integrity, Reliability Analytics, Production Loss Accounting, Registry, Data Configuration Utility, and other modules.

Consulted on various projects following buy-out of CIMTech Solutions, including enterprise resource planning (ERP), manufacturing execution systems (MES), and engineering systems.

Hired by CIMTech Solutions, who was bought by SHL Systemhouse, effective approx Jan-1994. CIMTech developed and implemented Manufacturing Execution Systems: CMMS, Process historian and graphics, Lab Management, Shipping & Receiving.

London, Middlesex, Gb

Worked to streamline engineering operations through use of computer-Aided Engineering for EPC. Worked primarily in agile development project team environments. Furnace automation, Piping information and engineering management, Instrument management.