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Salinas, California, Us

Salinas, California, Us

Salinas, California, Us

Charting and executing a path to the successful commercialization of an innovative pumping system.

Houston, Texas, Us

Produced a revolutionary, new subsea boosting system.Delivered and tested a full-scale prototype within a 2 ½ year time scale, from initial concept (unheard of in the subsea industry). Worked first time, exceeding all design criteria.Overturned the existing “wisdom” on the capabilities of electrical submersible pumps (ESP’s).

Houston, Texas, Us

Enacted a new speculative surface equipment build program to accelerate business expansion.Leadership of R&D direction, marketing initiatives and long-term growth strategies. Streamlined down to three major initiatives, each successfully commercialized Completed and launched a new instrumented system (TeleCoil), transformed the coiled tubing business, grew to account for 60% of total revenue

Houston, Texas, Us

Led product lines with combined annual revenue of over $2 billion.Created a new corporate support structure, attracting external industry experts.Led the implementation of product line “Communities of Practices”, which became two of the top five such systems utilized within Baker Hughes.

Managed a team of 42 employees covering process and equipment Research & Development (R&D), tool production, engineering software development, engineering field support, and coiled tubing & cryogenic surface equipment design and procurement. In the first full financial year, reduced expenditure by 15%.Conducted large department reorganization, changing the focus of CTRE from academic/lab research towards field adoption of new technologies globally.Created a new, Lotus Notes based, one-stop source for all coiled tubing information and documentation, accessible globally.

Increased coiled tubing revenue in the Asia Pacific Region by 45 %.Identified personnel changes at the region level for coiled tubing operations, which took BJ Services forward in the changing market.

Provided technical support for Coiled Tubing operations in the Asia Pacific region, covering eight countries spanning China to New Zealand.Led business expansion, most successfully into Australia and New Zealand.Engineered a very successful, multi-million-dollar, underbalanced perforating program of work, deploying a record breaking 927m of guns. This took New Zealand from no coiled tubing business to the most (sustainably) profitable country in the region.Established the new service of coiled tubing, underbalanced, directional drilling in Australia and New Zealand.Established coiled tubing, underbalanced, directional drilling in Australia and New Zealand.

Technical and commercial evaluation of new revolutionary underwater coiled tubing system, proposed by ExxonMobil, which would change the way subsea wells are serviced.Market research with major deepwater operators.Effectively shut down the initiative, based on projected financial viability.

Managed operations for Coiled Tubing, which included 60 field personnel and engineering staff. Highlights include growing the coiled tubing business in Duri by >100%, taking BJ Services from third largest contractor to the largest, and a new boat-based coil operation in the Java Sea.Created new markets for Roto-Pulse™ jetting technology and concentric coiled tubing.

Established a start-up coiled tubing operation in Japan, which became the most profitable operation in the Asia Pacific region.Conducted a global market size study for coiled tubing.Coordinated and evaluated submitted coiled tubing patents.Aided with coiled tubing training.

Established a comprehensive testing lab capable of simulating specific well conditions, with the utilization of high power hydraulics, pumps, pressure vessels, electronic instrumentation and data acquisition systems.Delivered multiple successful new services to the industry, including straddle packer, jetting and jet-pump systems.

London, Gb

Vocational training as part of the Ministry of Defence's structured engineering program, working one year before University, and the summers during my undergraduate studies. Included machining, welding, fabrication, technical drawing, quality systems, electronics, design etc.

Master'S Degree, Engineering

Bachelor'S Degree, Engineering

Bachelor'S Degree, Engineering