Mark West Email & Phone Number

Completed all the commissioning process on the 75 ton, 85 ton, 100 ton and a 165 ton Sub-Sea Knuckle Boom Cranes as well as various Drilling Packages. The safety aspects associated with all lifting operations was implemented into my daily work activities. My position and all work related activities were directly reported to the Offshore Installation Manager.

United States

I started working with Transocean in February of 1999 on a semisubmersible as a roustabout. In 2000 I transferred to the deep-water drill ship, Discoverer Enterprise. There, I was able to move up quickly and in Aug. of 2007 I was promoted to Deck- Pusher. Responsibilities, included all safety aspects during lifting operations regarding the use of 75 ton, 85 ton, 100 ton and a 165 ton Sub-Sea Knuckle Boom Cranes. On April 20, 2010 the Discoverer Enterprise went into an emergency response mode after the Deepwater Horizon explosion. During this (MEM) Major Emergency Management event we safely captured, produced and prevented over 600k barrels oil from entering the Gulf of Mexico.

Moved over to Rowan Companies on one of the four a new build drill-ships built in Busan, South Korea. I worked with the Sr. Management team to assist in building an elite drillship and work force, capable of completing any and all task assigned. Once the rig was on contract and drilling for Cobalt in the Gulf of Mexico, I was transferred into an Offshore Crane Operator Assessor position. This required me to move between all four drill-ships and assess the competency level of the crane operators, thus ensuring they were highly skilled on the equipment they operated.

In August 2018, I began at Odom's working as Inventory and Quality Control Manager where I monitored and evaluated all incoming and outgoing chemicals dedicated to herbicides and fungicides production. Our plant is 100,000 square feet of production and warehouse space. We have six production units at our Pachuta facility which allow for the extrusion/granulation of products and a Munson blender unit for impregnated granules and blended powders. Other areas within the plant allow for the production of EC herbicides, liquid flowable products and a repackaging unit for dry or liquid products. In January of 2023, I was promoted to Health Safety and Environmental Manager overseeing all HSE aspects associated with the agricultural chemical industry.

I was employed as a finished end foreman and forklift operator. After 3 months of employment I transferred to the machine shop. There I was in charge of operating (CMC) computer lathe' cutting connections on production tubing.

I was employed by Kelly Completion as a roustabout on both onshore and offshore platforms. Some of the contract companies were Texaco, Phillips Petroleum, and Ensearch.

I was employed by Global Oil Tools which produced wireline tools for the oil industry. There I was trained as a machinist helper and later went on to operate a vertical end mill, drill presses and metal saws to aid in the production process of various wireline tools. This job also included some welding and fork lift operations.