Michael John Email & Phone Number

Houston, Tx, Us

Houston, Texas, United States

 Leading a team of 200+ rig personnel and contractors, providing safe, reliable, and efficient well construction services for IOCs and NOCs. Managing day-to-day drilling and completions operations for 6th generation drillship, with visible leadership on HSES (Health Safety Environment Sustainability), Process Safety, Customer Engagement and OEM partnerships. Responsible for day-to-day financial, maintenance and asset management for Ultra-deepwater Drillship generating revenue of ~$160M per annum, financial stewardship on an annual budget of $55M per annum.  Manage project planning and execution for major Capex ($20M+) project, Class 10-year SPS project for Drillships to meet on time and on budget execution.

Houston, Texas Area

Responsible for managing the Corporate Maintenance function of the organization supporting 30 offshore drilling rigs across the globe with an operating revenue of ~$3 billion per annum.  Leading a team of 5 direct reports, 11 indirect reports and 8 contractors supporting maintenance system integrations, post acquisitions and directly managing an annual budget of ~$4 million per annum.  Setting strategic objectives and goals towards development of cross functional initiatives that support 100% uptime (24-hour operations), high performance and cost savings across the organizations, while improving operational and personnel Safety of operations offshore.  Accountable for monitoring of global maintenance KPIs and compliance to Class and regulatory requirements for drilling units.  Coaching and mentoring direct reports in areas of business management and leadership for professional development

Houston, Texas Area

 Responsible for managing the Corporate Maintenance function of the organization supporting 22 offshore drilling rigs across the globe.  Leading a team of 10 direct reports and 11 contractors supporting the maintenance system and development of maintenance plans for equipment on drilling units.  Responsible for roll out of fleet product reliability upgrades & maintenance plans for reduced Non-Productive Time, based on data analytics of historical failure reports and leading and lagging indicators.

Houston, Texas, United States

Facilitating equipment failure root cause analysis, formulation of ‘fleet and forever’ remedial actions and communication of lessons learned.

Oslo, Norway

Operations lead on project for use of machine sensor data and analytical techniques to predict machine failures (joint project between Transocean, Equipment manufacturers and DNV). The project served as the proof of concept for company innovation initiatives for Smart Equipment Analytics (Predictive Maintenance).

Houston, Texas Area

Responsible for support of day-to-day rig operations for multiple ultra-deepwater drilling rigs working in US Gulf of Mexico, as part of onshore management team.

Mumbai Area, India

 Successfully completed on the job training as part of regular crew complement of offshore personnel in various operational and technical roles on drilling rigs, including Drilling, Mechanical, Marine, Electrical and Subsea roles. Supported onshore rig management teams on tasks such as financial forecasting, project planning, performance KPIs, customer engagement and incident investigations.

Singapore, Singapore

Managed 2 shipyard projects as Project Engineer: Jack Up project (2012) – managed team of 80+ over 1 month, Drillship project (2013) – managed team of 200+ over 4 months.

B.Tech & M.Tech, Naval Architecture And Ocean Engg.

General Management Program, Business Administration And Management, General