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Growing up on a family farm outside a small town in southeast Texas, I learned early in life to pull my weight to make ends meet. We raised most of our own food including meat, vegetables, dairy and the like. Everything we ate, we grew or processed ourselves with cash crops paying for the rest. This experience shaped my work ethic, resourcefulness, and ability to see and assess things objectively, as getting emotionally attached was not a viable option.Today as an entrepreneurial global business builder and leader I combine those early life lessons with technical, operational and executive acumen to create high performing organizations in the oil/gas/energy industry. I am skilled in identifying critical success drivers and leading teams to deliver on aggressive targets. My broad business experience and savvy has enabled me to deliver double digit rates of return (IRR) and tens of millions of dollars in corporate value. Through analytical skills, strategic thinking and financial knowhow with inspirational leadership, communication skills, and relentless energy I deliver results in key areas.Top and Bottom-Line Growth – Identified underserved mid-cap project market, developed strategy to capture it, built sales and operations teams to execute, generating 2X revenues deep into seven figures. Increased EBITDA threefold by leveraging operational synergies of scale.Business Vision and Execution – Recognized need for outsourcing of compression and operational services, developed and executed unique business model that married customer and company goals via incentive-based pricing, increasing cash flow and realizing premium margins.Transformative Team Leadership – Recruited and led management team to grow compression company 5X in three years, positioning team for senior roles in public company post-acquisition. Assessed gaps in leadership of engineering services company, sourced new leadership and executed to double revenues.Corporate Value – Launched and led multiple startups and grew via acquisition with organic buildout. Deployed product/service differentiation, geographic expansion, unique contractual structures, JVs, alliances, generating millions of dollars in revenue and EBITDA and enabling sale of companies.Technical/Engineering Insight – Implemented best practices and analysis, enabling development of reserves of 1M barrels of oil. Applied new approach to maintenance trends and failures reducing OPEX. Reversed below-industry margins in engineering service firm and transformed organization to achieve seven figure EBITDA improvement.