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Katy, TX, US

Katy, Texas, United States

Katy, Texas, United States

Doha, Qatar

Doha, Qatar

• Responsible for overall performance of Qatar business unit
• Established direct multi-year contracts with major clients
• Assembled, mentored and empowered an efficient team comprising Service Delivery Manager, Engineers and Maintenance staff
• Implemented various processes to support rapid business growth and ensure excellent client satisfaction

Doha, Qatar

Doha, Qatar

Qatar

• Managed a total account size of ~USD 50M/year – as primary liaison for key clients including Qatar Petroleum, Rasgas, Qatargas and Occidental
• Presented cost optimization proposals to senior management in the client organizations and led the implementation, saving USD 4M for the clients while generating additional revenue of USD 2M
• Led contractual account management, strategic tendering to maximize the return on contract, competitive benchmarking, forecasting, pipeline review, and new technology sales worth USD 10M
• Maintained a close relationship with the clients to understand their strategic plans, the business environment in which they work, macroeconomic drivers, portfolio directions and changes, key geographical locations and.
• Client relationship and trust enabled me to be involved in well design and planning, during which I identified and included key Schlumberger technology that could add value to exploration and field development
• Proposed cost effective evaluation and well intervention solutions to the client

Doha, Qatar

• Managed wireline operations and sales for the Qatar Wireline project including clients like Qatar Petroleum, Rasgas, Qatargas, Shell, JX Nippon, CNOOC, QPD, TOTAL and Occidental, with a P&L of USD 40million/year.
• As in-charge of service quality, compliance, maintenance, HSE and budget, delivered outstanding performance on all KPI targets (service delivery, personnel, safety, etc) by managing a multinational team of 14 engineers.
• Led successful introduction of complex new technologies and achieved profitability of 40% (up 5%) through smart pricing strategies in tough market conditions
• Implemented adaptive strategies to improve personnel and equipment utilization by 10%, thus minimizing cost
• Managed wireline operations on 9 offshore rigs and 6 land rigs covering open hole and cased hole activities in exploration and development fields
• Maintained close client contact to ensure awareness of proposed client activity and planned personnel and equipment requirements to ensure high level of profitability

United States

• Trained over 100 Field Engineers from over 30 nationalities as Lead Instructor for PEPTEC-1 course. It is a 3-month course for newly recruited Field engineers covering Basic wireline logging techniques and tools, Asset.
• It gave me great pride in moulding new recruits with focus on Safety, Service Quality, Efficiency and Wireline Processes
• Played a key role in implementing a faster Simulation system to increase efficiency during Simulator exercises
• Implemented innovative training strategies and achieved 15% reduction in training time
• As Radiation Safety Officer of the training centre, implemented a Radiation Training process to achieve consistency and uniformity in training across all instructors and conducted multiple audits to ensure 100%.

Mumbai, India

• Managed a USD 48million/year project for ONGC Offshore in a challenging ever-dynamic environment by close client follow-up and intensive planning, while strategically utilizing a pool of personnel and equipment
• Setup a Special Services cell in 2010 to reverse the dropping trend in Service Quality and achieved a remarkable turnaround of Zero incidents
• Proactively introduced a sustainable process for inventory management and control, resolving a discrepancy of over USD 0.5million
• As part of the Loss Prevention Team and the internal audit team, achieved 100% HSE compliance during the Headquarters Audit in 2010.

Canada And India

• Executed complex projects for multiple clients including Shell, ONGC, Burlington, Encana, Conocophillips, Husky, Talisman, Devon Energy and PetroCanada in challenging conditions, generating revenue of over USD 6million
• Headed a wireline crew of 3 to 6 personnel with focus on HSE and efficiency and coached Junior Field Engineers