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Houston, Texas Area

Rigby Refining, LLC was created to overcome the upcoming regulatory challenges in the marine fuels industry generated by the IMO 2020 low sulfur requirements. Rigby employs an innovative approach to traditional and accepted refining processes to transform the preferred marine fuel into sulfur compliant Fuel Oil. In the refining and fuels industry, evolution is accepted and embraced long before revolution is commercialized. Rigby Refining, LLC is using this philosophy, our technology, and many decades of experience in this field to address the uncertainty associated with MARPOL Annex VI for all participants in the Fuel Oil market. Responsibilities included strategy development, company formation, capital raise, and developmental activities to include engineering, permitting and land acquisition.

Led and facilitated major capital project decisions in upstream, midstream, and downstream oil and gas sectors. Provided consultant services to include problem definition, framing and facilitation, economic model development, and analytical support.

Tampa Florida

Led integrated modeling and simulation (M&S) effort spanning 6 DoD organizations, 20+ M&S experts using 8+ different simulations. Conducted analysis answering CENTCOM Commander top priorities in support of force planning and decision making.

Tampa/St. Petersburg, Florida Area

Supported three Divisions to direct financial management, analysis and requirements, and science and technology within the USCENTCOM area by coordinating all administrative and logistical matters. Performed campaign analysis, secured funding, and built strong rapport with business partners. Set USCENTCOM business guidelines and processes related to tasking management to generate effective and efficient COCOM staffing process.

West Point, New York

Responsible for the design, development and execution of engineering courses focused on the application of decision science to the solving of complex problems.

Responsible for the training, evaluation and performance of a services and logistics company of over 360 personnel. Responsibilities included preparation to conduct operations globally with as little as two hours of notice.

Master Of Business Administration (Mba)

Ms, Operations Research & Industrial Engineering

Bs, Military History