Tom Neal Email & Phone Number

Houston, Texas, Us

Aliso Viejo, Ca, Us

Edinburgh, Scotland, Gb

Reporting to COO, Global Leadership Team member responsible for strategic direction, leadership, and oversight of InterGen’s Global Operations, Engineering, HSSE, Construction, Insurance, and Procurement functions with 450 plant and corporate staff, and an average annual budget of $200M USD. • Responsible for developing and implementing new contracting strategies that resulted in a 25% reduction in operating costs, a 10% increase in gross margin per annum, and a 25% reduction in construction cost that contributed to winning the only new build gas turbine project in the U.K. capacity auction in 4 years.• Sponsored a new Safety and Environmental compliance program, and a new contractor management program reducing contractor safety incidents by 50% year over year.

Edinburgh, Scotland, Gb

Selected by senior management to takeover operations in Mexico and turn around an underperforming portfolio. Mexico Leadership Team member responsible for leadership and direction of the regional Operations and Engineering team of InterGen’s Mexican fleet of Combined Cycle Power Plants, Gas Compression Stations, Pipelines, and Windfarm with an average annual budget of $85M USD. • Proactively developed and implemented a regional vision and strategy including a focus on safety, empowerment to challenge the status quo, and a continuous improvement culture.• Regional project deal team member responsible for new contracting strategy resulting in a 35% cost reduction and performance improvements that combine to yield a greater than $60M NPV project.• Realized a 3% increase in availability and reliability while reducing costs by 20%.

Edinburgh, Scotland, Gb

Director- Operations and Engineering Feb. 2009 – Feb. 2011 Provided leadership and direction to a technically diverse team focused on asset optimization, providing internal consulting services, and overflow capacity for substantial plant challenges for a global fleet. • Implemented a global outage management policy that provided specific requirements to ensure a consistent approach to all aspects of outage management and resulted in a dramatic improvement of fleet outage performance.

Managed all aspects of a 1280 MW combined cycle merchant power plant in SERC including day-to-day management of all site based O&M contracts. • Successfully managed the transition to new owners and the transition to a third party O&M company with zero turnover resulting from the transitions. • Managed the development and implementation of the facility’s NERC Reliability Standard Compliance Program.

Managed a team of 7 operator/technicians and all maintenance activities of a 930 MW combined cycle merchant power plant through construction and into commercial operation.• Responsible for the development, implementation, and effective utilization of an all encompassing computerized maintenance management system. • Directed and managed the procurement of a $12 M USD spare parts inventory including the purchasing and storage of single point failure components for fleet use.

Managed safe and efficient operation and maintenance of a 70 MW combined cycle co-generation facility. • Performed due diligence efforts and assumed safe and efficient O&M responsibilities of two remotely operated hydroelectric electric generating plants consisting of seven run of the river hydroelectric turbines.

Responsible for the safe and efficient operation, maintenance, and chemistry control of a 70MW gas/oil fired combined cycle co-generation power plant powered by a GE Frame 6B turbine.Prior experience:United States Navy- Knolls Atomic Power Laboratory (D1G), and USS William H. Bates (SSN-680) Reactor Controls