Experience

Offshore Energies UK

• United Kingdom
• Oil and Gas
• 100 - 200 Employee

• Operations Manager

  • Oct 2020 - Present

  Exciting role during the complexity of the energy transition, net zero and at the same time still maximising economic recovery, through operational excellence and efficiency. Exciting role during the complexity of the energy transition, net zero and at the same time still maximising economic recovery, through operational excellence and efficiency.



SLB

• United States
• Technology, Information and Internet
• 700 & Above Employee

• Product Line Technology Lifecycle Manager

  • Mar 2020 - Oct 2020

  Senior Leadership role reporting to Completions President, Technology Lifecycle Manager Completions. Selected to transform Completions Product Line on the Technology Lifecycle Management journey. A very strong Product based business with opportunity to address a gap in the organization. The senior leadership role was cancelled as a result of Covid19 and O&G market crash.

• Technology Lifecycle Business Systems Manager

  • Aug 2019 - Mar 2020

  Technology Life Cycle Management. Delivering Technology Assurance to Operations. Bringing Sustaining Engineering and Maintenance together.Improve ROA and Asset Performance. Asset velocity, availability, TAT, reliability and Total Cost of Ownership.Enjoyable assignment focused on brining in new techniques as well as raising the baseline in terms of Asset Maintenance & Sustaining of parts of the company which were behind of Asset Lifecycle.

• Schlumberger - Eastern Hemisphere TLM Manager

  • Jan 2016 - Jul 2019

  Technology Lifecycle Manager - Middle East & Asia Region. Lead key executive Transformation which delivered over $38M of annual savings within the first 12 months and sustained, projects expanded to Global reach. Sustainability initiatives to improve both Reliability and Efficiency of Asset Lifecycle successfully implemented. • Responsible for developing our Strategic Transformation Initiative in the Middle East and Asia• Accountable for $1B worth of assets.• Manage over 800 employees spread across over 30 Facilities with their associated staff in Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, UAE, Qatar, Egypt, Iraq, Pakistan, India, Malaysia, Vietnam, Thailand, Indonesia, China, Australia & New Zealand. Developed a very strong team and raised the profile with many promotions across the organization• Restructuring the business to a develop a new model of working and delivering superior results.

• Global Recruiting, Training and Development Manager

  • Oct 2013 - Dec 2015

  Global Training, Staffing and Recruiting challenges as well as Development of current Employees within the company of over 8,000 employees. I am also responsible for managing Schlumberger Drilling and Measurements' Global Training Organization with a budget in excess of 37 M$.Key Responsibilities:Align and accountable recruiting objectives to the business requirements worldwide level, ensuring diversity representation. This entails recruiting more than 1300 employees /year plus managing the promotion requirements of the career path.Ensure quality and consistent delivery of training programs across the globe.Ensure success and effectiveness of training programs.In charge of worldwide training facility capacity and utilization plans, modernize for the next generation. Introduced new ways of working to deliver higher return on human capital by introducing multi-skilling, remote working and efficiency of deployed employees resulted in compensation per headcount improvements of over 10% per annum at the same time reducing employee attrition.

• Operations Manager - West Africa over 10 Countries

  • Oct 2011 - Oct 2013

  Took the business from -37% IBT to +25% IBT in less than 6 months, every aspect of the business improved. Operations Manger for Drilling & Measurements Services covering the following Countries: Benin, Togo, Ghana, Cote D'Ivorie, Liberia, Sierra Leon, Guinea, Guinea Bissau, The Gambia, Senegal. Operational facilities in 2 bases in Ghana & Ivory Coast, I was based in Ghana Accra although frequent travel requiredThe dynamic of West Africa and the people were fantastic recommend an assignment here provided you go in with your eyes open and plan ahead. A very challenging hence as a result a incredibly rewarding position. This was mainly driven by the advances the team that were able to make in a relatively young oil exploration market.A fantastic place for all the family with very exciting culture, locations and best of the people.

• Operations Manager USA Gulf Of Mexico

  • Oct 2008 - Oct 2011

  Responsible for all D&M Operations for the Gulf Coast Region, an amazing 3 year period. My arrival coincided with the world economy crash and we had to adjust to the impacts as a result. One year later after we rebuilt the business then the Macondo tragedy and ramifications felt across the industry turned the business upside down once again, despite Schlumberger D&M not being involved. This challenge of trying to find positions for 400 people for 12 months was worthwhile as we restructured and ended up with an improved facility and came out ahead of the competition- a technical and mentally strong team. As a result the business results were outstanding throughout, along with developing friendships for life.



SLB

• United States
• Technology, Information and Internet
• 700 & Above Employee

• Drilling Services Manager

  • 2005 - 2008

  2005-2008, Drilling Services Manager:Drilling & Measurements Manager covering all UK Top Tier clients at the time ; ExxonMobil, Chevron, ADTI, ConocoPhillips in the UK sector of the North Sea. Enjoyed the responsibility of managing the career progression of over 20 engineers. During this time we grew market share and outperformed competition to become partner of choice for the most challenging wells.Published Industry Paper: SPE Paper, IADC/SPE , 2005, SPE-98962M.R. Niznik and A.D. Carson, ExxonMobil Development Company, K.J. Wise, Schlumberger, and F. Carson, ReedHycalog. A New Approach to Stick-Slip Management Integrating Bit Design and Rotary-Steerable-System Characteristics, , This paper wasprepared for presentation at the IADC/SPE Drilling Conference 21–23 February 2006.

• Operations Support Engineer

  • 2004 - 2005

  24 hour real time support of all ongoing D&M operations in the UK, Holland, Denmark & Norway.Real time assistance to well and tool problems to minimize NPT for clients and Schlumberger.

• Field Engineer & Directional Driller

  • Sep 1996 - Apr 2004

  Field Engineer: 1996-2001, Predominately UK offshore & overseas land work, overseas including work in Saudi Arabia & Canada. Lead Engineer for all Drilling & Logging Services, enjoy the responsibility to manage own crew from 1997 onwards. Completed several world firsts for SLB, lead field test new technology.2001- 2004, Cross-over to Directional Driller.Lead the usage of all SLB Directional tools plus Steerable Turbines. All well types drilled from top hole anti-collision to horizontal geosteered both onshore and Deepwater.



Halcrow

• United States
• Civil Engineering
• 700 & Above Employee

• Consultanting Engineer

  • 1994 - 1996

  Consultant Engineer - based in Glasgow design office work included Environmental Assessments, field surveying of ongoing construction, design of construction projects.Site Engineer - responsible for all site supervision construction £1M Clients included: Local Governements, National Enterprise Agency and Private Investors Consultant Engineer - based in Glasgow design office work included Environmental Assessments, field surveying of ongoing construction, design of construction projects.Site Engineer - responsible for all site supervision construction £1M Clients included: Local Governements, National Enterprise Agency and Private Investors