Knowledgeable and motivated Manager / Supervisor with over 25 years of oil and gas experience and training, including 15 years of international work

Multifaceted, highly motivated and driven Senior Manager seeks a position with an organization that can benefit from extensive past experience in management and business development.

AREAS OF EXPERTISE
Personnel Management, Business Development, Strategic Planning, Operations Management, Project Management, Team Leadership

CAREER MILESONES
- Managed the engineering, maintenance, production and gas utilization departments to ensure production quotes and maintenance procedures where adhered to.
- Mentored a team of operational and engineering staff, geared towards the development, evaluation and supervision of the capital budget and subsequent projects
- Increased and stabilized oil production in 2 mature oilfields and 4 new oilfields while minimizing water production
- Managed and optimized an operating budget of over $150,000,000
- Recipient of the ‘2007 Presidents Award’ in recognition of achieving corporate objectives in oilfield development and optimization

PetroKazakhstan Resources Ltd. Kzyzlorda, Kazakhstan 2006 - 2009
Worked as the Director, Field Operations responsible 6 producing oil fields and 5 exploration fields with over 300 producing wells, 75 water injection wells, all associated production and water injection facilities, oil processing facilities, gas reinjection, electrical power generation, engineering, maintenance, transportation, production accounting, camps and security. Supervise 10 division managers who supervised over 1000 national employees, 1600 national contractors and 20 expatriate employees.

PetroKazakhstan Resources Ltd. Kyzylorda, Kazakhstan 2000 - 2006
Worked as the Production Manager responsible for over 200 national employees in 3 different field locations with over 150 producing wells, 63 water injection wells and all the associated equipment and production facilities

Palmen Holdings Ltd., Kogalym, Siberia, Russia 1995 - 2000
Worked as Operations Supervisor responsible for supervising 14 expatiate personnel who guided and directed the national employees on the implementation of western work practices, procedures and technology as well as coordinated and supervised 6 service rigs

NEFT Services Ltd., Western Siberia, Russia 1992 - 1995
Employed with NEFT Services first as an Engineering Technologist then as a Service Rig Manager, responsibilities included the training, supervision and coordination of national oilfield workers and specialists on numerous oilfield applications including the start-up and operating procedures of various types of Western equipment.

EDUCATION & PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT

Subsurface Engineering School
Sucker Rod Pumping Systems, Design & Analysis (Delta-X Corp)
Principles of Sucker Rod Pumping (Nabla Corp)
Gas Technology Course
Practical Well Testing
Gas Production Engineering
Fourth Class Power Engineer 1984
S.A.I.T. Production Technologist (Honours Diploma) 1983