Region / Area General Manager

I have a total of 23 years of full-time work experience. I believe that the skills I have acquired in the course of my professional and educational experiences will be valuable assets for your organization and/or your clients.

May 2002 - Present Weatherford Dubai , UAE
Area/General Manager position for last 9 years in different countries (Iraq, Qatar, India & Syria) reporting to VP-MENA Region.

Parts of my recent internal responsibilities are listed below:

1. Reflect company image as per Top Management vision.
2. Strengthen relationship with existing customers.
3. Explore & establish new markets/strategic customers & partnerships.
4. Lead & participate in preparing the Annual Budgets & long term (strategic) & short term plans.
5. Ensure full implementation of Area Management vision/strategies within company policies & procedures.
6. Build, Lead & directly monitor Management Team of Integrated Services, operation & shared services.
7. Manage shared Services activities (QHSSE, Finance, Contracts, HR, Supply Chain, Admin. and Engineering).
8. Lead Business Development, Sales & Marketing Teams.
9. Draw a right picture of current market share via thorough detailed survey.
10. Provide decision makers/investors with detailed Geo-market & SWOT analysis 11. Promote new company products & services liaison with sales & marketing team.
12. Expand company business/portfolio via new products & services.
13. Grow company market share, annual turn over, assets & head count as per planned.
14. Ensure positive bids participation in all targeted customers tenders.
15. Establish cost reduction plans to maximize profitability.
16. Ensure full utilization of company wide portfolio, services, assets & manpower.
17. Plan, build & manage operational bases, sites infrastructures, warehouses & yards.
18. Plan & manage training/competency matrix for each department/product line.
19. Ensure all planned resources are available in timely manner i.e. Funds, equipment & manpower.
20. Generate monthly, quarterly & annual reports for upper management (VP).

May 1999 - Apr 2002 NPC Amman , Jordan
Head of Drilling reporting to Drilling & Workover Manager.

May 1995 - Apr 1999 Schlumberger Dubai, Madras, Muscat,Khartoom, Amman & Teblisi , UAE Lead Drilling Fluids & IPM Engineer in several countries/locations (UAE, Oman, India, Sudan, Georgia & Jordan)

Aug 1987 - Apr 1995 NRA Amman , Jordan
Drilling Eng./Senior Drilling Eng.
I started on rigs as roughneck/trainee engineer & worked on different positions i.e. Mud Engineer, Drilling Enginees, SDE & Drilling Rig Supervisor.

EDUCATION

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Oct 1981 - Jul 1987 Istanbul Technical University Istanbul , Turkey
Petroleum Engineering, Bachelor(BSc/BA), GPA Good

IT Skills

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Windows & Office tools
Word, Excell, Powerpoint, visio & Internet. Advanced

LANGUAGES

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English Fluent

Turkish Basic

Arabic Native

Weatherford Courses

1. Advanced Fishing Technology Course (UAE 2003).
2. Finance for Non Financial Managers (UAE 2003).
3. Rental Tools Technology (UAE 2004)
4. Enterprise Excellence Management Course (UAE 2004)
5. Enterprise Excellence Skills Course (UAE 2004)
6. Wire-line Services (UAE 2005)
7. Fishing & Re-Entry Technology (UAE 2005)
8. Management Development Workshop (UAE 2006)
9. Leadership Development Course (UAE 2006)
10. Advanced Innovative Selling (UAE 2007)
11. Selling For Executives (UAE 2007)
12. Interviewing Skills, Advanced (UAE 2007)
13. Managers Role In Enterprise Excellence For MREE Level 1 (UAE 2008)
14. Strategic Negotiations (Cairo 2008)
15. EEP Skills and MREE Level 2 Training (UAE 2008)
16. Management Development Program (UAE 2008)
17. Project Management For Executives (UAE 2009)
18. Results Driven Principles Of Project Management (UAE 2009)

Achievements:


1. Grow WFT Iraq from $16 MM/Month & 14% profit to $30 MM/Month & 29% profit (highest ever recorded revenue in ME & NA from one WFT unit).

2. Grow WFT India from less than $ 1 MM / month & -34% losses in profit to $ 10.5 MM/month 2005-2008 & increase head count from 74 to 540 with 25 % average profit.

3. Build WFT Syria from scratch & establish $ 20 MM/annum business 2002 - 2005 with 40% average profit.

4. Plan & supervise Hydraulic Fracturing & UBD campaigns for vertically drilled dry wells.

5. Drill 392 m of hot sloughing shale in one day by implementing new drilling techniques & practices also by using KCL/Polymer/CaCo3 Mud (Recipe designed by me).

6. Implement successfully new mud system (Visplex III) in silt intercalated highly fractured & fluid loss sensitive tight sand reservoirs with short radius directional drilling & convert dry well to producer.