- Louisiana Home Builders Association – State
Treasurer, Secretary, Vice President - 01/2014 to present
- Louisiana Home Builders Association Self Insurance
Fund, Trustee - 2014 to present
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- Casual Concepts, Inc., Owner and President –
06/2000 to present
- Licensed Commercial and Residential Builder
- Subdivision development, custom and speculative home
building, house plan designer, home owner representative.
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- Coldwell Banker Group One Realty, Realtor –
2001 to present
- GRI, ABR, and E-Pro designations. Specializing in
home buyers and sellers, new construction, and commercial properties.
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- Technip Engineering & Construction, Manager,
Marginal Field Development
- U.S. and International Sales and development of
marginal field prospects.
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- Tarpon Systems, Inc., President
- Responsible for operations, engineering,
development and marketing functions of the company. Developed an
international marketing program in eight countries. Main objective was
to provide engineering, fabrication, and installation services worldwide
for marginal field development in the oil and gas industry. Responsible
for the insight, planning, acquisition, and merger of a concrete oil
storage barge fabricator into the Tarpon Systems subsidiary. Enhanced
product line by obtaining patent protection for innovative concepts,
increasing serviceability to the oil and gas industry. Structured a
proposed joint venture for marketing services pertaining to marginal
field development in the Southern North Sea.
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- Consulting Engineer Services & Project Management,
General Manager
- General Manager of engineering, fabrication,
survey, and diving turnkey projects. Design and installation of major
projects in a metals processing plant. Design of water treatment
facilities for a Gulf of Mexico water reinjection project.
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- Production Management Industries, General
Manager/Engineering Manager/Project Manager
- Supervised engineering and construction
activities. Managed multimillion dollar projects for the Gulf of Mexico
and overseas. Projects included jackets, decks, processing equipment,
and power modules. Responsible for all activities – proposals, design,
contract negotiations, fabrication, scheduling, job costing and
purchasing. Other duties included planning and developing field
structures, process equipment and pipelines to effectively develop and
produce oil and gas reserves for oil companies. Numerous projects in
design and construction of turbine and reciprocating compression
modules.
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- Nicholls State University, Adjunct Instructor
– Engineering
- Taught courses in mechanical equipment for buildings,
pressure vessel design, OSHA safety practices, and machine design.
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- TBW Industries, Chief Design Engineer
- Design, construction and development of welding
procedures and quality control for pressure vessels built to ASME, U.S.
Coast Guard, and ABS shipping codes. Instituted a finite element simulation
of tanks in ships.
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- Professional Engineering Services,
Project/Design Engineer
- Design and project engineering of oil and gas
production facilities. Special projects in reciprocating and turbine
compression.
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- Union Oil of California, Petroleum Engineer
- All phases of operations of offshore production
facilities and design and installation of facilities. Coordinated
complete drilling program from spudding to completion of four offshore
wells. Supervised workover rigs for all types of down hole repairs and
secondary recovery. Performed field studies in economics and reservoir
engineering. Project Manager for numerous onshore gas pipelines.
EDUCATION AND CREDENTIALS
- Nicholls State University, Louisiana, BS in
Engineering – 05/1972
- President of Engineering Society
- Editor of La Pirogue, University yearbook
AFFILIATIONS/AWARDS
- Northeast Louisiana Home Builders
Association, President – 2010 and 2012
- Northeast Louisiana Home Builders
Association, Builder of the Year – 2010 and 2012
- International Society of Mechanical Engineers
– 25 year Certificate of Involvement
- Co-owner of patent in marginal field
development
