Robert Scott Carskadon
works as Middle East Business Development Counselor in UAE
at Zhejiang Tormin Electrical Co.,Ltd
P.O. Box 21028
Ajman,
UnitedArab Emirates
Mobile +971 (0)50234 9739
TEL: +971(0)6 574 0766
Executive Summary:
Oil and Gas Professional credited with bringing innovative industry concepts to the U.A.E. (United Arab Emirates). Noted Business Development Strategist,exceptional at optimizing organizations and systems to achieve corporate goals. Forty Four years of experience in developing, managing and implementing pro-active business strategies, controls and solutions, resulting in increased sales and profits. Overall professional demeanor is accredited with excellent problem-solving,entrepreneurial and leadership skills that manifest in a result-oriented executive.
Professional Experience:
2015-Present Tormin Industrial Lighting
International Business Development and Strategic Planning
2012-Present JILI Trading FZE,
General Manager
Ajman, United Arab Emirates
· Manages the general business activities of trading and selling oilfield products and equipment throughout the MENA region.
· Leads team in strategic business planning on new products and equipment
· Maintains and builds alliances over a 40 year career
2010-2014 Dragon
Offshore Industries, LLC;
Business Development and Strategic
Planning Manager
Dubai, United Arab Emirates
· Manages operations in all project stages, including oversight of projects ranging from $20 million to the most current project of $250 million dollars.
· Key Team Leader and supervisor for a company that provides a range of expert services and solutions to the oil, gas, energy and marine (on/offshore locations):
Marine division: 32 marine vessels, 9 tankers and various other cargo and shipping methods
Designing, building and installing offshore platforms, topsides, pipelines and risers.
Repairing, converting, refurbishing, upgrading and rebuilding jack up drilling rigs.
Designing and building accommodation modules, LER, early production units and Buoy mooring systems.
· Government Liaison responsible for all aspects of the business-to-government relationship
1991-2010 Allied Capital Resources, Inc.
President
Arlington, Texas. Serving the Dallas-Ft Worth, Metroplex
· Financial Consultancy Specialist- managing all aspects of the purchase, finance and sale of businesses, and the accompanying real estate. Business sizein the range of $150,000 to $1.5 million.
· Niche market assisting new Americans (Arabs, Persians, Asians, Pakistanis, and Indians) to become established in the U.S.marketplace as small business owners.
· Includes creating and evaluating P&Ls, balance sheets, arranging all financing (business and real estate) and licenses, etc. Requires astute understanding of cross-cultural diversity.Assist sellersin the preservation of their wealth by implementing creative insurance and annuity strategies.
· Insurance and annuity Investment Specialist
· Business development and finance advisor and bookkeeper for various retail businesses
· $20 million turnover in sales
2006-2009 Seidler Investment Group/Seidler Oil and Gas
(Also continued Allied Capital during this time)
Senior
Account Executive
Alvarado, Texas
· Developed and managed client base of qualified prospects. Secured working interests ranging from $5-14 million for oil and gas drilling located in the States of Texas and Louisiana, U.S.A.
1989-1991 Carter Tigert, Inc.
Business
Broker Account Executive
Bedford, Texas. Serving the Dallas/Fort Worth Metroplex
· Purchasing and sales of emerging businesses. Generated$5 million in transactions a year.
1987-1988 Organic Distributors
Business Strategist/Sales and Marketing Manager
Texas and Arizona
· One of the first companies in the U.S. offering non-toxic, natural and organic agricultural fertilizers and pesticide-free, biological controls.
· Introduced OST (Organic Soil Treatment) to the market. It was the first organic soil treatment offered to farmers and domestic gardeners, usedas an alternative to polluting with highly toxic chemicals. Capable of producing high yields, natural alternative.
· Created a new market category: environmentally-conscious, safe and effective agricultural products. Today, hundreds of such products are on the shelves of garden shops, grocery, big box, natural products and environmental shops, worldwide. At the time, the concept was innovative and cutting-edge.
1985-1987 Texas Electro Seise, Inc.
Business Strategy
Consultant/Marketing Manager
Fort Worth, TX
· Groundbreaking"ESI is a passive airborne system that identifies and quantifies in situ hydrocarbons using micro-gravity sensors operated at specific frequencies to identify rock density." Specifically, it measures the horizontal component of gravity and combines it with earth's fair-weather electric field. The technology is particularly good at finding pinnacle reefs.
· Participated with oil and gas companies to locate formations using this technology and subsequently drill numerous wells in Colorado, Texasand Alberta, Canada.
· This economical, alternative technology is used today in conjunction with conventional geology and seismic tools by major exploration companies, worldwide.
1975-1985 MESCO, Middle East Services Company
Founder and President
United Arab Emirates
· Recognized a lack of infrastructure and demand for oilfield support services in the Arabian Gulf due to the rapid rate of growth in oil and gas industry. Positioned and branded the company to compete with the only twomachine/specialty fabrication yards in the U.A.E. Created a highly efficient, profitable support service company providing innovative solutions based on western business models.
· Profitable in the first year, quickly growing from 12 to 20 employees. Obtained contracts without bids.
· Secured a reputation for the company for on-time, accurate, crisis-management output using creative approaches and out-of-the-box thinking.
· Serviced the oil and gas industry; electrical power generation; private business; Port Rashid; Port (Khalid) Sharjah; water departments; sheiks and local businesses.
· Became the category leader in support services in the U.A.E. with 58 employees before selling the Machine Shop/Fabrication Division to General Electric in 1980. Became Managing Director General Electric Apparatus and Service Division from 1980-1984.
· Electrical Wireline Technical Services Division created in 1978. Obtained contracts in Abu Dhabi running electric logging services and well monitoring. Ran steering tools used in directional drilling operations throughout the ArabianGulf Region.
· Aided in developing viable alternative housing options to address the poor living conditions of foreign workers in the U.A.E. at that time.
· Underlying Principles: MESCO was a microcosm of the United Nations employing workers from the U.S., England, Pakistan, Iraq, India, Thailand, Philippines, Egypt and Lebanon.Management fostered a positive and productive work environment by recognizing cultural diversities and by sustaining an equalitarian infrastructure. MESCO gave special thought to hiring workers whose income would support economic growth in their home villages. Viable housing, created from steel shipping containers, was first developed and implemented by MESCO and is now common throughout many parts of the world.
1974-1975 McDermott International, Inc.,
Anchor Operator
United Arab Emirates
· Lay Barge 501/, a premier state-of-the-art barge capable of laying pipe ranging from 8-52 inches. Anchor Operator positions throughout theArabian Gulf, 348 days of the year, often 12-hour days.
· Laid the world-class 52-inch pipeline on the RasTanura Peninsula from the shore to 9 miles offshore. This pipeline was the first of its kind in the world and continues to carry over 5 million barrels of oil a day to tankers bound for global refineries.
Anchor Operator Derrick Barges 17/19
· Heavy structure construction of offshore platforms and rigs from derick barges. Performed the heaviest lift of a production facility of its time. It was also the first time two derrick barges were used, in tandem, to execute a heavy lift.
1973-1974 Otis Engineering Corporation
Wireline Pressure Control Assistant
Dubai, United Arab
Emirates
· Pressure Control Assistant to Operator
· Performed downhole maintenance operations on live oil wells.
· Performed completion operations on Oil and Water Flood wells.
· Performed the first 4” pipe well completion in the world.
· Assisted on the A-1 Blowout DPC well with Boots & Coots International Well Control.
1972-1973 Greece, Crete
· Assistant to hotel designer, sourcing materials, providing
originalconcepts and executing projects for a resort developer.
1970-1971 Otis Engineering Corporation
Wireline Pressure Control Assistant
Dubai, United Arab Emirates
· Pressure Control Assistant to Operator
· Preformed downhole maintenance operations on live oil wells.
· Performed completion operations on oil wells.
1964-1968 Gulf of Mexico Oil Rigs
Galley Hand/Cook
Small Business Owner/teen years: restored and rebuilt washers, dryers and sewing machines for resale. Gross Profitaverage
per item: 3000%
Expertise Profile:
Licenses: Real Estate-General Sales License, State of Texas
Insurance, General Lines Agent for Life, Accident, Health and HMO,
State of Texas
Skills: Microsoft Office Programs: All
Intuit Programs: QuickBooks and QuickBooks Pro, Point of Sale
Other: bookkeeping, profit and loss statements, balance sheets,
Sales/Marketing, commodity/options trading, networking
Interests: Economics, finance, commodity trading, history, cooking, natural health, sports, golf, fishing and fitness. Active and important member of a community baseball league, average age 30. Twenty-five year member and Past President of the St Vincent’s DePaul Church Men's Club, a charitable organization. In 1997, received the Dwight LeBlanc Award, the highest award given by the club. Member of the Devine Mercy Choir, St. Michael Catholic Church, Sharjah
