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Role: General Manager
- Spearheaded commercial contracts, process integration and oversaw installation and commissioning of numerous industrial installations in textile-, food-, pharma-, packaging-, plastic- and other manufacturing industries in Taiwan, PR China, Vietnam and the Philippines.
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Role: Project Manager
- Steered project management and teams for the implementation of coal- and clinker storage and coal transport facilities in cement plants.
Installation and commissioning of medium to large projectsCustomer: Agriculture
Role: Project Director/ GM Operations.
Tasks:Spearheaded and supervised on-sites the successful installation and commissioning of 130 medium to larger scale projects in livestock. Projects included turnkey installations of pre-fabricated buildings plus industrial scale mechanical equipment.
2011 ? today: various projectsRole: Interim Manager & Consulting Engineer
Location: Philippines, Malaysia, Indonesia, Hong Kong and Germany
Tasks:Independent advisory, technical and commercial proposals, project- and operation management, construction supervision for renewable energy, energy, industrial-, infrastructure- and industry projects in green and brown field settings.
Projects:WAYU Energy ? Head of Project Management
- Wayu Energy is focused on utility scale solar, C&I solar, floating solar, as well as hybrid solutions in different sectors across Southeast Asia
- Strategized and implemented project management creating an efficient team supervising EPC contractors in a structured and plannable environment.
- Accomplished sites ready on time and budget within an ambitious schedule.
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Big Dutchman AG & Big Dutchman Agriculture ? General Manager Operations
- Global market leader in equipment for medium to large-scale commercial agricultural production. Headquartered in Germany. Solutions for pre-engineered buildings, advanced equipment, environmental technologies, infrastructure and digital management tools.
- Structured a headcount of 35 across business units; installation- and after-sales teams, engineering, purchasing, logistics, warehouse management.
- Shaped operations- and project management.
- Proactive on-site supervision warranted efficient site activities.
- Introduced commercial calculations, accurate proposals and lead negotiations and contract closings.
- Slashed the value of warehouse stocks by 70% and cost of warehouse operation by 80 % whilst increasing warehouse turnover by 100%.
- Spearheaded spare parts sales from insignificant to profitable volumes, regularly 40 % above budget.
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Pacific Engineering Services (HK) Ltd./ PacificTech Solutions, Inc.
- Market Director / Business Unit Manager ? Power & Engineering
- Danish owned engineering company providing engineering- and on-site services in manufacturing, infrastructure, water, wastewater and power generation.
- Grew the business unit into the largest project based section of the company.
- Shaped operations and project management, construction supervision and contract management.
- Increased profitability.
- Introduced value engineering processes substantially benefiting capital expenditure.
- Led and shaped bankable feasibility studies, design reviews and risk assessments.
- Developed a continuous project pipeline with an average time horizon of 6 months.
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Pacific Engineering Services (HK) Ltd. - Owner?s Representative/Owner?s Engineer
- Project management and construction supervision on-sites under FIDIC and UNDP contracts. Quality assurance, site supervision, contract and claim management.
- Brownfield Ammonia Combustion Plant; replacing a chemical process by a thermal solution, substantial steel- and complex concreting works, (pressure-) piping and mechanical installations.
- Greenfield infrastructure projects; sanitary landfill and leachate treatment plant involving extensive piping-, concreting- and environmental protection works.
- Greenfield industrial developments; large scale semiconductor plant, substantial steel- and concreting works establishing an innovative damming solution for the building envelope.
2008 - 2011: Design, field service and commercial supportCustomer: PEG South East Asia, Inc. ? Managing Partner, Philippines, Switzerland
Tasks:Start-up of a Swiss-German engineering firm and installation services provider. Multidisciplinary engineering-, design and drawing services as well as construction services for the cement-, infrastructure- and environmental industries worldwide.
- Strategized and implemented the company structure in all business units; design, field services and commercial support functions.
- Break-even in the 1st year of the company?s operation and net profitability in the 2nd year.
- 8-fold revenue increase in the 3rd year of operation by developing the General Contractor market in cement industries.
2004 - 2007: EPC solar projectsCustomer: Maschinen & Technik Inc. ? Chief Operating Officer and Vice President, Philippines, Germany
Tasks:Branch of the Hamburg based Muenchmeyer Petersen Group. B2B capital goods trading in manufacturing and heavy industries, services in plant engineering, infrastructure, the construction and energy sectors as well as project financing.
- Spearheaded EPC solar projects funded through Official Development Aid (USAID).
- Grew the company into the third largest EPC in renewable energy rural electrification.
1993 - 2004: variousCustomer: C. Illies & Co., Germany, Taiwan/ PR China, Vietnam, Philippines
Tasks:Hamburg based B2B trading, engineering, consulting and financing house. Specialized in engineering projects including complete manufacturing plants, textile-, paper-, food industries, consumables and accessories.
- Illies Engineering (Philippines), Inc. ? General Manager
- Introduced machines and systems for the recycling of plastic waste, textile manufacturing and food processing achieving market shares of at times 80 to 100%.
- Consolidated the company at the end of the financial year 2004.
- C. Illies & Co. Representative Offices Vietnam ? Regional Director
- Structured and established a fully functioning organization embedded in the Illies Group of companies.
- Break-even achieved through entering heavy fuel oil power generation and heavy duty harbor facility segments.
- Illies Engineering (Taipei) Ltd. ? Department Head
- Tripled revenue within 3 years attributable to identifying, commercially and technically facilitating clients? relocation from Taiwan to PR China.