Michael Todd Rawlinson
Baytown,Texas
Summary
Experienced professional with 26 years in the oil and gas industry, specializing in capital projects and EPC project management. Proven track record in business development, project management, and maintaining a zero-incident safety culture. Skilled in establishing and nurturing client relationships, leading sales teams to achieve gross annual sales targets, and ensuring adherence to best practices. Proficient in various software tools including Microsoft Office, MS Projects, and CRM systems, with strong communication and negotiation skills.
Overview
26
26
years of professional experience
Work History
Senior Project Manager
The Ultimate Industrial Group
Baytown, Texas
11.2017 - 06.2025
- Manage all levels of the project cycle, such as shop fabrication, field work, safety and quality, and administration.
- Display negotiation and collaboration skills with customers.
- Manage and assist the sales team in attaining the company's gross annual sales.
- Manage safety and quality culture with a zero-incident rate, and quality over quantity.
- Ensure that the sales team contacts, establishes, and maintains good working relationships with current and future clients.
- Maintain relationships with vendors.
- Assist on all project RFQs and estimates.
- Ensure that best practices are followed.
- Ensure that every day, employees return home safely.
- Managed project budgets and tracked expenses for multiple initiatives.
- Implemented risk management strategies to mitigate project challenges.
- Utilized project management software to monitor progress and report status.
- Managed project scope, timeline and budget in alignment with company objectives.
- Monitored progress of projects against established timelines and budgets.
- Established best practices for managing complex projects successfully.
- Coordinated resources across multiple departments and teams to ensure successful completion of projects.
- Led cross-functional teams to develop project plans and timelines.
- Coordinated resources and schedules to ensure project milestones were met.
- Delivered high level of service to clients to extend relationship and encourage further projects.
- Enhanced development and drove continuous improvement of project delivery process by providing strong program leadership.
- Negotiated contracts with third-party vendors when necessary.
- Monitored internal financial budgets to measure against projections.
Senior Project Manager
3JRyan, Inc.
Pasadena, Texas
11.2016 - 11.2017
- Plan, organize, direct, manage, and control the projects.
- Collect and review bid/proposal opportunities
- Review financial reports related to sales, invoices, and profit margins.
- Attend bid reviews as they are scheduled.
- Establish long-term sales objectives, including revenue projections, sales force needs, and performance evaluations.
- Manage the Pro Est system for accurate mark-ups, rates, etc. For estimate/proposal.
- Manage the estimating department in determining the quantity, and estimate the amount and type of material required for each project.
- Manage the manpower and cost of equipment required to perform each project for estimate.
- To work with planning engineers and site managers, as well as to help determine the duration of the project and the project cost involved.
- To establish the estimated completion rate and progress.
- To review necessary information during bid reviews in an organized manner.
- To read and understand blueprints/P&IDs, and discuss them with the site manager and the client.
- Manage bids from vendors and subcontractors by specifying materials, and identifying qualified subcontractors.
- Complete all project bids by the given deadline.
- Work closely with the QA/QC department on project specs, and other project hold points.
- Work closely with the Safety department to ensure all safety requirements of the project are accounted for in the bid.
Business Development
SPITZER INDUSTRIES
Houston, Texas
05.2015 - 06.2016
- As the Business Development Lead, I was responsible for upholding the Spitzer reputation by developing relationships to meet the challenges associated with managing the fabrication of complex projects, with real-time tracking of labor, project costs, and scheduling.
- My sales territory was the Gulf Coast, covering all large capital projects with the OEMs and EPCs for the downstream and midstream markets.
- Strategic Key Accounts: Jacobs Engineering, Fluor, Lyondell Basell, Sasol, Air Products, Saulsbury Industries, Strike, Tesoro, Chemic Engineers, Alon Corporation, Buckeye Partners, Flint Hills, and S&B.
EPC Project Manager
L-Con Engineers and Constructors
Houston, Texas
08.2014 - 05.2015
- Engineering PM responsibilities included plans, directs, supervises, and controls the execution of all business, technical, fiscal, and administrative functions of the assigned program or project directed by the VP of Engineering.
- Acts as the company representative with the client and selected subcontractors during the project execution.
- Negotiate changes to the scope of work with the client.
- Markets and secures additional work with clients.
- Establishes the project requirements for all areas of the project, and monitors the draft and final deliverables for adherence to these criteria.
- Promotes technical excellence on the project, including adherence to the Quality Improvement Process.
- Mobilizes company resources through effective liaison with support departments, other offices, or subsidiaries to create project teams capable of completing effective, quality work.
- Works with individual project engineers and discipline managers to develop budgets, schedules, and plans for the various elements of a project.
- Ensures that the project meets or exceeds the goals established in these plans.
- Assigns responsibility for executing project plans to key subordinates after careful assessment of how to utilize their qualifications and strengths.
- Provides input to performance reviews and development plans for subordinates.
- Monitors and reports to management on the progress of all project activities, including significant milestones, and any conditions that would affect project cost or schedule.
- Works with individual project engineers and discipline managers to devise and execute action plans to rectify potential cost overruns or delays, or to accommodate significant changes to the scope of work.
- Advises the client and company management of any such changes.
- May participate in negotiations with regulatory agencies and in public meetings in support of clients.
- Oversees the establishment of the Work Plan, Health and Safety Plan, Quality Assurance/Quality Control Plan, and other documents for hazardous waste work.
EPC Project Manager
Burns & McDonnell
Houston, Texas
02.2013 - 08.2014
- Responsible and held accountable to both the client and the company for the overall success of a project, including organization, planning, executing, monitoring, and controlling of the project from award to closure.
- Defining the success includes safety performance, schedule, budgets, costs, and scope.
- Key Projects executed: Construction Project- Kaneka CX-13 Reactor Installation- $ 10 Million, Construction Project- Enterprise- Metering Station, El Dorado, AR- $ 5 Million, Construction Project- Enterprise- Metering Station, North Little Rock, AR $- 5 Million, EPC Project- Enterprise (ATEX Phase I) - Metering Station, Beaumont, Texas – $ 15 Million, EPC Project- Enterprise (ATEX Phase II) - Metering Station, Beaumont, Texas - $20 Million, EPC Project- Enterprise (Aegis) – Metering Station, Beaumont, Texas - $10 Million, EPC Project- Enterprise (Aegis) – Metering Station, Baytown, Texas- $10 Million, Construction Project- Kaneka CX-15 Reactor Installation- $40 Million.
- Responsibilities: Work with Marketing on contract strategies, project scope from clients' requirements, identify project responsibility matrix, identify design basis, identify/develop project scope, develop project estimate/budget, develop project schedule, develop project resources and requirements, develop project execution plan, develop site-specific safety plan, develop site quality plan, develop invoicing plan, develop progress reporting plan.
Project Commissioning Manager
AUDUBON ENGINEERING COMPANY
Houston, Texas
05.2011 - 01.2013
- Responsible for planning and directing all office and onsite activities related to the pre-commissioning, commissioning, and start-up of new plants for our respected clients.
- Responsible for directing multiple teams to provide technical support, problem-solving, and to instruct plant personnel during commissioning and start-up activities to ensure a safe and timely start-up.
- Key projects executed: Energy Transfer- Chisholm Cryogenic Gas Plant, BHP Pecos Gas Plant- Phase I, Shell Segue 1, Swift- Whitehurst, NBR, AFP.
- Key project deliverables: project management over technical writers and the commissioning team; develop budgets and schedules.
- Prepare Commissioning Leak Test, Initial Startup, and Normal Operations Procedures.
- Prepare the handover strategy for the client.
- Develop commissioning plans.
- Review commissioning systems/boundaries.
- Develop manpower plans.
- Review of Engineering Design.
- Work closely with Construction, Operations, and Vendors.
- Perform system walkdowns and develop 'A,' 'B,' and 'C' punch items.
- Complete a technical analysis on project GAPS.
- Review of constructability plans.
Integrity Project Manager- ASU Unit
Chevron Nigeria Limited
Houston, Texas
10.2007 - 04.2011
- Responsibilities include managing the normal planning, budgeting, and execution of a project with a strong ethical foundation, on behalf of Chevron. This area includes that the project is in compliance with all rules and regulations set forth by applicable codes, such as API, NACE, ASME, B31.1, and B31.3.
- Monitored project risks and initiated mitigation strategies proactively.
- Provide expertise on the cryogenic unit.
- Protect and maintain assets for Chevron.
- Developed and maintained project plans, timelines, and budgets.
- Forecasted, scheduled and monitored project timelines, personnel performance, and cost efficiency.
- Facilitated regular meetings to communicate project updates and resolve issues.
- Developed comprehensive project documentation and progress reports for stakeholders.
Senior Process Technician/CIMA Member/EMT/Commissioning Team
Air Products & Chemicals
La Porte, TX
01.1999 - 09.2007
- Responsibilities included being the team lead over six field operators: the safe operation of three 1,000-ton-per-day cryogenic plants, which produce nitrogen, oxygen, and argon.
- Initiated a plan for EPIC to lift, place, and install the Cold Box for construction completion.
- Coordinator for LOTO/PTW during PCCS phases.
- Pre-Commission/Commissioning of one new 1,000-ton Cold Box for the ASU facility.
- Developed color-coded P&IDs for the commissioning team.
- Maintaining product specifications throughout the process for 42 customers for gas and liquid during the EPIC phase 5.
- Maintain the reliability of 22 compressors and 4 generators, which produce 135 MW, etc.: Solar Gas Turbines, Expander/Re-compressor (3), Compressors (22), MACs - Main Air Compressor, 1.20s - 200 PSI Compressors, Sulzer 600/800 PSI Compressor, 1.60s - 1200 PSI Compressors, Coolers, Vessels, Exchangers, Mole Sieve Beds, Argon Plant, Hot Oil Systems, Liquefier, and Tank Farm.
- Oversee the chemical treatment to the cooling tower from outside operators and lab techs.
- Developed SOPs for the operations group and tactical plans for the fire brigade.
- Developed procedures for hot work, confined space entries, and excavation work for the ASU plant.
- Reviewed and updated fire and rescue procedures plant-wide.
- Operating the facility on the Honeywell TDC 3000 DCS, and the new Moore System.
Education
Associates in Applied Science and Technology -
Alvin Community College
Alvin, Texas01.2001
B.B.A - Business Management
Sam Houston State University
Huntsville, Texas05-1999
Some College (No Degree) - Basics
Blinn College (Brenham)
Brenham, TXSkills
- Project management
- Estimating
- Fabrication - ASME
- B311 and B313
- Risk assessment
- Budget oversight
- Quality control
- Contract negotiation
- Client relationship management
- Bid proposal evaluation
- Effective communication
- Problem solving
- Client engagement
- Multi-project management
- QAQC
- Safety
References
- Kevin Ringuet, 832-597-2373, Enterprise Products Sr. Measurement Specialist, Kdringuet@eprod.com
- Jason Randall, 903-241-2093, Emprestiza Owner, GTC Vorro Ops Manager, Jason@emprestiza.com
- Joel Flores, 979-799-7482, Estimating Manager PCL, JFlores@PCL.com
Timeline
Senior Project Manager
The Ultimate Industrial Group
11.2017 - 06.2025
Senior Project Manager
3JRyan, Inc.
11.2016 - 11.2017
Business Development
SPITZER INDUSTRIES
05.2015 - 06.2016
EPC Project Manager
L-Con Engineers and Constructors
08.2014 - 05.2015
EPC Project Manager
Burns & McDonnell
02.2013 - 08.2014
Project Commissioning Manager
AUDUBON ENGINEERING COMPANY
05.2011 - 01.2013
Integrity Project Manager- ASU Unit
Chevron Nigeria Limited
10.2007 - 04.2011
Senior Process Technician/CIMA Member/EMT/Commissioning Team
Air Products & Chemicals
01.1999 - 09.2007
Associates in Applied Science and Technology -
Alvin Community College
B.B.A - Business Management
Sam Houston State University
Some College (No Degree) - Basics
Blinn College (Brenham)