James Tomlinson

About James Tomlinson

President of Tetra West Technology & Solar, suppliers of products and services in upstream/down stream gas and oil, specialty metals, industrial solar power generation and electrical system applications. Chief Technology Officer and Chief Operating Officer for LFG Development, Landfill Gas to Energy power plant systems.Business Development & Project Management in domestic and international; previously with General Electric, Caterpillar/Solar Turbines and Cameron. Builder of high performance cross functional and multi cultural project teams comprised of professionals from a wide variety of disciplines including Finance, Accounting, Procurement, Manufacturing, Operations, Systems Engineering, Field Services, Shipping, and Vendors. Adept in the management of on-site and globally dispersed virtual teams.An expert in Turbo-machinery, Controls & DCS equipment checkout, startup & initial operation as well as the oversight of gas turbines, steam turbines, generators, recip gen-sets and centrifugal compressor systems and heat recovery steam generators and Gas compression and upgrading systems. Culturally sensitized with International experience in the Europe, Eastern Europe, Asia, Far East, India, Pakistan, and Caribbean. Graduate of the prestigious General Electric Field Engineering Program (FEP); Multi-Certified 6 Sigma Black belt; Graduate Goldman Sachs 10KSB; Granted Patent 6,585,569 in Gas Turbine low temperature cleaning; 6 Patents Pending.Community Active, supporting multiple charities including the MS Society & Tour de Cure. Founded 300 member bicycle team focused on charity fund raising events.Specialties: Business DevelopmentProject ManagementField Services ManagementDesignManufacturingInternational Relationship ManagementProduct DevelopmentPackage Design Supply Chain ManagementVendor ManagementOn Site Support Quality6 Sigma DMAIC DMEDI LEANProcess and Performance Improvement Root Cause AnalysisFinancial ModelingApplication Tool DevelopmentControls Software & Hardware Design TrainingCash Flow Analysis

Experience

1. President Owner

   Tetra West Technology, Inc

   Apr 2006 — Present

   Lead and direct the efforts in securing project engineering and supply opportunities. Tetrawest is a Supplier of Project Management, Engineering, Solar Power Systems & Special metals and Service Parts for Industrial corporations and Offshore Systems in the USA, Mexico, South America and Far East.I am expanding Tetra West in areas of Project Management, engineering/design and construction equipment supply. Tetrawest expanded supply of service parts and alternatives, to companies with minimal in-house resources, by using our engineering and project expertise. Tetra West is now manufacturing off shore Solar Power systems. Similar system can be used on shore as well.Architecture and Engineering design: Re-designed support structures for offshore heliport systems for PEMEX. Refocused the website on the new offerings. Using online professional sites, I have expanded the customer and regional base, in creasing our sales by ten fold in 2 years, even in the present economic situation.Tetra West Sales increased from $300K in 2008 to $3M in 2010.

Education

• Goldman Sachs 10,000 Small Business Program

  Entrepreneurial and Small Business Operations

  2015 — 2015

• Texas A&M University

  Aerospace Engineering

  1983 — 1986

• Union College

  BS, Mechanical Engineering

  1986 — 1997

• GE T&DC

  GE - Field Engineering Program (FEP)

  1989 — 1990

Skills

• Project Engineering
• Petroleum
• Field Service
• Management
• Strategy
• Control Systems Design
• Manufacturing
• Business Development
• Electronics
• Project Management
• Automation
• Process Engineering
• Technical Support
• Program Management
• Supply Chain Management
• Vendor Management
• Power Generation
• Leadership
• Start-Ups
• Gas
• Generators
• Training
• Testing
• Factory
• Engineering Management
• Crm
• Quality Management
• Six Sigma
• Product Development
• Analysis
• Energy Industry
• New Product Ideas
• Energy
• Root Cause Analysis
• Lean Manufacturing
• Procurement
• Financial Modeling
• Engineering
• Cross-Functional Team Leadership
• Packaging