About / Experience Thirty year veteran with continuous training, formal education and industrial experience in oil & gas as:
- shift engineer - control room operator - unit operator - supervisor - trainer - operator competency shift lead What
motivates me to provide this service to the energy sector? Many things and many personality types I have worked
with through the years. I have seen too much go by the boards
while those
responsible continue to maintain employment.
There are basically three dynamics here: 1.) The High Risk Operator / conman / short cut artist who is entitled, charismatic, influential, always plotting, skilled at manipulating, skilled at building trust, faith and loyalty with others to develop power over others. They have known, from an early age how to emotionally hijack and impair the executive decision make power of people around them in their favor. They are small time leaders with habitual counterproductive behavior which is why they will never amount to much { Unless they prefer to me a crime boss. }. They undermine the integrity of your people and your organization. It is executive management, middle management and supervisory people that are suppose to be in control and make the judgement calls, not counterproductive peons. 2.) The High Risk Operator's victims which include their peer group, supervisors, plant managers, superintendents, the corporate bottom line and corporate image. 3.) Few people are willing to challenge the social structure in a work group. They all just want to get along and it can be at the expense of safety, integrity and honor. Few are willing to be heroes and no one wants to be the bad guy. There are those who see it and ignore it because, to report it goes against man code. They also know they are typically out matched by the High Risk Operator's influence and manipulation skills and will be destroyed like I almost was. Maybe they are the smart ones. Often it is every man for himself in these situations. There are those who are intelligent hard working people and are easily seduced by this personality type. Then there are guys like me that see it for what it is, speak out about it and get chewed up and spit out because I "had" faith in a system that doesn't work. Years ago I didn't have the luxury of time on my side because I was too busy with base business. I didn't the technology available to beat them at their game. I want to beat them at their game and I want them dealt with. Today I have the luxury of devoting 100% of my time
to this and I have the necessary technology. It provides me with a well defined edge to beat them at their own game and improve your profitability. Here is a taste of just few things I have experienced during over thirty years in industry. One employee had responsibility for a $2M fire and almost killed a man yet he remained employed. That man was a High Risk Operator a conman and a "short cut artist" which is why the incident occurred in the first place. The same man that had responsibility in the $2M {almost thirty years ago so that would be $4M today } fire also had an incident a year or two prior to that at the same facility. That was estimated at $200K in the early 1990's which would put it at about $400K today. Prior to that I had reported this man to the plant manager numerous times and ended up being harassed and threatened with violence by that High Risk Operator. The High Risk Operator genuinely felt entitled to take his shortcuts in spite of them being in contravention of procedures and the damage his shortcuts caused. It's not like the plant manager didn't have any prior warning about this guy from me. This plant manager also got slapped in the face with the obvious evidence to support my reporting and claims. The plant manager had total faith in this High Risk Operator and conman so found himself in denial of the obvious. A very successful job of emotionally hijacking and impairment of executive decision make power by the High Risk Operator. I coined the term, "High Risk Operator" for this reason. I also realized not everybody can figure things out at the management level even when it should be obvious. Many managers are not emotionally equipped to deal with this type of individual. After repeated failures to get this guy punted, I realized I was committing myself to a system that doesn't work. Even when I would reveal to a plant manger how I knew this guy wasn't doing his lab tests and other duties, I would see cover up the next day. The plant manager didn't have enough common sense or good discretion to not reveal how I knew the High Risk Operator wasn't doing his job. Managers will tell the accused how they are being tracked so immediately after that they start to stage their work area to make it appear as though regular duties have all been completed. Other High Risk Operators would immediately trash their work area out of rage. When I reported that then, the next step is to threaten me and tell enormous stories about how I wasn't doing my job or how I was harassing them or I was demanding, or had unrealistic expectations etc., etc., etc,... For every truth I speak, they can produce ten lies to counter my account. If the manager to goes to others to hear their read on the situation, the others stick up for the High Risk Operator as they are compromised through his manipulation. Therefore, doing the right thing, doing one's job as a supervisor and reporting yields negative results. At the end of it all, it just looks like a supervisor who has personal issues with some personalities and doesn't know how to get along with people. When you have a manager who believes the High Risk Operator over you,... things can only get worse from there. Clearly a mess that never gets appropriately resolved. This High Risk Operator spent time rubbing elbows with the plant manager and district superintendent blowing sunshine up their butts and so he had developed a trust and rapport with both of them. He was a conman. He should have been doing his job. He could also persuade others to lie for him. A very talented and manipulative. But wait. There is more! As my career progressed I kept seeing this type of behavior and resulting damage over and over again with different High Risk Operators as well as the same lack of ability to deal with it from a management perspective. The most impressive forms of High Risk Operator coupled with an inability of numerous management persons to appropriately deal with it was in the last almost two decades of my career. I reported to them and he told them a conflicting but very convincing story, or was it simply a story they preferred to hear so they wouldn't have to take action on a popular and charismatic personality? Maybe both. It almost got me fired after 8 years of reporting this guy so I lost all faith in management and backed off. During this time I had reported to a different plant manager the techniques I used to determine that the High Risk Operator was not performing his duties. The same thing happened here too. He staged his work area and left uncharacteristic messes to make it look like he was doing his job. That only lasted so long, as that took him away from his regular social activities. Few people have the ability to appropriately deal with a High Risk Operator. That High Risk Operator was sophisticated, fraudulent, sociopathic, and a conman. He knew how to rapidly build rapport, confidence and trust with his plant managers and other employees. He spent most of his days socializing rather than working. He did not perform his readings, equipment checks, water tests, or petroleum tests so he was negligent. Reading sheets, electronic spread sheets and documents were all fudged 98% of the time so, he was also a fraud. Due to his lack of diligence there were numerous incidents, equipment outages, product contaminations, steam cutbacks and production losses and yet he stayed with that employer until he qualified for his full employer funded retirement. I estimate the damage he caused during his employment to be between $2 to $3M. He was there to make money for the corporation, not burn it. There were times he would convince other operators on shift to cover for him, lie about his absence as he took off the last six hours of the day to go home for Christmas, Thanksgiving dinners and other occasions. I didn't find out for years afterwards. He knew how to manipulate his peer group. It's amazing. No one else did that and they all actually supported his behavior. A well defined pattern of the conman scenario and those they target to perpetuate their entitlement, behavior and lifestyle? They are very talented at what they do and who they victimize as well as those they influence for control purposes. They are not talented at providing service to your corporation. They are a threat to be appropriately dealt with. There were supervisors on all four crews that had worked with these people that chose to do nothing and others that didn't have a clue. If I am the only one to speak out about it, it is just one more reason to doubt my word and do nothing from a management perspective. Would you hand off the responsibility of investigation, jury and judge to the friends and family of the accused to find justice? I think not. You would pass it off to a skilled and qualified person with the time and tools to do the job like a trained police detective, lawfully selected jury as well as an educated and experienced, impartial judge. Now I have the technology and
can devote 100% of my time to produce a slam dunk on the High Risk Operator
It's these things that motivate me to offer this service.
I will not mention the names of persons who
I have caught in the act or seen the results of their risky behavior as
I do not have witnesses to back me up, time dated and Geo-tagged photos
or video to offer as evidence. However, I do have very convincing
circumstantial evidence of the last guy I surveilled so I can
talk about him at great length.
The evidence is appalling, compelling and jaw dropping! I do offer dedicated intelligence support to eliminate the High Risk Operator
for your corporation that provides very convincing detailed
Geo-tagged, time stamped video and photos to demonstrate negligence on
the part of the High Risk Operator for monitoring of your processes and equipment which is
largely what they are paid to do and what keeps your operations
producing profit. Nothing wishy-washy. You want intelligence that
is black and white for clear cut decisions.
Available for assignment in Canada, the USA, Britain, Norway, Sweden, Switzerland, Germany and Japan.
Contact me using your LinkedIn account or your corporate email. Thank you.
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