1. Edward Ruzicka is applying for a position and has extensive experience in engineering, sales, and project management in industries like oil refining and petrochemicals. 2. He has held roles such as design engineer, plant manager, field services manager, and account manager where he generated over $100 million in sales. 3. In this letter, he outlines his qualifications and experience in business development, sales, operations management, and technical expertise working with heat exchangers, pressure vessels, and other equipment to express his interest in a new opportunity.

1. iEdward F. (Ed) Ruzicka<br />E-Mail: eruzicka@sbcglobal.net 3415 Ewing Drive<br /> Manvel Texas 77578<br /> (281) 489-7779<br /> Mobile: (713) 446-1897<br />To: Director of Personnel<br />Re: Employment Opportunity<br />Dear Sir or Madam:<br />I would like to explore employment opportunities with you organization, and have enclosed my resume for your review and consideration.<br />As you will note I possess a diversified work experience within the engineering design, manufacture, and sale of shell and tube heat exchangers, pressure vessels, tray towers, and FCCU products. I have served as a Design Draftsman with Struther’s Wells, Project Engineer with Ohmstede, Inc., Design Engineer and Plant Manager with DynaFab, Inc., and Field Services manager/Project Manager within the Mechanical Services Division of Ohmstede, Inc. In March of 1992 my career took a major turn, when I was recruited by Holman Boiler to target the refinery and petrochemical industry in the sales and marketing of new and refurbished water and fire tube steam boilers. In addition to gaining acceptance as an approved vendor with placement on major buyer bid lists, I generated over $12.8MM in gross sales revenues within eighteen months in the field. In November of 1994 I joined ServTech sales and marketing of engineering and turnaround services until the company was sold in January 1997, at which time I coordinated the grass roots start-up of Intercontinental Mechanical Services, providing field service repair and pipe fabrication for heat exchangers, pressure vessels, and towers, and assisted in the new start-up of A & L Wellhead Services, specializing in the service and repair of blowout preventers. While at Enpro Systems, September 1999 – December 2002, I was an Account Manager marketing high performance specialty valves, engineering and design services, and a complete range of tower and vessel turnaround services for refineries, ethylene plants, paper, and steel mills located within a seven state area generating in excess of $21MM in gross sales revenues annually. My tenure with AltairStrickland was equally challenging and rewarding. As Client Manager I established and maintained key engineering, refinery, ethylene and gas processing plant accounts covering a multi state territory that included the Gulf Coast and several Midwest and Eastern states. As a Client Manager for the AltiarStrickland Group I coordinated client presentations that included the specialized services of our sister companies (Tiger Tower, ASI Piping and Field Services, Certified Safety, Turnaround Welding, and Diamond Refractory). By developing a total package I generated sales revenue in excess of $100MM. <br />I enjoy a solid following within the industry, which contributed to my success in the generation of high dollar accounts among Dow Chemical Company, Exxon/Mobil, Citgo, Lynodell, Shell/Motiva, Pasadena Paper, Mustang Engineering, Foster Wheeler, Stone and Webester, ABB Lummus, ch2Mill, Fluor, BP, Shell Refining, Marathon, Western Refining, Seadrift Coke, Valero, Ineos, DuPont, ConocoPhillips, ChevronPhillips, Chevron, Frontier Refining, Pasadena Refining, HOVENSA, Country Mark Refining and Flint Hills, Linde Process Plants .<br />Of particular interest to me would be a position with your organization utilizing my experience and ability to coordinate resources and projects efficiently and cost effectively, while improving sales, market position, and overall profitability in operations. My experience includes all aspects of prospecting, cold-calling, and networking, individual and group presentations.<br />I would like to meet with you to discuss your organization’s needs and requirements. I am confident that with minimal exposure to your operations, products, and services, I can make a meaningful contribution as a member of your team.<br />I appreciate your time and consideration, and in keeping this inquiry confidential. In the meantime, I will look forward to hearing from you.<br />Sincerely,<br />Edward F. Ruzicka<br />PROFILE<br />An accomplished individual offering a strong educational and industry training background, and successful experience encompassing all aspects of new business and market development, sales, and key account management within product and service environments. Skilled in engineering design concepts, design modifications, and reworks, reading and interpretation of customer specifications and data requirements, verification of engineering calculation, cost estimating, procurement, quality assurance, and preparation of code reports and documentation. Computer literate, and experienced in the utilization of Windows based operating systems, Windows, and Microsoft Work, APV (advanced pressure vessel engineering design), and CodeCalc (code calculations on pressure vessels and heat exchanges) software applications. Career reflects hard work, reliability, competence and confidence underscored by personal commitment and performance. <br />SUMMARY OF QUALIFICATIONS:<br />BUSINESS AND MARKET DEVELOPMENT – Plan, direct, and manage all aspects of new business and market development, and service and maintain existing accounts within product and service environments… Ability to work independently, inspiring trust and evoking loyalty with new and existing clientele… Adept at prospecting, cold calling, telecommunications, correspondence, and referral networking… Ability to identify top-level decision-makers, and establish and maintain productive relationships… Assess client’s needs and requirements, and create viable product and service solutions… Solicit bids for price quotes, and prepare verbal and written bids and proposals… Conduct individual and group presentations, and negotiate sales, service, and maintenance agreements… Identify areas for new business development… Monitor competition, analyzing competitor’s product lines, market positions, pricing, and service levels… Interface directly with mechanical and design engineers, project engineers, maintenance directors, maintenance engineers, and purchasing agents within refineries, chemical plants, paper mills, and steel mills… Participate in the set-up and operations of informational boots at industry trade shows, and conferences, and seminars. <br />SALES AND OPERATIONS MANAGEMENT – Coordinate and manage all aspects of sales, marketing, and operations management, analyzing company operating practices and procedures, and instituting methodology, best practices, and management by objectives within operations… Develop long-range and short-term business and marketing strategies… Coordinate new start-ups, and restructure and revitalize existing operations for increased sales, market share, and overall profitability in operations… Establish sales and production goals and objectives, and monitor individual productivity and ability to achieve assigned objectives… Conduct performance reviews and evaluations, and provide sales, technical, and management support at all levels… Respond to client inquiries and requests, and investigate and resolve product and service issues. <br />TECHNICAL EXPERTISE – Extensive knowledge and experience in the design, manufacture, service, and repair of shell and tube heat exchanges, pressure vessels, try towers, water and fire tube steam boilers, API storage tanks, and FCCU products… Experienced in the marketing of tube bundle cleaning, and service, repair, and maintenance of heat exchanges, pressure vessels, feed water heaters, and steam boilers… Knowledgeable in mechanical and design engineering services, and tower and vessel turnaround services, maintenance, erection, and repair. <br />EDUCATIONAL BACKGROUND:<br />JEFFERSON DAVIS COLLEGE Gulfport, Mississippi<br />Major: Mechanical Design and Drafting August 1968 to May 1971<br />LOUSIANA STATE UNIVERSITY Baton Rouge, Louisiana<br />Accelerated Metallurgy Program August 1980 to August 1981<br />Member – Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo (1993-Present)<br />Go-Texan and Livestock Committee Member<br />Edward F. Ruzicka<br />PROFESSIONAL HIGHLIGHTS<br />Crown Enterprises LLC Corporate Office, White Castle, Louisiana<br /> May 2009 to March 2011<br />Business Development <br />Present and facilitate presentations to clients that showcase the full service capabilities of the specialized and individual service companies of Crown Enterprises LLC<br /> Called on Refineries, Ethylene Plants, Nitric Acid Plants with the main objective to qualify for the approved vendor list and master service agreements to cover multiple sites.

2. Called on corporate offices of Petrochemical Business Units, Engineering Companies and down and Mid Stream pipe line companies, with the focus on pump stations, gas plants and gas plant turnarounds.

3. Represented Crown Enterprises LLC at all major petrochemical trade shows, such as the National Petroleum Refiners Association.ACIT, LCIA, Power Gen, etc.

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Retired as a volunteer from the Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo (17 years) but still active.Sales and Business Consultant: ICATS, Tulsa Oklahoma ,Sooner Turner Around Services, Idabel Oklahoma<br />2008 to 2009 <br />ALTAIRSTRICKLAND GROUP Corporate Office: LaPorte, Texas<br />Turnaround Planning, Management and Execution December 2002 to May 2008<br />Client Manager<br />Develop new business and re-establish relationships with non-producing accounts, marketing products and services to maintenance managers, maintenance engineers, and project engineers within refineries, ethylene and gas plants located in Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Tennessee, Minnesota, Florida, Colorado, New Mexico, and California. <br />Coordinate set-up and operations of informational booths at industry trade shows and conferences, to include LOBO, the National Petroleum Refining Association, the Nitric Acid and Ammonia Producers Conference, and the Power Generation Conference, Syngas Conference, ACIT and LCIA functions held in Texas and Louisiana.<br />Present and facilitate presentations to clients that showcase the full service capabilities of the specialized and individual service companies of AltairStrickland Turnaround Division’s sister companies comprised of Tiger Tower, ASI Piping and Field Services, Certified Safety, Turnaround Welding, and Diamond Refractory. <br />Solicit bids for price quotes for major turnaround and revamp of FCCU structures and coker structures, including Delta Guard Systems.<br />Established and maintained key Engineering, Refinery, Ethylene and Gas Plant accounts comprised of Mustang Engineering, Foster Wheeler, Stone and Webster, ABB Lummus, ch2Mill, Fluor, ExxonMobil, Bp, Shell Refining, Marathon, Western Refining, Seadrift Coke, Citgo, Valero, Dow Chemical Company, Ineos, DuPont, ConocoPhillips, ChevronPhillips, Chevron, Frontier Refining, Pasadena Refining, HOVENSA, Country Mark Refining and Flint Hills generating in excess of $100MM in gross revenue annually.<br />ENPRO SYSTEMS Channelview, Texas<br />Account Manager September 1998 to December 2002<br />Coordinate and manage all aspects of new business and market development for manufacturer of high performance specialty valves, engineering and design services, and a complete range of turnaround, emergency, and field services for the Gulf Coast Region.<br />Develop new business and re-establish relationships with non-producing accounts, marketing products and services to maintenance managers, maintenance engineers, and project engineers within refineries, ethylene plants, and paper and steel mills located throughout territory comprised of Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Florida, Colorado, New Mexico, and California.<br />Solicit bids for price quotes for tower and vessel turnaround services, maintenance, erection, and repair of pressure vessels, retubing services for heat transfer equipment (shell and tube heat exchanges, surface condensers, sulfur condensers, air coolers, boilers, furnaces, and refrigeration units), welding services (tube end-seal welds and strength welds, nozzle modifications and replacements, expansion joint replacements, shell section repairs and replacements, channel head and pass partition repair, and exotic metals), and machining of tubesheet gasket surfaces, pass partitions, and flanges, pipe cutting and leveling services, and milling work<br />Coordinate set-up and operations of informational booths at industry trade shows and conferences, to include LOBO, the National Petroleum Refining Association, the Nitric Acid and Ammonia Producers Conference, and the Power Generation Conference.<br />Established and maintained key accounts comprised of Jacobs, Engineering, S&B Engineering, Dow Chemical, Exxon/Mobil, and Citgo. Lyondell, Chevron/Texaco, Shell/Motiva, Pasadena Paper Company, and Boise-Cascade, generating in excess of $21MM in gross sales revenues annually.<br />RUZICKA & ASSOCIATES, INC. Houston, Texas<br />Business and Market Consultant January 1997 to September 1998<br />Provided contract consultative services in the new start-up of Intercontinental Mechanical Services (1/97-6/98), providing field service repair and pipe fabrication for heat exchanges, pressure vessels, and towers. <br />Developed company’s 5-Year Business Plan, wrote the Quality Control Manual, and negotiated the purchase of capital equipment, to include portable machines, and automatic and manual heat exchanger tooling equipment and fixed machinery.<br />Assisted owner in the staffing and training of key personnel, set-up the repair shop to meet code requirements, and obtained company’s ASME Code Certification and R, S, & U stamps.<br />Established alliances with two existing businesses within the industry and provided visibility and credibility for Intercontinental Mechanical, and negotiated new services agreements with Hydril, Cameron, and Stewart and Stevenson.<br />Provided contract consultative services in the new start-up and management of A & L Wellhead Services Inc. (6/98-9/98), specializing in the service and repair of blowout preventers. <br />Assisted owner in the staffing and training of personnel, set-up of shop, and procurement of shop equipment, to include a 48’x40’ lathe, a Lucas #8, and Lucas #4 horizontal boring mills, a 54” Betts vertical boring mill, and Okuma precision lather, and semi-automatic welding equipment.<br />SERVTECH HOUSTON, INC. Houston, Texas<br />Account Manager November 1994 to January 1997<br />Developed new business and serviced and maintained existing accounts, marketing engineering and turnaround services within the petrochemical industry, with territory comprised of Houston, Texas City, Freeport, Corpus Christi and Lake Charles.<br />Developed new business and negotiated agreements with maintenance engineers, maintenance managers, and project engineers within Lyondell, Arco Chemical, Shell, Amoco – Texas City, Marathon Oil, Dow – Freeport, Citgo – Corpus Christi and Lake Charles, and Valero.<br />Represented company at industry trade shows and conferences, to include the national Petroleum Refining Association, the Nitric Acid and Ammonia Producers Conference, and the Power Generation Conference. <br />HOLMAN BOILER, INC. Houston, Texas<br />Account Manager March 1992 to November 1994<br />Managed all aspects of new business and market development for manufacturer of new and refurbished water and fire tube steam boilers, expanding Holman’s market into the refinery and chemical plant industry. <br />Maintained territory comprised of Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Georgia, Florida, and California, contacting utility managers, maintenance engineers, and purchasing agents within refineries, chemical plants, and municipalities.<br />Secured authorization as an approved vendor and placement on bid lists, conducted individual and group presentations, and negotiated agreements, establishing and maintaining productive relationships within Equistar, Lyondell, Celanese, and the City of Houma, Louisiana, generating in excess of $12.8MM in gross sales revenues first eighteen months in territory.<br />OHMSTEDE, INC. Beaumont / Houston, Texas<br />Field Services manager / Project Engineer July 1984 to March 1992<br />Provided engineering and technical support for service organization specializing in tube bundle cleaning, and shell and tube heat exchanger, pressure vessel, and feed water heater repair and maintenance, assigned to coordinated new start-up of the lake Charles facility (9/84), to include development and implementation of manufacturing and production processes, staffing and training of personnel, and set-up of the quality control program.<br />Promoted to Field Services manager for Ohmstede Mechanical Services Division in Houston (8/87), overseeing the field services support in the troubleshooting, diagnostics, service, and repair of shell and tube heat exchanges, pressure vessels, and feed water heaters for chemical plants and refineries.<br />Recruited, hired, trained, scheduled, and supervised activities of twenty-two Field Service Technicians comprised of machinists, fitters, welders, boilermakers, and heat exchanger mechanics.<br />Served as Project Engineer / Manager in the evaluation and relocating of sixty-five Coastal Corporation heat exchangers from Puerto Rico to Corpus Christi, Lake Charles, Baton Rouge, and Houston.<br />Interfaced with Fish Engineering in the inspection of units in Puerto Rico, and prepared and submitted condition reports on each unit with recommendations for relocating, repairing, and re-commissioning units at Coastal plants located in Corpus Christi, Lake Charles, Baton Rouge, and Houston.<br />DYNAFAB, INC. Baton Rouge, Louisiana<br />Plant Manager October 1978 to July 1984<br />Managed daily plant operations in the manufacturer of tray towers, pressure vessels, API storage tanks, and FCCU products.<br />Recruited, hired, trained, and supervised activities of forty-plus staff members comprised of mechanical and engineers, shop supervisors, and fitting, weld shop, pre-fab, layout, materials handling, and assembly foreman, drafting technicians, welder, fitters, plate burners, machinists, painters, and general laborers. <br />Developed and implemented manufacturing processes and continuous improvement programs, increasing production while improving quality of workmanship, achieving an X-ray repair rate of less than .025% first six months as Plant Manager.<br />Prepared cost estimates, verified engineering calculations, approved purchasing of materials and supplies, and host code inspectors and client representatives, to include Brown and Root, Fluor, Betchel, Foster, Wheeler, Dow, Exxon, Shell, Texaco, and Mobil.<br />Employed as a Design Engineer performing calculations for tray towers, drums, pressure vessels, heat exchangers, and large duct work, promoted to Plant Manager (8/79).<br />Other Positions:<br />Served as Project Engineer with Ohmstede, Inc. – Baton Rouge, Louisiana (11/73-10/78), providing engineering and technical support for service organization specializing in tube bundle cleaning, and shell and tube heat exchanger, pressure vessel, and feed water heater repair and maintenance.<br />Served as Design Drafter of shell and tube heat exchangers with Struther’s Wells, Inc. – Gulfport, Mississippi (6/69-11/73).<br />