C. Skip Alvarado - Vice President, Upstream Energy & Chemicals, Fluor Corporation, Houston, TX

•Civil engineering graduate Texas A&M

•Most of career with Brown & Root, Bechtel and Fluor; lived overseas for 15 years.

•Primary background is project and executive management in the upstream sector of the industry, offshore and onshore, but also has experience in the chemical and refinery sectors.

•Managed projects/operations in the Gulf of Mexico, Africa, Far East, Australia and Middle East. Middle East projects include post war operations in Iraq and fire fighting and rehabilitation of Kuwaiti’s oil/gas infrastructure after Desert Storm.

•Member of A&M’s “The Dwight Look College of Engineering” Advisory Council

•Member of A&M’s Construction Science Advisory Council

•Founding and active member of the Corps Development Council for A&M

•Participates in mentoring program at Texas A&M

•Member of Advisory board for the Rehabilitation and Expansion of the Arizona Memorial in Pearl Harbor.

You can contact Mr. Alvarado at skip.alvarado@fluor.com