CONTACT INFORMATION:
S.S. David Young, P.E., Ph.D.
14916 Carolcrest St.
Houston, TX 77079
281.496.7585
281.496.0188 fax
seawardusa@houston.rr.com

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 Roger Flink

Summary:

  • Extensive experience in sales contract negotiations, marketing, lecturing, and joint business ventures in P.R. China and Taiwan.
  • Experienced in bridging differences between Chinese and American business cultures leading to speedy conclusions to business deals.
  • Extensive experience in international trade financing.

    Personal Data: Born in Shanghai, China, Married, Two grown children, U.S. Citizen

Education:

  • Certificate on Management Program, Rice University, 1998
  • Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering, University of Houston, 1979
  • M.S. in Aerospace Engineering, University of Texas at Austin, 1975
  • B.S. in Naval Architecture, Taiwan Maritime University, Taiwan, 1971

    Professional Experience:

    1993- Present Seaward Enterprises, Co-founder and Vice President
    Houston, TX

  • Reviewed inquiries, selecting vendors and preparing quotations for the sales of mechanical and electrical equipment to the petrochemical companies in the People's Republic of China; Company sales grew at 30% a year reaching $10M dollars a year.

  • Traveled extensively to China to present bid packages and/or make sales calls; successfully negotiated several multi-million dollar contracts.

  • From 1999 to 2003, company represented exclusively Zeppelin Silo- und Apparatetchnik GmbH of Germany in China. Sales grew to $10M per year within 5 years; Actively managed company Beijing sales office

  • Actively managed company's investment portfolio which includes two joint venture factories in China.

    1980- 1993 Stress Engineering Services, Inc., Principal and Senior Partner, Houston, TX

  • Led client engagement projects and consulted over three (3) hundred projects in the petroleum industry.

  • Performed experimental and analytical studies of pressure vessels, heat exchanger, and other process equipment according to the rules of ASME B&PV Codes.

  • Authorized over 120 proprietary reports and published 12 technical papers.

  • Lectured on API and ASME codes and standards numerous times in Taiwan and China.

  • Received the Petroleum Engineer Innovation Award (1983) for a patented design of long stroke oil well pumping unit.

1975-1978 Gray Tool Company, Application Engineer, Houston, TX

  • Designed small pressure vessels and pipe clamping connections in accordance with the ASME Nuclear Pressure Vessel Codes.
  • Designing and testing of high-pressure wellhead equipment.
  • Performed the first in-house computer-aided analysis when the technology was just becoming available to the industry.

    Professional Affiliates:

  • Association of American Chinese Professionals

  • American Society of Mechanical Engineers

  • Professional Engineer Registration No 47091, State of Texas




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