Alain Royal

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About Alain Royal

Professional attributes • Fluently bilingual professional manager in project management and general operations with international experience. • Flexible and self-motivated, innovative hands-on leader, with solid business development, consultancy services, conflict resolution, contract recovery, project restructuring and strategic alliance experience. • Adept in project recovery saving both money and company reputation. • Demonstrated experience in sales to first and second tier manufacturing industries, generating new and repeat business. • Successfully negotiated government contracts, penetrated new markets forging alliances with suppliers and customers. • Organized, highly analytical decision maker and problem solver with strong start-up, turnaround and growth record, establishing and managing project and corporate budgets. • Thorough knowledge of project management from proposal to implementation and final customer acceptance. Program and Project Management SIMSMART Inc. Proposed, negotiated and won product development contracts with major US Navy shipyards; Bath Ironworks, Northrop Grumman,(value $3 million US). Worked with Northrop Grumman and General Dynamics in the design and validation of machinery for various US military warship designs. Argo-Tech Productions Inc. Successfully won a R&D contract with the United States Advanced Battery Consortium: GM, Ford, Chrysler, EPRI and the US Government (value $125 million US.) Unisys Canada Inc. 14 year’s experience in the shipbuilding industry, beginning in 1985 Set to work and commissioning of the IMCS on the first in class HMCS Halifax in Saint John New Brunswick. Completed the development and delivery of the Canadian Patrol Frigate (CPF) Integrated Machinery Control System (IMCS) trainer (value $7 million) Reversed a major contractual issue to complete the onboard integration of the CPF IMCS (value $31 million) Recovered a lost contract and the faith of DND for the company (value $90 million)