Felix Nnalue

Experienced Business Development and Machinery Lubrication Engineer with over 14 years of demonstrated work experience in the oil and gas, power generation, and cement industries, Marine sector as a lubrication engineer and business development professional with an unequivocal skillset to develop strategic business ideas and opportunities that improve profitability. Strategic leader managing diverse cross-functional teams that include territory managers, distributor business consultants and sales engineers to achieve sales goals and targets. Skilled trainer in lubrication reliability, with long-standing lubricant application experience across different sectors. Demonstrated experience across different business environments and regions, possessing a keen understanding of business development and lubrication engineering and the ability to revitalize a non-functioning sales team. A certified Machinery Lubrication Engineer (MLE), with an MBA in Sales and Marketing and a first degree in Mechanical Engineering, with a well-rounded experience in aligning business needs with marketing needs in any organization. A flexible and fast-paced individual who adapts to different business environments with an unequivocal desire to learn new technologies, methodologies, tools and processes needed to improve the sales effort of any organization. Self-learner, problem-solver, and effective communicator who has benefited enormously from acquiring professional skills, training, and membership seeking a challenging opportunity to help more Lubrication companies across the world improve their bottom lines.

• Certified Maintenance and Reliability Professional (CMRP)
• Machinery Lubrication Engineer (MLE)
• Machinery Lubricant Analyst, Level 1 (MLA 1)

• Trained clients on hydraulic systems- Repair and troubleshooting
• Conducted plant lubrication audit, which translated into cost savings due to product upgrades and rationalization.
• Ability to interpret customers' lubrication challenges through in-service lubricant analysis
• Exceeded sales targets annually since 2017 till date.
• Demonstrated in-depth understanding of the market, customer needs, and competitor's landscape.
• Developed and implemented regional, customer, and key account strategies and performance metrics.
• Spearheaded business growth through sector-targeted seminars, which led to more business in the cement and power generation sector.
• Successfully organised cement industry lubrication seminar, which translated to more volume sales.
• Assisted clients in saving money through improved lubrication practice.
• Assisted a cement plant to save money from the lubrication of induced draft fan
• Supported a client in saving money from the lubrication of the mining equipment through extended oil drain interval (ODI extension).
• Improve the reliability of the captive power plant of a cement plant through improved lubrication practices.
• Assist clients in solving their lubricant contamination problems which translates to cost saving through the elimination of repeated pump failures.
• Developed the capacity of distributor technical sales teams through classroom training and joint customer visits.
• Solved customers repeated bearing failure challenges through lubricant upgrades.
• Conduct plant lubrication study in customers' locations to identify lubricant/lubrication suffering points and make recommendations which eliminate the problems.
• Assisted a cement plant to save energy costs by eliminating external cooling fans in lubricated assets through product upgrades supported by oil analysis.
• Organized gas engine lubrication seminar for customers in Nigeria.
• Solved a grease-lubricated gearbox bearing high-temperature problem through a product upgrade.

• Society of Tribologists and Lubrication Engineers (STLE) - USA
• Society for Maintenance and Reliability Professionals (SMRP) - USA
• Chartered Management Institute (CMI) - UK
• National Association of Technologists in Engineering (COREN) - Nigeria