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Mike, Purpose of this e-mail is to highlight some of the issues
that need to be addressed in the near term and set a time to discuss. I have
not cc’d the crew at large as this is a “CO” level e-mail…your discretion how
you deal with that internally. Travel It is important that travel be pre-approved. I know that
payment of travel and the cost of travel have been issues on both sides of the
equation. We need to engage in a better up-front and back-end way of
accomplishing travel. Mr. H has indicated he has the ability to book travel if
he can get a copy of your passport. That is in the weeds…we can discuss…bottom
line is travel needs to be dealt with up front. In that vein Mr. H desires to
execute the travel to Geneva. At this time Tracy is not going to go on that
trip. So total traveling will be yourself and Mr. H. As a result please do
not schedule anything until I get confirmation of Mr. H’s travel availability.
He understands the timeline issue and we hope to get an answer tomorrow. Payments Mr. H is tracking on ensuring timely reimbursements are to
be made. One should be in your inbox within the next 48 hours. Mr. H would
like a play by play of the next four weeks. Tracy is easy to employ given the technical
side of things and his ability to supervise, develop, and establish all things
petro…so that part should be easy. The question is what is 3D going to be
doing or not going to be doing. We also need to discuss additional proposal draft
compensation. Much earlier on I had discussed 20k per proposal (without
understanding the whole process) and not the current contract. Given that 95% or
thereabouts of the heavy lifting has been done…that seems to be a number which
is not able to be justified. We need a reasonable quote to cover the next
three proposals. As a frame of reference he was paying about 2k per proposal
for BPA’s which he was winning and which were largely template based. We need to lay out in detail now the accounting piece and
project management. One of the most frustrating things in this last go round
was to hear to words “we are operating outside of our scope.” That means that
the battlefield was not defined adequately. Lesson learned and I am not going
to make that mistake again. On the other side and I take responsibility for
this but I am having a hard time articulating what he is paying 20,000 for the
next month for to 3D. I need your help to fill in that gap. Montalvo Role Mike you indicated that you wanted me to play a bigger role
in this stuff. I need you to define that for me so I can assess my ability to
contribute and whether the boss is on board (Mr. H and Neal). I do not believe
Mr. H wants me to go into a hands off mode so I would rather figure out what my
place is now so I don’t frustrate communications into the future. I would like to hold a teleconference with yourself and Mr.
H on Thursday morning. I am sure we will talk before then. Don’t read
anything into the tone of this e-mail…I have a trial coming up so I lose my “nice
mode.” The hope is to build and implement lessons learned so we can improve op’s
into the future. V/r E -- Suite
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