Tyrome Francisco

Senior operations leader with 18+ years advancing from hands-on technical work into supervision, project management, business development, and executive operations across manufacturing support, energy, maritime, industrial, government, and defense environments. Experienced leading complex 24/7 operations where people, equipment, materials, quality, safety, schedule, cost, customer commitments, and regulatory requirements must remain aligned. Builds accountable leaders, practical operating systems, and measurable performance discipline.

EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR, GLOBAL BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT & OPERATIONS at Swordfish Diving LLC (2020-01 – Present)

• Lead operating strategy, staffing, safety, quality, customer delivery, forecasting, cost exposure, P&L review, organizational systems, and commercial execution for an international technical-services business serving energy, maritime, manufacturing, infrastructure, government, defense, and industrial markets.
• Integrate demand, labor capacity, equipment readiness, supplier capability, technical feasibility, schedule, cost, contracts, quality, safety, and operational risk before commitments are made; establish decision rights and escalation paths when conditions change.
• Use P&L statements, forecasts, KPI reviews, market/GTM metrics, staffing plans, and operating dashboards to guide resource decisions, expose constraints, protect margin, and improve delivery reliability.
• Recruit, evaluate, coach, develop, reassign, promote, bench, and remove personnel across a distributed network of 100+ specialists; build succession, leadership redundancy, performance accountability, and workforce readiness.

PROGRESSIVE OPERATIONS, PROJECT LEADERSHIP & BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT at Cal Dive International (2007-01 – 2019-12)

Advanced from technical field roles through supervision, project management, business development, and strategic operations; led daily execution through frontline supervisors and multidisciplinary technical teams in demanding 24/7 environments.

• Planned labor, vessel, equipment, and material capacity; sequenced work and handoffs; adjusted staffing and schedules around equipment failures, logistics, weather, simultaneous operations, changing scope, and contractor interfaces.
• Coordinated operations, maintenance, fabrication, installation, testing, commissioning, and return-to-service activities for pressure, hydraulic, electrical, lifting, welding, control, and subsea systems while protecting safety, quality, schedule, and customer commitments.
• Applied root-cause review, alternate sourcing, supplier/material rejection, equipment substitution, technical training, cost review, and executive escalation to resolve constraints, reduce delay, improve reliability, and prevent recurring defects.
• Built an eight-person high-performance team repeatedly trusted with difficult turnkey work, completing scopes in approximately one-third to one-half of conventional timelines with zero lost-time incidents, recordables, safety violations, or personal dive injuries.
• Worked under strict safety, environmental, hazardous-area, contamination-control, PPE, documentation, and product-testing requirements involving petroleum systems and chemistry-sensitive work; translated regulatory requirements into practical field controls and accountable execution.

QUALITY CONTROL & MANUFACTURING / ENGINEERING SUPPORT at Oceaneering

Concurrent Contract Assignments

• Performed manufacturing-support quality control and construction oversight for subsea umbilicals, tooling, equipment, and engineered components, including drawing/specification review, inbound-material inspection, fabrication review, traceability, defect identification, nonconformance evaluation, corrective action, retesting, and final acceptance.
• Participated in supplier/material nonconformance decisions involving off-spec or damaged pipe, plate, plastics, carbon-fiber components, coatings, and other manufactured materials; supported rejection, rework, return, supplier credit, or alternate sourcing based on specification and risk.
• Connected engineering, manufacturing, quality, maintenance, suppliers, and field operations to reliability, maintainability, stored-energy risk, commissioning readiness, lifecycle performance, schedule, and customer acceptance.

Master of Science in Engineering

Bachelor of Science