Ocean Dynamics LLC :: Management team

Mr. Jim Li has more than twenty-two years of experience in the offshore oil and gas industry including six years with an oil company, four years with engineering consulting firms, two years with turnkey contractors, and ten years as an independent consultant/business owner and corporate executive. He has an extensive background in areas of design, analysis and project management for various fixed and floating offshore structures; including semi-submersibles, spars, TLPs, FPSO/FSOs, offshore float-over installations, jackets, decks, facility skids and modules as well as conventional offshore installations.

Mr. James Lee brings more than twenty-one years of experience in the offshore industry, exclusively in offshore platform installations including extensive experience with project management, engineering execution, field supervision, and technology pioneering. His engineering and naval architecture background spans across the range of fixed and floating structures. Mr. Lee was the project manager, engineering manager and the lead naval architect for twelve of ODL’s most successful projects.

Dr. Alex Ran has more than fifteen years of experience in offshore/marine structure design and analysis (hydrodynamics, global motions, mooring system design and offshore platform installation), five years of experience in ship design/construction as well as extensive experience in spar technology and detailed engineering. Dr. Ran has been the lead engineer for several major spar projects. He has strong technical skills and broad design experience in various types of deepwater structures and fixed platforms. He has an in-depth knowledge of the industry design codes and standards. Dr. Ran’s strong theoretical background and software development experience has earned him a prominent role in the development of software WINPOST (HARP), a state-of-art FE coupled dynamics analysis program for deep water structures. He also led the design and analysis of the first permanent polyester mooring system in the GOM.

Dr. Wei Ye has 15 years of industrial and academic experience in naval architecture and offshore engineering. He specializes in deep-water riser engineering and marine hydrodynamics. Dr. Ye has hands on experience with design and analysis of the steel catenary riser (SCR), top tensioned riser (TTR) and flexible riser system. He has served as the project manager and/or lead engineer for various SCR, TTR and flexible riser system projects, including the world renowned BP Thunder Horse 24-inch Oil Export SCR and 20-inch Gas Export SCR - the world largest SCRs in water depth more than 6000 ft. He has an extensive background in fully coupled hydrodynamic analysis and mooring design for offshore floating structures such as semi-submersibles, FPSOs, CALM Buoy Systems, Spars and TLPs. Dr. Ye has a strong background and profound understanding of riser engineering and marine hydrodynamics.

Dr. Jian Gao has twenty years of experience in the fields of structural engineering and engineering mechanics. He has gained ten years of experience within the universities and national laboratories specializing in structural design, advanced structural analysis, advanced engineering composite material testing, composite structure testing and modeling. For the past ten years, he has been involved in offshore and aerospace structural design and analysis, structural design review and verifications with classification societies including engineering design and consulting companies. His offshore experience encompasses both conceptual and detailed design for deepwater jackets and compliant towers and advance structural analysis of offshore structures including, time domain dynamic, fatigue, seismic and nonlinear considerations.

Mr. Benavides is responsible for the development and performance of all sales for ODL and OKI. He brings over 7 years experience in the offshore oil and gas industry. Mr. Benavides is a mechanical engineer with a comprehensive sales background; specializing in business development, proposals, market intelligence and marketing strategy. His technical back ground provides experience with drilling and logging operations, analysis and experiments, designing 2D/3D models in Autodesk Inventor, manufacturing operations and new product design.