Paul Sannino

Open Water and Subsea Hardware Engineer

Upstream

United States

1. What is your profession? Or if you are retired, what was your profession?

Subsea Engineer

2. What are your areas of expertise?

Upstream: Mechanical Engineering, Completions

Upstream Areas: Offshore, Onshore

3. Current employer:

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4. Previous employers:

Shell, FMC Technologies

5. How did you end up in the Energy Industry?

Interned at FMC Energy Systems while at Texas A&M University.

6. Why do you like working with Start-Ups?

Learn about new technologies and help implement these new technologies to the industry.

Okay, now for some fun things about Paul…

7. What are three of your interests outside of work?

Love building Cars (Retromods)
Enjoy building Lego with my son
Learning new things (took a sailing class last February)

8. What are your top 3 accomplishments (personal or professional)? Don’t be shy! Give ‘em to us.

Put my self through college without one loan and worked two jobs to do it for 5 yrs.
I was physically in Germany when the Wall came down at Check Point Charlie best part of my Military career.
I won a State ice Hockey Championship in 1980 as a freshman.

9. If I were a superhero, my superpower would be .

Never to forget anything I have read and could recall every single detail.

10. When I was 5, I was pretty sure I'd be a when I grew up.

Engineer

11. If I weren't so damn good at what I do now, I'd probably be .

A comedian, I enjoy living life and don’t take life way too serious. Life is short and you have to smell the roses.

12. My favorite song is by .

"Show Me How to Live" by Audioslave.

13. If I won the lottery tomorrow, I'd .

Chassis engineering and body shop.1

14. The best piece of advice I've ever been given is .

Thomas Jefferson : “Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal. Nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude.“