Sooner Pipe
Armand Unal is an experienced professional in digital transformation and product strategy, currently serving as the General Manager of Digital Projects at Sooner Inc. since September 2021. Prior to this role, Armand formulated and executed product strategies for Visualogyx, contributing to a cloud-based inspection management platform. As IT Director at Borusan Mannesmann, Armand oversaw critical manufacturing systems, while previous roles at Borusan Kerim Celik and Borusan Holding involved SAP implementations and leading Six Sigma projects, respectively. Early career experience includes full-stack development roles at TSK and Uygur Software, alongside academic qualifications in Computer Sciences Engineering and Information Technologies from Istanbul University and Işık Üniversitesi.
Sooner Pipe
Sooner is the leading oil country tubular goods (OCTG) distributor in North America. We've been in business for more than 75 years - perfecting our process, cementing relationships, and building a reputation for absolute fairness and reliability. Today, we are the number one OCTG distributor in the industry, and our customers know they can count on Sooner to be there on time, every time. As part of the Marubeni-Itochu group, Sooner has the resources, capital, and global reach of a major multinational organization. Worldwide, Marubeni-Itochu has approximately $1 billion of inventory on the ground. Together, we are able to make considered, strategic investments in distribution infrastructure and inventory that make it possible for us to respond rapidly to customer demands across North America and around the world. We provide the experience, service, flexibility, competitive environment, and distribution infrastructure that no steel mill can directly offer to the end user. Sooner delivers more casing and tubing to more well sites across North America than any other supplier. We offer our customers more transparency into the purchasing process, more visibility over the progress of their shipment, and more certainty that their order will arrive complete, accurate, and on schedule. With the high cost of drilling operations, you can't afford to trust an inexperienced partner. Trust your business to the company that delivers. Trust your business to Sooner.