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• Establishing firmwide PMO. Building a PMO toolkit involving an integrated set of standardized but flexible KPIs and metrics. Constructing these metrics utilizing Azure DevOps connected to analytics in Power BI..
• Leading collaboration sessions with consultants dispersed across the globe in order to understand their pain points and design the needed solutions.

• Laid project management framework and provided PM guidance for acquisition of a 14,000 Megawatt, 25 power generation facility, 21-person team, Energy Management Services business.
• Shepherded IT applications and infrastructure portion of project, with responsibilities subsequently growing to encompass oversight of Commercial, Operations, Procurement, Risk, Credit, Legal, KYC, Compliance.
• Collaborated with commercial users to document As-Is and To-Be landscapes, process maps, required data elements for interfaces, frequency of interface refreshes, and critical external data feeds. Documented.
• Liaised with counterparts at acquisition target company, ensuring open lines of communication and blocker resolution.
• Budgetary responsible for $2.5MM project spend.
• Coached and mentored client team members on project management and Kanban best practices.

• As part of AdvantEdge66 digital transformation, stood up Agile effort consisting of 3 Scrum teams and one Kanban team, geographically dispersed between Houston; Bartlesville, Oklahoma; Illinois; and Gurgaon, India.
• Embedded as Scrum Master in two delivery teams of Data Scientists, Data Engineers, and Front-End Developers, charged with delivering predictive analytics tools for pricing, demand, and inventory for commercial trading.
• Overcame significant data ingestion, transformation, and curation issues with source data, then trained and scored R and Python models. Huddled daily with Gurgaon, India-based developers to drive feature development.
• Transitioned to the servant leadership of the four team, 60-member program. Established complex translation of our Agile effort’s information radiators, back to a Waterfall governance model. Collaborated and consulted.
• “Two in a Box” management with Product Manager to ensure ruthless prioritization of backlogs and rapid delivery of most critical business value initiatives, while ensuring technical debt was kept in check. Encouraged.
• Established robust dependency tracking system, facilitated cross-department Scrum Master collaborations to resolve blocks.

London, England, GB

• Established and refined enterprise-wide PMO, tasked with stewardship of $40MM annual project portfolio.
• Cultivated and leveraged strong relationships in each key enterprise function, spanning Refining, Trading, Logistics, Fuels Marketing, HR, and Finance.
• Implemented best practices for project governance; designed and implemented standard templates for project artifacts and deliverables for utilization by project managers.
• Accountable for all data and reporting concerning project budget, schedule, scope, risk/issues, CRs, and resources.
• Spearheaded rollout of MS Project Online PPM Tool for user group of 30 project managers and functional managers.
• Created optics/dashboards/visualizations for executive leadership; facilitated project staffing and resource planning.

London, England, GB

• Designed and delivered process & technology changes associated with Motiva’s divestiture from Shell. Salesforce, Openlink RightAngle, & SAP ($10MM budget) were leveraged as platform for 24/7 branded/unbranded fuels.
• Ensured BOLs generated by TopTech TMS were interfaced to RightAngle, matched with deals, invoices generated and interfaced to SAP and Salesforce, for recording in back office financials and making visible to customers.
• Collaborated deeply with business customers to ensure robust and prioritized product backlog, clear product roadmap, and proper user story creation and decomposition.
• Provided guidance on change management, stakeholder engagement, and communications throughout the project lifecycle.
• Worked with external vendors to provide externally facing APIs to connect to Salesforce portal data.
• Designed, tested, and provided troubleshooting on financial interfaces between RightAngle, Salesforce, and SAP.

London, England, GB

• Directed transfer price project in support of US rollout of Shell’s global SAP initiative. Overcame significant challenges to deliver on time at appropriate quality level.
• Servant-led cross-functional and cross-divisional team from Supply, Fuels Marketing, and IT. Directly supervised core team of business analysts.
• Collaborated daily with senior ABAP developers (original creators of SAP’s IS Oil module) to make changes to core application that were custom to the unique aspects of the US market.
• Delivered Downstream Supply Chain margin analysis tool via Agile – Refining to Supply to FSM.
• Post go-live, spearheaded Lean initiatives for invoice processing, resulting in a 30% improved order to cash cycle time. Developed business health KPIs, created information radiators, and presented regularly to.

London, England, GB

• Ensured thorough handover of ETRM system to Commercial Operations business, during hypercare period.
• Led SWAT team to overcome significant post go-live business challenges, shoring up Transportation and Inventory Reconciliation processes. Responsible for direction of 15 Shell and consultant resources.
• Provided comprehensive stakeholder engagement to leadership.

London, England, GB

• Focal for all Commercial Operations business functionality for large-scale Openlink Endur rollout (Blueprint Project), encompassed oil scheduling, inventory accounting, and onshore lease administration.
• Business champion steering business towards fit for purpose solution; negotiated scope to balance system quality against time/budget constraints.
• Secured quality Endur customizations through deep collaboration with vendor. Worked daily with cMotion developers to ensure critical needs of Oil Schedulers, Inventory Accountants, and Crude Lease Admins were delivered.
• Accountable for all Ops system functionality and configuration data, throughout SDLC.
• Played key role in designing and implementing Ops cutover and go-live strategy.

London, England, GB

Responsible for Gulf of Mexico crude production, Gulf Coast refinery deliveries, and trading hubs.

London, England, GB

Risk Control Analyst, Demurrage Analyst, and Oil Pipeline Scheduler.

London, England, GB

Managed rollout of ETRM system (Endur) for refined products business.

ETRM business analysis and software development.