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Houston, Texas, United States

Houston, Texas, United States

Houston, Texas, United States

Houston, Texas, United States

IT Product Manager for Hess's methane emissions technologies. Key responsibilities include:*Rationalizing our portfolio of existing methane emission detection technologies*Identifying and piloting new methane emissions technologies in partnership with our Digital/CTO office, EHS, and Asset Operations.*Scoping and scaling successful tech pilots to full implementation*Development of evergreen product roadmaps, runbooks, and support models*Data centralization… Show more IT Product Manager for Hess's methane emissions technologies. Key responsibilities include:*Rationalizing our portfolio of existing methane emission detection technologies*Identifying and piloting new methane emissions technologies in partnership with our Digital/CTO office, EHS, and Asset Operations.*Scoping and scaling successful tech pilots to full implementation*Development of evergreen product roadmaps, runbooks, and support models*Data centralization, contextualization, and accessibility for all solutions Show less

Greater Houston

In this role I lead technical consulting engagements for various clients across North America. These engagements span several weeks to several months and cover the full suite of Red Hat products and managed services.

Spring, Texas, United States

Managed a team of early to late career employees and contractors and owned 6 enterprise analytics platforms. Owned customer engagement, value identification, roadmap creation, and backlog prioritization across 3 geographical regions spanning ~1500 customers. Frequent C-level engagement and presentations.17 Direct Reports● Delivered $50M+ in annual savings through delivery of analytical solutions and consulting spanning operational expense stewardship, field asset identification… Show more Managed a team of early to late career employees and contractors and owned 6 enterprise analytics platforms. Owned customer engagement, value identification, roadmap creation, and backlog prioritization across 3 geographical regions spanning ~1500 customers. Frequent C-level engagement and presentations.17 Direct Reports● Delivered $50M+ in annual savings through delivery of analytical solutions and consulting spanning operational expense stewardship, field asset identification and reconciliation, regulatory and safety compliance.● Saved $1.5M in annual licensing and operational costs through merging redundant platforms and services across the IT organization.● Increased program velocity by 30% through implementation of agile methodologies.● Led cross-organizational citizen developer program, focused on customer enablement and product uptake through creation and delivery of tailored training, platform utilization metrics, and communities of practice.● Developed business intelligence strategy to align customer workflows and use cases with preferred tools and platforms, including retirement of non-strategic platforms and renegotiations of existing vendor contracts.● Career planning and performance management for all direct reports. Show less

Spring, Texas, United States

Technology strategy advisor and program manager for the Conventional and Unconventional Upstream research organizations. Frequent C-level engagement and presentations.5-10 Indirect Reports● Managed a $50M IT program across multiple functional organizations, implementing a value-based project prioritization framework implemented with senior business leadership and C-level executives.● Saved $5.3M annually in operational costs through cross-functional pipeline integrity data… Show more Technology strategy advisor and program manager for the Conventional and Unconventional Upstream research organizations. Frequent C-level engagement and presentations.5-10 Indirect Reports● Managed a $50M IT program across multiple functional organizations, implementing a value-based project prioritization framework implemented with senior business leadership and C-level executives.● Saved $5.3M annually in operational costs through cross-functional pipeline integrity data aggregation and visualization program. This program provided for the first time a holistic view of global pipeline health and ultimately expanded into a global pipeline integrity program.● Increased customer satisfaction with ExxonMobil’s IT organization by 30% through leading a global customer satisfaction program. Leveraged Design Thinking principles to identify areas of service improvement, spanning 4 geographical regions, involving 200+ individuals, and resulting in the creation of new support teams and services. Show less

The Woodlands, Texas, United States

Informal leadership role - developed and implemented a 5 year strategic roadmap for ExxonMobil’s global UNIX and Linux environment.10 Indirect Reports● Reduced licensing costs by 30% through leading an end-of-life system modernization program. Led work streams across dozens of IT and business customers to modernize application platforms and underlying infrastructure.● Reduced support costs by 50% through leading an in-country global support transition to a managed service… Show more Informal leadership role - developed and implemented a 5 year strategic roadmap for ExxonMobil’s global UNIX and Linux environment.10 Indirect Reports● Reduced licensing costs by 30% through leading an end-of-life system modernization program. Led work streams across dozens of IT and business customers to modernize application platforms and underlying infrastructure.● Reduced support costs by 50% through leading an in-country global support transition to a managed service provider. Designed training and KPIs to steward progress and success.● Reduced server provisioning and patching times by 55% through leading Red Hat Satellite server implementation project. Architected and deployed RH Satellite, developed and implemented automated patching and provisioning workflows. Show less