Craig Foot Email & Phone Number

London, England, United Kingdom

Leading a team delivering horizontal platform capabilities that accelerate the delivery of vertical segment roadmaps.

London

Set up and lead a cross-functional leadership team for Upstream covering the whole segment’s product portfolio. Worked with the team to develop a 2-year road map and dependencies. Responsible for building and tracking the quarterly capex budget for product development timecodes across my portfolio. Leadership responsibilities include a team of four Product Owner direct reports.Championed the implementation of Productboard and Amplitude, resulting in more precise and consistent road mapping and product analytics practices across the Product organisation. This was instrumental in refining our planning process and proved a critical data source for information requests during the company’s acquisition. Adopting the tools directly linked customer feedback to road map items across the portfolio to clearly show how the voice (and behaviour) of the customer supports our plan.Developed a customer-validated product strategy to build, test, and launch a new solution on the Lens platform. “Lens Subsurface Discovery” successfully migrated customers to Lens resulting in the retirement of the legacy PetroView solution, simultaneously increasing subscription revenue. The solution became the Lens platform’s fastest-growing by contract value within 12 months of launch.

London, United Kingdom

Jointly responsible for the creation of the backlog from inception for Upstream solutions on Wood Mackenzie’s new platform (“Lens”). Participated in Design Sprints to produce prototypes and initiate client feedback to inform the backlog.Regular liaison with clients and internal stakeholders on the existing product and its future road map. Support of the development team in their delivery of sprint objectives, and subject matter expert on GIS architecture and delivery.

London, United Kingdom

Created a road map for the PetroView product as part of the Petroleum Services Group’s integration, following an acquisition by Wood Mackenzie. Developed the product road map to take the application through a major platform upgrade from ArcMap to Pro to prepare it for the introduction of web services.Regularly called upon by Sales, Marketing, and Account Management teams to advise on product positioning and account strategies.Esri subject matter expert during vendor selection for a project to replace Google Maps Engine.

London, United Kingdom

Leads the GIS team in the development of PetroView, a desktop extension for the ArcGIS and MapInfo GIS packages.Lead developer and system architect for PetroView Online, a single-page web application built with ArcGIS for Server, ESRI JavaScript API, and the Angular JavaScript framework.Lead developer on a project to integrate a database containing attributes relating to a client’s prospective hydrocarbon fields with corresponding spatial layers via an ArcGIS add-in.

London, United Kingdom

Lead developer on the PetroView application, overseeing development iterations and co-ordinating the development team.After the successful adoption of the Agile development methodology by the GIS team, assisted with its roll-out to other product teams within the group.Planned the development of web services to expose the group’s datasets to its subscribers.Ran a feasibility study to investigate the use of Google Maps Engine to provide web mapping services from a cloud based platform.

London, United Kingdom

Initial developer on an application module to visualise geological surfaces derived from well point datasets.Implemented FinalBuilder Server to automate a number of the group’s internal processes relating to the monthly creation of our global geo-databases.Application developer on the PetroView product during its transition from a VB6 to a VB.NET codebase.Oversaw the creation of an internal wiki to document the group’s various data and application development workflows. The wiki was created using a deployment of Microsoft’s SharePoint Server.Lead the adoption of Team Foundation Server source control and an upgrade to Visual Studio that enabled the adoption of the Agile methodology within the development team.Formalised the logging of product helpline calls.

London, United Kingdom

Developer on a project to create a desktop application to record and model parameters associated with a company’s prospective hydrocarbon fields. The project involved the migration of existing hydrocarbon volume model data from Microsoft Excel spreadsheets and converting the business logic from macros into VB.NET code. The data was stored in a local database and then synchronised to an enterprise database via web services.Secondment to an independent exploration and production company, to provide recommendations for improved spatial data management and provided documentation which enabled users to implement the improved workflows.Author of a three-day course for ArcGIS for Desktop, specifically aimed at users in the oil and gas industry, and has run the course frequently at client sites since 2010.Re-designed the PetroView user documentation workflows using XML and XSLT. The process allows analysts to write documentation in Microsoft Word before automatically generating HTML, XML and PDF outputs, greatly reducing the time required to provide updated versions for new application releases.Attended the ESRI Developer Summit, Palm Springs.

London, United Kingdom

Responsible for the group’s cartographic requirements, which involved the creation of maps for presentations and marketing of the group’s datasets.Key point of contact for colleague and client geodetic queries, providing advice and training on co-ordinate reference systems and transformations.Assisted in the creation of a global maritime boundary database, digitised from source material provided by the UN.Responsible for maintaining training course content and product help documentation, and facilitating product training courses.First-line support analyst on the PetroView product helpline, dealing with client queries relating to a range of spatial data workflows.Presented a paper at the UNIGIS conference 2008