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London, England, Gb

Key areas of responsibility (role comprised of three core areas):1. Chief of Staff – Ensuring safe, effective and efficient operation of the Technology function. Included leading the central Transformation office (implementation of “product-led” operating model), professional disciplines (talent strategy including recruitment training and development across key technology professions), establishment and operationalisation of new engineering centre in Pune, India.2. Commercial Development - Enhancing commercial outcomes delivered by Technology function. Active optimisation of $1.2bn/yr. investment portfolio and management of key intellectual property assets.3. Technology R&D - Led teams responsible for longer-range research and development programs including sub-surface imaging, seismic data acquisition, robotics and unmanned asset inspectionKey achievements:Designed and implemented standard portfolio management solution including associated tooling and processes. Delivered consistent and data-driven performance management of all Digital activities across four legacy bp business units.Completed adoption of product-led operating model across 5 key digital delivery teams. Process included designing operating model, organisational re-design, role re-evaluation and delivery of training and awareness materials to 2,500 employees and >10,000 third-party staff.Completed industry-first fully remote inspection of subsurface infrastructure associated with offshore oil platform prior to start of decommissioning.

London, England, Gb

Key areas of responsibility: Led a small team (9 direct reports) responsible for managing and optimising a circa $1.2bn/yr. investment portfolio covering all Digital and IT activities to support bp businesses.Responsible for implementation of standardised investment and finance management tooling (effectively consolidating 4 disparate legacy businesses and ways of working into one common tool and associated processes to allow effective management of funds across business areas).Introduced key portfolio management techniques to ensure that investment funds were aligned with business and technology strategic objectives and to provide transparent performance management.Key achievements:Delivered investment efficiencies exceeding $250m in 2023 leveraging insights and performance data delivered through implementation of standardised process and tooling.Dramatically improved transparency and visibility of Digital product financial performance to benefitting business teams, moving from 6 monthly to monthly reporting across all key performance metrics.

London, England, Gb

Key responsibilities:Led development of Digital strategy for bp Downstream segment (Refining and Marketing businesses).(Dec 2019 – Aug 2020) role expanded to provide Business Advisor/Chief of Staff services to new SVP – Downstream Digital.Key achievements:Strategy identified key areas of potential differentiation where Digital capabilities (including leveraging proprietary data) provide a disproportionate competitive advantage.Led the design and implementation of new operating model and associated organisation changes to support the bp Reinvent program.

London, England, Gb

Key responsibilities:Role ensured that marketing strategies, investments and fuel and lubricant product development funds were aligned with objectives of strategic automotive OEM partners including leveraging proprietary Connected Car capabilities to improve customer experience in bp fuel and convenience retail business.From 2015 responsible for design, development and implementation of consumer-facing bpMe smartphone app providing Loyalty, mobile payment and remote ordering services at retail petrol stations.Acted as Product Manager for mobile applications leading a team of circa 60 3rd party engineers delivering DevOps services via customer twin-track Agile delivery methodology.Key achievements:(March 2019) bpMe mobile application was live in 6 countries (UK, US, AUS, NZ, NL and ES), had been downloaded by >1.5m customers and achieved >4.5/5 average score on Apple and Android platforms.

Van Buren Township, Mi, Us

Key responsibilities:Business Development Manager combining Program & Account management responsibilities for all Visteon Corp. Climate Control business in Russia.Key achievements: Successfully led the team that delivered the Powertrain Cooling and Air Conditioning systems (combined annual revenue of circa $100m delivered a 2 x min corporate financial hurdle rates) to AVTOVAZ for use in the LADA Granta (2190) within 18 months from supplier selection to start of mass production.Led the creation of a local joint-venture partnership to manage the import and local assembly of products manufactured in Korea. JV set up aligned with supplier localisation and modernisation objectives of AVTOVAZ and the Renault/Nissan Alliance.

Van Buren Township, Mi, Us

Key responsibilities:Strategic tier 2 supplier raw material surcharge and price management including recovery of all raw material cost increases from Ford of Europe and Jaguar Land Rover (JLR)Analysis and negotiation of warranty payments to Ford of Europe and JLR resulting from faulty product.Key achievements:Implemented “auto-materials” pricing adjustment solution across $250m/yr. business. Solution insulated Visteon from raw material price exposure across key raw materials incl. Aluminium and Copper.Program Manager for a global supplier consolidation program covering all rolled Aluminium products supplied to Visteon Climate Control and Halla Climate Control manufacturing plants worldwide.

Van Buren Township, Mi, Us

Key responsibilities:Senior engineer responsible for the delivery of all product development activities for all powertrain cooling programs supplied by Visteon Corp. to Ford of Europe

Van Buren Township, Mi, Us

Key responsibilities: Resident engineering lead for Visteon Corp. based in Mazda Motor Corp., Hiroshima, Japan responsible for the development of powertrain cooling products for the Ford B2e (Fiesta) program.

Van Buren Township, Mi, Us

Bath, Gb

Meng, Automotive Engineering

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