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Calgary, Alberta, Canada

Provide data management and analytics consulting to exploration business. Build data integration between multiple systems and implement dashboards in Spotfire.

Provide data management and analytics consulting to exploration business. Build data integration between multiple systems and implement dashboards in Spotfire.

Calgary, Alberta, Canada

Calgary

Provide data management and analytics consulting to exploration business. Build data integration between multiple systems and implement dashboards in Spotfire.

Calgary

• Responsible to review and recommend changes to Document Governance project charter.• Facilitated key stakeholder sessions to gather feedback and ensure buy in to governance strategy.• Develop project plan for department migration to document management system• Facilitate technical architecture review sessions to ensure systems are capable of handling new volume of documents• Facilitate department working sessions to develop document classifications, naming standards and review… Show more • Responsible to review and recommend changes to Document Governance project charter.• Facilitated key stakeholder sessions to gather feedback and ensure buy in to governance strategy.• Develop project plan for department migration to document management system• Facilitate technical architecture review sessions to ensure systems are capable of handling new volume of documents• Facilitate department working sessions to develop document classifications, naming standards and review specific workflows.• Analysis of current document folder structures and volume of documents (over 100,000)• Develop go live plans and training sessions. Show less

Calgary

• Develop requirements, business process improvements and specific technical deliverables to migrate 30-year-old software to modern custom web-based platform.• Investigate and recommend improvements to A/R, A/P, Sales Orders and invoicing processes.• Investigate and recommend improvements to inventory management processes.• Provide specific tasks and deliverables to development team for end-user improvements, bug fixes etc.• End-user training and feedback gathering.

Calgary

• Responsible for transition of critical business processes that were disrupted during acquisition including document management, EAM, Management of Change, Continuous Improvements and others• Develop Enterprise Information Management strategy and tactical deliverables for document management and data management projects.• Provided IT Project managers with information regarding current processes and their alignment to new systems being implemented.

Calgary

Provide Business Analysis and Process Improvements for managing water well data.- Responsible for overall improvements in Water Well data management for both licensed and unlicensed water wells, including process improvements, data quality improvements and automation/integration.- Coordinated process improvements between Calgary Geoscience team, Environmental Field Ops team, I.T and third-party laboratory company.- Implemented data quality improvements in Equis database including… Show more Provide Business Analysis and Process Improvements for managing water well data.- Responsible for overall improvements in Water Well data management for both licensed and unlicensed water wells, including process improvements, data quality improvements and automation/integration.- Coordinated process improvements between Calgary Geoscience team, Environmental Field Ops team, I.T and third-party laboratory company.- Implemented data quality improvements in Equis database including correcting improper UWI’s, inconsistent well header information, orphaned field samples, lab results and temperature and pressure data. - Reconciled water well database with corporate databases; implemented monthly automated consistency reports between Equis and PPDM database.- Coordinated with IT colleagues to create automated monthly data analysis for known issues in Equis database. Developed initial SQL queries to be used in ETL system analysis.- Automated field temperature and pressure data verification against allowable tolerances and thresholds including nightly verification of data and email reporting when issues are detected.- Automated water chemistry lab results against known water quality guidelines including daily checks of new lab results and email reporting for when results are not within compliance levels. Included reorganizing data in Equis, developing needed SQL queries, coordinating data virtualization needs with IT colleagues, testing and user training. - Investigated, designed and tested data virtualization layers for water well data. - Coordinated Spotfire project changes with Oil Sands Technical Services Team for improved reporting. Show less

Calgary

• Responsible for implementation of Spotfire analytics tool and CiscoDV data integration tool including setup of development, test and production servers. (Application and database)• Responsible for development of data integration in CiscoDV building queries to retrieve data from internal well master database, gDC data hub and spreadsheets.• Assisted IT colleagues with migration of Spotfire visualizations received as part of Statoil acquisition, including analysis and setup of new data… Show more • Responsible for implementation of Spotfire analytics tool and CiscoDV data integration tool including setup of development, test and production servers. (Application and database)• Responsible for development of data integration in CiscoDV building queries to retrieve data from internal well master database, gDC data hub and spreadsheets.• Assisted IT colleagues with migration of Spotfire visualizations received as part of Statoil acquisition, including analysis and setup of new data sources and migrating sources from spreadsheets to field data capture sources.• Responsible for upgrade of Geographix software and servers from GGX2010 to GGX2014 to GGX2016 including database and application servers, desktop client upgrades, testing training.• Coordinated upgrade of CSExplorer to CSLand software working with vendor and Land business unit to ensure project timing, schedule and testing were all satisfactory. Show less

Calgary

Enbridge Document Search Improvements Project● Provide data analysis, hierarchy design and system architecture expertise to project team based on document meta-data in Livelink and existing issues in search interfaces.● Worked with client to develop Business Requirements, priorities and high level solution designs.● Facilitated initial working sessions with client to provide overall understanding of project direction, potential risks and to validate general approach.

Calgary

Provide expertise and guidance for Electronic Well File system and Master Database implementation- Responsible for needs analysis, requirements gathering and overall direction of EWF project.- Responsible for overall system selection process of PPDM database vendor.- Implemented PPDM database after successful proof of concept using NeuraDB software.- Provided technical details to development team on how to integrate PPDM data to Sharepoint document management system.-… Show more Provide expertise and guidance for Electronic Well File system and Master Database implementation- Responsible for needs analysis, requirements gathering and overall direction of EWF project.- Responsible for overall system selection process of PPDM database vendor.- Implemented PPDM database after successful proof of concept using NeuraDB software.- Provided technical details to development team on how to integrate PPDM data to Sharepoint document management system.- Provided technical details to development team on how to manage all Alberta well data including proper use of PPDM data model, tracking and updating of UWI amendments, well identity data requirements, update schedules etc.- Provide process improvement consulting to Light Oil division to streamline process of licensing wells, managing amendments and how to properly store/track documents and data- Technical tasks include system testing, data integrity checking, end user support and correcting data issues in PPDM as required.- Provide end-user support, training sessions and documentation.- Coordinate User Group Meetings to gather feedback and priorities for future development.- In conjunction with Project Manager, meet with Steering Committee members to organize priorities, project schedules, execution plans, budget approvals etc. Show less

Calgary

- Provide expertise and guidance for Oil Sands Well Records Managment project. Gather/Define business requirements, create/update required project managment documentation, evaluate potential software candidates, interview end-users etc- Responsible for needs analysis, requirements gathering and planning of WRM project.- Responsible for building As-Is and To-Be Processes to identify opportunities for improvement and potential data gaps and QC issues.- Developed process… Show more - Provide expertise and guidance for Oil Sands Well Records Managment project. Gather/Define business requirements, create/update required project managment documentation, evaluate potential software candidates, interview end-users etc- Responsible for needs analysis, requirements gathering and planning of WRM project.- Responsible for building As-Is and To-Be Processes to identify opportunities for improvement and potential data gaps and QC issues.- Developed process improvements and execution plan for key data types including Core Sample, - Analysis , Well Reports and Log data from acquisition through to final storage in corporate databases.- Developed methodologies for determining current data quality metrics, improvements and new standards for categorization, meta-data and standardization of data and documents.- Managed Front-End Loading (FEL) process for project approvals and gate-keeping.- Responsible for providing “roadmap” that demonstrates alignment with other IT projects in Canada and the US.- Worked with Project Owner and Sponsor to ensure project plan aligns with business priorities and deadlines.- Responsible for vendor selection, technology choices and technical direction.- Prototyped and tested mapping interfaces, search and ETL tools to determine suitability.- Developed approximately 600 rules to migrate existing document categories and sub-categories to new naming conventions and standards.- Devloped SQL script to perform document category migraton Show less

Calgary, Canada Area

Responsible for overall project planning, schedule, analysis and business process re-design for implementing new ERP system and associated workflows.Coordinate with Operations, IT and Sales Managers.Work with company partners to identify and improve many business processes.

Calgary, Ab

- Participated in extensive global strategy sessions to coordinate data management projects between Dallas, Uxbridge and Calgary offices, including workshops in each location.- Yemen Engineering Database team member – implemented data capture and delivery of field data from Yemen Masila field to OFM database in Calgary. Involved with implementing Landmark Engineering Data Model (EDM) and provided team with data mapping for proper data loading and integration to OFM.- Delivered new data… Show more - Participated in extensive global strategy sessions to coordinate data management projects between Dallas, Uxbridge and Calgary offices, including workshops in each location.- Yemen Engineering Database team member – implemented data capture and delivery of field data from Yemen Masila field to OFM database in Calgary. Involved with implementing Landmark Engineering Data Model (EDM) and provided team with data mapping for proper data loading and integration to OFM.- Delivered new data delivery system for Gulf of Mexico data to automatically integrate vendor data (Intellex) into OpenWorks projects. Role included system integration design, technical advice and coordination between business users and I.T. project team.- Designed automated system to manage cancelled and amended wells in Canadian OpenWorks projects to reduce manual process from 2 ½ days to ½ day. Coordinate further enhancements with colleagues.- Designed automated system to update public tops in OpenWorks database to reduce manual process from 2 ½ days to ½ day.- Day to day support of OpenWorks users- Apply weekly updates to OpenWorks projects including cancelled and amended wells, well header and directional survey updates, QC checks- Coordinated with GIS team to ensure proper GIS standards are being used in all projects.- Performed coordinate cleanup and troubleshooting as necessary.- Involved in ongoing NAD27 to NAD83 project coordinate conversion- OpenWorks R5000 implementation project including planning, testing, and roll-out of over 80 OpenWorks projects both Canadian and International asset areas.- OpenWorks R5000 evaluation/testing project. - Championed need for OpenWorks project cleanup. Provided technical advice to Project Manager regarding scope, approach, effort etc. - Tested OpenWorks project cleanup methodology.- Implemented RoQC data management tool.- Designed and implemented group use of Remedy call tracking system. Show less

Senior Consultant specializing in data management projects and OpenWorks support. Certified instructor in OpenWorks System Admin, Geo Data Management and OpenExplorer

Calgary

Tested custom developed software for loading data into OpenWorks projects. This prototype would be the basis for the OpenExplorer Data Store Loader tool that was the commercially available software tool offered by Landmark Graphics from 2000 - 2008