Gerard Kavanagh Email & Phone Number

Uk

My position in the Schlumberger Continuous Improvement Organisation was CI Expert.The minimum requirements for this position:■ Green Belt Lean Six Sigma Training (approved external training)■ Proficiency in facilitation skills, understanding of P & L and balance sheet■ Support several Practitioners and Advanced training classes■ All projects must be done within three (3) years time frame■ Lead several additional variation reduction projects (Six Sigma)■ Combined total net savings must exceed $10M■ Develop and implement a CI Plan for your business unit■ Mentor Practitioner and Advanced Practitioner Green Belt candidates■ Formal peer recommendation

Gatwick, Uk

As the Sales Technology Manager my principal goal is understanding what is and what isn't achievable. The clients range from major oil companies to small contracting companies, from senior executives to junior staff just learning how to use the product: Clients located globally. ■ Discuss and understand the challenges the clients are trying to meet■ Manage their expectations of what can be achieved.■ Represent Product in Client Senior executive strategy meetings.■ Supply technical assistance to regional support teams and directly to clients.■ Visit clients in their offices around the world to better understand their challenges.■ Prioritise very diverse requirements in the development cycle with tight budget constraints.■ Act as Product Owner in the Agile process. As Product Champion the aim is to:■ Take the value proposition of our software products to our clients.■ Create understanding of requirements with R+E from the requests voiced by clients for their needs/challenges, ■ Communicate the development plans to our regional sales force.■ Inform the customer, as part of this, I have made several sales presentations at major industry conferences. To improve the commercialization process to get our products to market faster whilst maintaining reliability I had to persuade the various stakeholders that change was needed:■ Introduced a standard Pricing Process for our Geophysical Processing Platform. This is used for all Modules for the platform.■ Created a standard commercialisation process for sales.■ Designed and developed a SharePoint site for managing client development requests and status of development to share with global team.■ Defined a clear process of what is expected in a commercial product.■ Guided, as LEAN Master, a team of LEAN practitioners to remove bottlenecks in workflows used.

Gatwick, Uk

Principal Software Programme/Project Manager position in Agile development environment.■ Large number of a variety of different small - large scale software development projects.■ Focus on supplying a vision, identifying/analysis of requirements from internal and external consumers of our varied products.■ Setting time-line targets for development and commercialising the product for deployment internally and also sell external to the company. ■ Ensuring all the material for a successful commercialisation is in place.Achievements:■ Project to introduce the first WesternGeco 64bit processing system. This has allowed our Geophysical Software package(s) to become one of the leading products in the industry with the fastest growing market share. This Project involved over 300 developers in North America and Europe, with many mini projects required to achieve this by the target deadline. ■ Project to bring the Omega Desktop from Unix to Microsoft Windows for the first time. This allows us to demonstrate full integration with the industry leading visualization and modelling system, Petrel. This involved development teams in the US and Europe. ■ Introduced a Proactive Data Management system which automates the management of the Seismic Data, several locations have over 16 petabytes of data to manage. ■ Created a commercial tool for collaboration with our clients in service contracts as a tool to view Seismic data. By managing with a commercial external focus we produced a new product to sell, in it's own right, as a desirable package externally to clients. ■ Lean Champion for Schlumberger GeoSolutions. This involves acting as an advisor and "Master" on projects to improve Quality and Efficiency within the organisation.

Global

A specialist project to take improve the quality of the processes used globally.Achievements■ Roll out LEAN Six Sigma ideology and methods within WesternGeco Data Processing and R+E.■ Providing workshops, training and support to over 30 sites globally, covering all the regions. ■ Managed a small development team to create a variety of tools to assist the regions in adopting Lean Six Sigma practices, all still in use today.

Gatwick, Uk

In this position I was the Program manager for a broad spectrum of business focused software projects which must be delivered within a very tight business defined deadline while maintaining robust development methods to ensure product longevity. The projects vary in programming language, operating systems, database technologies and hardware. They vary from high end number crunching products to small dynamic user interfaces. A lot of fun.

Gatwick, Uk

At this time I managed two separate development teams:One team was the European half of the development team to create a new Geophysical processing system to take the company into the future, part of this was to work as a software architect taking the good points from both the pre-existing packages and adapt them for future use. This involved managing several projects of varying size and complexity. In this period I designed the core database to manage all the transactions for this system. This was designed to be database "provider" agnostic, to this end I did the design in SQLServer the implementation in Oracle and verification with MySQL.The other team I managed was focussed on supporting the old pre-existing Geophysical processing package. With the need to meet business critical needs in this transitional period within tight budget constraints.

Bedford, Uk

Manage the rapid turnaround of multiple software packages to meet business critical needs. This involved leading a team of developers within a tight budget constraint.This includes designing a solution to meet the short term need but with a long term perspective, as it saves money in the long run and costs no more.I designed the database to capture all our licence and entitlement information for the multi-client data.

Bedford, Uk

Managing a team of developers working on a variety of different projects. This required managing multiple independent Software Projects some with linkage to projects in other locations and some totally independent.Each individual project could not be larger than a one man year in resource demand, from inception to commercialisation.