Laura Allan, Spc Email & Phone Number

San Francisco Bay Area

South San Francisco, California, United States

Critical leader of the Digital Transformation Catalyst Team dedicated to transforming Chevron’s operating model, standing up and scaling digital platforms across the enterprise. •Executed first digital platform and coached Agile leadership teams on shifting mindset and organizational structure, reducing cost, increasing delivery to market and maximizing collaboration throughout Chevron. •Developed content and approach for organizational change to bring digital platforms to life and scale, driving growth, innovation and end-to-end value to customers. •Tested Team of Teams’ Model, identifying causation, inhibiting platform operating performance and scalability.•Mentored multiple new Scrum Masters and Release Train Engineers by sharing best practices and providing guidance to accelerate learning.

San Ramon, California, United States

Release Train Engineer on Cloud Readiness Acceleration program which grew from 4 to 60+ teams and was first to scale Agile. The program’s success resulted in the implementation of Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) across Chevron. •Managed Agile Release Train (ART), a team of teams, consisting of 9 Agile Teams that migrated Chevron’s applications to Microsoft Azure, exceeding yearly target migrating 400+ applications. •Facilitated Program Increment (PI) Planning which fostered cross-team collaboration and aligned all 500+ people to business goals, shared mission and vision of the program. •Coordinated resolution and escalation of Cloud Program impediments, helped managed risk, and drove continuous improvement across Cloud Program, increasing the speed of delivery. •Created Release Train Engineer (RTE) Community to share best practices that fostered peer-to-peer learning culture.•Formed Lean-Agile Coaching and Enablement team to build up Digital Consultants and provided them with the knowledge and tools needed to drive business agility throughout the organization. •Taught various Agile and SAFe training classes, enabling and accelerating new teams working in Agile across Chevron. •Created Product Management Framework and facilitated workshops across Chevron to empower teams to evolve from Projects and Operations to Products and Services.

Covington, Louisiana, United States

Project Manager on two IT lean-agile projects and business analyst on a project working with Finance and Petroleum Engineers. •Managed post-merger project to reduce duplicative High-Performance Computing IT environments which directly reduced expense by $800K annually.•Served as Business Analyst to develop Offshore Platform Abandonment application to replace manual efforts to perform Asset Retirement processes in place today saving FTE time and to avoid government fines. •Spearheaded the relationship between business and technology teams throughout the project, ensuring system requirements were correct; received recognition and award from senior leadership for superb partnership and collaborative execution between IT and business.•Developed end-user training and held training classes to teach end-users how to use the new system.

Covington, Louisiana, United States

Provided strategic counsel to CIO and leadership teams to prioritize portfolios/projects, secure funding and streamline business processes and project methodologies for seamless execution of projects across Chevron.•Advised leaders to provide business planning and spend guidance, secure funding, drive cost-saving initiatives and promote Capital funding of IT projects. •Deployed Gulf of Mexico’s (GOM) IT Function integrated business planning application to centralize, automate and simplify business planning to provide quality data for better decision making across the enterprise.•Orchestrated merger for strategy and planning processes and key activities for the Deep Water and Exploration Business Unit with the Gulf of Mexico that resulted in a successful merger and consolidation of two business and project portfolio plans.•Delivered business intelligence financial reporting model to automate G&A operational reporting, reducing the need for additional headcount. •Planned and facilitated weekly IT leadership team meetings, IT leadership quarterly offsite meetings and quarterly town halls.

Houston, Texas, United States

Consulted CIO and leadership team to drive organizational alignment, business planning, strategy, streamline processes, and provide data to support critical decisions. Supply project portfolio manager and Project Manager. •Delivered IT Business Plan for 4 fiscal cycles and monitored the ~$100M Supply and Trading IT operating expenses. •Established governance meetings with leaders across business, developing long and short-term strategic plans, preparing projections and obtaining endorsement for budget forecasts and major capital investments. •Managed Supply Project Portfolio and implemented new processes to manage and track portfolio spend, reducing variance 25%.•Headed creation of a 3-year project roadmap. Process matured project plans beyond one year, allowing prioritization of most value-driven projects.•Served as Project Manager and Business Analyst to deliver a solution to UK Trading Risk Team which automated and removed manual errors from daily regulatory reporting.•Acted as a business analyst for Supply Chain Data Foundation Project to consolidate all seven Chevron refinery systems into one integrated system, resulting in reduced IT costs and redundancies.

Houston, Texas Area

Analyst on Operating Model initiative identifying IT as Service for Chevron. •Developed IT Operating Model Program to mature Chevron’s enterprise-wide IT Asset Management capabilities.•Reduced intercompany billing complexities by developing a Service Portfolio Catalog and integrating it into IT Function Business Planning.

Houston, Texas, United States

Analyst on Project Management Office creating and managing all content for Chevron’s internal project management methodology. ·Managed, created, and updated Chevron IT project methodology content, tools, and training materials to provide project managers with tools and competency needed to deliver successful projects.

Houston, Texas, United States

Worked as a Business Analyst and compiled user requirements to build and successfully deploy a Geo-Technical web application that provided Geologist and Earth Scientist an online library to store all Core Sample data.

Houston, Texas, United States

Provided technical assistance and support for incoming queries and issues related to computer systems, software, and hardware. Responded to queries either in person or over the phone.

Bachelor Of Science - Bs, Computer Information Systems

Activities and Societies: Founder and President of the Association of Information Technology Professionals (AITP)

Entrepreneurship/Entrepreneurial Studies