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Houston, Texas, US

Leading the delivery of Project Lean Methodologies; including Last Planner System®, Choosing by Advantages, Target Value Design.

Houston, Texas, US

Assisting owners and project teams to improve capital project execution with Lean Project Delivery methodologies.Worked with teams to utilize Last Planner processes to improve schedule reliability and cross-team coordination at the $2+ billion New Stanford Hospital. Efforts enabled early delivery of surgical/radiology area. Assisted eleven Activation teams.

Assisting teams and organizations to achieve improved project results utilizing Lean Project Delivery processes (includes collaborative project planning and execution, effective stakeholder engagement, and maximizing delivered value). Effecting change through leadership engagement, training, and facilitating/coaching teams. Project teams have ranged from.

Opened and operated a showcase fast casual restaurant in Pleasant Hill, California.Opened and operated a space-themed 30,000 sq. ft. family entertainment center (buffet & games) in Katy, Texas.

San Ramon, CA, US

• Account Manager for $32 million of IT services to Corporation Departments, plus $9 million in new technology projects. Managed 160+ technology professionals supporting Finance, Human Resources, and Procurement. SAP and.
• Resolved long-running conflicts to enable integration of Finance IT staff into the centralized IT organization.
• Solved staffing issues for SAP HR implementation and SAP 4.7 upgrade.
• Facilitated the contentious eProcurement (Ariba) initiative.
• Took ownership of two strategic IT initiatives: o Developed Chevron’s enterprise strategy for integration technology. Facing cultural resistance to new technologies, led the opportunity assessment and made the business.
• Rapidly reduced telecom outages by 60 percent by instilling coordinated, reliable, customer-focused service.

Atyrau, Atyrau Oblast, KZ

• Start-up IT leader for the then largest joint venture in the former Soviet Union, formed to develop the huge Tengiz oilfield in under-developed western Kazakhstan. The JV started with a mandate to rapidly execute a $1+.
• The first full ERP internationally in Chevron (financial, procurement, warehouse, and HR functions); using J D Edwards (which was later adopted as the standard for international sites)
• 1000+ PC's, with a “better than home office” high-performance network
• 2000+ telephones, 50+ km of fiber optic cable, 2 international satellite circuits, 2 intra-Kazakhstan satellite circuits and 10+ microwave circuits
• Negotiated $22+ millions of telecom, software, hardware, consultant and construction contracts
• Built a strong customer service organization with a blend of developing nationals and multinational expatriates.These services spanned 4 major work sites in the Tengiz region, offices across Kazakhstan, Moscow, and a.

San Ramon, CA, US

• Managed 100+ accounting and administrative service staff for one of Chevron’s largest refineries.
• Reduced operating costs and staff by 20 percent while continuing service improvements; example, Accounts Payable late payments reduced 80% through process review and solid metrics.
• Streamlined cumbersome maintenance planning processes to cut computer costs 40 percent and improve data timeliness and reliability.

San Ramon, CA, US

• Formed a home office IT group (just after Chevron’s acquisition of Gulf Oil’s large international oil & gas operations):
• Provided IT oversight, project support and business system consultation throughout Chevron-operated sites and affiliates. Extensive travel in West Africa, Europe, Indonesia, Papua New Guinea, China, and Australia.
• Developed Finance’s IT strategy for reliable financial control in remote locations; installing a common General Ledger and warehouse system in Nigeria, Angola, Zaire and Papua New Guinea. Overcame large cultural change.
• Developed a strategy of using off-the-shelf software to reduce costs and speed implementations; an innovation within Chevron at the time.
• Evolved Finance-dominated IT strategies to an operations-focused strategy; an early champion of emerging ERP software suites instead of using best-of-breed solutions.
• Quality Initiative Champion for COPI Finance.

Mba, Info. Systems & Accounting

Bas, Operations Research