• Managed complex projects including data center acquisitions and private cloud deployments.• Oversaw the implementation of high-performance computing (HPC) and AI-specific hardware.• Collaborated with cross-functional teams to ensure project success and timely delivery.

• Led three programs that elevated data security, surpassing current security metrics by over 50%, to safeguard customer data egress.• Developed automation solutions in Prompt Engineering to enhance the evaluation of large language models (LLM) — boosting speed and accuracy by 50%.

• Led the migration of Shell’s business verticals (e.g., Upstream, Downstream, Trading, New Energies), from their legacy Amazon Web Services (AWS) cloud platforms to the new AWS at Shell platform. This initiative resulted in enhanced data security and a 15% financial savings for customers.

• Led the integration of Shell's Upstream, Integrated Gas, and New Energies businesses applications.• Achieved a 70% reduction in the business-critical (BC) major incidents compared to the previous year (2019). • Directed the service integration delivery of 8 business planning applications at Shell.• Implemented availability monitoring solutions for all business-critical landscapes in Upstream, Integrated Gas, and New Energies, ensuring 100% uptime.

• Streamlined the vendor management process in the Request for Proposal (RFP), achieving a 40% reduction in direct costs.• Architected and managed the data center power footprint roll-out, realizing a 100% increase in storage and computer density.• Designed and implemented a data center hot aisle solution with external vendors, resulting in approximately 25% power savings.• Managed and drove procurement processes, involving approximately $50M, between suppliers and Shell’s Contracts & Procurement (C&P) teams.• Architected innovative and comprehensive price-vs-performance solutions for HPC environments globally.• Managed activities assessing and qualifying infrastructure and middleware solution components, as well as key infrastructure vendor relationships.• Evaluated technology trends and recommended solutions aligned with Shell's 3-to-5-year HPC strategies.• Led the HPC Optimization, Operations, and Engineering teams to deliver an integrated HPC service for R&D applications.

• Served as a global ambassador for the HPC Services organization across IT hubs in Houston, Netherlands, and Bangalore, contributing to the transformation of the team into a unified global organization.• Led weekly HPC knowledge sessions for the local teams.• Contributed to the development of Shell’s IT hub in Bangalore, achieving over 50% growth, as a key member of the extended leadership team responsible for onboarding and developing new team members.• Provided strategic HPC innovation updates to Upstream Geophysics business stakeholders in the Shell Technology Center Bangalore, contributing to a 25% growth in Cloud HPC workflows.

• Collected requirements and identified potential risks, restrictions, and limitations to design IT hardware, software, and solutions for clients’ data centers.• Crafted IT proposals based on customer requirements, authored proposal documents and specifications, created system diagrams, and formulated project plans.• Collaborated with the IT hardware qualification team on testing and qualifying new hardware and client-specific hardware. Created and formally presented proposed solutions to clients.

• Ensured stakeholder alignment on cross-team business projects and objectives.• Managed existing and established new partnerships with vendors to develop HPC data center solutions meeting or exceeding performance requirements.• Led the qualification and support of geophysical engineering workstations globally.• Managed hardware lifecycles for all qualified systems and their respective components• Led the successful implementation of the next-generation engineering workstations project, achieving a remarkable 200% improvement in system performance and an outstanding 500% increase in storage capacity.

• Provided consultations to internal and external customers regarding configurations and performance of IBM System x servers in the HPC Benchmark Center.• Evaluated and designed technical and commercial benchmark environments for pre-sale opportunities related to System X servers.• Managed, deployed, and supported Red Hat, SuSE, and Windows System X servers based on Intel and AMD processors.

• Developed scripts and processes to automate the development of engineering test data patterns, resulting in annual indirect cost savings of over $100,000.• Developed a Perl application that generated wafer maps, improving the logistical tracking of 300mm wafers in the development process by 50%.• Conducted user training sessions, created user guides, and documented application benefits and capabilities, contributing to a 30% improvement in productivity.