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Houston, Texas Area

Senior project manager consultant with extensive experience in the Energy space. Business expertise includes Upstream Oil & Gas and Interstate Gas Pipelines. IT Management and Consulting experience includes software selection/evaluation, application implementations, business process improvements (As Is/To Be) and information technology projects.

Houston, Texas Area

Provided business consulting support services for implementing Peloton’s WellView well life-cycle application at Sabinal Energy, LLC. Project activities and artifacts included: Project Plan, Test Plans, Test Scripts, Business and Technical Requirements, Business Process Diagrams, Business Process functions, Data Mapping and Conversion of acquired company.

Houston

Provided Project Management support services for a well life cycle product selection project at Concho Resources. Project activities and artifacts included: formal Request for Information (RFI) from the competing vendors, vendor product demonstrations, demonstration scorecards, development of a five year cost of ownership model and final product.

Provided Managerial and Project Management expertise and oversight for the acquisition and implementation of WellView/SiteView as the company’s Operational Management well life-cycle system. Included was developing a Request for Proposal (RFP), conducting formal product evaluations and attaining executive management approval to acquire the software.

Provided Business Analyst services at Southwestern Energy Company for the implementation of Wellcore (a well life-cycle management system from P2ES). Specific areas of responsibility included Construction & Facilities functions and the Well Completion function. Business Analyst services provided include Business Process Flow and Business Requirements.

Provide consulting and project management services focusing on software evaluation and selection, project implementation, and system integration activities primarily in the Energy space.

Provided Project Management services for a complex technical and business application developed for managing well header information at Devon Energy Corp. This entailed a formal selection process for master data management (MDM) software to be used company-wide and the technical implementation of the software specifically for the business management of.

Served as Program Manager at Chesapeake Energy Corp. for multiple projects including: Enterprise Imaging & Document Management Product Evaluation, Accounts Payable Work Flow, Imaging software version upgrade, Conversion of legacy documents to a single Imaging environment, and Electronic Invoicing.Participated as team member and onsite lead liaison for the.

Provided management direction for the development, implementation and support of business applications for the Energy Trading and Financial organizational areas including: Financial Trading and Risk (Murex), Physical Gas Trading (Caminus/GMS), Physical and Financial Position Management (Whiteboard), Credit Management and Financial System.

Provided project management direction for the development of two E-commerce applications. These include PriceEnergy.com (Fuel Oil Market Place) and TradeMetals.com (Global Base Metals Exchange). Duties included: Client management, Project Planning (utilizing MS Project), Project Team management, Business Analysis, Implementation Coordination.The activities.

Provided management direction for the development of applications specific to the Technical Shared Services area including: Pipeline Mileage System, Environmental System, Land Right-of-Way/Document Management System, Technical Information Exchange System (GIS/Pipeline Information). The efforts involved with these projects included the costing, staffing.

Manager-Financial and Administrative Systems:Effectively managed staff of 20 IS professionals in providing support for the administrative functions within Transco. Provided management direction for administrative systems including: Financials, Payroll, Benefits, Field Applications (Time Entry and Stock Inventory), and Purchasing. (ADSO/Cobol/IDMS)..

Progressed from Programmer to Sr. Systems Analyst working on a variety of applications including financial and general business.

Bs, Computer Science

Activities and Societies: Varsity Football (3 year starter) Awarded the Thomas Scanlon Trophy (outstanding student-athlete)Graduated with.

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