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Houston, Texas, United States

Houston, Texas, United States

Houston, Texas

Leading a team to digitally transform field worker processes and technologies for a large upstream Oil and Gas company, which significantly improves operator efficiency, reduces IT spend, and increases safety.Led a team to design and develop next generation operations and maintenance strategy leveraging new technologies and processes for a large E&P company. Project includes designing a comprehensive strategy around improving core operations and maintenance processes and technology to optimize maintenance spend.Leading development of new service offerings in partnership with technology vendors to expand solutions for our clients and generate new business in strategic areas.Led project at a large IOC to digitize, standardize, and improve operational best practices. Project included taking static operations best practices, identifying operational improvements, and creating actionable, guided workflows from them leading to increased usage and reducing risk across the client’s assets.Led the development of an integrated operations system that accelerates decision making and analyzes past performance that brings a systematic, digital approach to day-to-day operations.

Houston, Texas Area

Developed vision, mission, and strategy around emerging, disruptive technologies for one of the largest integrated Oil and Gas companies the world. Stood up corporate-level organization devoted to advancing innovation. Led the development of new service offerings for the firm, including a new reliability service offering designed to leverage advanced statistical analysis and data science capabilities to provide organizations with predictive insights and assist with solving for unusual failures. Provided investment analysis and strategic guidance to energy companies around large capital expenditure projects, identifying savings of over $40M. Provided strategic assessment to a top-tier university system around utilizing property to drive innovation in healthcare, energy, and education in a major metropolitan area. Led financial estimation team for a large financial services organization, and developed recommendations to improve project estimation process enabling the organization to reduce delivery time and increase estimation accuracy.

Houston, Texas Area

Served as financial officer for P&L, providing analysis and recommendations to leadership to reduce financial risk.Designed IT governance strategy, structures, processes, and implementation roadmaps for the shale division of a multinational oil and gas company enabling increased accountability and decision making efficiency.Provided financial analysis to executive management of an oil and gas equipment and services industry leader identifying opportunities for increased efficiencies totaling upward of $70 million.Formalized internal business development strategy utilizing and incentivizing available resources leading to increased revenue generation and decreased employee turnover.

Houston, Texas Area

Spearheaded process improvement effort during a financial expenditures system conversion for a multinational oil and gas company focusing on integrating newly acquired shale assets valued at $12B, minimizing transition issues and enabling significantly decreased time to approval.Led qualitative and quantitative analysis for a multinational oil and gas company’s logistics operations spanning nine geographic regions, culminating in the development of standardized business processes and a strategic management plan increasing the organization’s awareness of ongoing activities affecting more than 20k employees in 30 countries.

Houston, Texas Area

Selected for a specialized team of 15 individuals focused on managing and writing high-profile, large-scale proposals in the areas of change management, organizational strategy, BPR, finance, training, quality, systems engineering, civil engineering, and logistics, personally accounting for a win rate of 75%.Coordinated the management and writing of winning proposals, totaling more than $1B..

Houston

Directed change management efforts for a DoD IT Service Desk transition impacting 4,500 members of the base, leading to a decreased resolution time of over two minutes, and increased customer awareness and satisfaction.Co-authored a lessons learned report focusing on stand-up and development of NASA’s Constellation Systems Engineering and Integration (SE&I) organization over the course of its lifetime; report was regarded as a “gold standard” and disseminated across all NASA centers for use as best practices.Analyzed and authored a case study documenting decision flow process for NASA’s Emergency Egress System to show failures and successes of current decision flow leading to increased awareness across NASA management.Delivered a methodology for performing Enterprise Architecture (EA) assessments across NASA’s Johnson Space Center enabling JSC to create quantifiable assessments of the maturity of their EA models.Provided governance analysis and strategic guidance to senior management clarifying decision-making structure and roles and responsibilities across NASA’s Orion Project, enabling the delegation of authority and removing significant process bottlenecks.

Washington D.C. Metro Area

Acted as Project Manager for a team of four for the $67.9M Special Deposit Account (SDA) project within the U.S. Department of the Interior’s Office of Historical Trust Accounting managing contractor and client workload, performance, budget and schedules, ensuring project milestones were met and efficiency maintained.Provided financial analysis for the ~$350M SDA and Land IIM programs delivering cost and productivity analysis, forecasts, and operational recommendations enabling senior leadership to make informed decisions about their forensic accounting practices.Delivered assessment for development and implementation of call centers for U.S. HUD, providing multiple technological and financial options as well as a recommended course of action, leading to the successful creation of regional call centers for the Fair Housing / Equal Opportunity Office.Authored a Benchmark Summary Report for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s National Oceanographic Data Center providing recommendations for an improved communications/branding strategy and intangible asset valuation enabling the organization to generate additional revenue while simultaneously improving the perception of value to administrators.

Provided financial analysis for the Syndications Group, including analyzing and consolidating client information to improve accessibility and analysis capabilities. Further expanded the capabilities of the Bank by linking the consolidated information with the Bank's online information system to generate a dashboard of existing loans as well as individual reports for each client improving the productivity of client information management.Participated in business development, presenting investment and partnership opportunities to the executive management; proposed plans of action to acquire additional clients.

Master Of Business Administration (M.B.A.)

Activities and Societies: Investment Club, Entrepreneurship Club, Consulting Club, McCombs Admissions Committee

B.B.A., Finance

Management Course, Bargaining And Negotiation