Experience

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  Worley

  • Australia
  • Professional Services
  • 700 & Above Employee

  • Senior Director, Innovation & Ecosystems

    • Jul 2022 - Present

    Working within Worley's innovative Customer Solutions business unit, I facilitate the discovery and onboarding of new partners who can help us to deliver our vision at scale. This consists ofScouting New Partners in the Marketplace: I am able to leverage both the resources within Customer Solutions and in the broader Worley to find good candidates for partnering.Building Partner Value Propositions: All of our partnering is predicated upon a known customer need that the partnership is able to solve, and detailing how this will be done is a key part of our process.Identifying Viable Commercial Models: Within the context of the value proposition, an appropriate commercial model that ensures ongoing stability for all parties is essential.Partner Account Management: The ongoing management of our partner accounts, both relative to defined expectations and with a view to expanding the footprint of high-performing patners is a key part of my role.

  • Program Manager

    • Jun 2020 - Jun 2022

    As the Program Manager for the Worley Solutions Factory, I was responsible for overseeing the product lifecycle management process related to software development. The Solutions Factory commoditizes various intellectual property into marketable software for sale to third parties. For instance, one solution allows end users to assess the possible impact of flooding on their homes. In this role, I:* Attend and contribute to sprint planning sessions, ideation sessions and technology reviews.* Work with product owners and designers to build strategic models and user stories in order to facilitate the effective roadmapping.* Identify opportunities to leverage new and existing technologies, to limit re-work, to eliminate risk or to improve products generally.* Utilize the Aha! roadmapping tool for central work and planning management, including developing industry and company-specific templates.

  • Product Development Manager

    • Feb 2015 - Jun 2020

    Managed the internal development of products related to extract, load, transform (ELT) and geospatial data. These products were sold (typically on an SaaS) basis to 3rd party customers. In this role I was responsible to:* Manage multiple development teams in multiple geographic locations and timezones (using multiple design patterns and technology stacks!), using collaboration tools such as Slack and Teams. * Develop Service Level Agreements for multiple production-deployed software solutions.* Work with product owners and business analysts to detail requirements in order to build effective roadmaps and work plans.* Deploy new-to-the-Enterprise efficiency tools including Aha! Roadmaps and Jira Servicedesk to support my area of responsibility.

  • Manager, Informatics

    • Jan 2012 - Jan 2015

    Managed a specialist departments focused upon ensuring that capital project delivery can leverage available marketplace technology. It consisted of two specialized streams focused on project data management technologies and electronic document management technologies, and a general stream focused upon project delivery technologies and business-technology interaction.* Engage in external and internal consulting related to the practice of informatics.* Supply expertise to projects regarding systems, technologies, close-out processes, archiving, etc.* Management of the quality programs associated with document control, engineering design systems and project information management.* Management of the training programs associated with document control and electronic document management systems.* Mobilize team members as necessary to act as subject matter experts in support of capital projects or corporate initiatives.* Evaluate technologies proposed by corporate groups to assess adoption possibilities.* Develop value-add technologies and processes and ensure that they are known and recognized across the enterprise.

  • Project Manager

    • Nov 2012 - Dec 2013

    Managed a project team to replace an existing corporate procurement function for a major Owner / Operator, allowing for the core procurement model to be outsourced while maintaining or enhancing interactions with functions such as engineering and quality. This resulted in WorleyParsons supplying an integrated procurement function into a client's organization, bringing rigor and conformance to the procurement of equipment in order to achieve quality results and lower overall costs. This involved working closely with highly qualified procurement resources to develop and implement the new strategy while absorbing the procurement function as quickly as practicable.* Worked jointly with a Client Project Manager to oversee an integrated team, maintaining an effective and productive relationship and ensuring alignment.* Reviewed and assessed existing workflows and conducted a gap analysis versus WorleyParsons' preferred workflows to determine a hybrid model that allowed both stakeholders to work together effectively.* Reviewed contracting strategies and scopes of work for existing suppliers of supply chain services such as a warehousing and transportation, and worked with these suppliers to adapt to the new process while introducing several process improvements.* Implemented a new procurement and materials management process, including all workflow validation and configuration, status reporting and integration requirements, working closely with both client and internal technical experts. This included implementation of entirely new software.* Ensured that treasury and finance requirements with respect to payment and reconciliation were considered and met, requiring significant process and system expansion.* Managed the implementation and transition teams, with the transition team subsequently taking ownership of the new procurement organization while maintaining existing valued resources.

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  WorleyParsons

  • Australia
  • Professional Services
  • 700 & Above Employee

  • Information Management Specialist

    • Nov 2007 - Jan 2012

    * Review of all produced data & document management plans for WorleyParsons Calgary in order to ensure their adherence to best practices and corporate standards.* Work directly with internal stakeholders (directors, general managers, vice presidents) to identify and address gaps in our project delivery capability from an IM perspective.* Work directly with business development, including direct meetings with client project management and executive personnel, to highlight WorleyParsons’ capabilities in IM.* Developed a comprehensive audit framework governing the Design Systems Management, Information Management and Document Control Group, including governing procedures, checklists, weightings, etc.* Work with projects to develop scope and manage change in accordance with client requests for additional information, enhanced data delivery, system use, etc.* Production of briefings and memorandum to assist customers in progressing their data management strategies, and contribution of like material to bid and proposal documentation.

  • Project Information Manager - StatOil Hydro Leismer.B Project

    • May 2008 - Nov 2010

    * Identification of opportunities to provide engineering data to Statoil-Hydro after they assumed control of the project, and coordination with customer lifecycle information coordinator to ensure alignment on delivery.* Implementation of work practices to allow for the delivery of data, including transitional state data, in support of Statoil-Hydro’s management of commissioning activities.* Management of the implementation of the in-house developed EDS.NET tool being used to obtain cross-domain consistency within the project dataset.

  • Data & Document Manager - Shell ASE Ex2 Project

    • Nov 2007 - Dec 2008

    * Creation of Information Management Plan for ASE Ex2 project, including selection of appropriate technologies and project organization requirements.* Managed pilot implementation of SmartPlant Foundation v3.8 as a data management/data warehousing solution, incorporating data from the PDS model, SmartPlant P&ID Database, and project equipment lists, working with data generated on the Albian Sands Expansion 1 Project.* Coordinated project handover, archival and close-out activities from a data and document management perspective.

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  ExxonMobil

  • Information Manager

    • Jan 2004 - Mar 2007

    * Stewardship of documentation for operations (DFO) and management and protection of information (MPI) requirements, including implementation and management of an electronic document management system (EDMS) for the project management team. * Integration of diverse systems to allow for more efficient sharing of knowledge in support of platform mobilizations, job carding, scheduling, shutdown planning and commissioning.* Implemented an RFI / Decision / Correspondence management solution to track status of these items in relation to each other and to the associated design documentation, developed processes used in population of these systems, created delinquency / priority reports, monitored data for any anomalies, and drafted related NCRs for completion by the Project Quality Manager.* Maintained a detailed set of supporting documentation for project counsel, highlighting lapses in communication, unfollowed instructions, delays in review of documentation, deficiencies in delivered documentation, for claims support.* Assisted the mechanical completions team in specifying, receiving and loading suitable mechanical completions/commissioning data into the WinPCS commissioning system, including limited operation of the WinPCS system for purposes of testing data transfer and verifying continued functioning of the system.

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  EnCana

  • Engineering Data & Applications Specialist

    • May 2001 - Aug 2003

    * Assisted project scheduler in progress reporting, via review of discipline-based progress sheets, rejection if insufficient or inaccurate (based on comparison across multiple time periods), and compilation / collation into a master progress report for use by the scheduler.* Reconciled progress versus forecast hours versus expended hours, collating the information and providing it to the project scheduler with outliers in the data set highlighted for further investigation.* Integration of various project control systems, including deliverable tracking, time sheet entry, cost tracking and overall scheduling systems, in order to promote sharing of project information. Also developed executive summaries/abstracts of project data to aid in decision making.* Worked with Aveva application specialists in order to assist in the integration of design tools, including Vantage PE, VPRM and PDMS, and to define data dictionaries for purposes of data exchange between design and control systems.* Developed a material take-off application in order to generate accurate take-offs for piping materials, fittings and flanges based upon approved standards and algorithmic determination of specific fittings. This application also allowed for case assignation, i.e. immediate recalculation of cost and weight based on changes to the underlying specifications or wholesale swaps of pipe classes, including the re-determination of fittings and flanges.* Managed a small team dedicated to the identification of specification characteristics for pipe fitting and flanges, and to the manual counting of these items from P&IDs and the PDMS model, in order to ensure a high-quality and accurate (+/- 10% weight and cost) estimate for this aspect of the platform.