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Petrochemical Co – Woodlands, TX May/2022-Apr/2024 Contractor – Project Manager Managed an AVD (Azure virtual desktop) technology project for 6 months. The project focused on moving users from legacy VDI technology to Azure VDI technology to streamline & simplify operations, reduce operation costs, and create a better and more sustainable user experience. Managed a sustainability initiative using the world's leading integrated software for EHS (Environment, Health, and Safety), ESG (Environmental, Social, and Governance), and GRC (Governance, Risk, and Compliance) for 18 months. The project focused on using technology to combine data from multiple sources and facilities prepared in different ways into a single reporting system. Infrastructure and data repositories were built to facilitate the integration requirements and make the system work effectively. Duties included: • Deliver the project and coordinate activities between business, IT, vendors, and other projects. • Manage the project schedule and deliverables with MS Project and Asana using waterfall and Agile methodologies. • Develop project plan(s), milestones, estimates, work breakdown structure, and schedules. • Coordinate and direct project team resources to complete deliverables. • Track project progress, report status, and maintain plans to ensure the project team meets objectives within defined timeline and budget. • Identify resource needs and submit requests to appropriate parties. • Identify and manage dependencies, issues, and risks. • Identify training and communication needs and coordinate with the Change Manager. • Maintain the team's focus on building an environment of continuous improvement and eliminating rework. • Maintain open communication with the Product Owner and GRT (governance review team). • Communicate and influence effectively among a diverse team and with leadership/project governance. Mid-Stream Energy Co – Houston, TX Jan/2021-Mar/2022 Contractor – Business Analyst Worked on a project conversion from SAP to Oracle Enterprise Business Suite 12.2. The main focus was to develop OTC business specifications for point solutions for the project and to help develop new business processes to facilitate system change. Conducted interviews & collaborated with stakeholders to understand the current process, create process maps, and detailed specification documents using prescribed methodology & Agile approach for the new solution. Worked with vendor integrator to transition the specification for development & review technical specifications against the design. Provided developers with essential SQL and configurations to support programming. Managed the deliverables assigned & communicated with the application team about best practices following the change-management methodology established for the project. Performed functional and business testing following established project guidelines. BHP – Houston, TX Jan/2011-July/2019 Sr Specialist/Supervisor Provided project management, business development, & administration across a portfolio of applications for Petroleum that included P2 Enterprise Upstream, Tobin, Land, Financial & Supply Chain ERP systems, and a variety of other O&G applications. Gatekeeper for ops & capital projects. Engaged with the business to build and maintain strong relationships. Helped internal customers understand and prioritize their needs, aligned to strategic business objectives, & deliver them. Collaborated with internal clients & prepared business cases to identify opportunities within their divisions that identified ROI, deliverables, resources, timelines, & budgets. Developed project planning across the 4 D's, including governance, resource planning, timeline estimation, funding, approvals, & kickoff. Built detailed project plans that included work structures & details, schedules, dependencies, critical path, deliverables, & training. Delivered project objectives by coordinating & orchestrating activities between the business, IT, change manager, & other projects. Tracked project progress, performed weekly status, adherence to scope, & delivery of objectives within budget. Identified & managed issues, risks, & dependencies within projects while directing & maintaining the team's focus on deliverables through continuous improvement & engineered solutions. Managed projects & communication with the application of best practices for communication, problem-solving, and change management. Additional duties included continuous improvement projects, change management, supporting the applications through their lifecycle, vendor & license management, COE, SOX, audit support, administration of the applications, functional/technical support & development, and application security. Managed up to 20 contractors across multiple projects. Selected Achievements: • Delivered & managed an automated water hauling system (P2P) with 1% defects with a team of 20 people that saved 6 million dollars annually with zero volume errors. • Delivered & managed an oil & gas operational sales (OTC) project with zero defects with a team of 8 people that generated an additional 20% of revenue per well and saved 180 hours of labor per month. • Delivered & managed a global financial transformational metrics tool integrated with SAP with 1% defects with a team of 50 people and found a way to reduce the project costs by 5-8 million dollars. Other Relevant Achievements Before 2006 from different job positions: • Delivered & managed a global ERP solution within 14 months with only five defects with a team of 125 people that saved my employer 34 million annually in licensing and support costs.

Functional Expertise: Project Management & Methodology, Ops & Capital Projects, Change Management, Software Development & SDLC, Lean Six-Sigma, Upstream & Std Financials & Tax, AFEs, PPAs, Land, Supply Chain (PTP, OTC, Inventory), Manufacturing, QTC, SOX Compliance/Audit/Legal, ITIL/Governance/Policy/Compliance, Analysis & Design, Business Intelligence (BI)/Analytics, Data Warehousing, Quality Control, Integration & Architecture, Conversions, Reconciliations, Process Control, Database Design, Testing, Use Cases, HR, Licensing, Relationship Management, Process & Business Documentation, System Architecture, Planning, Hosted Platforms, Business Technology Transformation, Conventional & Agile Methodologies, Presentation S/L Audiences, EHS, GRC, Sustainability. Technologies: Cloud/VM/Hosted Environments, Oracle EBS 12.2/SAP, P2 (Bolo, Excalibur, Enterprise Upstream, Tobin, Land), Oracle: Fins (AR, AP, GL, CM, FA), EBTax, PTP,& OTC modules, HR, OPM & Discrete Manufacturing, Oracle RDBMS 10/11/12G, Unix, Linux, Microsoft, ETL/OBIEE/Hyperion, MS SQL Server, SCADA/Real-Time/PLC/DCS, Quest TOAD & STAT, PVCS, ADP, Spotfire, Crystal Reports, SaaS, HaaS, TaaS, Pro-C, C, Access, Java, UNIX Shell Scripting, Data Loader, SQL, SQL Plus, PL/SQL, SQL Loader, XML Publisher, SOA/BPEL, Advance Queuing, Workflow, Alerts, Reports & Forms, CAD Systems, Wave, MiniTab, TMS, Service Now, Primavera, MS Office, Visio, MS Project, Teams, Azure, AVD, Citrix, Data Lake, Asana, JIRA. VDI, InTune, Terraform

Bachelor of Science in Earth Sciences (Geology/Geophysics) and Minor in Computer Science, University of Notre Dame