Global Executive Officer with proven record of designing responsible innovation to enter new markets while simultaneously ensuring operational resilience and sustainability. Practical, operations leader that transforms theory to practice to positively affect bottom line and brand impact. Big picture visionary to drive technical, process, organizational, financial requirements while fostering partnerships with global external partners to deliver results that endure. World renowned speaker and author on executing strategy with modern, relevant technology, data, and engineering solutions. Humble, approachable leader that quickly builds and sustains lasting relationships. Deep expertise running multi-billion dollar oil and gas capital projects across the globe from design to operations and quality assurance. SPE and Academic Journal published Author in sand control and completions, data analytics, and autonomous operations.
Lead Modernization for Human Space Exploration for Moon to Mars Commercialization and Product delivery. Transform engineering with digital and predictive capabilities leading to autonomous operations for low-Earth orbit, Moon, Mars, and beyond.
Led corporate social responsibility organization for $3.7 Trillion organization operating in 60 countries worldwide.
• CEO selected as the Ethical Model Leader of the Firm to represent Corporate Responsibility in line with vision for equitable, climate conscious, diversity, equity and inclusion goals of the firm. Ethical Stewardship; Creativity and Innovation; Vision; Lower Carbon; ESG; Social Responsibility
• Led non-profit investments on behalf of the firm to promote corporate social responsibility across the globe. Launched initiative for regulatory compliance of non-profit giving and management leveraging low cost technology solutions to automate non-profit overheard for maximized mission investment. Non-Profit Management; Social Responsibility
• Conducted research leveraging Artificial Intelligence to map the neuroscience of the brain's learning as a motivator to transform the education system for underserved populations. Non-Profit Management; Social Responsibility; Education; Neuroscience; Science of Learning; STEM
• Led team of 50,000+ engineers supporting 7 different business organizations by creating frictionless engineering program taking cycle time from 48 weeks to 2 weeks yielding $237 million annual savings. Business and Commercial Acumen; Technology Strategy; Technology Operating Model
• Accountable for reporting to CEO, Jamie Dimon, Board of Directors, SEC, international regulators, and other federal agencies on cybersecurity and information systems conformance to requirements. Resilience; Executive Presence
• Led JP Morgan Institute of PhD level engineers, data scientists and policy experts to perform research and publish results in the fields of climate, social, and economic sustainability. Presented findings to Board of Directors, President and U.S. and global policy makers to address emerging trends in national and international economies and geopolitical climates. Results shaped national and international policy and Presidential Platform. Global Influence; Policy Influence; Board Influence
• Led team to onboard 200 contractors in 12 days for $50 million contract, negotiated Memorandum of Understanding to serve 100,000 diverse clients in remote operations across the globe during crisis management of global pandemic. Decisiveness; Financial Management; Influencing/Negotiating; Crisis Management
• Deployed T-shaped skill development and mentoring for the next generation of 50,000+ engineers. Developing Others; Team Building; Technology Operating Model; ERP Management
Led $10.5B acquisition to triple size of business. Increased speed of operational and financial take-over of new assets and long-term optimization of new business by 79%.
•Developed tactical and long-term strategy and operating model for automating 85% of current and future assets delivering results in days that took years from previous efforts. Problem Solving; Accountability; Operations Management; Financial Planning
• Led $6.5M bottom line savings in first 3 months in role through practical approach to process optimization and automation founded on logical data models to build in long term analytical models to uncover future savings and improvements for new assets. Financial Management; Flexibility; Resilience; Business Continuity
• Accountable for end to end lifecycle of the business operations while ensuring compliance for SOX, ISO, OSHA, SEC requiring executive and Board level influencing coupled with cross-functional, team-oriented approach to deliver operational results. External Awareness; Regulatory Compliance
Special Executive Appointment by Elon Musk to bring in cybersecurity expertise for urgent need to certify Crew Dragon to meet NASA safety and operations requirements for human spaceflight.
• Led cross-functional integration of crew, engineering, and operations teams to ensure life, safety and operational integrity. Operational Performance Management; Team Building; Risk Management; Executive Presence
• Led vulnerability assessments to reveal 98 risks for NASA's Mission Control and SpaceX's Mission Control for the vehicle, crew, and International Space Station, operational performance and mission assurance. Results yielded removal of all risks by application of compensating controls and two fault tolerance for all safety and control systems. Risk Management; High Hazard Environment; Operations Management
Led cyber security and risk team for Capital Projects worth $100B+ (BP’s highest amount of capital projects in its history) to build future of BP. Influentially led cyber and technology transformation/adoption into business.
• Created Operational Technology (OT) cybersecurity lifecycle and readiness plan by developing team of globally accessible experts equipped with augmented reality solutions to deploy cyber into operations. Gained Executive level approval and support from Information Technology (IT) and Engineering groups to apply practical approach to manage Upstream cybersecurity risks. Technical Management; Risk Management
• Built proactive cyber response culture via standardized reference architectures, inventory lists, and transferrable cyber operating model built for future multi-segment adoption across diverse team. Integrity/Honesty; Technical Credibility
• Establish and maintain global, cross-functional relationships with executive leaders to promote cyber security prioritization and alignment with Enterprise and Function business goals. Political Savvy; Partnering; Influencing; Interpersonal Skills
• Revolutionized operating model and contract mechanisms to reduce costs by ~50% and create efficiency with a cross-project resource utilization model to build standardization across Upstream. Operations Management; Relationship Building
• Uncovered process control system risks to retrofit and apply mitigation strategies to not jeopardize safety, expense or project schedule for critical capital project, saving $20B. Operational Integrity; Safety and Mission Assurance
• Launching augmented reality and virtual reality solution for competency development and field inspections of critical assets with machine learning foundation for long-term process improvement/automation. Innovative; People Development; Culture Carrier
• Pioneering robotic process automation solution for manual inspection field reviews with $5-10M annual savings. Entrepreneurial leadership; Innovator
• Standardized vendor accountability approach for compliance via standardized contract templates and building in physical conformance checks in the field. Partnerships; Vendor Management
Responsible for uncovering hidden organizational gaps by interpreting complex business data into tangible business targets and performance measures for Engineering, Reliability & Maintenance, Procurement Supply Chain Management, Finance, and Upstream Operating Functions.
• Designed and deployed global SAP Hana implementation for $225 Billion organization. Problem Solving; Technical ERP Deployment
• Spearheaded business risk governance model with executive dashboard to real-time monitor the application of global lessons learned for 9 regions, saving $5M by preventing reoccurrence, tracking accountability. Problem Solving; Negotiating
• Eliminated cross-functional/organizational silos by working side by side with executives and users to define and formally document business processes for the development of an ontology to manage global information and knowledge sets in a single technical platform to ensure proper security of BP information. Partnering; Interpersonal skills
• Simplified 18 disparate lessons learned processes into 1 standard global solution to capture, review and apply quality lessons for 25,000 users to drive continuous improvement, prevent repetition, and increase productivity. Customer Service; Conflict Management
• Led development of 23 communities of practice resulting in 55% faster response rate from experts to end users. Developing Others; Leveraging Diversity
• Revolutionized “access to information” challenge by using virtual environment to generate over 4000 knowledge artifacts in less than 6 months, increasing the speed, usability of information for improved productivity of 67%. People Development; Innovator
Created and supervised 40-member systems/petroleum engineering team responsible for tactical technical support and strategic business support to 100+ international clients that grew from single product line (sand control) to global well life cycle solutions.
• Orchestrated international standardized data model (PPDM) that captured full well life cycle data (sales to production) and mapped it to 20 years of historical data for risk forecasting for drilling and completions. Customer Service; Technology Management; Team Building
• Partnered with Senior Executives to implement data management and risk strategy for 35,000 employees in 26 global markets, streamlining 100,000+ product lines. Oral Communication; Executive Presence
• Spearheaded first to market expertise locator software with external vendors that linked operations with Subject Matter Experts (SMEs) via social collaboration media, featured at SPE Intelligent Energy 2010 and 2011. Entrepreneurship
• Pioneered advanced data management and global risk assessments via ArcGIS Interactive Map applications to geographically retrieve expertise, job performance data, job safety/risk, lessons learned/best practices, Total Available Market, and sales opportunities offering a visual executive dashboard of global and country specific data accessed from an integrated Maximo and SAP system. Entrepreneurship; Decisiveness; Problem Solving
• Developed and implemented Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) for 100,000+ products and services through Lean Six Sigma methodologies streamlining 6 engineering divisions across globe. Problem Solving; Customer Service; Influencing; Team Building
Led Environmental Control and Life Support Systems for International Space Station Program. Stayed abreast of daily program changes and maintained relationships across all NASA teams by upholding technical expertise and communication skills to coordinate various aspects of manned spaceflight.
• Headed systems engineering division for commercial space program to align over 10,000 requirements for future space missions; results of 50% faster turn-around time. Decisiveness; Creativity and Innovation
• Led integration of mass properties and volume data for each assembly milestone of the International Space Station and provided consolidated reports to the White House Administration, Congress. Regulatory and Compliance
• Oversaw NASA’s technology management strategy for manned space flight, approved by Congress. External Awareness
• Devised life cycle model used to identify total oxygen and nitrogen demand through 2020, improving efficiency of delivery methods for oxygen and nitrogen to ISS, yielded $62M savings. Strategic Thinking; Resilience; Financial Management
• Leveraged relationships with International Partners and various subsystem teams to establish international requirements and strategies that utilized unique partner assets, eliminating redundancy and operational risk. Relationship Building; International and Cultural Adaptability
• Reviewed international space agreements, reconciled conflicting data and devised new or modified methods to develop recommendations and proposals on Moon & Mars Exploration and budget to Congress & White House. Technical Credibility, Political Savvy; Influencing
• Organized International Workshop on Creating New and Sustainable Space Exploration for NASA Headquarters where government and commercial enterprises developed cutting-edge strategies for exploration to the Moon and Mars. Vision; Interpersonal Skills
Diversity, Equity, and Belonging
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