02 // Timeline

Professional timeline.

Fifteen years of enterprise IT leadership across energy, utilities, manufacturing, and financial services.

Oct 2024 — Present
Houston, TX
Occidental Petroleum (Oxy)
IT Strategy Advisor — IT Performance Analytics / Digital Experience / Asset Integrity / OneView
  • Strategic advisor supporting Asset Integrity, Facilities Engineering & Construction, application governance, and operational technology initiatives.
  • Led enterprise IT initiatives across 22 plants (U.S., Canada, Chile), including deployment of 2,000+ devices within aggressive timelines and budgets.
  • Directed hardware lifecycle and refresh strategy across 5 U.S. office locations, managing 850+ assets.
  • Advanced application governance for Lucid, Optima, Accuris, AutoCAD, Monday.com, OxyLims, Airtable, and SolidWorks — usage analysis, SSO support, admin access, vendor coordination, and license optimization.
  • Authored the enterprise application onboarding process covering intake, CI creation, SSO deployment, knowledge articles, support transition, and production readiness.
  • Served as Project Manager and Portfolio Advisor for application rationalization capturing 408+ applications.
  • Designed and implemented an enterprise IT performance analytics dashboard for executive leadership visibility.
  • Developed AI-based solutions for application user assessment and risk classification, and for departmental financial forecasting automation.
  • Trained 24 IT staff on Agile practices and mentored 8 project managers to 100% certification success (PM Level 1–3).
  • Selected for the SMO Feedback & Advisory Panel and PM Community of Practice, shaping enterprise delivery standards.
  • Built and maintained the ServiceNow project structure for OneView: project plan, milestones, Agile phases, task and story assignment support, and status reporting cadence.
  • Supported a re-baselined roadmap from 4 to 8 phases, aligning 2026–2027 execution around platform enablement, pipeline automation, scaled asset validation, enterprise integration, governance enforcement, and legacy transition.
  • Coordinated cross-functional work across Databricks, ODAP, ODS/Oracle, source table access, BUDB dependencies, and production data validation.
  • Introduced sprint-level goals and KPI discipline tracking story completion, velocity, backlog readiness, and phase progress.
  • Documented risks spanning completion-level allocations, meter-level net interest factors, table ownership, governance gaps, and 37 downstream dependencies.
Jul 2022 — Oct 2024
Houston, TX
Occidental Petroleum (Oxy)
IT Strategy Advisor — Project Management Office (PMO)
  • Partnered with IT Directors to govern portfolios of 50+ initiatives spanning cloud migration, RPA, infrastructure, and digital transformation.
  • Led portfolio reviews, investment prioritization, dependency management, and risk mitigation aligned to enterprise strategy.
  • Implemented ServiceNow data remediation initiative reducing reporting delinquencies by 56%.
  • Advanced Agile maturity from Level 1 to Level 2 through coaching and standardized frameworks.
  • Coordinated initiation and planning of large-scale networking infrastructure work across 22 interdependent services for the first DAC facility (LCV0).
  • Facilitated executive and cross-functional workshops for process improvement, problem management, and delivery consistency.
Jul 2018 — Jul 2022
Houston, TX
Direct Energy / NRG
ITSM Service Design & Introduction — North America Lead
  • Implemented Service Design & Introduction governance across North America, reducing warranty periods by 37% and post-release incidents by 25%.
  • Redesigned release and enhancement approval processes, reducing cycle time by 88%.
  • Led service portfolio rationalization: eliminated 62 dormant services, corrected 452 ownership records, and reduced vendor costs by $325K.
  • Acted as a trusted advisor on service readiness, risk, and operational sustainability.
Mar 2018 — Jul 2018
Houston, TX
Modiant
Senior Agile Product Owner
  • Delivered MVP in 10 weeks, generating approximately $550K in revenue growth.
  • Reduced technical debt by 13% through backlog optimization and prioritization.
  • Supported leadership in resource planning, vendor onboarding, and offshore coordination.
  • Mentored junior Product Owners and Business Analysts on journey mapping, requirements development, and burndown reporting.
Jun 2017 — Feb 2018
Houston, TX
Sysco Corporation
Senior Project Portfolio Analyst (Contract)
  • Standardized IT portfolio financial tracking templates and reporting, improving budget expenditure accuracy and forecasting.
  • Served as PMO SME for executive-level portfolio and financial forecast reviews, partnering with finance and vendor management.
Aug 2014 — Aug 2016
North America
General Electric — Transportation / Capital
IT Program Manager V / Business Solutions
  • Managed BI and analytics portfolios ranging $115K to $22.5M supporting operational reporting and business decisions.
  • Led 5 direct reports and 8–10 offshore developers, owning performance reviews, resource planning, and department budgets.
  • Directed BI dashboard implementation driving 15% productivity gains and $635K supplier cost reduction in the first quarter.
  • Led requirements, testing, and release governance for applications supporting more than $6M in quarterly revenue.
Aug 2009 — Aug 2014
Houston, TX
Enbridge Pipeline, Inc.
Oracle Senior IT Advisor
  • Led Oracle R12 program workstreams supporting $3M+ monthly cash flow across enterprise systems.
  • Managed teams of 12 resources and served on the Change Advisory Board influencing prioritization and risk decisions.
  • Delivered 15+ interfaces and 9 database views between Oracle and third-party commodity and financial systems.
  • Implemented issue resolution, patching, data archiving, disaster recovery, and database upgrades across Oracle modules.
  • Delivered process improvements yielding 20% month-end close productivity gains, 2-day faster invoice processing, and 38% annual cash recovery improvement.

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