Feb 2022 – Present · 4 yrs 4 mos

• Strategic Leadership and Alignment: Drive alignment across the IT organisation by collaborating with C-suite executives and business leaders to translate the CIO’s vision into actionable initiatives, governing x-thousand staff and contractors.
• Finance and budgeting: Oversee budget planning, resource allocation, and financial governance for multi-million portfolio, ensuring optimal utilisation and return on investment through robust cost control and programme prioritisation.
• Digital Delivery: Partnered with cross-functional VPs to create, scope, and continuously improve the delivery of digital products and services.
• Leading through Change: Developed and deployed a revised target operating model during restructuring, collaborating with business partners and change agents. Champion transformation initiatives such as process digitisation, technology adoption, and stakeholder communication to drive innovation, operational efficiency, and organisational resilience.
• Program and Project Oversight: Provided strategic oversight for multiple IT programs, ensuring cross-functional alignment and driving program delivery excellence across the CIO office. Leading the implementation and continuous improvement of key IT programmes and projects, monitoring KPIs, risk management, and ensuring delivery excellence across multiple teams and functions.

Feb 2021 – Feb 2022 · 1 yr

• Conception to Launch of Low Code adoption in Shell. (0 to 1)
• Led a multi-year enterprise-wide program through multiple projects for the adoption of low-code platforms across Shell, becoming an industry leader and recognized globally as a pioneer.
• Spearheaded the discovery and proof of value evaluation for GenAI capabilities on Microsoft Power Platform.
• Managed technical delivery projects to roll out advanced tools on schedule.
• Led a pathfinder project onboarding numerous data scientists in the launch year.
• Authored the Governance Framework for low-code adoption, ensuring compliance and standardization, incorporating the latest EU’s Ethical AI Act requirements.
• Developed and managed a multi-year product roadmap, backlog, feature prioritization, KPIs, UI design, and testing, resulting in increased platform utilization and expanding the user base significantly.
• Supervised cross-functional development teams to ideate, prioritize, and implement new features, creating MVPs and reducing delivery time through efficient project tracking, risk management, and communication.
• Enhanced product usability through continuous end-user feedback loops, improving the NPS score significantly.
• Applied agile methodology to lead the delivery of multiple lean CI initiatives with substantial value realization.
• Defined and tracked KPIs to understand performance and compliance, conducting feedback sessions to drive enterprise-wide adoption.
• Managed budgets and negotiations for licensing and managed support services.
• Developed and executed stakeholder change and communication plans, fostering alignment and driving a shared vision across organizational boundaries.
• Proactively analyzed risks and variances against the plan, implementing mitigations and escalating issues quickly to ensure project success.

Oct 2019 – Jan 2021 · 1 yr 3 mos

• Work closely with the VP - IT Strategy & Planning to run large strategic programs and initiatives.
• Extensive Stakeholder management of CxO and CxO-1 level.
• Demonstrated ability to encourage teamwork and collaboration through effectively managing change.
• Effective problem solving and escalation management; in a complex environment.
• Experience managing projects with multiple work streams and partners.
• Strategic planning ability.
• Experienced in developing and managing budgets.

Jul 2018 – Oct 2019 · 1 yr 3 mos

• Provide solution architecture development, consultancy and assurance to projects, making sure applications are well designed and conform to specific standards and reference/segment architectures. Accountable to the Project Manager for the architecture of a solution being developed and implemented until the successful deployment of the solution. This includes:
• a. Being the point of call for all architecture aspects of an IT Project.
• b. To address and integrate the: Business Process, Data, Application, Technical and Information Security aspects of an IT Solution.
• c. Ensure projects solution architecture is documented using the templates, System Architect tooling and conforms to standards.
• d. Coach detailed designers and business analysts in projects during their design work.
• e. Reviewing and accepting the detailed design of an IT solution.
• f. Support Segment Architects and reviews through the Architecture Review Board as required.

Apr 2017 – Jun 2018 · 1 yr 2 mos

• Managing the delivery of the Support team for SAP Production and Revenue Accounting. Responsible for stakeholder management and on time resolution of tickets raised by users.
• Drive Continuous Improvements in terms of effort saving and cost saving for Shell Upstream.
• Manage team of functional and technical resources for the work streams Ownership, Production, Compliance and Revenue.

Aug 2015 – Mar 2017 · 1 yr 7 mos

• Working in the Upstream and Integrated Gas division of Shell. Responsible to design SAP Based solutions for the Business.
• Key responsibilities include:
• Requirement Gathering
• Business Process Re-engineering
• Design Documentation
• Conducting Workshops
• Coordination in multi vendor setup
• Preparation of Test Plan and Test Story-boards