Ahmadi, Kuwait
Team Lead - Global Planning Tools Design and Implementation of Global Planning Tool, Shell Standard Primavera. Primary objective was to globally host and configure Oracle P6, in such a way to support standardised development and execution of major capital projects aligned to Shell's Opportunity Realisation Standard (ORS). My initial role was to support the existing Team Lead, who had 29 years Shell experience at time of retirement - which was 1 year after my start date; to implement this change project by converting all of Shell’s Planning Engineering community, across all Projects and Operating Assets, onto 1 simplified, standardised toolset and configuration. When the project started we had many versions of Primavera and/or other Planning Software being used by the company. This made getting “One way of doing Shell Projects” impossible. As a Planning Engineer and not an IT person, my initial job as Configuration Architect, was to ensure that the business requirements of the “end user”, ie the Planning Engineer, were not compromised as part of the change project - part funded by Shell IT and the related IAP Project. I hoped and had the vision that one day I would be utilising the toolset myself for planning real O&G development Projects, this was a great help in staying focused and motivated me to ensure IT challenges on my requirements where properly addressed. I took over the Project, after transition 2009. I inherited a small but dedicated team consisting of a long term Shell Contractor/Direct Hire and an Ecosys Primavera Consultant in Rijswijk NL. One of the tasks I had worked on during the previous year was to set up the dedicated permanent Primavera support organisation – which was to be based in Cyberjaya KL. I screened CV’s and participated in final interviews of the key staff who would become key, extended, remote working members of the project team, once on board. The KL team transformed the fortunes of the project, without them it would have failed.