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I spent 36 hours in Helsinki this week — landed at 5pm, flew out at 5am. A complete whirlwind. Every year, Slush brings together 6,000 founders and…
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This week, we hosted the a16z speedrun x Fenwick & West Deep Tech Mixer. We had builders, founders, investors, and executives solving hard problems…
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Executive Sponsor and Chair- Gibsons Charitable Campaign
Houston Food Bank
- 3 years 3 months
Poverty Alleviation
The Houston Food Bank is America’s largest food bank in distribution to its network of 600 hunger relief charities in 18 southeast Texas counties. Named top charity in Texas by Charity Navigator for financial performance and accountability, the Houston Food Bank provides 83 million nutritious meals to food pantries, soup kitchens, senior centers and other agencies, feeding 800,000 people each year. Fresh produce, meat and nonperishables are distributed from the warehouse, and hot meals are…
The Houston Food Bank is America’s largest food bank in distribution to its network of 600 hunger relief charities in 18 southeast Texas counties. Named top charity in Texas by Charity Navigator for financial performance and accountability, the Houston Food Bank provides 83 million nutritious meals to food pantries, soup kitchens, senior centers and other agencies, feeding 800,000 people each year. Fresh produce, meat and nonperishables are distributed from the warehouse, and hot meals are prepared and distributed from the new Keegan Kitchen, a 10,000 square foot, state-of-the-art industrial kitchen. Additional community services range from nutrition education to assistance with food stamp applications and hands-on job training
Publications
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Monitoring and Addressing Crude Quality in Real Time
Offshore Engineer and Technology
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Management Sciences and Quantitative Methods , Harvard Business School
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Physical Crude Oil Trading and Operations , Oxford/Princeton, Houston, TX
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• Contract Law and Liability, Marsh Canada, Calgary, AB, 2011
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• Essentials of Sales Contracts- Federated Press, Calgary, AB, 2012
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• Financial Forecasting and Modeling, CMC Management Training, Toronto, AB, 2011
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• Negotiating to Win, CMC Management Training, Edmonton, AB, 2009
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• Situational Leadership- McGill University, Calgary, AB, 2016
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Projects
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Process Control Network and Historian Operations Modernization
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BPX Energy, BP's US onshore oil and gas production arm, plays a pivotal role in the company's strategy toward integrated energy and achieving net-zero emissions by 2050. Working closely with bpx's CTO, I lead the commercial negotiations and deployment in leveraging AWS services like SCADA and Historian to digitize bpx field operations. The centralized approach not only materially improved security and safety but also yields a notable 45% reduction in IT and OT Total Cost of Ownership.
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English
Native or bilingual proficiency
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French
Professional working proficiency
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