Paul Oates

Paul Oates

Austin, Texas, United States
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Strategic commercial leader with 20+ years of experience driving growth, scaling…

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    Austin, Texas, United States

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    Austin, Texas Metropolitan Area

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    Austin, Texas Metropolitan Area

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    Austin, Texas, United States

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    Austin, Texas, United States

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    Houston, Texas Area

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    Houston, Texas Area

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    Calgary, Canada Area/ Houston, TX

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    Canada

Education

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Volunteer Experience

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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

Courses

  • 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

  • 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.

Languages

  • English

    Native or bilingual proficiency

  • French

    Professional working proficiency

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