SUMMARY

• Current: 6+ years hands - on experience as an IT engineer with broad appreciation in Cloud architectural design, not limited to Cloud foundational services - Compute, Storage, Database, Networking & Security; Infrastructure as Code - Cloud Formation, Terraform, Ansible; Configuration Management - Systems Manager; Migration; Governance at Scale; Application Delivery; Microservices Architecture & Security
• Previous: Accomplished Oil & Gas professional with 17 years hands-on experience in the Upstream Oil & Gas business with acute understanding of the industry having held varying technical and leadership positions in Nigeria & the United States for the largest energy company in the world.
• Broad appreciation of HSE, Production Operations & Asset Integrity - engineering design, construction/installation, development, operations, and maintenance covering offshore (shallow and deep waters), onshore, upstream, and mid-stream production operations facilities and terminals for both developing and operating assets. Commercial, Business Planning, combined with business acumen.
• Experience in managing external relations with partners, government, local authorities, communities, unions, and the media. Repeated success with cross-functional teams to design, re-design, and launch innovative technology solutions and abatement techniques that drive process efficiency and optimises costs. Accomplished strategic leader adept at leveraging strengths across multi-disciplinary teams for successful execution of large-scale projects from conception to operations.
• Team/Technical Leader, Mentorship & Training of young engineers,
• Excellent communication skills and leadership style, reliable and self-starter from day one
• Strong collaboration and teamwork building skills with ability to multi-task and mentor junior engineers
• Interpersonal skills: Team oriented professional, organized multiple teams building and strategy & line of sight sessions as a team lead
• IT Cloud Architecture / Engineering
• Industry and regulatory standards such as NFPA 59, 49 CFR, API Std. 520/521/14E, ASMEs 31.3, B31.8, B31.4 etc.
• Computer skills: ASPEN HYSYS, OLGA, PIPESIM, PHAST, PRO-II, FLARENET, HTRI Suites, Cad Programs, ProMax
• MS Office: (Word processing, Excel Spreadsheet, PowerPoint, and Outlook)
• Project Development & Execution, Detailed Engineering Design, Loss Prevention & Risk Engineering, Process & Facilities Engineering, Machinery & Rotating Equipment Engineering, Offshore Engineering, Safety & Environmental Engineering, all in Shallow & Deepwater Operations

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, New York City

AWS Cloud Engineer / DevOps Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Implemented projects that refactored environments’ IaC templates, which eliminated hard coding, promoted re-useable templates, reduced errors, and vulnerabilities in the environments.
• Wrote configuration code to provision solutions with Ansible, CloudFormation, and Terraform in different environments, leveraging well-architected tools and best practices to building secure, high performing, resilient, and efficient infrastructures based on operational excellence, security, reliability, performance efficiency, cost-effective environments.
• Executed Organizational Units, Nested OUs, leveraging SCPs and IAM Policies, and Detective Guardrails to eliminate breaks in the environments.
• Demonstrated experience in systems and cloud network design and implementation that promotes scalable, secured, and fault tolerant environments
• Managed configuration of remote state file using Amazon S3 and DynamoDB.
• Provisioned AWS Landing Zones to create a customized baseline of AWS accounts
• Configured multi-account architecture, identity and access management, governance, data security, network design, and logging within provisioned AWS Landing Zones
• Designed and implemented system security and data assurance.
• Experience integrating with native AWS services (CodePipeline, CodeCommit, CodeBuild, CodeDeploy, EC2, EKS, ECR, S3).
• Built and managed Jenkins open-source automation server to deploy CodeBuild artifacts with CodeDeploy and constructed several functioning CI/ CD Pipelines.
• Enabled required parameter in all Redshift clusters to minimize the risk of man-in-the-middle attack.
• Enabled Cloud Trail log file validation so that any changes made to the log file itself after it has been delivered to the S3 bucket is trackable to ensure log file integrity
• Enabled access logging for Cloud Trail S3 bucket so that you can track access requests and identify potentially unauthorized or unwarranted access attempts
• Enabled Cloud Trail across all geographic regions and AWS services to prevent activity monitoring gaps.
• Encrypted highly sensitive data such as protected identifiable information (PII)
• Developed strategies for modernization of existing systems and migration into a cloud environment using AWS Migration Hub, AWS Server Migration Service, and AWS Database Migration Service.
• Orchestrated cloud governance, authorization, authentication, and identity access management of the clients' entire cloud environment using AWS IAM services (IAM users, IAM groups, IAM Roles, IAM Policies, identity federation) AWS organization, AWS Single Sign-On.
• Designed, Deployed, managed, and operated scalable, highly available, and fault-tolerant systems on AWS Cloud
• Experience in deploying and monitoring applications on various platforms using Elastic Beanstalk, setting up the life cycle policies to back the data from AWS S3 to AWS Glacier
• Configured CloudWatch alarm rules for operational and performance and performance metrics for AWS resources and applications
• Effected AWS Cloud cost-effective solution in non-prod environments using instance scheduler

Confidential, New York City

AWS Solutions Architect / Cloud Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Planned, identified, recommended, and justified fit-for-purpose solutions in line with the strategic vision and mandate of clients’ organizations
• Participated fully in vendor evaluation and selection of applications being procured for clients
• Developed Business Requirement Specifications and other application documentations
• Played an active role in the implementation of IT policies within Enterprise Applications
• Planned and coordinated divisional budget and proactively monitor spend against budget with a view to reducing IT Cost of Ownership
• Ensured security of data, network access and backup systems.
• Provisioned caching for the database PostgreSQL, MySQL, SQL server.
• Knowledge of networking, IAM, API and security assessment tools/methodologies.
• Managed AWS-provided portal account access credentials and privileges.
• Encrypted data stored in EBS as an added layer of security.
• Administered IT-monitoring toolsets like AWS CloudWatch to collect and track metrics, collect, and monitor log files, and set alarms.
• In-depth technical knowledge of networks, storage systems and computing platforms including Amazon AWS, .NET, Windows, and CI/CD pipelines.
• As a last line of defense against a compromised account, I ensured all IAM users have multi-factor authentication activated for their individual accounts and limited the number of IAM users with the least administrative privileges.
• Designed and implemented scalable solutions in the cloud environment leveraging cloud enterprise technology and services in AWS such as AWS VPC, Auto Scaling, ELB, AWS Global Infrastructure (Regions and Availability Zones).
• Designed and implemented scalable solutions in the cloud environment leveraging cloud enterprise technology and services in AWS such as AWS VPC, Auto Scaling, ELB, AWS Global Infrastructure (Regions and Availability Zones).
• Implemented Trusted Advisor to auto remediate findings using Amazon CloudWatch Events and AWS Lambda function.
• Configured CloudWatch alarm rules for monitoring and operational performance for logs, metrics and events for AWS resources and applications.

Confidential

Senior Environmental & Regulatory Advisor

Responsibilities:

• Drove global application of company environmental policy, standards, regulatory advocacy, best compliance practices, tools, and procedures.
• Applied in-depth understanding of regulatory and environmental standards coupled with business knowledge to articulate business case for actions and solve issues, as the technical environmental & regulatory straight edge for operating facilities, business units and Projects.
• Developed and maintained Environmental Business Plans (EBP) for Business Units, facilities, and operations, and advised on opportunities for improving environmental (and social) performance based on related cost benefit analyses.
• Advised business units and corporate senior management on priorities, strategies, and goals central to key business decisions related to Environmental, Regulatory & Socio Economic (ERS) performance.
• Lead implementation of appropriate environmental and regulatory practices including impact avoidance and mitigation measures for operating facility, business units and projects.
• Provided early competency coaching and technical guidance, and actively support competency developments programs (e.g., training) for environmental professionals.
• Developed long-term environmental and regulatory strategies that might pose personal and business risk in response to changes in the organization and/or external environment.
• A recognized technical leader with regional influence, represented and negotiated on behalf of company on environmental, regulatory, and socioeconomic issues.
• Stewarded company positions on environmental and regulatory issues both locally and broadly and supported advocacy with governmental and non-governmental institutions.
• Primary contact for Confidential Upstream Nigeria on all matters pertaining to environmental & regulatory support. Collaborated across global functional affiliates with Subject Matter Experts in the HSE Job Family to address common and integrated efforts to support business and technical Environmental/Regulatory matters central to key business decisions.
• Identified global environmental performance improvement opportunities with business value for Upstream Nigeria and provided leadership to address challenges and opportunities.
• Represented Confidential Upstream Nigeria externally on environmentally related scientific / academic forums, trade association and joint-industry groups as business needs warrant.
• Developed Key Performance Variables for Confidential Upstream Nigeria Environmental & Regulatory Compliance.
• Company representative and Technical Committee (TECOM) Chairman of the Clean Nigeria Associate (CNA) responsible for spill response in Nigeria.
• Engaged on development and global application of Confidential Upstream Nigeria environmental and regulatory advocacy and compliance practices, processes, tools and procedures.
• Proactively identifies, justifies, develops, helps implement, and reappraises improvements.
• Stewarded environmental performance improvement Global Share postings regarding Environmental/Regulatory topics.
• Facilitated identification and global sharing of important environmental/regulatory learnings. Supported HSE Curriculum Committee for Environmental/Regulatory training development, upgrades, and delivery. Locates, captures, and applies critical external knowledge and experience.
• Spearheaded production and facilities/process engineering activities supporting 1.5 billion cubic feet per day natural gas processing and NGL extraction plants providing continuous improvements to operations through execution of capital projects, troubleshooting, and optimization of processes, procedures, equipment, and pipeline distributions. These included oversights of process engineering design, project cost estimates, troubleshooting and operation support for plant turnaround and shutdown. Developed and ran HYSYS and OLGA models in support of daily plant operations, pipeline operations, plant modifications and capacity enhancements
• Led development of comprehensive engineering and operating procedures to safely support new operating mode of NGL plant (outside design envelope) for 11 months to restore a shut-in gas source plant and improved revenue by $290M
• Coordinated cross function team (reservoir, rotating equipment, and I&C engineers) to develop start up and commissioning plans for two offshore Wellhead production platforms previously shut-in for safety concern and led field work to successfully start them up
• Led troubleshooting and Root Cause identification of dehydration unit premature failure and developed mitigation to extend the life by over 100%
• Hand-picked to serve as business unit production uplift Opportunity Ideas Leader, initiated and generated 30 inexpensive production uplift opportunities that resulted in 50,000 barrels/day uplift at a cost of $60M. Successfully manage multiple projects within applicable timelines, cost and quality.
• Initiated and drove process to increase NGL production by 20% and improved flare stewardship by 10%.
• Initiated and progressed cost-effective facilities concept to develop previously uneconomic reserve holding 300 MBO, 12TCF: and saved $200M project development cost.
• Initiated and coordinated cross-function effort to execute process control improvement project to maximize natural gas plant throughput by 10%, working with Machinery and I & C engineers to implement Dynamic Matrix Control
• Supervised and direct the daily activities of multi-discipline 20+ members engineering team supporting shallow water offshore oil and natural gas processing assets including two terminals. Support asset manager in production management, staffing process, strategy planning and budgeting cycles.
• Coordinated cross-functional team to develop reliability improvements best practices through Prevent Detect Response and Recover (PDDR) system approached and shared learnings across all assets
• Credited for directly contributing to the Nigerian shallow water assets achieving a “zero” safety incident rating and exceeding process safety major consequence scenario management audit
• Initiated and implemented automated pipeline distribution network surveillance dashboard that led to eliminating network’s bottleneck contributing to 25kbd downtime. Step changes in excursions alerts are automated for timely intervention and to generate reports