Aldash Aitmagambetov
Contact details: +7-747-***-**** / ******@*****.***
Professional Profile
Highly committed, disciplined and results driven with over 10 year experience in developing, engineering, installation and operation/maintenance activity in Oil & Gas industry. Have a strong ability to work independently and within a team. Good analytical and communication skills. High possibility to analyze and investigate the issues, find and apply solution, fixes and improvements for the supported systems. Key achievements:
North Caspian Operations Company NV
As a Contact Holder, was responsible for in-time delivery of the new USD 8mln PI System Contract and onboarding new Contactor staff. As a Team Lead, was ensured the service continuity of PI System support activity, System and Data availability, high priority applications deployment projects delivery for Production Operations, participate and manage Production Operations digitalization projects. Professional Work Experience
Nostrum O&G. ZhaikMunai. Exploration & Production IT Director. January 2019 – Present time. Conduct the complete IT study of the E&P Departments and formulate recommendations on IT improvements; Engage with the E&P Departments to initiate IT Business Applications Portfolio, Roadmap and Strategy; Non-stop business communication;
Establish a good collaboration between the business and IT organizations via providing required consultancy and support in IT sphere.
Initiate the plans to establish Applications Support to extend in house knowledge and Local capability; Manage the resources including direct reports, contracts, Vendors; Providing a clear plan on staff development;
Create a set of policies, procedures to maximize the value of IT within Organization; Ensure the delivery of request IT solutions for the business; Control and perform implementation of Production Technical Solutions like PI System, Hexagon SDx and WellView from Peloton.
North Caspian Operating Company. Production Applications Projects Team Lead. January 2017 – January 2019.
Supervision/Managing Projects Team consisting of 2 members; Delivery of Production Operations required applications deployment projects in a PM role:
- Implementation of Electronic Shift handover tool which purpose was to eliminate the manual shift/crew handover process, improve daily operation communication.
- Pilot Implementation of Action Tracking Management System which purpose is to play a Single Repository for all type of Actions within Production Directorate.
- Implementation of Alarm Management System by the request of PACO Team. Participate In digitalization deployment projects as TA2 (UAVs, Smart Tablets, and Robotics):
- Successful implementation of the Smart Tablet Pilot project for the Operations activities which includes Operator round activities, SAP connection, PI Connection, access to EDMS system and report from Tablet.
- Prepare Technical requirements from IT perspective for UAV pilot project leaded by Logistics Team and involved – Aviation, Logistics, HSSE and Security Teams.
- Organized successful handover and preservation for the Robot developed specifically for Kashagan project by collaboration of Shell and group of universities. Originate and go through a full cycle of analysis and preparation of Project Notices and Investment Proposals; Play the role of Technical Authority 2 for Production Applications; Perform the consultancy for IT projects from Production Applications perspective; Manage the Contracts in a role of Contact Holder. Prepare full set of CP required documentation: Scope of Work, Company Estimates, Contract Requisition Forms, etc.; Communicate with Vendor and Contractors to progress on issues resolution; Provide the budget estimations for production applications. North Caspian Operating Company. Real Time Applications Portfolio Team Lead. August 2015 – December 2016.
NCOC OSISoft PI System maintenance and support activities:
- Organized, delivered and managed the NCOC PI System project with ACV $8 mln.
- Developed a KPI and Reporting system which purpose is to assess progress and performance of the Contractor Staff during different periods of time;
- Organized a Support vs. Projects Implementation workflows for the PI System;
- Supervision/Managing PI System L2 Support Team consisting of 6 members;
- Accountability for Business requirements gathering and further requirements implementation via all steps of the project, including creation of BRD, Acceptance Criteria, test procedures, etc.
- Support and update over 600 Production Displays. Responsibility and personal involvement for critical Kashagan pre/re-startup/post start PI projects in-time delivery:
- Lead the NCOC PI System separation from Shell process;
Implementation of New PI System which includes implementation of different environments for PI System;
Configuration of PI Servers, failover, PI Nodes, archive process;
Implementation of PI Interfaces (OPC, RDBMS, UFL);
PI Client-side reconfiguration;
Originated and implemented Data Validation process;
Etc.
- Implementation of PI Projects based on PI AF and ACE components:
Well Calculations. Identify the Well status, number of online hours, calculate totalizers, average values, etc. Possibility to write data to PI System from dedicated users to change the Wells mode.
Air Quality Monitoring Data. Integrate AQMS and PI system. Originate user displays, calculation, alarm and acknowledgement system within PI.
Implementation of PI Notification system. Control the status of all PI Servers and Nodes, status of PI System subsystems and network. Send notifications via mail and sms, perform calls to Duty phones in cases of emergency situations.
Flaring project. Implementation of flaring calculations based on PI AF and different inputs signals starting from Valve status, Pressure and Flow transmitter values. Complicated structure and calculation in AF based on templates, transmitters and valve data sheets and inputs from Operations. Creation of PI User displays.
Etc.
Organized and managed the AQMS system Contract which purpose was to upgrade the Hardware/Software part of Air Quality monitoring stations, organize a data transfer from the Stations to Company PI System and analyze the data..
North Caspian Production Operating Company. IT Business Analyst. March 2014 - August 2015. Communicate with business stakeholders to collect the functional requirements for PI System projects delivery. Perform the delivery of the projects and organize the user acceptance sessions. Prepare all set of required for projects documentation. NCPOC PI System support and maintenance activities as a Level 2 Support Team member. 1. PI System application support:
a. On duty application support 24*7;
b. Originate NCOC PI System Preventive and Corrective list of activities and schedule for the Support Team;
c. PI System maintenance and support activities which includes health status checks, problem investigation and problem solving for the PI Servers and Nodes; d. PI system ticket tracking activities for the existing and new problems/incidents; e. Check PI System and OS logs for warning and critical errors. Finding the solution for errors fixing; f. Provide daily support and maintenance on the base of originated Preventive Maintenance Report including the checks for the archives, buffer queues, backups of the PI systems and archives, status of dataflow and interfaces, mapping and trusts, etc.; g. Develop KPI Assessment Matrix for the PI support activity, including schedules, list of items and reports;
h. Collaborate with other Support Teams providing different levels of application support; i. Originate and correct PI System documentation including but not limited to DDS, FDS, Admin Manuals, Training and Awareness Materials;
j. Periodical checks for the new releases/updates of the existing software; k. Participate in the test procedures for the new PI bundles; l. Business user support: PI System access, new displays creations, corrections on existing displays, etc.
2. Business Analyst responsibilities:
a. Help to establish requirements for the changes implementation in the business processes; b. Assist to identify acceptance criteria and test scenarios for automated systems and take responsibility for proper execution;
c. Plan, arrange and lead meetings with business. Build a god relationship with end business users during the work process;
d. Apply available standards, tools and methods in an intelligent and effective way, and produce a high standard of documentation for both technical and descriptive nature; e. Take part and responsibility for developing detailed specification and bringing the project from the implementation to the accepted phase;
f. Provide required technical support for the new PI Contract. OICE Limited company. Lead Service Engineer. December 2012 – March 2014. Took part in the NCPOC OSISoft PI System implementation project and support of the PI System in the Kashagan Oil and Gas Project
1. PI displays design and logic part creations which includes complex calculation. 2. Design and implementation of PI IT Monitor system, starting from the overview displays, interfaces and notification system configuration.
3. VBA coding for the purpose of the project’s tasks. 4. Design and implementation of data validation procedures between the source and existing systems. 5. Design of the UAT documentation and test conduction following created documentation. 6. Business users request support.
7. Tickets status tracking through Shell service manager (SM9) system. 8. Security system configuration as a part of the existing system. 9. Configuration of data interfaces.
10. Configuration of OPC DA Servers.
11. Communication and collaboration with business users and different Support Teams as a part of the activity plan development and prevention of system failures, etc. Invensys. Service Engineer. December 2010 – December 2012. 1. Take part in Kashagan Project engineering support in Invensys UK. January-July 2011. This includes but not limited to DCS customization and modules configuration, VBA coding, etc.; 2. Design and configuration Infusion SCADA for KazMunaiGaz pilot project which includes selection and software/hardware installation on the client assets, system architecture design, displays and library elements creation, VB coding, training materials preparation and training conduction; 3. Offshore site experience. SAT and hardware/software support for Triconex F&G, ESD and I/A Series DCS systems, test reports DB and third-party systems support. KazTransOil. Principal Engineer. September 2010 – December 2010. 1. PLC ABB AC800FR logic design and correction activities; 2. PLC Siemens S7-300 Emergency Protection System logic design and correction activities; 3. Siemens WinCC SCADA maintenance and support activities; 4. Pipeline Operators requests support;
5. C and VB coding for the purpose of the SCADA system; 6. SCADA system Web Server maintenance and support activities; 7. Maintenance activities for historical archives and systems backups; 8. Third party systems support;
9. Technical support for engineering projects;
10. Contractor communication during the data exchange process between different SCADA systems; 11. Industrial Active Directory, WSUS support activities; 12. Symantec Endpoint Protection deployment and maintenance and support activities. KazTransOil. PLC Software Engineer. February 2009 - September 2010. 1. PLC ABB AC800FR logic design and correction activities; 2. PLC Siemens S7-300 Emergency Protection System logic design and correction activities. KazTransOil. Applications Engineer. November 2006- February 2009. 1. Same set of previous position activities + below; 2. Maintenance activities for historical archives and systems backups; 3. Third party systems support.
KazTransOil Engineerg Center. SCADA System Administrator. July 2006- November 2006. 1. Siemens WinCC SCADA maintenance and support activities. 2. Pipeline Operators requests support.
3. SCADA displays correction and creation activities. 4. PLC logic design and correction activities.
5. C and VB coding for the purpose of the SCADA system. 6. SCADA system Web Server maintenance and support activities. Medinform. Software Engineer. January 2006- May 2006. 1. Design and maintenance of Visual FoxPro Projects for the Ministry of the Public Health of the Republic of Kazakhstan. This includes projects support, communication with end users, collect functional and technical requirements, application development.
Academic Credentials
Kazakh National University, Almaty. 2001-2006
Mechanical-mathematical faculty.
Specialty: Applied mathematics,
Atyrau State University, Atyrau, 2007-2009,
Economics faculty,
Specialty: Finance.
Trainings
Siemens WinCC courses: ST-BWinOND, ST-BWinCCS
Siemens ST7-PRO1, ST7-PRO2
Barco DisplayWall ccccc
Profibus DP/PA Basics and configuration Slaves and AC800F Master Industrial IT Controller AC800F Advanced Configuration AC800F System management and diagnostics
Implementation and Maintenance of PLC MasterLogic 200, Honeywell Configuration Essentials, I/A Series Foxboro
Equipment Maintenance, I/A Series Foxboro
Triconex Configuration Standard, Triconex
BOSIET
H2S OPITO
PI System Administration for IT Professionals.
Operations Readiness in Projects, Shell.
Languages
Kazakh (Native); English (Fluent); Russian (Fluent) Key Technical Skills
Siemens WinCC SCADA
Wonderware Intouch
Infusion
OPC Servers,
Siemens PLC 300, 400H,
ABB AC800F
Triconex,
DCS I/A Series
OSISoft PI System (ACE, AF, PI PB, PI DataLink, PI PE, etc.) Symantec End Point Protection