SHERRY BYRNES
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SUMMARY OF QUALIFICATIONS
Twenty–five plus years of experience in projects and operations support for Oil and Gas industry; with accomplished background in Information Technology; Information/Data/Document Management; Records Management; Personnel Management; Contractor Oversight; Training; and results-oriented team management.
Characterized as dependable, and accountable; Strong leadership skills; solutions-oriented with a mature perspective and business approach; excellent interpersonal and organization skills with the ability to adapt quickly to new environments.
MAJOR ACCOMPLISHMENTS
Manager - Information Management Services - Led BP Whiting Refinery Information Management Services department. Responsible for refinery controlled documentation, Records Management, and Information Management applications.
Senior Project Information Lead - Responsible for PIM activities for a mega-project (WRMP) located in Whiting, Indiana. Project scope: 5+ Billion
Department Manager - Coordinated document control staffing needs for sixteen national/global engineering projects; led applications and internet/intranet development programmers to complete 100 programs still in wide use.
Lead Implementation Manager – Managed global corporate design, development and implementation of EDMS (Electronic Document Management System) application mandated on all engineering projects – delivered standardized, consistent document management across the corporation.
Applications Development - Established core group of applications developers to design, create and support Engineering, Procurement and Construction applications – project controls systems used by over 2,000 employees. Managed development; implementation; and support.
Data Manager – Responsible for data mapping, validation, and reporting using AvevaNet and a SQL Server data warehouse on a major capital project. Over 70,000 tag Data elements were captured in alighment with the CFIHOS Industry standard.
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Information Management Lead
October 2019 – May 2020
Shell Oil (Contractor with Insight Global)
Houston, TX
IM Lead for a major Shell LNG project. Developed project plans, statements of work, procedures, workflows and specifications. Coordinated with Shell to create requirements to ensure progressive information capture during engineering, construction, commissioning, startup, and into a Digital Twin for Asset handover. Defined evaluation, testing and implementation plans for a new EDMS tool. Responsible for project data generated from engineering, project controls, project management, etc. Managed a team of seven (7) performing Document Management, Data Management, and Digital design roles.
Project Information Manager / Data Manager
August 2017 – Sept. 2019
Wood Plc
Houston, TX
Responsible for the Project Information Management activities including document and data management for a Canadian Oil company. Responsible for Project information throughout the project lifecycle including documents and data. Interfaces between project stakeholders and clients. Implemented project-specific PIM Plans; Developed and implemented Project Data Matrix; and developed workflows and authored the Project Handover Specification.
Implemented AvevaNet software to interface engineering tagged information; associated data and documents. (PDMS 3D, AutoCAD 2D, Engineering Tag data, and Project Documents (Supplier and Engineering). Responsible for oversight and assurance of contractor information processes to align with client requirements and systems. Ensured information integrity throughout project lifecycles by the application of best-practice information management procedures and processes. Managed document control and data administrator resources. Performed Business Analyst role to ensure the client data requirements were met.
Project Manager
Wood Plc
Project Manager for an Oil and Gas client working in the Gulf of Mexico. This project was an Information Management Project. This client contracted with Wood to implement a solution for their Operations documentation and associated metadata. Activities included:
Development of a Document Class Library containing all relative metadata elements, values and relationships
Evaluation of and recommendations for the existing data and document numbering schema.
Development of the Project Plan, Scope of Work, Metrics, Budget, Staffing and Delivery schedule
Data Mapping between original data and new data structure
Design of Excel and Web-based utilities to translate the document data, update to correct and standard value, and automatically upload new values each night into a SQL Server database
Functioned as Project Manager and Business Analyst to ensure the client data requirements were met
Project was completed on time and under budget
Document Control Manager
April 2016 – June 2017
CDI Corporation
Baton Rouge, LA
Responsible for the Document Control department including employee reviews, implementation of best practices, interface with engineering disciplines and clients. Worked with a corporate team to implement Coreworx as the corporate EDMS tool. Supported multiple small and mid-size onshore projects.
Document Management Advisor
Nov. 2014 – March 2016
Global Edge Consultants – Anadarko Petroleum
Woodlands, Texas
Worked as part of the Anadarko Global Project Services team to develop, communicate and implement a suite of standards and tools including: Project Information Management Plan; Information Delivery Requirements Specification; Internal Document Management Procedure; Document Numbering Specification; Project Information Handover Plan; Deviation Request procedure; etc. Developed a Documents for Project database (containing requirements for over 2,400 different document types and associated attribute values. Interfaced with Operations to ensure delivery of required data to support Operation’s needs. Developed the functional business requirements for the implementation and use of the OpenText (Livelink) EDMS tool. Supported multiple projects for Gulf of Mexico and a major international LNG project in Mozambique.
Project Information Manager
March 2012 – October 2014
BP Westlake Campus – Global Project Organization
Houston, Texas
Project Information Manager on a large revamp project for BP’s Thunder Horse platform in the Gulf of Mexico. Accountable for Project Information Management throughout the project lifecycle including the management of documents and data. Responsible for the interface between project stakeholders; Developed, communicated and implemented an information management (PIM) strategy and PIM Implementation plan. Modified, developed and implemented the GPO project based standards and specifications. Provided oversight and assurance on contractor information processes and systems. Maintained the PIM organization structure and staffing plan and ensured information integrity throughout project lifecycle through application of information management procedures. Developed requirements for the Central Information Store (Data Warehouse). Worked closely with the 3rd party company providing the configuration of the Bentley EB tool.
Manager, Information Management Services (IMS)
May 2009 – March 2012
BP Whiting Refinery
Whiting, IN
Manager, IMS Department. Responsible for refinery controlled documentation, Records Management, and support for Information Management software. Supervised a team of 24+ and coordinated with 3rd party contractors for outsourced activities; Established site practices and interfaced with groups to meet documentation needs; Handled personnel recruitment, departmental project planning, and training; participated in site audits (and resulting actions); Implemented OMS (Operations Management Systems) solutions for Information Management. Developed functional requirements; application implementation; user support; and training for IMS applications (Documentum, Citadon, and Sharepoint).
Senior Project Information Manager
Jan 2006 - May 2009
BP Whiting Refinery
Houston, TX & Whiting, IN
Senior Project Information Management Leader on a 5+ billion dollar refinery project in Whiting, IN. Responsible for establishing project procedures and interfacing with 10+ different engineering/construction contractors to meet the refinery documentation needs; Traveled 50/50 between Houston, TX and Whiting, IN; Implemented a project document system (Citadon) for use by project team members and 3rd party companies. Handled personnel recruitment, project planning, IT&S support activities, and BP/Contractor training. Fulfilled interface management role between multiple companies.
Manager, Data/Document Management Department
Mar. 2003 – Sept. 2005
ABB Lummus Global
Houston, Texas
Manager - Data/Document Management (DDM) department. Responsible for 40+ staff members, personnel recruitment, placement, staffing forecasts, and cost projections, project planning, practices, procedures, training and project schedules. Established document management implementation plan for multi-office execution on global/local projects; Functioned as corporate IT training director for staff; and implemented training for the corporate EDMS system (iDocs). Direct report to VP of Engineering.
Manager, Business Systems – Information Technology
Dec.1999 - Mar.2003
ABB Lummus Global
Houston, Texas
Manager - Business systems (Information Technology) - Led Information Technology team responsible for the company’s internal business systems; Functioned as Implementation Manager for EDMS application (iDocs); Led corporate Internet design and development of in-house applications in support of 1200 users. Accountable for personnel administration; vendor selection; software agreements and licensing; purchasing; and implementation of software solutions. Develop detailed software tracking system and following a merger, coordinated three different companies into a centralized IT Shared Services environment.
Manager, Information Management
Sept. 1997 - Dec.1999
ABB Randall Corporation
Houston, Texas
Manager - Information Management (IM) - IM consisted of three sub-groups: Information Technology, Reproduction, and Document Control. Responsible for company network and PC support; Functioned as lead designer for in-house developed applications and corporate intranet; Oversight for Computer Aided Design standards and implementation of an in-house computer-training program for all employees.
Systems and Programming Manager
Aug.1989 - Sept. 1997
S & B Engineers & Constructors, Ltd.
Houston, Texas
Led a staff of seven (7) programmers. Team was responsible for corporate engineering and construction project applications design. Designed and coded applications for project controls systems including estimating, warehousing, materials control, job accounting, inventory control, requisitioning, purchasing, personnel, drawing and equipment tracking. Applications used extensively on all company projects providing standardization across all projects.
ACADEMIC / TECHNICAL PROFICIENCY
Alvin Community College - General Course Study 1988
San Jacinto Jr. College - Computer Courses – 1989 - 1991
Certified Knowledge Manager (CKM) - May 2011