Guy A. McDonald

24228 Clear Creek Circle

Hockley, TX 77447

281-728-5454

guy_mcdonald@sbcglobal.net

www.linkedin.com/in/guymcdonald/

Professional History

Program Manager with 15 years engineering and business management experience, who specializes in planning and

promoting design strategies, and providing team vision through mentoring and training. Skilled at solving problems

during development of large-scale engineering and scientific applications. A practiced motivator, who encourages

innovation to increase profit, by identifying, analyzing, and solving problems in pragmatic ways.

Skilled in organizing program and project work flows, achieving deadlines, contributing or leading technical design,

forecasting project delivery dates, and controlling cost. Quickly adapts to the current work conditions, or creates new

environments, always finding efficient and effective solutions that translate to revenue generating applications.

Skills Summary

  · Program and Risk Management

  · Agile Project Management

  · Communications and Negotiations

  · PMO and Change Management

Professional Experience

BHP Billiton (2014 – Present)

Program Manager, Senior Project Manager, Houston, Texas

  · Program, and Project Management – responsible for implementing a Pipeline Data Integrity program from the ground

up, which includes conversion of disparate data streams into a centralized single repository using the PODS data model

(Pipeline Open Data Standard).

Delivery of the Business and IM processes required to deploy and support a strong integrity program with the ability to

efficiently merge and utilize multiple data elements obtained from several sources to provide improved analysis of

overall risk.

Business critical project, budget accountability $1-5MM, spanning eleven business functions associated with BHP

petroleum operations. Program adopted by several hundred personnel across 4 major production units in Texas,

Arkansas, and Louisiana.

Developed scope and resource plan that included a diverse mix of business owners and stakeholders, meeting

requirements through acceptance, change control governance,

Server standups, readiness reviews, transition to operations with cutover to production within a virtualized environment.

Planned and executed project primarily using a traditional project management method within the PMO structure, with

some Agile techniques utilized when possible.

Halliburton-Landmark Graphics (2005 – 2014)

Program and Project Manager, Houston, Texas (2009 – 2014)

  · Portfolio, Program, and Project Management – responsible for Landmark’s flagship Drilling, Completion, and

Production software products with annual revenues in excess of $50MM, delivering product market gains and record

+20% year over year profit growth.

Accountable to business leaders and executive management to work with and develop portfolio plans, revisiting

periodically to adjust for business prioritization.

Collaborated with product owners to create Agile release backlogs from the Market Requirements Document (MRD) in

order to quickly plan projects and deliver demonstrable working software iteratively through Scrum.

  · Usability & Systems Analysis

  · Outcome Driven Leadership

  · Detail-Oriented and Solution-Driven

  · Broad Technical Knowledge of all Disciplines and Roles

Worked with product owners to groom Agile backlogs, plan the release, and write stories with strong acceptance criteria.

For traditional projects, created plans containing well-defined tasks, milestones, and client acceptance checkpoints, while

reporting project progress and forecasts to senior management.

Directly accountable for the development budget of Drilling, Completions, and Production R&D projects, with an $800K

monthly run rate.

Responsible for Change Control processes, managing CRs from inception, through approval and execution, to

completion.

Active in SLA creation; worked with clients and technical and service groups to provide input prior to legal review and

sign-off.

  · Software Development – applied tools and techniques as a certified scrum master to coach teams unfamiliar with the

Agile development process, or repaired existing teams, to yield higher performance measured by increased velocity

during the release cycle.

Worked with configuration management to implement a workflow management system that streamlined

commercialization and channel operation processes to deliver products to market faster with traceability for audit.

Championed innovation; dozens of United States Patent Office applications put into play by project team members.

Migrated various drilling and production software teams from waterfall to Agile, managing team dynamics, encouraging

continued improvements to the development progress, and helping resolve roadblocks.

  · Delivery – recognized above 17 other Program and Project Managers in the $900MM per year Landmark product

service line as the one who delivers early, with the Halliburton Director of Drilling, a former Schlumberger Drilling

software director, stating “in all my years of delivering software, Guy is the first manager to bring in a large program

ahead of schedule.”

Delivered multiple releases during many challenging times to grow revenue, driving our major competitor out of the

Drilling space.

Selected by executive management to deliver the first DecisionSpace plug-in with very limited product owner

availability; required to support a large sale to a major oil company.

Products delivered:

ARIES® Economic System and Modeler

COMPASS™

DecisionSpace® Engineering Notes

DecisionSpace® Well Planning

DecisionSpace® Well Engineering

Engineer’s Desktop

NETool™ and DSS™ Dynamic Surveillance System™

StressCheck™ and CasingSeat™

TOW/cs®

Well Cost

WELLCAT™

WELLPLAN™

  · Leadership – proven leader of teams who is a strong negotiator and motivator / coach that inspires enthusiastic efforts

that yield innovative market leading results, but still delivers required scope on time.

Led multiple concurrent projects and programs, consisting of multi-role distributed and collocated engineering/scientific

teams. Team sizes usually were optimal 5 – 9 but flexed to 20 for larger projects, and program resource counts exceeded

100 onshore and offshore personnel.

Strong leader responsible for monitoring and controlling development tasks and issues daily, while building relationships

with teams to deliver ready-to-ship features.

Streamlined processes to reduce bureaucracy, maintaining Agile development process to bring customer value to market

quickly. Delivering change by always asking the question “is there a better way that is pragmatic, leading the industry,

and differentiating from our competition?”

  · People – led by example with constant emphasis on improving my performance and challenging others to take on new

opportunities, grow professionally, and give back to others. Managed 22 direct reports in previous job.

Consulted with resource managers to agree upon internal and external resources, and negotiated with stakeholders to set

expectations about cost, scope, and schedule.

  · Reporting – designed and implemented an executive reporting process using an in-house tool that saved significant

administrative overhead and 3rd party licensing fees. Also provided normal weekly reporting of project metrics and

updated forecasts.

Used risk management techniques to find predictive and insightful solutions through mitigation and contingency

planning; providing the risk-reward information needed by decision makers to understand trade-offs required to achieve

various results.

Project Manager - Information Development, Houston, Texas (2005-2009)

  · Project Management – worked across product service and technical business lines to deliver products requiring high

amount of cooperative and coordinated effort.

Drove multiple concurrent projects and delivered ahead of schedule, with high-energy teams in a positive environment.

Designed and created the full spectrum of documentation and training materials for Landmark’s Drilling, Completion

and Production software product line.

Education & Professional Training

University of Phoenix – Bachelor of Science, Business-Information Systems. Emphasis on corporate management of

Information Systems – computer hardware and software architecture, file and data structures, systems analysis and

design, programming, software engineering, telecommunications, and management of the information systems

function.

United States Navy - Naval Nuclear Power Plant Prototype, Ballston Spa, NY, and Naval Nuclear Power School,

Orlando, FL

Continuing Education – Project and Risk Management coursework, Certified Scrum Master (CSM), Project

Management Professional (PMP) certification (in progress).

Professional Awards

  · Halliburton-Landmark awards for capital savings on managed programs and projects.

  · 2009 Landmark Employee of the Year, R&D Program Management, Usability

  · Halliburton Maximized Value Performance Awards, 2006 – 2013.

  · Conoco Exploration Production America special thanks and teamwork awards, 2001 – 2002.

  · Naval commendations, community service awards, and professional awards, 1985 – 1993.

Computer Expertise

Project and Workflow

Management

Database Applications

Operating Systems

Microsoft Team Foundation Server (TFS), Rally, SVN, Visual SourceSafe,

Microsoft Enterprise Project Management (EPM), Microsoft Project, Excel,

PowerPoint, Visio.

Oracle 10/11g, 12c, SQL, Microsoft Access, Sybase, IBM Informix.

Windows, Linux, Mac.