Project Background

In late 1998, BP merged with Amoco and at the time was the largest corporate merger in history. The key to achieving the perceived benefits was in completing transition and transformation of the new combined entity into a streamlined single set of business processes as soon as possible. Transformation of the IT tools, applications and underlying IT infrastructure were the critical means to  achieve this aim. And with little more than 12 months before y2k became a reality, the significance of devising a strategy and project plan, then executing perfectly across the globe within a short time frame was huge.

Robs role was to guide the global assessment and decision making that ultimately led to a decision to implement BP's Common Operating Environment. Then to provide clear guidance and assistance to multiple global business teams as they considered which of the application systems to retain or discard.

Once the direction was clear, Rob returned to Asia where he lead the migration of core IT systems infrastructure for every Amoco site in Asia Pacific to complete without business interruption prior to the December y2k deadline. Under Robs leadership, the Asia Pacific migration, covering over 20 countries and many more sites was completed ahead of schedule and well within budget.

iTop Group is a team of the very best IT practitioners from around Australia, hand picked for their track record in delivering superior results with quality in all current technologies. Many IT providers will sell you a shiny box but fail to deliver the business outcome, or walk away with everything running OK on day one but degenerating into an unsupportable system in a month. Others stitch together a patchwork of systems that collectively do not function smoothly or efficiently.

All our iTop people are hand selected to have the benefit of many years experience in delivering quality matched with deep knowledge of current technologies and how to integrate them together into business systems with high efficiency and low support. We leverage the best value for money infrastructure providers.

Our Track Record

Our Role: CIO Eastern Hemisphere Supply & Trading

▪ Responsible for Kwinana Oil Refinery IT Systems

▪ Lead all of BP Australia IT. Outsource all services.

▪ Lead Global COE(Common Operating Environment) IT Systems roll out to 35,000 users, 50countries

▪ Lead IT systems merger with AMOCO – 30,000 users,worldwide

▪ Implement and run Singapore Oil Trading systems platforms

▪ Coach and mentor all IT staff in 15 countries

Our Role: Service Delivery Management SE Asia

▪ Run and transform IT for all Holden design and manufacturing

▪ Manage all Asia (10 countries) IT systems infrastructure operations and development.

▪ Manage IT for 4 Manufacturing plants, spare parts warehouses, 1,000 design engineers, 5,000 staff supported

▪ Lead SE Asia part of largest IT contract transition ever – all of GM services across the globe on 6/6/2006.

Our Role: Delivery Project Executive

▪ Lead infrastructure build and transition for Telstra billing systems upgrade.

▪ 1,500 servers, hundreds of millions of call records per day

▪ Lead transition and run of BHP Billiton global systems.

▪ Responsible for all head office functions in Melbourne and London.