Ellen West Nodwell, CEO

Ellen is a principal of IntegraShare Dimensions, along with partner and principal, Gus Nodwell. Ellen serves as the company’s CEO.

Ellen is a principal of IntegraShare Dimensions, along with partner and principal, Gus Nodwell. Ellen serves as the company’s CEO.

Ellen’s interests lie in working with business people, enabling them to make good decisions based on good data using appropriate, fit-for-purpose technologies and tools that bring different “data layers” together to facilitate the decision making process.

She knows from experience that building a good technology and data framework is a shared responsibility requiring a true partnership between business and technology groups. Such a partnership requires effective leadership from the top of the organization, to champion the use of the technology and data – and broad participation with all stakeholders actively contributing in order for the implementation to be effective, well utilized and sustained over time.

Ellen has spent much of her career facilitating and building these relationships, which is an ongoing effort – people change – organizations change – and change management is critical. Ellen believes that organizations need a strategy for integrating the components of data and information into the business value chain, such that people in all roles can find, trust, and utilize the right data to support their work and achieve the goals of the business.

She is a proponent of individual accountability and constant data validation, ensuring business is only using “good” data. She believes in implementing relevant, not fancy, cost-effective sustainable processes to assure data quality going forward.

Ellen has worked on many projects that required thoughtful design and implementation of straightforward processes to collect validate and maintain data. She knows maintaining constant awareness of the importance of these activities is the cornerstone of data management success and this feeds directly into success in using any technology.

Her work with teams often involves changing data-handling habits to bring long-term benefits to the business. Ellen constantly emphasizes that partnering is the key to enabling technology and data management success of any type — everyone has some “skin in the game”, and will ultimately benefit from making these efforts successful.

Ellen is certified as a GISP (GIS Professional) through the GIS Certification Institute (GISCI).

GISCI has made efforts to standardize the skills required for competency in GIS across verticals to insure that people who are certified are capable of performing work using the wide array of skills that a GIS professional must gain.
Experience and leadership are also considered as integral in being a successful GIS Professional.

She can guide and enable businesses to make better decisions with greater confidence, based on high value, fit for purpose, and well-managed data using GIS and other technology tool sets – she understands that integration and interoperability are important in the day-to-day running of a successful business.

Ellen has also worked with non-profit organizations, advising on how to manage growth and combine leadership with technical and organizational goals in order to be successful, then facilitating efforts to achieve objectives.

She works with higher education organizations to help research and promote the curriculum that enables students in the geospatial sciences and technology areas to graduate as “work-ready”. She serves on the Brookhaven College Geospatial Technology Advisory Board (Dallas College District). In business IntegraShare provides student internships and hires graduates to mentor their careers.

Experience:

Information and Data Management – Solutions Delivery – Leadership and People Management – Strategy Consulting – GIS Professional Development Research and Strategic Planning for GIS – Organizational Planning and Development. GIS and Geospatial technology – Esri ArcGIS Platform – Data and Technology Governance – Process and Workflow Development.

Ellen’s specific areas of expertise include:

Over 25 years experience using, and managing technology and data.
Ellen has rich matrix of experience across the full lifecycle of upstream and midstream businesses within the energy industry.
Global GIS Manager for Hess Corporation for over six-and-a-half years, including management of information architecture and business intelligence integration projects – including deployment of a globally federated geospatial information system, and individual projects that delivered GIS solutions for individual business groups and regional offices.
- Geospatial data coordinator and project manager for Anadarko Petroleum for six years; including projects to up-version ArcGIS applications, upgrade enterprise server environment (including geodatabase/SDE), and other enterprise GIS metadata implementation projects.
- At Burlington Resources, led team that designed a complete enterprise technical data management system architecture, project management and implementation. Esri GIS software and geodatabase/SDE included in the design to manage mapping and the data for it.

Areas of Capability:

Planning and managing enterprise multi-location, multi-team organizations; architecture design, global deployment of integrated systems
Esri GIS is the platform with which Ellen has a deep and broad background – having worked with its technology stack, through its evolution from the 1990’s through the present time.
Business analysis and strategy development
Business life-cycle data governance and management – strategy development
Geospatial data and GIS subject matter expert; Geospatial data governance strategy development and the development of geospatial governance policies and processes; Geospatial data management; Geospatial data modeling
ROI analysis pre/post- technology implementations
Business workflow focused technology solution designs
Building and managing effective global teams
Leadership within global business and non-profit organizations

Petroleum and Pipelines Data Management and GIS:

Project development for GIS in petroleum – implementations and sub-implementations (for business segments).
Land GIS planning and implementations (with partners)
Esri GIS, and Business Intelligence implementations
Well and midstream data architecture and modeling
Well data SME (subject matter expert)
PPDM and PODS – industry standard model implementations
Well and petroleum business life cycle-Design & delivery of solutions for solving business problems by managing and integrating subsurface, and surface: well, geological, seismic, field and midstream data, GIS/geospatial, HSE, and related information assets
Asset monitoring and emergency response portal designs

Support for Education of Geospatial Professionals:

Research and assessment for program development strategies
Young professional mentoring and internship supervison
Consulting to educational organizations for building GIS job-readiness into program curriculum
Competency and capability analysis
Training development and delivery of geospatial and standards content

Since 2013, as a consultant and service provider, Ellen has worked on projects with these client companies and organizations:

British Petroleum (BP), Baker-Hughes, Trans-Canada Pipeline/TCEnergy, Texas A&M University, Alta Mesa Holdings, LP (Alta Mesa Resources), Pioneer Natural Resources, San Jacinto River Authority, City of Austin, and several local small businesses. Non-profits: The PODS Association, PPDM, APSG/APSG Education Foundation, Montgomery County CASA.

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