Built in high-stakes operating environments

Selected examples of high-stakes operating work across transformation, governance, automation, and delivery.

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Operating experience across SolarWinds, OLIVER Agency and Dassault Systèmes

Selected enterprise environments supported through prior agency roles

Manulife | Adidas | PayMaya | NTUC Singapore | Reckitt Benckiser | Reebok | 3M | Netflix | Google | Nestle

Unilever | Bayer | AXA | Daigeo

Work completed through prior employment and agency engagements. These organisations are not clients of The Ops Layer, and no endorsement is implied.

Execution Proof

Enterprise Data Transformation

2-week operating cadence · 65.6 average story points per sprint · 70+ normalized sprint capacity

Challenge: High-priority analytics work needed stronger rhythm and cross-functional clarity.

Intervention: Installed a structured sprint-based operating model across enterprise data delivery.

Outcome: Improved delivery visibility, coordination and leadership confidence.

Execution Proof: Force-multiplier testimonial from the Head of Enterprise Data.

Cross-Functional Playbook Design

90+ workflows · Onboarding and operations · Enterprise environments

Challenge: Embedded teams operating inside enterprise client environments lacked consistent onboarding, handoffs and repeatable execution standards. Intervention: Redesigned 90+ workflows into practical playbooks, clearer ownership structures and repeatable operating logic. Outcome: Improved onboarding consistency, cross-functional coordination and execution quality.

Execution Proof: Praised for creating operational design assets that strengthened onboarding, coordination and execution clarity.

Reporting Automation

200+ recurring reports automated · 1,000+ manual hours removed monthly

Context: APAC operations-utilisation and CSAT reporting automation.

Challenge: Reporting required significant manual effort and needed a more scalable operating solution.

Intervention: Automated the reporting flow and redesigned the underlying framework to capture team activity more reliably while reducing manual load.

Impact: Built a reporting system from the ground up that improved visibility, scalability and operational efficiency.

Execution Proof: Recognised for automating critical reports and strengthening the reporting system itself.

Executive-Level Strategic Communication

APAC scope · CXO-level audience · GenAI and sustainability

Context: Senior leadership conference presentation on sustainability initiatives and GenAI.

Challenge: Leadership needed a clear, high-quality strategic review that could stand up at CXO level as GenAI began entering the market.

Intervention: Developed strategic insights on GenAI’s emerging capabilities, translated them into business implications and shaped the material for senior leadership. Impact: The presentation was explicitly praised for both the substance of the content and the quality of delivery.

Execution Proof: Commended directly by the APAC CEO for the quality of the strategic thinking and delivery.

Contract Lifecycle Infrastructure

APAC portfolio · Salesforce infrastructure · Automated expiry logic

Context: Contract management and visibility across APAC accounts.

Challenge: The team lacked a centralised contract repository and a reliable way to track expiries across the region.

Intervention: Partnered with Salesforce to build a contract module, then designed the operating logic that turned it into a centralised APAC repository with expiry tracking and notification workflows.

Impact: Improved regional contract visibility and kept key stakeholders—including the CEO—informed on upcoming expiries.

Execution Proof: Recognised by regional leadership for strong systems and automation work.

Lakehouse MVP Execution

$2M programme · $200K initial phase · 3 functions

Context: MVP delivery within a $2M data lakehouse adoption programme, with an initial $200K MVP phase supporting Product, Engineering and GTM.

Challenge: The business needed to validate the MVP environment, test core functionality and understand how the platform could serve Product, Engineering and GTM teams.

Intervention: Helped drive MVP execution by coordinating validation, testing platform functionality and translating early findings into cross-functional business relevance.

Impact: Strengthened confidence in the lakehouse programme by making the MVP more usable, credible and strategically legible to leadership.

Execution Proof: Praised by senior transformation leadership for high-quality work and strong execution credibility.

Aggregated across prior operating roles at SolarWinds, OLIVER Agency and Dassault Systèmes.

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