Buyer who built web apps for buyers. 18 years of hands-on procurement,
12 of them on oil and gas EPC projects.
I procured from April 2004 to August 2022, the last twelve years of it
on five oil and gas EPC projects with Kvaerner and Aker Solutions, under
NORSOK standards and NIB2016 conditions. Since September 2022 I have
been the sole developer of the supplier management portal corporate
supply chain runs on. I hold a CIPS Diploma in Procurement and Supply
and a degree in computer science and English.
This is the long version. It has the detail a two-page CV leaves out,
every package group, every project figure, and the portal in full.
Highlights
18 years of hands-on procurement, April 2004 to August 2022, of
which 12 years in oil and gas EPC, June 2010 to August 2022.
82 commodity packages across five EPC projects, for Equinor, Shell,
Lundin and ExxonMobil, purchased under NORSOK standards and NIB2016
conditions.
Nyhamna was my largest scope. I held a USD 60 million bulk
procurement budget there, across 35 commodity packages, 977 purchase
orders, 15,555 line items and 50 suppliers.
Four years as Solution Architect building web apps for buyers and
corporate Legal, September 2022 to present. The supplier management
portal has been live in production throughout and has 1,300+
registered users.
CIPS Diploma in Procurement and Supply, 2014, and a degree in
computer science and English, 2003.
Norwegian citizen, resident in Norway since 2012 and based in Oslo.
Fluent in English and Norwegian.
Packages are the one figure that totals across all five projects.
Purchase order, line item and supplier counts are recorded for some
projects and not others, so they are given per project, as they stand,
under procurement experience.
EPC projects portfolio
Each project expands for detail.
Northern Lights CO2 transport and storage, client
Equinor ASA
The world's first CO2 transport and storage
infrastructure open to third parties, and the storage half of
Norway's state-backed Longship programme. Aker Solutions held
the EPC contract for the onshore receiving terminal at
Øygarden, awarded in December 2020. The scope was jetty
facilities for CO2 arriving by ship, intermediate
storage tanks, and the process systems that condition the gas
for injection into a reservoir 2,600 m below the seabed.
Pre-fabrication ran at Stord. The terminal opened in September
2024 with a first phase capacity of 1.5 million tonnes a year.
Njord A Topside Platform upgrade, client Equinor ASA
The first production platform on the Norwegian Continental
Shelf taken ashore for a full upgrade after years in service.
Njord A, originally delivered in 1997, was towed to Kværner
Stord in 2016 for a complete rebuild of hull and topside,
extending field life by around twenty years and adding the
facilities needed to receive oil and gas from the neighbouring
Bauge, Hyme and Fenja fields. The programme was estimated at
roughly 3,000 man-years of work.
Nyhamna onshore gas plant expansion, client A/S Norske Shell
Nyhamna processes gas from the Ormen Lange field and exports it
to England through the 1,200 km Langeled pipeline. Kvaerner
held the EPCM contract for the expansion from 2012 to 2018,
which lifted plant capacity from 70 to 84 million standard
cubic metres a day. Two main scopes: a new onshore compressor
to hold export pressure as reservoir pressure declines, and the
process and export facilities for the Polarled pipeline
bringing gas south from Aasta Hansteen.
Edvard Grieg EPC Topside, client Lundin Petroleum AS
Lundin's largest development and its first operated platform on
the Norwegian Continental Shelf, roughly 180 km west of
Stavanger. Kvaerner won the topside EPC in 2012 at around NOK 8
billion: a 21,000-tonne structure comprising the main topside,
process module, combined living quarter and utility module, and
flare tower, assembled at Stord. It was delivered on schedule
and the field came onstream in November 2015.
Sakhalin-1 Concrete Gravity Base Structure, client ExxonMobil
The reinforced concrete gravity base for Berkut, the largest
offshore platform in the country, on the Arkutun-Dagi field in
the Sea of Okhotsk. The 160,000-tonne base was built in the
docks of Vostochny Port near Nakhodka, with 90% of construction
materials sourced locally. It carries a 42,000-tonne
topside and is engineered for waves to 18 m, ice two metres
thick and temperatures as low as −44 °C. Sailaway
was in May 2012; commercial production began in 2015.
Procurement competencies
The full cycle, in the order I ran it: requirements definition with
engineering, sourcing, supplier assessments, shortlists, bids and
clarifications, negotiations, award and debrief, kickoffs, call-offs,
change orders, expediting, quality issues, liquidated damages,
close-out. Then you start again on the next one.
Market analysis and supplier pre-qualification.
Preparation of inquiry and tender documents.
Bid opening, commercial bid tabulation and bid evaluation; contract
implementation.
Desk expediting, delivery obligation management and proactive
reporting of schedule slippage.
Supplier performance evaluation through to package close-out.
Purchasing under NORSOK standards and NIB2016 conditions, the
Norwegian oil and gas contractual framework.
Managing multiple packages simultaneously against demanding project
schedules, in categories of both high technical complexity and high
bulk volume.
Category management, stakeholder relations, and governance and
compliance in project-driven procurement on large construction
projects.
Team leadership: MRO group lead with two subordinates on Sakhalin-1.
Working inside large international corporations and across cultures,
in English and Norwegian.
Identifying efficiency, process and tool improvement opportunities,
and building the tool myself where none existed. I have done this in
every procurement role I have held.
Procurement experience
Twelve years as Package Responsible Buyer on EPC projects for Kvaerner
AS and Aker Solutions AS. Both names apply, because the period spans
the 2011 demerger and the 2020 re-merger. Package Responsible Buyer is
the project term for a buyer who owns his packages end to end, from
requirements through to close-out, and that is how I worked: one
project at a time, responsible for all phases of the procurement
process on my packages. I was among the last of the team on Sakhalin-1,
Edvard Grieg and Nyhamna. In EPC, close-out is where the difficult
commercial work sits.
Package Responsible Buyer at Kvaerner AS / Aker Solutions AS, Oslo
Architectural and outfitting: B15 partitions, ceilings and doors;
wind and heat shield cladding and fire walls; acoustic cassettes
and technical liners; furniture, equipment and accessories; the
operator desk in the central control room.
Piping components: mechanical joints, pipe supports, hoses and
couplings, gaskets and rings, piping special items, bolts and nuts.
Insulation: acoustic and fire-rated insulation of decks and
bulkheads, piping insulation, HVAC insulation, miscellaneous
insulation materials.
Figures: 35 packages, 977 purchase orders, 15,555 purchase order
items, 50 suppliers, USD 60 million responsible budget. This was
my largest scope. I progressed from piping, fittings and flanges to
full responsibility for all bulk packages on the project.
Piping: carbon steel, stainless, 6Mo, duplex, Incoloy, titanium and
PE pipe, with fittings, flanges, compact flanges, gaskets and seal
rings, pipe supports, compression fittings and tubing.
Electrical and instrumentation: high-voltage intake and power
distribution; electrical, instrument and telecom cables; junction
boxes; cable trays and ladders; glands; socket outlets, control
stations and push buttons; Ex flood lights and fluorescent
fixtures; heat tracing cables and accessories; flow instruments;
office data and cabling networks.
Structural: steel and stainless plates, rolled profiles, aluminium
plates, tubulars and profiles, grating, treads, handrail and
stairway systems.
Bolting, surface protection and utilities: bolts and nuts including
structural bolting; paint; passive fire protection; utility
stations.
Assisted on liquidated damages work.
Built my own Excel macros to control discrepancies and track
hundreds of open items at a time across the bulk packages, the
volume being what it was.
Valves across the full range: trunnion-mounted ball valves to 4"
and 6"-plus, floating ball valves, gate, globe and check valves,
axial flow and dual plate check valves, butterfly valves, modular
valves, with electrical and manual actuators. Valve locks and
interlocking systems.
Also: GRP composite fibreglass pipe, fittings, flanges and gaskets;
spring supports; flow coding for piping and HVAC.
Construction site supply: maintenance, repair and operating
supplies and services for site equipment and facilities; rental
equipment; consumables for site running; lifting equipment
including spreader beams, slings and shackles; welding equipment
and consumables; cutting equipment for risers; concrete batching
plant; scaffolding; safety and firefighting equipment; passive fire
protection; social premises, offices and containers; ball valves.
MRO group lead, responsible for the performance of two
subordinates, and author of the project's MRO strategy.
Rebuilt my own order and supplier application as a multi-user
system for the group, giving live status of every order in the
department, so delays, changes and pending orders could be acted on
rather than discovered.
I was invited to Norway on the strength of my work on this project.
Various procurement roles
–
Six years of procurement before oil and gas, in on-site roles with
international groups and local companies.
RUSAL, Boguchany aluminium smelter EPC project.
Procurement responsible for bridge and cathode cranes, anode lines,
rectifiers, cast iron ovens and water towers. Reconciliation of
costs after the 2008 financial crisis.
Johnson Matthey PLC, manufacturer of catalytic
converters for automobile exhaust systems. Procurement specialist.
I joined during the construction phase and, after commissioning,
managed the overall procurement process across commodities,
equipment, spare parts and minor services.
Local SMEs. Transformer substations and
electrical equipment, covering structural steel, plates and
profiles, insulators, fastening materials and instrumentation. Also
procurement and logistics outsourcing.
From the first of these roles I built and maintained my own
application for managing my orders and my supplier base, written in
Visual Basic with MS Access behind it. It ran alongside the buying
work, and it is the first of the tools I built for myself at work.
Solution Architect, Web Apps Developer
I never left procurement. I changed the path. The last four years
have gone on supplier master data, qualification workflows,
performance evaluation and frame agreements, which are procurement
problems delivered as software rather than purchase orders. Nobody had
to explain the domain to me, so there were no requirements workshops
and no six months between what a buyer described and what a developer
built. Working as a Package Responsible Buyer, I knew the gaps. I built
to close them, and optimised the processes as I went.
Solution Architect at Aker Solutions AS, Oslo
– present
Sole developer of a supplier management portal for corporate supply
chain, owning the full lifecycle from architecture through
deployment and support. I designed the architecture from scratch
and built it alone, with no internal development standards in place
at the time.
1,300+ registered users across the organisation's locations
worldwide and 100+ daily active users, spanning SCM, category
management, engineering, quality and every other department that
needs supplier data.
Four years live in production with no downtime, formally adopted
into company procedure by agreement with SCM management.
What the portal holds
Supplier details, statuses and qualification data from SAP Ariba.
SAP master data.
Supplier performance evaluations, with the supplier's own
response recorded alongside. An evaluation on its own is a
subjective document, and the supplier's answer is what balances
it. Tuned scoring, and a feedback register that keeps an evaluation
from resting on one person's view.
Quality and non-conformance report records.
Financial data and ratings.
A frame agreements module written from scratch for multi-group
editing, each group scoped to what it needs to see, and documents
split between those anyone may open and those held confidential.
The organisation had never had frame agreements properly arranged
before.
Supplier update requests, running end to end in the portal as
digitalised workflows, covering 8 subjects.
Buyer's Notes, for sharing internal supplier information between
buyers.
Category management.
Role-based access control on critical data, export of multiple
views, all in one interface.
Integrations, live in production
SAP, on-premise S/4HANA.
SAP Ariba Supplier Data API.
Magnet JQS.
Automated data sync pipelines across multiple SAP Ariba APIs
covering 60,000+ supplier records, with custom rate-limited
orchestration, hash-based change detection and staging-table
upserts.
Security
The portal is unreachable from outside the corporate network, and
an IP firewall enforces it. It is an internal system, reached from
the organisation's own locations and never exposed to the public
internet. Suppliers do not log in.
Azure Front Door in front of the application.
Role-based access control inside it, down to individual data. A
system holding commercial terms and supplier confidences was
secured deliberately, by the person who built it.
Prototypes, not yet live
Project purchasing statistics, the project-level supplier
information buyers most need and the part of a supplier's record
they cannot do without.
Achilles.
Brønnøysundregistrene.
Architecture migration, current work
Leading the migration from Power Pages to an Azure-native
architecture.
Angular on Azure Static Web Apps, with EasyAuth and Managed
Identity.
GitHub Actions CI/CD with OIDC.
Node.js and .NET backend.
Also delivered in this role
A contracts repository for corporate Legal. This is a second
system, built by reusing the frame agreements module with its own
role-based access control, on Power Pages, Dataverse, Azure SQL and
Blob Storage.
Power Pages portal performance improved by stripping unnecessary
dependencies.
Workflow automation in Power Automate for email notifications and
process triggers.
The point is not that the data looks better in one place. It is that
a buyer sees what he would never have known to search for. Nobody
goes looking for a welding non-conformance raised three years ago on
another project by a colleague he has never met. Now it is there
when he opens the supplier.
Technical skills
I build with what is available in any organisation.
Languages and runtime. JavaScript, TypeScript,
Node.js, HTML, CSS, Angular, C#/.NET.
Cloud. Azure Static Web Apps, Web Apps, SQL
Database, Blob Storage, EasyAuth, Managed Identity, Cosmos DB, Front
Door and IP firewall rules.
Platform. Power Platform, Power Pages, Dataverse,
Power Automate.
Enterprise systems. SAP S/4HANA on-premise, SAP
Ariba Supplier Data API, Magnet JQS.
DevOps. GitHub Actions CI/CD with OIDC.
Practices. REST API integration, data pipeline
design, rate-limited API orchestration, hash-based change detection,
staging-table upserts, master data governance, role-based access
control, authentication and authorisation with MSAL, multi-level
access control and group-based content rendering, layered application
security, performance optimisation.
Working method. Agentic AI-assisted development.
One person with domain knowledge and pre-AI development experience
can now cover ground that used to need a team, which removes the
translation loss between the buyer who knows the problem and the
developer who builds for it.
Writing. 58 published posts on
dev.to
covering Power Pages, Power Platform, Azure, Dataverse and
JavaScript, plus writing on LinkedIn.
Education
Diploma in Procurement and Supply from CIPS, UK
L4M1 Scope and Influence of Procurement and Supply
L4M2 Defining Business Need
L4M3 Commercial Contracting
L4M4 Ethical and Responsible Sourcing
L4M5 Commercial Negotiation
L4M6 Supplier Relationships
L4M7 Whole Life Asset Management
L4M8 Procurement and Supply in Practice
Computer science and the English language at V.P. Astafiev
Krasnoyarsk State Pedagogical University, Russia
–
Speciality: computer science and the English language.
Qualification awarded: Teacher of Computer Science and English.
Coursework on the commercial side: economics, law, game theory and
operations research, probability theory and mathematical
statistics, discrete mathematics, numerical methods.
Coursework on the systems side: theoretical basis of computer
science, languages and methods of programming, computer software,
information systems, computer modelling, computer technologies,
elements of higher mathematics and physics.
Dissertation, 2003: Designing and implementing information
systems of financial analysis to manage and control material
resources in universities. An information system for
controlling material resources, which is the same intersection of
procurement and software I work at now, twenty-three years on.
Languages
Fluent English.
Fluent Norwegian. I have lived and worked in Norwegian-language
environments since 2012.
Native Russian.
Practical
Based in Oslo.
Norwegian citizen, resident in Norway since 2012. No sponsorship
required in Norway or the EEA.