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around system reliability , investing in the right solutions and delivering projects on time so we needed to bring in capable and competent IT professionals to solve these .” Fundamentally , he has built a new structure from scratch since January 2015 . “ I personally interviewed over a hundred people as we built the team in Liverpool . Technical ability was not enough – we were looking for leaders .” They deliberately targeted talent from a range of industries , not just O & G and as part of their training sent their recruits out onto the rigs to learn about life in the field . “ When you are designing systems you need to understand what they are ultimately for and how they will be used . Our systems need to operate in harsh offshore environments , enable integrated operations and be user friendly .”
Building the digital platform An O & G industry veteran himself , Kaveh Pourteymour understood the need to look at IT upside down as
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