Dougie Thoms

Experience

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  Scottish Equity Partners

  Jul 2008 - Aug 2008

  Intern

  Summer placement shadowing a senior partner in this leading venture capital company. Particular focus on technologies relevant to the oil and gas sector.

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  Jefferies & Company

  Jul 2009 - Aug 2009

  Intern

  Summer intern working within the energy sector mergers and acquisition team on various oil & gas deals, producing presentations and providing research for pitches to major international companies.

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  Avannaa Resources

  Jun 2010 - Jul 2010

  Geological Assistant

  Geological assistant working for mineral exploration company looking for precious metals, base metals, diamonds and rare earth elements in Greenland.

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  Wood Mackenzie

  Feb 2012 - now

  Senior Product Manager for Lens Power - Wood Mackenzie's data analytics platform for the power and renewables sector. Leading our development partner program to define the long-term vision and feature enhancements for the product. Leading work in customer interviews, journey mapping, prototyping, commercial packaging, and co-ordinating the delivery of new solutions in the areas of power asset valuation, price forecasting, hydrogen, and solar costs. Tracking enhancements against customer usage analytics to quantify value delivered. Show less Lead Lens Spaces initative: building a tenant aware service to save and restore customer sensitive data within the Lens ecosystem with the ultimate aim of enabling collaborative working between individuals and groups of users.Lead Lens platform in-app customer support initative, including:- Building investment case for purchase of a 3rd-party customer support subscription- Screening potential vendors- Providing recommendations to executive committee- Completing security and data compliance audits- Co-ordinating the deployment to production and integration with company CRM - Building inital help and support colateral, in-app onboarding workflows and rolling-out live chat with customer success teamsLead and facilitated design sprints (both in-person and remote) to solve and validate platform level UX challenges with external customers. Show less Managing Consultant delivering strategy, opportunity screening, and valuation/transaction support projects to natural resource companies, government organisations, investment funds and service sector firms.Core team member of an 18-month project to deliver a new carbon footprint estimator for the oil and gas industry. Key responsibilities included: integration of spatial satellite flaring data, calibration of models to reported emissions data, liaison between subject matter experts and the software developer, creation of promotional marketing materials and final presentation deliverables. The project adopted an Agile software development approach and both Trello and Jira were used as tracking tools.Other notable projects include:• Development of asset level oil price model for large-cap oil company with final presentation to CEO• Fiscal advisor to a Canadian provincial government reviewing royalty terms to the oil & gas sector• Exploration and acquisition growth strategy/opportunity screening project for a large-cap oil company• Development of an asset by asset competitor valuation model for a major integrated miner• Government advisory work assessing transport and industry fuel subsidy reform in the Middle East • Concept studies for new smelter projects in Latin America, the Middle East, and Eastern Europe Show less

  • Product Director - Lens Discovery and Markets

    May 2023 - now

  • Product Director - Lens Markets

    Nov 2022 - Jul 2023

  • Senior Product Manager - Lens Power

    Apr 2021 - Jul 2023

  • Senior Product Manager - Lens Platform

    Aug 2020 - Apr 2021

  • Product Owner – Lens Direct

    Feb 2019 - Sept 2020

  • Managing Consultant

    Mar 2017 - Feb 2019

  • Senior Consultant

    Feb 2014 - Mar 2017

  • Consultant

    Feb 2012 - Feb 2014