Profile

Hello! My name’s Alastair but most people call me Ally (only my mum sticks with my full name especially when I’ve annoyed her).

I live in Battersea, London, with one of my best friends from work (which has made working from home during the current COVID-19 pandemic a bit more interesting!). During our breaks we battle each other at FIFA and go for cycles around nearby parks in SW London.

In 2018 I took a 9-month sabbatical from work to backpack around South America, where I quickly learnt how bad I am at Spanish. Was an amazing life experience that I would encourage all young students/professionals to do early in their careers.

I have a 7-month old niece, Penelope, who lives in Manchester and I last saw at Christmas. So am enjoying watch her grow up through photos and videos regularly sent by my sister. Cannot wait to be able to see her again and witness her cause chaos when she starts to learn how to crawl.

I work at a global energy company (BP) as a project manager for an engineering team. Our team’s mission is to write and manage the company’s technical standards for how we buy and operate engineering equipment on our projects across the world.

Aside from my day job, I’ve also been fortunate to be involved in a company-wide initiative to become a purpose-driven company. Our new purpose, “to reimagine energy for people and our planet”, sets a direction for our company strategy and help produce cleaner energy to combat climate change.

Helping launch a Carbon Calculator tool by BP. The tool consists of a quiz asking questions about your lifestyle, and estimates your personal annual carbon footprint based on your responses. It highlights where your highest sources of carbon come from, and gives you the change to make a pledge to take action to lower it where possible.

Giving a presentation to our engineering team depicting the value that standardisation of our equipment (i.e. having a common set of technical and quality standards for all our supply chain) brings to our projects, operating assets and the company’s finances.

Removing an old oil platform in the Norwegian north sea