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Kathryn Underhill

Digital Scout at Chevron Technology Ventures

Houston, Texas

Overview 

Kathryn Underhill is currently a Digital Scout at Chevron Technology Ventures in Houston, Texas, where she leads the rapid evaluation of early-stage digital technologies to drive innovation and reduce carbon emissions for Chevron. Her notable career achievements include roles as the Digital Technology Commercialization Lead and IT R&D Portfolio Manager at Chevron, focusing on accelerating the adoption of cutting-edge technologies in various sectors like Cybersecurity, IoT, and CleanTech. Underhill's career highlights include her expertise in identifying and accelerating innovation through the evaluation of external digital technologies, as well as her dedication to delivering higher returns and promoting sustainability by leveraging emerging technologies at Chevron.

Work Experience 

Chevron Technology Ventures

  • Digital Scout

    2020 - Current

    Identify, evaluate and deploy game changing emerging digital technology in the start-up ecosystem. Areas of experience include machine learning/artificial intelligence, internet of things, connected worker, cybersecurity, remote operations and blockchain. My learning focus is clean technology.

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Chevron

  • Digital Technology Commercialization Lead

    2019 - 2020

    Facilitate the rapid deployment and scaling of emerging technology solutions and organizational capability to enhance business capabilities and drive value creation. As a result, commercialized emerging technology rooted in and focused on the customer. Used fast-paced experimentation in combination with agile practices and lean thinking to: 1 - Substantiate business connection and need for the solution 2 - Iteratively transferred solutions to effectively change accountability and responsibility for the solution 3 - Ensure continuous deployment/continuous improvement Commercialization experiments are driving an increasingly automated continuous delivery pipeline from from R&D to Operations.

  • IT R&D Portfolio Manager

    2015 - 2019

    Led the Information Technology Research & Development (IT R&D) planning and investment process which brought business leaders and technical experts together to define a $25MM strategic portfolio of innovation projects addressing business capability gaps and pushing the boundaries of what's possible. Actively managed portfolio of 40+ projects to drive rapid value creation. The portfolio 5-year NPV was calculated as ~ $300MM.

Unocal Corporation explores, develops, and produces natural gas, crude oil, condensate, and natural gas liquids

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