

Digitalizing and Modernizing Oil & Gas
We take a unified digital approach to optimizing your assets, workforce, and data. We support you in managing your rigs, wells, pipelines, refineries, and pumps, reduce risk in new projects, and support a comprehensive digital handover from construction to operations.
Comprehensive Solutions for Complex Problems
Our solutions streamline work processes, enhance asset performance, improve productivity, and, overall, create more reliable operations.
Meet our experts

David Armstrong
Senior Director Advisory Services, AmericasDavid merges field proven capabilities with the practical experience of building digital asset management systems and leading transformative change.
He has helped asset owner operators for 25+ years, from the ground floor up, to achieve significant results in the areas of operational and reliability excellence, investments & engineer-procure-construct, enterprise configuration management and asset performance management.
Typically, he challenges his projects to drive out costly variation by understanding the contributing root cause datapoints that not only determine the right strategies at the right time, but also enable actionable results within the evolving science of data analytics. David is passionate about deriving maximum results from the circular economy, fostering discussions on socially responsible projects and inclusive societal systems and programs, supported by digital enabling solutions
He holds a master’s Certification in Enterprise Configuration Management from the University of Phoenix, is an Aladon RCM2 Practitioner and a Six Sigma Blackbelt, Project Management Professional that pairs certifications with practical battle scars from running cultural change management initiatives within asset intensive industries: heavy industry steel, O&G, water and power utilities, and mining sectors.
David is the deputy lead for the Canadian contingent for the Global Forum of Maintenance and Asset Management (GFMAM), Group 2 – Asset Planning and Decision making.

Kate Schowalter
Senior Services ManagerKate is an experienced developer and solution architect, who has led and supported complex Enterprise Asset Management and computerised maintenance management system implementations for organisations across the public and private sector.
She has extensive Maximo experience, spanning work management, supply chain, engineering change management, and incident management projects, as well as technical experience with upgrades, integrations, mobility customisations, reporting, and data migration. Many of these have been for organisations within the oil and gas sectors, including PETRONAS Canada, Keyera, ONEOK, AOC, and many more.
Kate’s recent projects have included supporting a Canadian airport with a Maximo Mobile implementation designed to help streamline and modernize maintenance procedures.
Kate graduated in Computer Engineering.