Principal Profile

A letter from our President…

I am Cassandra Moody, President, Founder, and Principal Engineer of Time For Change, LLC. I have a varied background as a degreed environmental engineer, licensed mechanical engineer, experienced operations engineer, practiced project manager, and leader, by nature. Additionally, I wear many hats: mom, engineer, volunteer, woman, provider, and overcomer. I help organizations drive change across all levels using exceptional communication, vision, and technical competency.

For nearly a decade, I’ve worked in corporate America in the oil and gas industry as an engineer of various capacities. As an operations engineer across various regional business units, I managed a variety of midstream projects varying in scale. I supported the team in developing and adhering to the budget each year. Once a month, I would communicate financial performance from the corporate office to the field locations. I consistently delivered projects under budget and ahead of schedule. A few noteworthy operations projects of mine were the completion of an extensive 150-unit compressor optimization project, integration of assets and personnel from an acquisition into existing operational programs, and the development of company-wide chemical corrosion inhibition program, including the testing and monitoring processes to evaluate program effectiveness.

A significant portion of my early- and mid-career was spent in the Integrity group, where I was responsible for the improvement and implementation of both gas and liquid integrity management programs as the company grew and acquired assets. I was the engineer responsible for designing the inspections, making repairs as necessary, and remaining compliant. Before there was an organized location and format for data to be housed and analyzed from, I was part of a team tasked with scoping out ways to house data with the end goal of leveraging data to perform analysis in a proactive and timely fashion. I also led the charge in developing and executing both a qualitative interim risk management program and a quantitative risk management program. In conjunction with my role, I was responsible for conducting training for company employees on new principles, philosophies, and procedures. I managed a team of integrity professionals to accomplish the associated integrity tasks and ensure consistency while the program was being implemented. Working closely with the boots on the ground, I developed useful data collection forms. Because of this experience, I fully appreciate the limitations of working from a truck or a small screen in the weather elements and the accurate, complete, and detailed data requirements a successful integrity program needs. Furthermore, communicating this information to upper management is another arena in which I excel.

I bring the unique perspective of a cost-conscious operator to the integrity space while being skilled at communicating with the field operations technicians, C-Suite Professionals, service providers, and all roles in between. I am very familiar with the regulations, best practices, desire to do the right thing, and the bottom line: revenue. Integrity programs, specifically, but generally any new, company-wide initiative, are implemented for some compelling and worthy reason. However, they also tend to cost money; a lot of money. I am a problem solver by nature and by profession, so I never cease until the company’s objective is sufficiently balanced with the bottom line. I believe “quitting” is the only definition of failure, and any other result is simply an opportunity to reengineer.

Are you…?

• • A pipeline operations manager or integrity engineer who continues battling the ever-shrinking budget allotment?
  • Confident your integrity investment is effective in reducing incidents?
  • Overwhelmed with competing operations activities, audits, and emergent projects?
  • Proactively focused on betterment or optimization efforts?
  • Understaffed and lacking experience from recent personnel changes?
  • Spending precious budget dollars on integrity assurance projects, and believe you should realize incident frequency or impact reductions?
  • Routinely employing risk-based decision-making to justify or pitch projects to executives or investors?

From our past tenure as pipeline operators, we understand the pressure to meet the budget while safely getting work done. We hear the frustration in the uncertainty of selecting the best projects while balancing emergent items. We commend you for continuing to battle competing priorities and stakeholders. To top it off, recent workforce changes have proven that qualified help is a challenge to find and retain. Don’t just continue to go through the motions or worse–overlook key performance indicators that result in fines or failures.

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