My skills at Shell Oil Company and various of its subsidiaries were marked by a native ability to plan, organize and work with teams of other similarly skilled co-workers to plan, develop and operate large platform financial and other software for the company. The major projects we addressed usually took months to a year or so to complete. The work was definitely not physical, but required considerable thought and attention. In that realm, it was hard work - very hard. Everyone involved had ideas and desires as to outcomes which sometimes led to a bit of friction, but we were at the same time always able to grasp the task at hand and work together to get the projects done. Virtually all turned out to be jewels for the company. They included financial applications of different kinds - in house, purchased (OGIS, SAP and others)They were all hard. I and all the others took these projects on by choice and because they were hard and saw success in each and every case. The credit goes to the teams I worked as cohesive groups of trained determined individuals whose wish was to work to the best possible outcome. After all Shell was and is one of the finest companies on the planet. We were proud to be a part of it and wished to keep it so.