Dynamo

Summary

Dynamo digitises BP's paper-based Permit to Work process. The safety system that ensures frontline workers can do their jobs and get home safe. When I joined, the platform was live, but every customer had a bespoke version. The goal was commercialisation and a self-service platform, but we were delivering promised features to existing customers while building foundations for scale.

I designed self-service admin tools so customers could manage their own users, redesigned maps to show assets, red zones, and active jobs at a glance, and delivered an offline-mode MVP for workers without signal. Each feature faced real constraints, technical limitations, tight timelines, and competing priorities, yet each shipped on time.

These weren't software users in the conventional sense. They were engineers on wind turbines, technicians at petrol stations, workers on shipping vessels, people whose real job was out in the field. Dynamo was the tool that reduced friction and created a reliable audit trail to keep them safe.