Kelly joined the Open Group’s Open Process Automation Forum (OPAF) in 2020. She was elected as OPAF to UAO (Universal Automation org) liaison in 2024 and is an active participant in the Business Working Group (BWG) and End Users community. Elected as OPAF forum co-chair in 2025, Kelly is looking forward to leveraging the vast industry experience and knowledge from the forum to further improve the O-PAS Standards and to lead to more O-PAS deployments.
Kelly has been with ExxonMobil since 2006. In the past 19+ years, Kelly had a broad range of technical and leadership roles within the corporation. She started as a Dynamic Simulation Engineer, and later became the Dynamic Simulation Supervisor to a global team of ten engineers. She went on application engineer assignments in two manufacturing sites (Baytown and Singapore). In her role as the Blending Control Discipline Technology Leader, she oversaw the technology development and deployment to more than a dozen of downstream sites globally. More recently, she went on a business development assignment in the Low Carbon Solutions Company, developing new market for low carbon intensity hydrogen products, with the mission of accelerating the world's path to net-zero.
She currently holds the role of Commercial Lead of Open Process Automation in ExxonMobil Technology and Engineering Company (EMTEC), leading the efforts in advocacy, adoption, and deployment of new automation solutions.
In her spared time, Kelly enjoys traveling. She has so far been to 41 countries and territories across six continents. Fun fact: Kelly was admitted to MENSA, a high IQ society whose members need to score in the top two percentile of standardized IQ test.