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Sheila Taylor

Sheila Taylor is the global IT delivery manager for Chevron Information Technology Company (CITC). She is responsible for Chevron's computing and telecommunications infrastructure and applications development and support worldwide. Prior to coming to work for CITC in 1997, she led the IT Vision Team, developing a new direction for how Chevron manages information technology.

Taylor began her career with Chevron in 1982 as a financial analyst with assignments in both finance and downstream business areas. She has managed several special projects, including the elimination of Discount for Cash and the Shell marketing purchase in Atlanta. She has had a variety of positions in Chevron Products Company, including manager of credit card marketing, marketing manager and operations manager in the Southern Region in Atlanta, and manager of the Diesel Division.

Taylor received a bachelor's degree in economics from Stanford and a master's degree in finance from the University of California at Berkeley. She lives in the San Francisco Bay Area with her husband, a mechanical engineer, and has two children attending Stanford University. Both are techies. One is studying computer science and math and the other biology in preparation for veterinarian medicine.