PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY:

• Experience in marketing/trading Natural Gas
• Strong modeling skills
• Contributed to positive P&L
• Develop, coordinate,price and facilitate the execution of complex structured natural gas transactions
• Experienced in developing a practice and service offerings in the Marcellus Shale and also the Mexico Natural Gas market
• Strong knowledge of risk concepts
• Experience in agriculture, power, natural gas, crude and refined products
• Experienced Project Manager working with multiple enterprise wide applications
• Lead efforts to identify issues, develop strategy, conduct analysis and design technology, process and operations infrastructure
• Successfully lead and completed multiple multi million dollar projects
• Successful in implementing process, systems and procedures in global environments
• Experience with Agile, Critical Path, Waterfall and other methods
• Vendor ETRM system experience includes; Endur, Right Angle, Entegrate, ET and Zianet
• Strong understanding of the front, mid and back office trading business including natural gas, crude, products and power
• Experienced in developing business, functional and technical requirements
• Successful in solving business problems by analyzing client needs and delivering a feasible solution
• Strong technical skills (SQL/Programming

EXPERIENCE:

Manager

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Worked with Program Managers, C level executives and stakeholders to develop Business and IT roadmap that demonstrates short term and long term business strategy and technology goals and solutions that will support market entry for a new retail energy participant looking to capture $70 Million in revenue for the first year of operation in the Mexico energy market.
• Engaged business managers in multiple sessions to design, develop and document end to end business processes from product purchase, sale, logistics distribution and invoicing which led to C level executives improving upon business strategy
• Planned, organized, estimated, directed, tracked, controlled, analyzed, managed risk and controlled stakeholder expectation in a crude ETRM implementation with a budget of $2 Million.
• Led Settlements & Accounting workstream using the Agile project management methodology to deliver an integrated and streamlined back office process allowing for accurate billing and collections saving the company $5 Million in lost revenue

Manager

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Created project management deliverables such as project charter, scope, project plan, cost & time estimates, status reports, risk& issue logs, KPIs, resource plans and other artifacts to engage stakeholders and manage expectations
• Managed four OpenLink vendor resources in the implementation of a commodity trading system for an agricultural trading client
• Served as lead business analyst and project manager on enhancements, upgrades and bug fix issues on Right Angle for a crude refinery client
• Successfully solved refinery counterparty credit issue by designing and managing a developer to build a two way real time interface between Right Angle and SAP
• Lead software selection process for clients creating deliverables such as requirements, cost matrix and scorecards
• Led functional design and architecture to design and develop a process and SQL Server based solution that accurately captures crude transportation costs from lease to customer improving trading team’s profit by $10 Million a year
• Evaluated IT and operational business processes for best practices
• Led data migration project which allowed client to decommission legacy mainframe system and transition into an ETRM system

Trader/Marketer/Scheduler

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Trade/Market natural gas in the cash and monthly markets
• Model and optimize transport, storage, blend and extends, and other multi million dollar deal structures for senior Originators
• Contributed $3 Million profit by mid marketing and responding to RFPs by Power Plants, LDCs and other end users
• Develop business plan and market strategy for new target market
• Identify and analyze the costs, benefits and risk factors associated with product offerings
• Responsible for negotiating and coordinating the delivery of products and services with end - users
• Schedule natural gas on Pacific Gas & Electric, GTN Malin, So Cal, Transwestern and El Paso gas pipelines
• Helped to establish a new business unit focused on producer services in the Marcellus Shale in Pennsylvania

Functional Project Manager

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Lead front office ETRM project to implement and configure a gas trading solution which allowed traders to accurately track, report and manage a profit of $550 Million in the first year
• Analyzed application portfolios, identified dependencies and interfaces to design end to end processes to drive value for Shell’s energy trading organization
• Lead bug fix and enhancement projects with a budget of $1.5 Million
• Collaborated with Risk Managers on reconciling Mark to Market calculations on deals (Futures, Swaps, Options, and Physicals) across IT systems
• Lead project to design new Option Model/Valuation reports (Delta, Gamma, Vega, Theta, Rio)
• Integrated new commodities such as Corn, Sugar and Wheat into our Global Trading applications and processes
• Provided first line support for gas & power and second line support for crude and crude products on Endur
• Lead initiative to determine how to evaluate and handle storage/inventory issues in Endur
• Created ad hoc queries using SQL for various analysts on the trade floor

Project Manager/Sr. Business Analyst

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Managed and lead team of four business analyst to enhance and support the risk systems to ensure correct exposure reporting for energy traders
• Design data warehouse to allow energy traders to run effective market and price analytics allowing for better trading decisions
• Improved the release management process allowing for upgrade releases without causing disruptions in critical systems
• Worked with operations to create a process of prioritization and service level agreements around support tickets allowing for business buy in to support a system support staff

• Identified a need to synergize business strategy and processes between product marketers, product terminals and trading teams for customer allocations which would add $20 Million a year to revenue
• Managed a budget of $1.2 Million and four resources to design and develop the gasoline/diesel product terminal allocation system.
• Worked with the DBA team to design the database structure consisting of 150+ normalized tables
• Created use case diagrams to define the functional requirements of the application
• Led quality assurance and testing to identify, log and track bug fixes in the custom built solution
• Designed interfaces with other applications such as SAP, commercial trading applications, and terminal hardware/software based at the product terminals
• Conducted prototype demonstrations with the stakeholders on a regular basis