• Lead Trader for Just Energy’s short-term power portfolio management team; responsible for short-term risk management, and optimization strategies across the U.S. portfolio (ERCOT, PJM, NYISO, ISONE & CAISO)• Managed market risk, by leveraging power, natural gas, renewables fundamentals, including supply and demand, financial, and regulatory information• Responsible for assessing load-following risk through the term and maintaining curves to reflect market implied volatility cost• Designed short-term seasonal hedging strategies to effectively mitigate market volatility on load following contracts through the execution of swaps, vanilla options, and weather derivatives• Created the framework to hedge long-term load-following exposure in illiquid options markets in order to preserve design margin• Evaluated load forecasts and collaborated with load forecasting to provide feedback and increase accuracy• Collaborated with Chief Risk Officer and Head of North American Trading on strategies to manage credit exposure to ISOs and counter-parties in order to optimize margin postings and corporate cash flow• Developed customer pricing, and strategies to optimize Just Energy’s residential demand response program in wholesale markets

• Responsible for hedging and optimizing Just Energy’s largest portfolio in ERCOT and CAISO, comprising over 3,000MW of peak load obligation• Designed seasonal risk strategy through scenario analysis and valuing associated hedges to deliver design margin on retail portfolio• Led the project team for identifying exposure from ERCOT Ancillaries obligation, resulting in design of risk limits, appropriate costing curves and executed trading strategies to bring portfolio within risk limits• Expanded pool of counterparties for Just Energy and further strengthened existing supplier relationships to increase access to market liquidity• Structured and negotiated several Power Purchase Agreement opportunities with natural gas peaking generation and renewable energy developers culminating in Direct Green product, serving several commercial and residential customers• Developed and maintained daily cost curves including energy, zonal basis, ancillaries and capacity• Monitored and responded to market and regulatory changes in various markets

• Developed intra-month strategy to manage market risk exposure, due to short-term grid fundamentals including load swing resulting from weather, generation outages, and transmission constraints• Drove monthly and annual CRR Auction strategy to optimize short and long-term basis exposure• Developed and executed price sensitive bidding strategies to optimize portfolio• Responsible for accurate daily scheduling and bidding residual positions into the market• Successfully integrated wholesale activities during multiple acquisitions removing redundancies in trading and reporting activities

• Created and maintained Just Energy’s short-term portfolio for NYISO and PJM, including load forecasts, protocols for daily position reporting and management, and developed counterparty relationships• Developed and improved “top-down” forecasting methodology for ERCOT, NYISO and PJM portfolios, which reduced overall MAPE from ~8% to under 4%• Established reporting procedures on market fundamentals, portfolio positions, profit & loss, and gross margin impact for Senior Management

• Researched cross-commodity price relationships to explore the relationship between petro-dollars and economic cycles for 'Oil, Dollars, Debt and Crisis: The Global Curse of Black Gold' by Amy Myers Jaffe & Mahmoud A. El-Gamal• Analysed spill data for offshore drilling operations to support a paper proposing to ease federal regulations• Investigated growth trends in Chinese automobile ownership to forecast impact on global energy demand• Examined financials of large oil companies to understand the relationship between E&P investment and oil prices. Research used in Congressional testimony

• Researched trends in market capitalization for E&P firms due to increased volatility in oil prices from 2005-2008• Conducted market research to investigate competitor product offerings in unconventional energy consulting• Analysed and presented findings on trends in global drilling lease buy-ins to senior research team