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Houston, Texas, United States

• Lead global team of market engagement specialists focused on commodities including Natural Gas, Power, Renewable Energy, Metals, Biofuels and Fertilizers within the Strategic Engagement & Intelligence Group. • Work with pricing sectors to develop strategy and messaging around benchmark defense, key initiatives and assessments. • Track metrics and outcomes related to S&P Global Commodity Insights external market engagement efforts. • Collaboration with commercial colleagues to facilitate market engagements for customers that showcase market knowledge and trends, methodology explanations and education around Platts price assessments.

Houston, Texas, United States

• Lead global team of market engagement specialists focused on commodities including Natural Gas, Power, LNG, Energy Transition. • Work with pricing sectors to develop strategy and messaging around benchmark defense, key initiatives and assessments. • Track metrics and outcomes related to S&P Global Commodity Insights external market engagement efforts. • Collaboration with commercial colleagues to facilitate market engagements for customers that showcase market knowledge and trends, methodology explanations and education around Platts price assessments.

Houston, Texas

• Work with global and regional content leaders to develop engagement strategy pertaining to benchmark defense and key initiatives, and evaluate execution efforts• Facilitate collaboration between commercial and content groups• Lead engagement prioritization efforts (resource vs need)• Develop, cascade and measure best practices for engagement• Analyze, utilize and communicate engagement metrics• Make visible engagement processes• Manage Americas Market Engagement Team with headcount in the US, Mexico and Brazil

Houston, Texas

• Responsible for all aspects relating to editorial engagement, price assessment and market coverage of key olefins and polymer markets for the Americas. • Lead Houston-based team of market editors providing real-time reporting of more than 25 commodity markets across major assessment hubs, including the US Gulf Coast, Mexico, Brazil and West Coast South America. • Drive editorial engagement across the Americas through high-level meetings with key market players.• Represent Platts at industry functions, including speaking engagements at company-sponsored events as well as third-party conferences/seminars worldwide.

Houston, Texas

•Assess prices and provide in-depth market coverage and analysis of US polymers markets, along with markets in the aromatics and intermediates portfolios. (PE, OX, PA) •Previously covered US PET, MEG and PTA markets•Represent Platts at industry events, petrochemical forums, trade shows and conferences in both the US and abroad, including NPE, AFPM and APLA. •Present on behalf of Platts at industry events, webinars and podcasts •Engage market on issues pertaining to Platts methodology and to help determine how Platts can better assess markets and provide important information to the petrochemical industry •Serve as News Leader for US Petrochemicals team •Serve as a Data Steward, representing US Petrochemicals team as part of Platts’ PRD program

San Antonio, Texas

•Coordinated all aspects of the process for multi-million dollar federal proposals at an environmental, engineering, construction and facility management services firm. •Roles included establishing and communicating schedules, responsibility matrix, style guides, and writing. Ensured adherence to Request for Proposal. •Wrote project descriptions to showcase company’s past performance; Edited proposal text for proper grammar, spelling, comprehension, and style. •Worked with graphic designers to produce custom pieces for proposals. •Performed analytical research, including breaking down federal budget and budgets of relevant federal agencies. Broke down federal contracts and tracked procurement schedules.

San Antonio, Texas

•Duties included production of the daily sports section and contributions to the MySA.com website.•Roles included serving as night production editor who oversaw the copy desk while making sure deadlines are hit, communicating with writers in the field, editing stories and writing headlines.•Wrote a weekly column in the sports section which was frequently praised for mixing humor, insightful observations and outside-the-box formats.•Covered athletic events and wrote articles for sports at high school, college and professional level.•Help manage blogs and content for the MySA.com site, focusing primarily on the sports pages.

Houston, Texas

•Wrote stories for the sports section and the Houston Chronicle’s ThisWeek neighborhood sections.•Served as a primary night editor for chron.com/sports in addition to performing editing duties for print. Main job was to get the sports site ready for rollover each night with web-only content and articles from the newspaper section and wire services - complete with photos, charts and other resources. Edited sound and video files, and managed staff blogs nightly.•Appeared on camera in video features spotlighting the Houston Astros, Houston Texans, Houston•Dynamo MLS soccer team and the Shell Houston Marathon.•Worked as a copy editor in business, assisting with major projects such as the Chronicle 100 top businesses section.

Bryan/College Station, Texas Area

•Worked in both sports and news.•In news, covered a variety of beats including police, city government and public education.•In sports, duties included coverage of high schools throughout the Brazos Valley region and Texas A&M athletics.