Christopher Herman Email & Phone Number

Calgary, Ab, Ca

Calgary, Alberta, Canada

Calgary, Canada Area

• Long-term price forecasting for the Alberta electricity market with focus on federal and provincial carbon policy (TIER, OBPS, hybrid systems) to establish a corporate position and portfolio impact. • Development of Python/Excel-based machine learning load forecasting models to predict residential, commercial, and industrial loads and weather impacts.• Development of Python based applications for transforming and warehousing AESO data in SQL Server databases to enable advanced analytics of historical market performance.• Commercial contract evaluation and financial analysis to establish commercial positions and support audits and negotiations with counterparties.

• Supervised a team of 3 analysts responsible for operations reporting, pricing and competitive intelligence.• Preparation and presentation of Daily and Monthly operations reports to keep senior management abreast of customer and competitive in-market activity.• Prepared customer analyses to identify demographic and psychographic characteristics of the customer base to create targeted marketing campaigns in regions that presented similar traits.• Developed mapping analyses for spatially locating customers and identifying geographic and statistical trends in sales activity and formed hypothesis in order to direct senior management’s decision making.• Implemented product pricing model/database including exports for website/billing system upload as well as accurate and up to date comparisons of competitor pricing and competitive offerings.

Calgary, Alberta, Canada

• Enhanced, maintained, and developed asset optimization tools in Excel/VBA for the real-time trading desk.• Ensured tools are deployed in test and production environments such that best practices/model risk mitigation standards are followed.• Created modeler/user/troubleshooting documentation for real-time tools as well as model maps to illustrate input/output data flows and calculation logic.

Calgary, Canada Area

• Discount cash flow analysis and economic evaluation for midstream and downstream capital projects as well as CNG/LNG asset divestments.• Provided ongoing training and analytical support during the divestment of the CNG/LNG assets to the purchasing counterparties• Developed processes for monthly and quarterly internal and external reporting of midstream and NGL fractionation & transport commitments.• Prepared Canadian downstream gas and NGL transport budgets and outlooks. Created an excel model to estimate, track and report all Canadian downstream costs.

Calgary, Canada Area

• Evaluation of small and medium scale LNG projects including cost analysis and economic modelling, pricing and ROI.• Performed in-depth market and spatial analysis for high-horsepower applications (oil & gas, power, rail, mining, marine, truck transport) in targeted regions of North America for LNG plant sites and client aggregation.• Prepared customer proposals for long-term CNG/LNG supply agreements including fleet-wide fuelling strategy, in-depth market analysis, long-term hedging strategies and economic evaluation.• Prepared monthly market analysis for natural gas, LNG, gasoline and diesel fuels used in strategy development and potential counterparty identification.• Developed and maintained United States and Canadian fleet-wide levelized cost analysis of coal-fired generation facilities to quantify the financial impact of regulatory policies as well as the economics of switching to natural gas-fired generation.• Developed excel based power generation valuation models to assist clients in understanding the economics of coal-to-gas switching using reserve backed hedging strategies.

Calgary, Canada Area

• Economic evaluation of new midstream and downstream capital projects as well as analytical support for current facility modifications.• Discount cashflow analysis of new ventures and projects and other project deliverables.• Created and maintained AFEs along with cost tracking for new projects during construction.• Provided analysis of the AB and BC natural gas markets to support new initiatives in the midstream and downstream business segments.

Bachelor Of Arts (Ba), Applied Energy Economics

Activities and Societies: Kappa Sigma fraternity

Bachelor Of Commerce (B.Com.), Economics, Applied Energy