Interstate Transportation Advisor
Current• Managed and optimized the group’s Interstate Pipeline Transportation Capacity to fully utilize our assets. • Investigated supplier and maintenance related issues, collaborated with our team and traders to develop strategies that would resolve those issues.• Fostered and developed relationships with suppliers that would be vital to resolving issues and maintaining cooperative working relationships.• Scheduled natural gas purchased by traders into Southern California and maintained nearly 100% of flows while working well within a team environment.• Scheduled and monitored the flows on El Paso, Kern, Transwestern, PG&E, and SoCal Pipelines.• Produced a thorough step-by-step training manual for the Natural Gas Scheduling group that would be used to onboard new hires. • Learned El Paso’s new DART system and worked as a liaison with our Pinnacle Support Team to implement required changes to automate and streamline many of our group’s processes. Updated the rest of the team of the new processes and differences from the old El Paso Passport system to the new DART system.• Continuously work with our Pinnacle Support Team to achieve efficiencies in our daily tasks, in order to focus on more critical activities of the job.• Continuously consolidate and summarize maintenance notices on all pipelines that we schedule on and regularly inform the impact to our Trading and Scheduling teams.