Also Responsible for NERC Compliance

Recently retired from CSU. Held duel positions last 15 months:Enterprise Risk Manager, 8/2008 - 9/2016Procurement and Contract Services Manager, 6/2015 - 9/2016Recently retired from Colorado Springs Utilities, but will consider opportunities to contribute to an organization requiring skills in energy and metals risk management, development of physical supply strategies related to these commodities. Also, experienced in counter party credit and liquidity management related to financial risk management programs. See attached resume.

Enterprise Risk Manager with oversight responsibility for policies and practices related to the natural gas hedging program, interest rate hedging program and enterprise risk assessments, including strategic, financial, operational and cyber risks. Directly responsible for counter party credit and liquidity management and insurable risk program. Built and managed an enterprise risk management team consisting of seven professionals managing enterprise risk exposures, natural gas and interest rate risks, insurable risks and related risk exposure reporting. Successfully managed significant natural gas and interest rate derivative exposures and liquidity issues through the 2009 financial crisis. Restructured trading positions and collateral agreements, minimizing impact on energy costs and liquidity requirements. Led Dodd Frank compliance efforts throughout organization. Assumed responsibility for insurance risk management program in 2010. Restructured program to significantly increase covered assets while reducing premiums. Assumed management of Procurement and Contracting Services in June, 2015. Focused on implementing strategic sourcing processes throughout organization while working closely with Legal and Enterprise Risk to strengthen commercial terms and risk transference language in all major contracts.

Led consolidation of supply and risk management functions into one position, recognizing previous contributions and expertise in energy and metals risk management and physical supply cost minimization. Implemented a number of physical and financial programs; resulting in significant cost reductions and price risk mitigation. Direct $700 million natural gas physical supply program and implementation of natural gas and energy based feedstock risk management programs. Implemented corporate-wide program to minimize balancing and cash out penalties assessed by local utilities at plants, saving $1.2 million annually.Lead corporate effort to develop and implement risk management program to manage total supply chain risk for portfolio of energy exposures exceeding $10 bil in annual spend. Developed and implemented physical and financial risk management strategies to minimize impact of natural gas price volatility on business unit profit objective. Responsible for financial risk management strategy development and execution designed to manage $500 million of ethane and benzene price risk.

Variety of operational and commercial functions in the transportation, supply and trading groups in the original Conoco Oil Corp.