Key Achievements:• Provision of electricity market modelling expertise and support to Europe’s leading modelling and trading departments. • Consulting on best practice model development and application. • Development of innovative approaches to policy and regulatory modelling. • Provision of expert advice on stochastic modelling of generation portfolio optimisation. • Scenario development and model calibration across markets including: CWE, NORDPOOL, UK. • Review of market and technical model problem formulation and optimisation. • Testing, debugging and QA of model formulations and implementations. • Development of custom pricing logic for modelling specific market rules or non-competitive behaviour. • Design and delivery of customised training courses to advanced level in electricity market modelling theory and practice. • Development of VBA tools and interfaces for analysing results and performing quantitative analysis. • Project oversight of large implementation from technical, financial and administrative standpoint.

Key Achievements:• Helped to develop a comprehensive energy policy for a large Asian economy by providing recommendations on governance, regulation and planning. The policy addressed challenging local circumstances and the changing international energy environment.• Developed long term energy planning and forecasting model of a large Asian economy capable of policy analysis.• Developed a model to estimate the economic impact of expanded direct-heat biomass generation and production on the New Zealand economy that informed a government agency in developing future energy policy.• Developed a flexible cost-benefit model used by a public sector client to evaluate grants to distributed generation projects.• Part of a Colorado-based team working for a number of major US generators modelling the US electricity market to produce price forecasts, generation forecasts and asset valuations. These forecasts and valuations were used by independent power producers, merchant and investment banks and other electricity market players.• Provided review of electricity and energy load forecast methodology for generating companies, government agencies and independent consultancies.Involved in litigation support for the valuation trial of a major US generator including the valuation of power purchase and tolling agreements.• Involved in the modelling of different possible green house gas regulations in the North American electricity market.

Tutor for ECON130 and ECON 140

Adapted and expanding a model of the American business cycle capable of optimal currency area analysis to the New Zealand and Australian regions. The model contributed to a working paper published in this area.

Key Achievements:• Developed econometric model of new and used vehicle market from which forecasts were sold to clients.• Wrote explanations of detailed econometric techniques in plain English to be presented to clients.• Wrote extensive manual on data and website management to ease transition upon leaving.