James Harvey Email & Phone Number

Denver, Colorado, United States

I support growth and strategy in the energy and utilities sector and I contribute to account leadership and business development.

Greater Denver Area

At PA, I focused on business development and oversight for critical client technology and business initiatives including enterprise digital transformations, data analytics strategy, customer experience transformations, and consumer privacy.• Coordinated the advancement and development of PA's Utility Analytics team; developing offerings, collateral, methodologies, sales strategies, staffing/recruiting plans, identifying and pursuing target accounts.• Provided leadership and account management across multiple US utilities.• Contributed to the development and execution of sector strategy in North America, including go-to-market plans and offerings.

Greater Denver Area

At Accenture, I served as a Client Account Lead within Accenture Utilities, expanding Accenture’s presence at key accounts in the West and Pacific Northwest. • I expanded my capabilities in ACN’s digitally enabled utility value chain offerings to include Enterprise Analytics, Customer Experience, Utility Strategy and Managed Services.• I contributed to post-acquisition integration efforts to maximize retention and increase revenue for ACN’s utilities practice over the two-year business case (the results exceeded business case targets in revenue and retention). – Note: Accenture acquired The Structure Group in January 2015 –

As a Partner, I contributed to the expansion of Structure's portfolio of accounts in the US West, adding new clients while overseeing and expanding business at existing long-term clients. As a Member of the Board, I contributed to a number of internal initiatives to advance organizational capabilities and increase operational efficiency. • Added 5 new Utility and Energy Market customers with sales across all of Structure’s practice areas• Oversaw client relations, delivery accountability and quality assurance, financial and budget accountability, risk management and personnel management • Assisted with the evaluation and selection of technologies to support business operations (e.g., Performance Management and Learning Management Systems)• Contributed to development of reusable project accelerators and methodologies• Helped develop a formal internal mentoring system, and a business analyst training and certification program for new hires.

Promoted from Manager, to Senior Manager, and later to Director at Structure, I focused primarily on program management for critical client technology initiatives. In addition to project execution, my responsibilities included: • Business development, overall client relations, delivery accountability and quality assurance, financial and budget accountability, risk management and personnel management. • Helping clients successfully execute complex programs and portfolios of smaller projects. • Communicating with client senior leaders, ensuring appropriate staffing, managing project risks and issues and driving projects and programs to completion.

I was responsible for the daily optimization of the company’s portfolio of generating assets in California (~ 3000 MW’s); established and executed short-term trading strategies for day-ahead energy and ancillary services in the deregulated California electricity markets, assisted in setting long-term forward strategies, optimized unit dispatch to serve energy and ancillary service awards, coordinated maintenance outages and operational issues with plant managers and the ISO, coordinated strategies with the real-time operations desk, cash and forward power and natural gas desks. [Note: the division that I worked for at Southern was spun off as Mirant in 2001, merged with Reliant in 2010 to form GenOn Energy which was then acquired by NRG Energy.]

At Delta• I assisted in administering and advancing the airline’s jet fuel hedging and risk management program to minimize exposure to fuel price swings.• I was responsible for executing trades with major financial organizations and major oil and products suppliers. • I enhanced the airline’s jet fuel price forecasting methodology to provide an improved assessment of fiscal year expenses for budgeting and planning. • I was part of the team responsible for negotiating prices and making procurement arrangements for system-wide jet fuel requirements and ground-support vehicle fuel (unleaded and diesel).

Mba, Decision Sciences

Bba, Management