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Active consulting firm currently assisting clients with strategy, marketing, gas supply and mid-stream activities.

• Broadly experienced commercial leader proficient at negotiating customer oriented, complex, structured long-term transactions with a focus on getting access to assets.• Was instrumental in securing deals in 2015 that successfully reversed a P&L position from minus $350 million to $45 million, a $395 million increase.• Provides value through innovation and expert understanding of the Northeast physical natural gas grid combined with longstanding professional customer relationships.• Developed an extended customer base having negotiated new contracts and credit terms with many new Northeast customers.• Major focus on further development of sustainable relationships with middle and upper management to target ultimate decision makers.• Developed, structured, and closed complex total portfolio management contracts with many Northeast gas companies giving ConocoPhillips the foundation for growth in the Northeastern U.S. region.• Identify, analyze, and recommend commercial transactions in line with company strategies and market facing opportunities.• Developed short- and long-term marketing opportunities from existing and future company assets targeting co-ops, industrials, municipals, utilities, and other end-users in the Eastern US markets.• Perform all deal-related functions including conceptual design, contract negotiations, due diligence, delivery arrangements and regulatory impacts.• Continually evaluate points of receipt, ownership of pipeline capacity, aggregation of demand and alignment of such strategies with the company’s commodity risk management programs.• Analyze and evaluate transaction structuring options. Prepare solicited and unsolicited proposals for presentation to external and internal customers.• Proficient at internally coordinating product offerings that span multiple regions and commodities.Team player continually contributing to the long- and short-term needs of the company.

• Responsible for marketing structured energy products to Utility, Power Generation and Large Industrial customers in the Northeast/Mid-Atlantic U.S.• Closed numerous complex deals including: Total Portfolio management, capacity/storage management, weather deals, swaps and options.• Developed, structured and closed an unsolicited total portfolio management contract with Niagara Mohawk Power Corporation worth in excess of $300 million.• Currently have productive working relationships with utilities in the Northeast and Mid-Atlantic regions.• Worked with trading group to develop strategy to optimize storage and transportation assets to find arbitrage opportunities.

• Developed business plan and sales strategy to introduce newcomerFPL to the Northeast industrial marketplace.• Grew business from zero to approximately 80 customers in 4 target market areas in one year.• Directed sales to large industrial, commercial and power generation customers.• Successfully identified and executed cross-commodity and up-selling opportunities.• Managed and trained lower level sales managers to penetrate commercial / industrial markets.

Previous company name: Eastex/El Paso Energy Marketing Co.• Implemented optimization strategies through the management of short and long-term transportation and storage arbitrage for the Northeast transmission grid.• Developed Northeast delivered gas strategies implementing least- cost routing from Appalachia, Canadian, Gulf Coast and Mid Continent supply basins.• Directed thirteen sales and operations employees, set up policy & procedures to interface with accounting and risk management.• Developed business plans and strategy and grew industrial market in the Northeast U.S. from start-up to over 100 customers within 6 months.• Long term marketing to utility, power generators & large industrial customers in the Northeast U.S.• Identified and analyzed joint venture/acquisition and capital project opportunities.

• Marketing of Sonat Exploration’s equity natural gas production in the Gulf Coast and Mid Continent regions to utility & large industrial customers.• Formulated storage and transportation arbitrage strategies.• Contracted for and managed short and long term capacity release.• Structured optimization strategies for the Northeast transmission grid.

• Responsible for providing least-cost, reliable gas supply for daily system supply and electric generation requirements.• Administered approximately ninety supply, transportation, and gas storage contracts.• Responsible for sales on major east coast pipelines to marketing companies, large industrials and other utilities.• Developed monthly purchasing and marketing strategies. • Reconciled a massive historical pipeline/supplier imbalance, recovering over $6 million.• Processed nominations and actual flows for approximately 750 industrial and large commercial customers.• Assisted customers, suppliers and regional personnel through complex regulatory issues in the interpretation of the Niagara Mohawk tariff.