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Houston, Tx, Us

Delray Beach, Florida, Us

• Oversee hedging and discretionary portfolio management• Structure and execute commodity derivatives trades for: iron ore, dry freight (FFA's), fuel oil, coal, copper and precious metals.• Expand firm's commodity derivatives trading capabilities - including set up of front, middle and back office, onboarding with exchanges and brokers, expanding OTC trading counterparts, and set up of screen trading, algorithmic execution and other technology.

Delray Beach, Florida, Us

• Help support the firm's growth in its global cross-commodity book.• Manage asset development projects in various stages of the lifecycle for mining, logistics, and storage businesses.• Develop and roll out analytics and visualization tools for commodity and freight traders, e.g, arbitrage, pricing, and portfolio optimization models.• Help negotiate and structure offtake agreements and investments in mining and logistics businesses.• Drive strategic initiatives pertaining to operating model, risk management, decarbonization, and growth strategy

Dublin 2, Ie

Manager at Accenture Strategy’s Global Energy PracticeLed teams of crossfunctional strategy, analytics, and user experience consultants to deliver value for Downstream Oil and Gas clients across all parts of the value chain.

Dublin 2, Ie

Client work experience focused around:• Brand strategy in retail fuels space including portfolio analysis, high level business case and brand power• Digital transformation strategy for large downstream company• Value chain optimization in downstream oil and gas - end to end hydrocarbon supply chain; analytics, visualization and performance management• Project management and integration for a large business transformation• Benchmarking of an oil major's trading business

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• Work with over 30 international customers (NOCs and public companies) and suppliers in gasoline/diesel trading activities, develop and strengthen commercial relationships and pursue opportunities to reduce costs.• Led ExxonMobil’s first delivered sale of gasoline into Mexico from Singapore• Developed and led execution of a new sale of Canadian marine fuel oil• Reduced risk exposure on a term deal through analysis of contract terms and freight data• Led analysis on blending and sales of heating oil distillate to grow sales margins

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• Identified improvements by leading an in depth study on the refinery fuel system to minimize margin loss by $5M/year and managed summer intern in order to complete tasks to meet implementation timeline.• Implemented changes in cat cracking and hydrofining operations across multiple teams and units in the diesel system to enable an additional $3M/year in profit.• Create and present monthly/quarterly profitability presentations to refinery management and HQ directors discussing earnings growth outlook.• Analyze refinery earnings and generate new ideas to grow margins through performing studies and models.• Participate in yearly business plan development for refinery profitability.

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• Identified and assisted with the implementation of a $352k project to save the company $3.9M in reliability loss• Optimized unit rate by coordinating across functions in order to save the company $871k• Provide technical guidance and work with four shift team on optimizing delayed coking process operations and running the unit safely and reliably.• Supported a two month turnaround that entailed equipment inspections, providing technical guidance and engineering on discovered items, and shutdown and startup support.

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• Led energy efficiency improvements for the Baytown Refinery in process technologies such as alkylation, hydroprocessing, fluidized catalytic cracking, hydroforming, solvent lubes units, and other downstream processes.• Organized weekly energy meetings, monthly energy improvement sessions, and yearly project brainstorming sessions aimed towards improving the site's Solomon EII, and reducing energy OpEx.• Developed better tools and systems to monitor and understand energy performance.• Assist with developing business plan for refinery energy opex.

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• Designed and engineered a project aimed to meet a safety gap at the Baytown Olefins Plant, utilizing technical experts, operations managers, and senior engineers.• Acquired $500k in funding for the capital project to be completed by October 2014.• Assisted with the development of a data validation program using the plant optimization platform to maximize profit.

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• Developed a SQL database and tools that allow US Gulf Coast economist and crude traders to compare and analyze historic data and trends. Data assists team in maximizing profit for the Gulf Coast and Mid-Continent refinieries.• Project expected to add millions of dollars worth of value to the company through its utilization.

Schenectady, Ny, Us

• Designed formulations and processes for three projects, requiring multiple processing methods. Documented experiments and projects for future product development and upscaling.• Presented project data to customers and managers, and assisted customers with product applications.