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Houston, TX, US

Santa Monica, California, US

• Led a team of 23 software engineers in building the business processes for acquiring and retaining customers by developing Inspire’s proprietary applications and integrating them with 3rd party applications.
• Led a team of 20 data engineers, data product managers and data scientists in the development of Inspire’s proprietary data platform and operating model powering everything from core business operations and clean.
• Led the organizational and process changes to ensure that Engineering solves the most important business problems as quickly as possible.
• Supported the transition from a clean technology startup to a Shell Renewables & Energy Solutions portfolio company by retaining talent and knowledge, and building the core engineering team during this big change.

Houston, Texas, US

• Collaborated with the executive team to set the strategic vision for the product, clearly identifying target customers, their needs, market gaps in filling those needs, and revenue potential associated with filling the.
• Led a 10-people product management team to translate the strategic vision into a prioritized list of product features.
• Supported annualized recurring revenue growth by meeting with prospective customers to understand their business needs and explaining how to meet those needs using Innowatts’s SaaS platform.
• Assisted the executive team in the planning and execution of the company’s organizational and technology transformation to support its transition from start-up to scale-up.

Houston, Texas, US

• Tasked by the Chief Commercial Officer to turnaround the Load Forecasting team.
• Led a team of 4 analysts and 3 data scientists located across the United States, Canada, and the United Kingdom, and partnered with external data providers to forecast demand for 1.5 million electricity and natural gas.
• Through process improvement, increased team’s efficiency for publishing long-term demand forecasts by 90%.
• Improved overall demand forecast quality and brought weather-adjusted demand forecast functionality in house, which saved approximately $2 million during the first year.

Houston, Texas, US

• Tasked by the Chief Information Officer and the Chief Commercial Officer to turnaround a 3-year ongoing project to develop a system for creating demand forecasts for 1.5 million customers.
• Restructured the project team to reduce the annual project cost by $1.7 million per year and increase team’s throughput.
• Leveraged expertise in retail energy to set a clear path forward to deliver a minimum viable product.
• Led a team of 10 engineers to bring the project to completion in 1 year.

Houston, Texas, US

• Transferred to the Houston office from Toronto, Canada, to help build the Mid-Office team.
• Led a team of 1 manager and 5 analysts, and partnered with external service providers and other departments to develop processes for reconciling and paying invoices of $2 billion per year and reporting actual gross.
• Improved the accuracy of actual and forecasted gross profit by better aligning revenue with costs, and better accounting for the value associated with various hedges.
• Collaborated with Accounting to shorten the month-end-close process from 21 days to 8 days. Assisted the executive team with the review and interpretation of the operational results.

Houston, Texas, US

• Managed pricing and product development for the $2 billion portfolio of residential customers; reported to the Senior Vice President of Supply.
• Led 3 pricing analysts to maintain cost assumptions, improve product offerings through market research on competitors, determine hedge requirements for each product to achieve target gross margin, and publish pricing.
• Collaborated with Sales to improve pricing, Trading to hedge financial risk, and Operations to implement new products and execute price changes.
• Led the development of an integrated commercial platform supporting the commercial decisions and the interdependent daily operations of Load Forecasting, Pricing, Trading, Finance and Risk teams.

Houston, Texas, US

• Led the development of the corporate Business Intelligence team.
• Managed 3 reporting analysts and 2 engineers to monitor and report on key corporate metrics.
• Assisted Finance department with the preparation of external reporting on operational results.

Houston, Texas, US

• Managed a project to improve the commission payment process for the entire sales force.
• Managed 1 analyst and 2 engineers, and delivered the project on time and within budget.

Houston, Texas, US

• Led and turned around a 3-year ongoing project to develop a system for managing natural gas inventory for Canadian gas markets.
• Managed 1 engineer and completed the project in 6 months.

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