Promoted to coordinate and maximize profit from daily, weekly, and monthly trades for 85% of company’s equity gas production volume on 13 pipelines. Executed short-/long-term customer contracts, negotiated terms with banks, managed pipeline imbalances, and oversaw pipeline and plant payback volumes. Coordinated divestiture of assets to finalize company’s Permian Basin pure-play strategy.Strategic Leadership• Served as Rocky Mountain natural gas market expert with 20+ years of experience trading around assets in the Pinedale Anticline and Uinta Basin.• Managed natural gas and West Texas Intermediate (WTI) commodity derivative positions and executed NYMEX, collars, basis trades, and fixed price swaps to ensure appropriate hedging.• Provided insight into and influenced key business processes, decisions, and market opportunities during weekly meetings with senior leadership and internal risk committee. • Generated new business and managed existing portfolio by building collaborative relationships with customers, midstream operators, and marketers.• Improved caliber of counterparties by analyzing client, market, and competitive research data.Tactical Accomplishments• Executed daily, monthly, seasonal, and multi-year 100K–800K MMbtu trades worth $250K–$2M.• Negotiated and closed Uinta Basin Pipeline’s longest physical trade deal (four years).• Administered natural gas storage book resulting in $18M peak net income. • Traded around Haynesville, LA natural gas production, resulting in long term sales contracts and firm transportation capacity of .5 bcf/day and peak production/marketed volume of 1.5 bcf/day.• Maintained quota to avoid shutdown during record growth that doubled production forecast.• Integrated and tested third-party sales and scheduling platforms (Solarc, Allegro).• Participated in gas volume reconciliation reports, creation of prior period adjustments, and gas lost accounting to accurately reflect gas volume and quality information.

Leveraged market understanding against excellent interpersonal communication skills to execute price volatility/hedging strategies, negotiate long-term contracts, identify new opportunities for asset value, and maximize returns from daily, monthly, and yearly storage/equity production sales.• Added millions of dollars in value by trading/optimizing 4 BCF storage capacity at owned facilities.• Purchased shrink gas for three plants to fulfill multiple customer agreements. • Communicated resource movement trends, risks, and market opportunities to management.• Created forecasts and volume estimates to guide selling and storage strategies.• Developed strong relationships with customers and local distribution companies to secure best price to best markets.

Managed scheduling and nominating of equity production from seven pipelines including Questar, Questar Gas Management, Opal, Kern River, Mountain Gas, Northwest, and Echo Springs.• Managed imbalances for each pipeline and supplied necessary data to generate P&L statements.• Used knowledge of natural gas supply/market deals, transportation, primary points, gathering, interconnects, and storage to optimize flow and strategic capacity releases.

Manage and schedule gas for Questar Gas Management – Rockies. Coordinate the movement of natural gas from the wellhead through processing plants to downstream pipelines. Conduct gas control operations and attend and participate in all meetings relating to maintenance and customer impact issues relating to gas flow. Advise my team in resolving gas control and related customer issues. Manage all purchases of natural gas for the purpose of shrink gas for all Questar Gas Managements Rockies plants. Manage all gathering contracts and nominations, manage all imbalances on gathering contracts. Developed key relationships with customers and had a very great working relationships with management.

• Daily operations and scheduling of natural gas flows on the following natural gas pipelines and gathering areas: Overthrust Pipeline, Questar Pipeline and Clay Basin.• In-depth knowledge of supply and market deals, transportation, primary points, gathering, capacity, constraint points, interconnects and storage on pipes listed.• Tracked nominations and several transport contracts, managed imbalances, supplied volumes to gas control on a daily basis, interacted with customers on a daily and monthly basis.• Maintain strong relationships with pipelines and counter parties by keeping in touch on a personal level, meeting with them, and providing excellent customer service.