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Calgary, Ab, Ca

Calgary, Alberta, Canada

Calgary, Alberta, Canada

Calgary, Alberta, Canada

• Directed an eight-person department that delivered on: corporate commodity price forecasts, development / filing of regulatory positions, engaging / advocating policy makers, and guiding Executive teams’ Corporate Strategy.• Successfully orchestrated smooth start-up post acquisition – aligning and engaging critical resources; and prioritizing communications with critical external networks.• Mitigated critical regulatory risks and created opportunities by leading revisions to critical regulatory positions on the retirement of a coal-fired generator, resolving uncertainty with respect to key market issues, and promoting competitive solutions for non-wires solutions such as distributed energy storage.

Calgary, Canada Area

• Directed 12-person team that delivered on: fundamentals analysis, emissions trading, compliance, outage scheduling, regulatory, and government relations. • As a member of the Generation division’s senior leadership team, supported ATCO's divestiture of its Canadian power generation division to Heartland Generation by providing clear assessments of regulatory and policy risks and future market opportunities.• Led ATCO’s representation through Alberta’s wholesale electricity market redesign by providing direction to regulatory advisors and regularly updating executives and other teams on proposed changes and implications to future opportunities. Appeared before the Alberta Utilities Commission as an expert witness and prepared ATCO's position in the government review that retained the existing energy only market. • Evaluated opportunities to develop wind, solar, pumped-hydro, combined-cycle, and peaking power plants by looking into market opportunities, financial viability, and how they fit into an evolving policy landscape.

Calgary, Canada Area

• Using a scenario-based planning approach, developed and maintained strategic growth plans for power generation. • Devised long-term commodity price outlooks for electricity, natural gas, and carbon from fundamental principles and third-party consultants for use in evaluating business development opportunities, and to assess how changes to the market design would impact portfolio performance.

Calgary, Canada Area

• Represented ATCO's interests in market regulatory matters focusing on capacity market stakeholder engagement. Was the Chair of the AESO’s Energy and Ancillary services working group (2017-18). • Engaged cross-functional teams to develop a coordinated regulatory strategy in response to the multitude of policy changes (retail policy, introduction of renewable energy program auctions, changes to carbon and environmental policies, inquiries into distribution connected generation and dispatchable renewables and energy storage, etc...) that have impacted the electricity sector.• Collaborated with third party experts on how transformative changes in the energy sector as a result of technology and policy could impact existing investments, and lead to new opportunities.

Calgary, Canada Area

• Created high-level modeling capabilities that allowed for assessing how critical regulatory and policy changes including carbon policy, renewable procurements, and evolving load/generation profiles would impact ATCO’s generation opportunities and how they may have further impacts on future transmission investments.• Leveraging experiences from other jurisdictions and understanding Alberta’s electricity system, advised on implications of Alberta’s plans to transition to a capacity market by developing a straw-dog of what the eventual design could be. • As a member of the team that negotiated the early retirement of coal-fired generation with the provincial government, provided clear evaluations of potential settlement outcomes to the executive team, and developed internal and external presentations used through the negotiation. Worked on transition strategies for coal-fired generation including developing and implementing changes to transitioning to natural gas.

Calgary, Alberta

• Lead team of two analysts responsible for planning optimal times to take outages, and developing near and long term forecasts of electricity market revenues and dispatch costs for use in corporate business planning processes. • Prepared long-term scenario forecasts incorporating the policy changes that were announced with Alberta's Climate Leadership Plan.

Cambridge, Ma

• As a consultant, was engaged by a variety of clients on numerous projects spanning the energy space including project valuations, market fundamental forecasts, litigation support, and policy development and modelling in electricity markets across North America and overseas. Select engagements include: o Quantitative and qualitative assessment of carbon and renewables policy options for a major North American jurisdiction.o Cost-benefit and policy analysis to evaluate a significant investment in storage for Oncor, a Texas utility.o Scenario-based forecasts of load and generation profiles based on changing policy trends for a large Canadian utility.o Reviewing and monitoring evolving trends in competitive transmission development processes.

• Established a team focused on using market data analysis to support rule and policy implementation, and forecast the supply-demand balance in the province using the AUORAxmp electricity market model.• Mentored and trained staff in statistical analysis and data mining to develop innovative methods for presenting technical and analytical information to internal and external stakeholders. • Worked within a multi-disciplinary team to develop and publish a Long-Term Transmission Plan to ensure reliable electricity in Alberta for the next 20 years, focusing on explaining the market implications of an unconstrained grid. • Identified strategic opportunities to improve the data and information used by the market including revised forward-looking availability information and forecasting of peak demand periods. Liaised with IT on the creation of an enterprise data warehouse and development of data management and data integrity processes to facilitate reporting improvements.

• Implemented a market simulation model (AURORAxmp) for use in analyses to support policy and rule development particularly focused on the operational impacts of integrating large amounts of wind generation.• Presented analytical results in a clear and concise manner to senior management

• Daily monitoring and analysis of Alberta's wholesale electricity market outcomes allowed the development of a suite of monitoring metrics that were used for internal and external reviews of market performance. • Evaluated options for demand response in Alberta’s existing rule and policy framework, proposed changes such as settlement changes should demand bid into the market.

Msc, Statistics

Thesis title: Estimation of the shape parameter in the elliptical family of distributions based on non-parametric measures of association

Pgdip (With Distinction), Statistics

Bsc, Statistics

Minor in pure math