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Responsible for: Negotiating gas supply and portfolio management contracts for a major Massachusetts gas distribution company; Designing and implementing the long-term gas supply portfolio plan; Overseeing the preparation of the gas supply budget forecast for the Company's Seasonal Cost of Gas Adjustment filings;Preparing the Company's Long Range Resource Plan filed with the Massachusetts Department of Public Utilities and serving as the expert witness in the associated regulatory hearings;Administering the Company's Off System Sales program; Involvement in FERC regulatory proceedings affecting Gas Supply. andCoordinating Gas Supply Planning activities with other Company departments, such as Gas Operations, Engineering, Marketing, Rates, Load Forecasting, and Legal and Regulatory Affairs.

Managed and worked on client projects related to the natural gas industry. Clients included: gas distribution companies; interstate pipeline and storage companies, gas marketers, and developers of gas-fired electric generating stations and electric utilities with gas-fired generation.Projects included: LDC resource planning and design standards studies; LDC portfolio optimization; unbundling of LDC services; market studies for pipeline expansions, new storage projects and LNG projects; and state and federal regulatory policy analysis and related testimony.

Managed the Gas Supply Planning function for Commonwealth Gas, a major gas distribution company in MA. Responsible for: Preparation of gas supply budgets; Preparing and implementing short term and long term supply plans; Negotiating gas supply, pipeline, and storage contracts; Preparing Long Range Resource Plans filed with state regulatory authorities and testifying in support of filings; Testifying on gas supply related issues in state rate cases; andRepresenting the Company at FERC regulatory proceedings.

Mba, Business / Finance

Attended Northeastern MBA program on part-time basis while working for Commonwealth Gas Company

Mrp, Regional Planning

Ba, Economics

Activities and Societies: Omicron Delta Epsilon, St. Lawrence UniversityAttended RPI in Troy NY from 1969 to 1971. Member of Theta Chi.

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