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Amherst, Ma, Us

Act as Senior Associate Consultant supporting electricity market projects worldwide. Work on electric markets of various countries such as Vietnam, Puerto Rico, and Central America.

Mexico City Area, Mexico

I led a team of 23 professionals (engineers, economists, computer scientists, and lawyers) in the analysis and monitoring of the Mexican wholesale electricity market. Primary representative of the Independent Market Monitor for the Energy Regulatory Commission of Mexico, the Mexican system operator (CENACE), and Market Participants. In 2018 our company was selected in a competition to provide the Independent Market Monitor service for two years and nine months.

Mexico City, Mexico

I provided on-site leadership and guidance during the first yearaof the Mexican wholesale electricity market for Ministry of Energy (SENER). Responsible for the implementation of market monitoring, and daily oversight of the market. Supervised a team of economists, engineers, and IT specialists. During 2016 the team implemented offer mitigation software that saved Mexican consumers more than USD$1.3 billion. In 2017 we were awarded a contract to continue the market monitoring services for the Energy Regulatory Commission of Mexico.

Amherst, Massachusetts

Providing advisory services and testimony to private and government clients. Focus on market design and market competition and evaluation of competition. Associate consultant with Deloitte, DH Infrastructure, and Energy Trading Analytics. Head of Council of Advisors for Admonitor.• Provide strategic advice to Admonitor executives, provide high-level review of analysis.• Led team to propose methods of reducing the cost of the transmission buildout for renewable generation in California.• Co-Investigator on DOE ARPA-E project to harness flexible demand and other distributed resources in new market architecture that accounts for an increasingly variable power system. • International work reviewing markets of Europe, Australia, New Zealand, Chile and others. Provided review of rules for setting transmission limit in Central America, • Other client work includes a comparison of Market Monitoring policies of ISO-NE and PJM, assistance to Electricity Regulatory Authority of Vietnam, assistance to Central American Electricity Market regulatory bodies, review of load forecasting techniques for international development bank, review of ISO-New England capacity rules for a confidential litigant.

Iso New England, Holyoke, Ma

Act as team leader and project manager across multiple groups and departments. Advise on market design and market rule changes. • Recommend and develop ways to assess and mitigate market power• Develop revisions to market rules dealing with mitigation, present changes externally, and support development of conforming software. -- Designed, drafted and presented the largest rewrite of mitigation market rules to support mitigation of reliability units and automated mitigation -- Designed, drafted and presented changes of mitigation market rules to support allowing suppliers to offer hourly.• Analyze market competitiveness and efficiency, identify new topics for analysis• Serve as the Market Monitor’s primary reviewer of new market design changes proposed by ISO-NE • Provide project management within Market Monitoring -- Resource allocation, project risk management -- Review and approval of final analyses reported to management or published externally

Iso New England, Holyoke, Ma

Oversee the completion of new analytical studies by staff, and review market design proposals from the remainder of the ISO-NE.• Supervised production of the Market Monitor’s Annual Market Reports which report on the competitiveness, efficiency and outcomes of the ISO-NE electricity markets• Evaluated new market designs proposed by ISO-NE • Supervised analytical studies by staff

Supervise the daily operations of market monitoring and implement any required mitigation of offers. • Supervised the process of monitoring the market for exercise of market power. This was a daily process involving analytical software and analysts that were on-call 24/7. Reviewed any recommendations for mitigation by analysts prior to Director’s approval for mitigation.

Iso New England, Holyoke, Ma

Reviewed proposed rules and market reforms, represented the ISO at external meetings, assisted with regulatory filings, writing internal and external position papers.• Negotiated and supervised market simulation project with the Electric Power Research Institute. The market simulator used software agents that imitate the profit maximizing behavior of firms. It incorporated both an electric network and multiple products. Participated in analysis of proposed new reserve markets and a principal author of the final report. • Had primary responsibility for coordinating effort to reduce barriers to trading between ISOs known as “Seams Issues.”• Created first-of-its-kind and highly successful Forward Reserve Market and supervised its implementation. Wrote market rules, manuals, reports, supervised first auction and resolved implementation issues. The Forward Reserve Market had a value of approximately $80 Million in its first year. It continues in place 10 years later.• Established and managed price review team, which was responsible for analyzing the dispatch actions and pricing results of the real-time electric energy market. The price corrections were used in calculating settlement and were highly controversial. The annual value of the market was approximately $5 billion.• Designed or supported revisions to energy and reserve markets. • Led development of monthly market reports and first annual market report of the ISO.

Austin, Texas

Served as an expert witness on competitive issues in the electric industry. Primary duties included investigation of market power, certification of contracts, industry restructuring, investigation of whether the regulated utilities took advantage of inexpensive wholesale electricity when appropriate, and integrated resource planning issues. Measured the market power of all utilities in Texas for a report to the Texas legislature.• Written testimony subjects: integrated resource planning, retail access pilots, market power and the possibility of predatory pricing, contract certification.• Reports: project coordinator and a principal author of the Commission report Investigation Into the Competitiveness of the Wholesale Market. Principal author of “Market Concentration Analysis,” Chapter 7 of Report to the 76th Texas Legislature: Feasibility Investigation for AC Interconnection between ERCOT and SPP/SERC.

Doctor Of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Economics

Bachelor Of Arts (B.A.), Philosophy