Matt Wallace Email & Phone Number

New York, New York, United States

New York, NY

• Structured and implemented workload and assignment restructuring of the NY Operations team
• Carried the Operations team through bankruptcy and integration into the Mercuria Ops structure.
• Manage vessel cargo and bulk operations for the Minerva US East Coast (New York, Philadelphia, Baltimore, Norfolk, Charleston, and Savannah), Gulf of Mexico, and Trinidad locations, both domestic and foreign sourced.
• Coordinate and schedule over 150 monthly physical and back to back bunker sales across Minerva ports.
• Charter inland and ocean-going barges through owners/brokers for bulk and bunker movements.
• Responsible for managing multiple company time charters in the Gulf of Mexico and Trinidad for cargo moves and offshore bunkering operations.

New York, NY

• Schedule 150 monthly bunker deliveries across the Aegean US East Coast system including New York, Philadelphia, Baltimore, Norfolk, Charleston, and Savannah.
• Manage vessel operations for imports and exports used in blending and resupply.
• Review and clear Bills of Lading and Certificates of Origin for Imports/Exports.
• Vet and schedule vessels for US destined Imports and European-destined export cargos.
• Charter inland and ocean-going barges through owners/brokers for bulk movements across the East Coast
• Approve or reject demurrage claims for bunkers, barges, and vessels.

Port Reading, NJ

• Scheduled Gas/Distillate/Fuel Oil for Buckeye’s Atlantic Coast marine terminals; back-up schedule NYH.
• Coordinated dock space for barges and ships while accounting for pipeline receipt schedule and rack activity.
• Oversee product line changes, tank to tank transfers, fungible product blending and physical tank activity.
• Managed stockholder inventories, assigned tank bottoms, and approved and denied pipeline change requests.
• Successfully coordinated 3 RVP phase downs based on terminal inventory and upcoming receipts.
• Handled 24/7 customer questions and provided notification for any scheduled or unscheduled downtime.

New York, NY

• Managed and performed attribution on the Foreign and Domestic Jet Fuel inventories at the ATL airport for Inventory Holders, the Zone Operator and for Customs reporting.
• Optimize movements of bonded petroleum products on pipelines and vessel movements.
• Coordinate weekly receipt of 100+ Mbbls of jet fuel being brought into the Atlanta Foreign Trade Zone.
• Managed daily operations workload balancing for FTZ team; served as first contact for clients and CBP.
• Track and separate vessel and pipeline receipts entering FTZs versus domestic US commerce.
• Working knowledge of the US tariff classifications and duty rates for petroleum and petrochemical products.

• Interfaced with multi-national companies regarding importation of a broad range of petrochemical as well as unrelated products into the commerce of Canada.
• Provided oversight for client product movements and minimized delays/holdups for movements traveling from the United States to Canada.
• Daily personal interaction with Canada Boarder Service Agency (CBSA), Oil firms, and large financial institutions