capSpire is a global consulting and solutions company that creates, customizes, and implements meaningful technology for commodity focused organizations. With expertise in commodities trading, risk management, and complex enterprise content management, capSpire creates valuable business process and technical solutions for Fortune 500 companies. The firm’s flagship product, Gravitate, is revolutionizing the way companies communicate with their clients. capSpire offers an unparalleled leveled of service and is headquartered in Northwest Arkansas, with an office in Tulsa, Oklahoma. The firm was recently recognized as the fastest growing private company in Arkansas.We provide our clients with deep business and system expertise to simplify and streamline their commodity management functions for crude, natural gas, refined products, NGLs, coal, iron ore, agriculture and freight. Chief among our service offerings are IT strategy and planning, system selection, custom software development, implementation services, systems integration and ongoing support.Our consulting group takes pride in its ability to create pragmatic and easy relationships with our clients that produce elegant solutions to hard problems, whether its a system selection effort or a custom technical solution. We also believe in constantly challenging the status quo, which is why our approach and offerings are atypical for a conventional consulting company. We aren’t about bloating projects, we aren’t about one-and-done relationships, and we aren’t about burning bridges with our clients. We strive to do what’s right on every engagement, even if it means less work for us, simply because we believe client success results in our own success.

Opportune Consulting Ltd is an independent consultancy focused on the energy industry. We are led by seasoned professionals with senior executive experience in major energy and consulting firms. We serve clients in North America and throughout the world from our headquarters in Houston, and satellite offices in Denver and London.Using our extensive knowledge of all sectors of the energy industry, we work with clients to provide comprehensive solutions to their operational and financial challenges. Across energy segments, our practice areas include corporate finance, complex financial reporting, process and technology, strategy and organization, dispute resolution, enterprise risk, tax and outsourcing.We are unique in that we have the deep energy expertise of a much larger firm, but the nimbleness of a smaller firm that can deliver effective results in a more personalized and timely fashion. Our mission statement is simple, but directed: to add value to our clients. We work as one firm keeping our core values at the helm: integrity, quality, teamwork and professionalism.

Client: Bord Gáis Eireann• Project Lead and in-depth product adviser for a major Allegro upgrade and integration project for a gas, power and carbon client responsible for the implementation team and client/vendor relationships.• System Architect for the ETRM IT infrastructure, including database partitioning, indexes, .Net/IIS configuration and DR strategy to provide the optimal performance, scalability and uptime for the ETRM environment.• Designed a distributed .Net solution to resolve the inherent problem with dealing with large quantities of ½ hourly data for UK/Irish Power which resulted in valuations coming down to 3 hours from 24 hours+ and being able to view the entire portfolio in seconds.• Directly interfaced to the several market systems using the .Net Framework to provide real time key indicators in the ETRM product. Including the automation of trade, prices, fx and forward curve creation avoiding manual entry and significantly reducing operation risk.Other Clients• Performed a complete system integration project review for a global oil bunker company. Advising on the technical and human aspects of the project to enable the stake holders to understand the success’s and failures which has enabled them to go on and make the project a success• Investigated stability and performance problems being experienced at an Allegro Power Customer and produced a detailed report advising how to configure Oracle and .Net/IIS to provide the maximum performance and stability, as well as advising on data model archiving and index optimization reducing key transactions from minutes to seconds

Allegro designs and delivers energy trading, transaction and risk management software for the energy industry, including power and gas utilities, refiners, coal producers, traders, energy retailers, and oil and gas producers.• Project lead and technical expert on power implementation project• Defined and created multi layered Crystal Reports• Designed, implemented and delivered bespoke interfaces between Allegro and the Ireland power market• Worked with the client IT teams to optimize Allegro infrastructure and identify client network performance and virtual server issues• European technical expert offering support and advice to the European allegro team, including server configuration, IIS and .net configuration, problem resolution, Oracle & MS SQL configuration and procedure/function creation in MSSQL/Oracle P/SQL and vb.net

World Fuel Services is the global leader in the downstream marketing and financing of aviation, marine and ground transportation fuel products and related services. Through the Aviation, Marine and Ground business segments, World Fuel Services provides fuel and services to commercial and corporate aircraft, petroleum distributors and ships at more than 2,500 locations around the world.Responsible for European IT operations for a leading marketer of aviation & marine fuel products.Focus on management of strategic IT services across a network of 14 offices in Europe.Coordination of desktops, servers, networks, telecoms & internet / IT security issues.Support of fuel sector / fuel related product innovations, including risk management.Utilisation of ITIL best practice techniques and methodologies across the IT function.

Responsible for all aspects of IT management within a shipping & aviation fuel business.Appointed to support a network of 150 staff globally with annual turnover of $US 1bn.Focused on management control of the corporate IT and communications infrastructure.Acted as key member of team responsibility for conveying IT issues to non IT staff.Direct management of IT services, available on a 24x7 basis for a global work force.Conducted regular reviews of new technologies to provide real competitive advantage.Led the outsourced development of a specialised oil trading & credit control system.Transformed a heavily delayed & over budget project to eventually go live on time.Championed implementation of IT strategies & policies to improve system performance.

Responsible for all aspects of IT support, infrastructure development & installation issues.Appointed to key IT management role, reporting directly to the Director of Finance.Focused on development of IT systems, support & strategies to support growth plans.Leadership, management & motivation of a multi-functional team of support personnel.Conducted in-depth analysis of IT systems & provided recommendations to management.Monitored IT operational performance, budgetary controls and general metrics / KPIs.Supported user training, system maintenance, applications & general IT upgrade issues.

A member of a specialised team providing a professional IT support function to the entire council.