Shane Bird Email & Phone Number

Houston, Tx, Us

Espoo, Uusimaa, Fi

Espoo, Uusimaa, Fi

● Responsible for cohesive strategy development, stakeholder engagement, and execution of multi-modal, multi-commodity Log & Ops integration of the AgriTrading acquisition into one N. America Feedstock platform● Partnered with global business stakeholders, process owners, acquired entities, finance, enterprise architects, and IT organization to evaluate current and future ERP system needs to ensure scalability and commercial agility. Developing robust to-be processes and functional /non-functional requirements to ensure the system is built for purpose, enables full PnL visibility, and delivers capabilities into feedstock trading and aggregation, non-bulk logistics, stock forecasting and inventory progression planning, and risk management● Spearheaded non-bulk logistics transformation software project with integration between TMS systems and SAP S/4 HANA as the N. America commercial rail and Log & Ops SME. Identified synergies in organizational opportunities to improve logistics sourcing, optimize contract management, and leverage existing systems capabilities for enhanced visibility and efficiency● Consulted on the operating models and system requirements as part of the cultivation of new growth and market development in the establishment of a new legal entity ● Drove alignment, outside of formalized projects, across business units and functions on system utilization, future state processes, supply chain optimization and optionality opportunities, cost reduction initiatives, idea creation and business case development for investments into new solutions using Neste’s existing logistics assets, and adoption of industry best practices● Challenged ways of working and status quo processes via leveraging historical product volumes, financial analyses, and system efficiency data, gaining new stakeholder buy-in and empowering integrated teams to seize opportunities and efficiencies for sustained success

Houston, Texas, Us

● Served as liaison between Refining, Commercial, Marketing and Midstream to optimize assets and maximize value through supply and trading logistics with terminals, pipelines, marine vessels, trucks, and rail cars● Maintained accurate forecasts of supply/demand and inventory positions, and performed nominations and daily scheduling of trading deals, supply volume for marketing racks, and refinery production and blendstocks, to meet commitments and avoid refinery or terminal containment events● Worked across functions including Trading to optimize inventories, identify market opportunities, and balance profit with operational risk● Coordinated internally with Position Keepers, Movement Capture, and Inventory Accounting and financial analysts, to ensure accurate deal movement capture and financial reporting ● Orchestrated all waterborne movements, seeking vetting approval from Marine, coordinating inspectors, ensuring specification and quantity measurement requirements are met, and performing loss control oversight

Houston, Texas, Us

Houston, Texas, Us

Surface Transportation & Logistics Crude Oil, Refined products, and Specialty products

Houston, Texas, Us

Houston, Texas, Us

Global Tanker Planning & Projects● Constructed a Forward Freight Agreement hedging model capable of saving upwards of $3 million per month● Designed outward facing dashboard for Marine mgmt. to identify optimal timing for hedging exposure ● Created visualization for P&L outcome analysis on potential future profit-share charters● Developed proof of concept for a machine learning model in Alteryx to predict future spot market fluctuations in tanker rates● Global tanker and fuel flow tracking analysis

Houston, Tx, Us

Strategic fundamental analysis for crude oil, natural gas, and NGLs markets● Designed European gas and LNG supply and demand models focusing on the effect on US LNG exports● Developed automated incremental capacity addition models for all cracker, and fractionator projects● Modeling US demand sector and European gas seasonality and pricing spread regression analyses● PADD Level Gasoline and Distillate Inventory, Flow, and Impact Factor Modeling

Houston, Texas, Us

● Created an interactive Customer Lifetime Value model comparing all key and non-key accounts, which also illustrated differences in customer retention, total contract value retention, and closed margin values.● Implemented the transition of nationwide sales reports from excel into PowerBI.● Designed dashboards to highlight product volumes and unit margins between sales owners, brokers, and customers, on a national level.● Facilitated data merging and transition processes as an ambassador for Salesforce implementation ● Perform reporting and usage analytics for commercial and industrial power sales group

Executive Finance Director in charge of monitoring all accounts, tax, financial, and state and federal records for our 501c3 non-profit food pantry open to students and faculty of Texas A&M that works to eliminate hunger and food insecurity

College Station, Tx, Us

● Create, structure, optimize, and trade an actively managed fund of $650,000● Strategic analysis of securities and fixed income assets to deploy real capital● Second group in 15+ year history to beat return of S&P 500

San Antonio, Texas, Us

Serve as a Compliance Intern for the P&C Regulatory organization. Support and facilitate compliance assessments, market conduct exams, data calls, filings, and management of incoming laws/regulations.

Directed maintenance and construction operationsConducted renovations and overhauls of school district facilitiesFacilitated district to district communication and exchange of materials

Master'S Degree, Financial Management

Bachelor Of Science - Bs, Financial