Acquisitions Tripled capital asset base Managed multiple profits centersManaged nine budgets Expanded and aligned MCN Investment’s enterprise brand.Headed due diligence teams Arranged investment partners Attained unopposed approval for Board of Directors voting on budgets and acquisitions Start-up Developments Executive management and lead for CCP Hired engineering firm for project RFPSelected winning suppliersNegotiated EPC ABB turbine contract exceeding $50 MillionConstruction AgreementLong-term City site lease Handled public relationsRan public meetings. Negotiated development rightsLand optionsLand purchasesEnterprise tax-free zonesTax creditsCapital equipment contracts EPC construction agreementGas transportation and distribution agreement Power Purchase Agreement Electric Power Transmission AgreementManaged environmental site issues Brownfield development of an existing municipal waste siteDirected government relations for city and county approvals Managed two visionary power developers in Chicago Natural gas fired projects in Crete and Chicago HeightsTransmission studies Cost savings and efficiency through redesign, expansion, and upgrades Board of Directors presentations for project approval and fundingJoint-venture partnerships External partnership reporting

Commodity trading floor leader for MCN Energy’s investment division (MCNIC) Supervised origination deskDerivative commodity productsPhysical hedging Financial swaps and optionsGas storageRepositioned energy investments\assets with audits, research to improve financial guidelinesSeasoned Policy ImplementerPresented Risk Management Plan to Board of Directors for approval Developed variance reporting percentages to prevent rogue tradingManaged risk for MCNIC industrial customers and associated AR Required pre-payments for credit impaired industrial and commercial accounts of MCNICRe-structured customer debt in house through MCNIC account managers to minimize write-offsRisk Management Created Risk Procedures and PoliciesDisciplined traders and monitored                                                                                                        Exceeded targeted operating budgetsKey liaison aligning BOD's corporate goals with floor activityWorked with Treasury Credit Maximized commodity trading profits to expand enterprise value Disciplined traders under variance guideline structure.Optimized employee reward system with cash bonus and stock. Mentored tradersIncreased division EBITA and NPVMark-to-market accountingManaged monthly operating budget and annual P&L EBITA exceeding set targets by 25% to 50%

Utility M&A and business development in USA. Senior executive running Curacao power assets co-owned with the Netherlands Antilles Government generation and managing partner Liaison Lead negotiator for Electric Power Producer (EPP) Sales Agreements in Latin and South America. Managed company joint ventures and limited partnerships with foreign governments Labor unions. Utility M&A, build-outs, and due diligence for assets in Colombia. Met with government leaders, embassy, Board members, potential investors, and labor union chief Lead acquisition for 43 MW pulp biomass plant in Brazilian Amazon which burnedFinancing meetings with Brazilian financial institutions and PetrobrasMedia expert with embassy, CEO, foreign governments, and large labor unionsFought legal foreign wire-tapping of our company phones, hotel rooms, and cell phones Maintained key Embassy relationshipsHandled environmental problemsSeveral RFP’s to supply Latin and South American countries with electric powerDeveloped multi-company and multi-country Latin hedging strategy

Managed field operations of drilling and pipeline construction of gathering and transmissionCo-lead for investments in energy reserves Monitored capital expenditure plan and A.F.E.’s EBITA, Capital expenditures and inventory monitoring for drilling and pipeline operations Monthly accounting and investment income reports for Black Warrior coalbed methane productionWorked with Treasury in Irvine,CADirector of Business DevelopmentStrategic planning for North America for Mission for two years. Board presentations for equity partnership investments and ongoing expenditures Restructured Morgantown coal power plant and optimized operations for Chapter 11Participated in bankruptcy court proceedingsManaged bankruptcy lawyers and budget for minority equity interest in Hazelton Power Plant Negotiated three bond financing documents with lenders for greenfield plants and managed third party fuel plans for lender approval and subordination Developed a cross-asset hedging strategy for fuel and power. Executive director creating consortium of international partners for 780 MW Samalayuca project Supporting cross border pipeline project for partnership Created and managing director consortium with EDC and Westinghouse Evaluated waterfront hotel resort complex in the Dominican Republic for power project

Coastal Corporation was acquired by SONAT. Sonat was acquired by El Paso Natural Gas. El Paso was acquired by Kinder Morgan.Trial team member for Coastal versus Houston Natural Gas lawsuit lead by trial lawyer Tracy N. DuBose. Natural gas traderPipeline business development in gathering and intrastate pipeline projectsNatural gas sales and marketing to California Salt dome storage capacity inventoryRestructured fuel arrangements for the Coastal Corp's Eagle Point Refinery in New Jersey and the El Dorado Refinery in Arkansas under Dan Hill and Clint FawcettInterconnection agreementsNatural gas supply for the Wycon Chemical Co., located near Cheyenne Wyoming, which produced nitrogen-based fertilizer products.Long term interstate capacity agreements on El Paso, Tennesee, Transwestern, Valero, Lone StarDispatch Gas BalancingInitial Regulatory filings on new pipelines