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Sydney, Nsw, Au

Houston, Texas, Us

For this electricity, natural gas supply and energy-management services company, I was hired to lead the design and development of a cloud-based risk and financial analytics platform to consolidate and standardize data reporting from disparate systems and produce reports for position, P&L, and gross margin. In addition, I manage trading and risk management applications, including a power-trading platform and decision-support tools, as well as the relationships with internal business partners and external vendors. I also oversee a $10M budget and CAPEX projects ranging from $500,000 to $26M. My role includes directing and motivating a 12-member team, ~6 contractors, and senior technology professionals across multiple locations and helping to recruit and develop staff, as well as communicating updates to stakeholders.Key Contributions:►Created business cases and provided product roadmaps by communicating vision, features, and critical releases.►Assisted the business to meet objectives within agreed upon enterprise architecture by helping to define and develop technology solutions.►Facilitated business engagement by sharing budget accountability on product deliverables, while interacting with key stakeholders to discuss technology application services and assess customer satisfaction.►Boosted productivity through incremental and continual process improvements, applying a hands-on approach to day-to-day business needs and operations.►Provided insights into key metrics, such as gross margins under contract per customer, as well as customer acquisition cost, lifetime value, and retention by building BI and advanced analytics platform and leveraging data.►Enabled business growth by helping sales teams to cross-sell services and new products in existing systems.►Helped maintain lean IT operations, while aligning staff performance plans to business objectives.

Sydney, Nsw, Au

In my role at this Australian investment bank and financial services company, I was hired to integrate North American trading operations into a common platform following the acquisition of the Constellation Energy commodity group, including real-time position management, daily P&L analysis, and natural gas, power, and oil scheduling and logistics. Promoted to SVP, I helped to leverage the North American platform for real-time commodity trading operations in Europe and Australia.In addition, I led mission-critical systems supporting the energy and commodity trading, compliance, market risk, and operations groups. I managed a $5M budget, 5 direct reports, and a portfolio of IT projects, as well as the planning, organizing, and scheduling of systems development and maintenance based on business priorities. My work included meeting with senior management to present new business cases, review metrics, discuss project challenges, and formulate IT strategies. I also directed enhancements to P&L analysis, position management, trade entry, scheduling, and logistics systems and oversaw performance reviews and staff development.Key Contributions:►Consolidated the North American, European, and Australian commodity trading operations into a single platform more than a year ahead of schedule.►Leveraged best practices and insights to achieve operational efficiencies.►Realized a 20% overall project savings.

Baltimore, Md, Us

Retained following the acquisition of Epoch Energy, I served as part of the commercial operations. My role included developing and maintaining a risk management system, including real-time natural gas trading, valuation, position, and P&L. Additionally, I directed IT support to resolve issues such as data feed, real-time positions, and trade capture and managed direct and indirect budgets of $2M and $5M, as well as 5 direct and 10 indirect reports.Key Contributions:►Helped natural gas operations to become the largest marketer in North America.►Drove 4-fold business expansion by implementing systems that enabled marketing ~10Bcf of natural gas per day.►Facilitated growth from 20 to 200+ employees in 2 years.

At this start-up company, I developed and maintained a trading and risk management system for energy and financial derivatives, which was licensed and sold to 3 premier trading firms, generating $3M initially, as well as IT consulting revenues. I coded, tested, and deployed the valuation system and managed the IT needs, including networking and desktop support.

Houston, Texas, Us

For this position, I oversaw the development of a system used for drill-bit tracking, which allowed the first electronic capture of such data and was instrumental in increasing operational efficiencies.

Part of team responsible for the design, development, implementation and support of a trading and risk management system that supported natural gas, electricity, interest rates, foreign exchange and crude oil. Parallelized various CPU intensive projects (Monte Carlo Simulation and Valuation engine), thus cutting computation time.

Accelerated Management Program, Business Administration, Leadership And Managemen

Cio Mentor Certificate Program, Organizational Leadership

Ms, Computer Science

Be, Electronics And Communications Engineering