SUMMARY:

• Results driven professional with progressive experience and accomplishment in managing natural gas and crude oil. Increasing key corporate client relationships in both the mid - sized and larger employer market. Self driven and motivated, blended with strong business, leadership, relationship, accounting, consulting and implementation, communication, problem solving skills.
• Working knowledge of FERC and NAESB standards
• ETRM implementation, QA and support (Openlink Endur and Sungard Aligne)
• Experience with Microsoft Office Products, Visio, PowerPoint and Excel. Quickbooks, SAP.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Facilitate the monthly accounting of natural gas marketing, transportation and plant processing for producers, pipelines and midstream companies.
• Assist in the monthly balancing of physical transport volumes that includes volume balancing, analysis, allocation and reporting.
• Analyze monthly pipeline invoices and statements to ensure correct transport volumes/rates and allocation of reported volumes.
• Prepare sales invoices, purchase settlement statements and record entries to the general ledger for the purchase and sale of natural gas and liquids hydrocarbons.
• Gathering functional requirements and developing technical specifications & project/test planning.
• Designing and development of software applications, testing and implementing configuration changes, project prototypes, proofs of concept & client demos.
• Reviewing designs & code output from development team and results produced by QA personnel.
• Experience leading and mentoring a small team (6-8).
• Strong attention to detail, logic, problem solving, written and inter-personal communication, presentation and client facing skills.
• Specific knowledge of requirement definition and technical design, and overall knowledge of the software development lifecycle.
• Tradebook reconciliation and monthy close for Shell Trading Canada Crude and Freight Trade Book entries against Financials in Endur and SAP. Reconciliations of Gross Margin report against Purchase and Sales of Shell Trading Canada Crude, as well as Inventory and MTM. Responsible for documentation of all job functions for training purposes. Analysis of Demurrage Accrual, Profitability Report, Income Statement, Updating the Deferral and Financial Gap Analysis. Endur v. 11, SAP and Excel used on a daily basis. Training transitional personnel for January 2017 transition to Chennai, India. Project slated to end January 2017.

Confidential

Customer Care Manager

Responsibilities:

• Manage and monitor activities and complex ticketed issues of Sungard customers with relation to Aligne Gas Ops, Pipe Ops and TRM software issues.
• Work with QA and Development groups to resolve customer issues and requests.
• Test databases, internal and external, for issue duplication or reproduction.
• Meet with customers on a quarterly basis for status of accounts and software updates.
• Hands on experience in Aligne Gas Ops and Pipe Ops.
• Responsible for managing environments setup, deployments (Core & Custom), troubleshooting and maintenance activities .
• Managing the team supporting the application during the development project lifecycle
• Developer of GasOps training manual .
• JIRA Service Desk/SupportZone used daily.

Confidential

Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Act as a liaison with business users and the IT team to resolve technical issues.
• Trained clients on Endur product features and business concepts.
• Subject matter expert in business matters related to energy trading, physical scheduling of natural gas and crude oil, and financial and physical settlement of transactions.
• Gathered, analyzed and documented clients’ business requirements, configuration designs, test/use plans and results.
• Supplied functional expertise regarding configuration, implementation, testing, and support of trading and scheduling systems (gMotion for gas and cMotion for Crude) for Endur, V8 thru V11.
• Mitigated issues that posed a threat to project implementation time lines including configuration updates, user table maintenance, security maintenance, documentation of analysis and workflows, and testing.
• Developed Business Documents and White Papers
• Enhanced client relationship by filtering client and system related issues to Account Manager.
• Evaluated user requirements and implemented working solutions through system design, analysis, testing, training, and documentation.
• Apply technical and business knowledge in the analysis of user requirements.
• Determined short and long term solutions to resolve pressing businesses process and technology issues.
• Perform post deployment evaluation of solution to determine necessary adjustments and enhancement to solution.
• Review and guide logical and physical designs, Served as an internal point of contact for the IT team whenever requirements need to be clarified.
• Interface with IT teams during development to validate the solution against the requirements.
• Manage post implementation enhancements.
• International work experience.

Confidential

Gas Scheduling and Accounting Manager

Responsibilities:

• Daily scheduling of offshore producers on Panther Pipeline.
• Calculated and reconciled imbalances.
• Contract negotiations and implementation.
• Nominations, Scheduling and Confirmations.
• Reconciled pipeline imbalances on a monthly basis.
• Produced and reconciled all OBA agreements.
• Accounts receivable for retail gas customers in Northeast Texas.
• Accounts payable, payroll for 200+ employees, reports and bank reconciliations.
• System and volume balancing, pipeline allocations and Operational Balancing Agreements.
• Worked daily with Coastal Flow Measurement Company regarding BTU and measurement issues.
• Field operations coordinator for offshore GOM platforms.
• Settlements
• Incident Management reports, FERC reports, Railroad Commission Reports, and budgets and forecasts.
• Reconciled LAUF ( Lost and Unaccounted For) Volumes
• Handle all aspects of annual TRRC audits.
• Supervised 4 employees. Daily use of SCADA. QuickBooks Payroll.

Confidential

Sr. Volume Accountant

Responsibilities:

• Invoice end-users on 10 pipelines, handle volume and rate discrepancies and customer service issues.
• Responsible for cash-outs, contracts and rate variances for 10 pipelines on daily basis.
• Promoted in September 2005 to Gas Balancing Accountant responsible for inter-company pipelines (Atmos Texas and Atmos West Texas, T-LIG and TLGP), Gulf South, CGT, Oneok, LIG, Regency and ETGS pipelines.
• Handle all A/P, actualization of receipt and delivered volumes, storage, WACOG’s, transportation payments, pipeline imbalances and J/E’s for all pipes and inter-company accounts.
• Reconciliation of all pipeline volumes to producer statements.
• Reconciliation of A/P and A/R on a monthly basis.
• Worked closely with Trade Floor and Scheduling to ensure proper reconciliations to accounts.
• Accounting and month end close activities on Allegro software.

Confidential

Sr. Accountant

Responsibilities:

• Invoicing for all Zone One and Zone Two volumes.
• Contract administration for all Zone One and Zone Two transportation contracts.
• Used SAP on a daily basis for all accounting functions.
• Reconciliation of all pipeline volumes to producer statements.
• Reconciliation of A/P and A/R on a monthly basis.