Project Manager Software

Confidential User

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City: Houston

State: TX

Zip: 77002

Country: USA

Phone: 555-***-****

Skill Level: Management

Salary Range: 120

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ALEXANDER DAVYDOV

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Phone in France: +(33-634-***-***

PROFESSIONAL PROFILE

Seasoned professional with 10+ years of experience in software project management for energy industry. Possesses proven hands-on experience in design, development and management of software projects for oil production, energy consulting and commodity trading companies. Self-motivated leader with strong work ethics. Technical with deep attention to detail. Possesses good interpersonal communication skills in three languages (English, French, Russian).

Has extensive working knowledge (as well as formal training) in all cycles of software development and in many areas of oil and gas business, commodity trading, accounting, finance. Can effectively communicate ideas and design real-world working and sustainable solutions. Possesses strong business analyses skill. Patient and capable explaining complicated technical and business concepts to other team members. Goal-oriented individual and a good team player.

Currently on expatriation assignment in France.

TOTAL (Oil Company), PARIS, FRANCE 2011 - current

Business Analyst

Perform technical lead in creation of proprietary trading software system for a commodity trading organization (natural gas, electricity, LNG, coal, carbon emissions and others) that operates on three global markets (US, Europe, Asia). Strong technical and business expertise is required for all areas of trading activities, including Front Office, Risk, Scheduling, Back Office, Finance and other operations. This is a management-level position requiring self-motivation and constant communication with business users and developers in multicultural/multilingual environment. Continuous learning and global vision of operations are major parts of the job.

Duties include:

-- Gathering and processing of initial user requests

-- Analysis of existing software systems, work methods and hardware capabilities

-- Creation of technical specifications for developers

-- Creation of test plans

-- Unit, functional and pre-production testing

-- Creation of user support documentation

-- Migration of business to newly-developed software

-- Technical support of released products

TOTAL GAS AND POWER NORTH AMERICA (Commodity Trading), HOUSTON, TX 2006 - 2011

Trading Systems Project Manager

Independent position with wide range of responsibilities on trading floor. Main focus was on technical lead in design and management of large software projects. Strong technical involvement in software design was essential as well as vision of all participating systems as a whole. Knowledge of all business processes on the floor was an inseparable part of a job. At the same time, regular business user support was an always-present requirement. Job involved continuous learning of new systems and software updates.

Duties included:

-- Creation of technical specifications for developers for large projects and smaller system updates

-- Local development of smaller applications for business users (application design and actual coding)

-- Technical support on the trading floor for over 80 business users and all used applications

-- Interaction with development teams in London and Paris

-- Maintenance of SOX controls and user administration

PURVIN & GERTZ, INC. (Energy Consultants), HOUSTON, TX 2001 - 2006

Energy Analyst

Dual role between energy analyst and web-based application developer

Energy analyst part included:

-- Excel modeling and data analysis

-- Construction and update of crude oil pricing models: forecasts and netbacks

-- Maintenance of crude quality banks and crude assay database

-- Preparation of crude assays for PIMS software

Web-based application development part covered the following:

-- Development of web-based applications including seminar maintenance and online payment processing

-- Publishing of company online reports

-- Database development in PHP/MySQL to provide real time PLATTS data

-- Administration of Linux servers, online databases and user accounts

-- Work with IT contractors and service providers

-- User support on all kinds of technical issues

TNK-BP (Oil Company), MOSCOW, RUSSIA 1997- 1999

Senior Investment Analyst

Position involved technical analysis of investment possibilities on Russian oil market:

-- Conducted investment feasibility valuations of oil production fields, refineries and marketing networks

-- Performed financial analysis, budgeting and forecasting

-- Developed investment evaluation methodologies

-- Prepared financial models for $500 MM project loan backed up by US Export Import bank

EDUCATION:

MBA, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, IL 1997

Management, Finance

Bachelor of Computer Science, Vladimir State University, Russia 1995

IT Systems Engineer, Databases

SKILLS:

Technical: SQL, VB, PHP, Access, Excel, MySQL, Apache server, e-commerce, Commodity Trading Software, X12 EDI, C++, database design and development, application design and development.

Business: Working knowledge of trading organization (scheduling, risk management, back office, front office, accounting and finance operations). Analysis of crude oil properties and modeling of refining economics (netbacks, crude assays, crude quality banks). Analyses of capital investments in oil production, refining and marketing.

Languages: English, French, Russia

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