CIO

ANDY BLANCHARD 713-***-**** (M)

Houston, Texas **************@*****.***

Substantial experience partnering with executive and senior business leadership to deliver effective IT strategy supporting commercial goals and value creation through business process improvements, innovation, and M&A integration, using scalable technology solutions. Proven ability delivering cost savings, operational stability and efficiency. Established track record in building and leading lean IT teams to deliver critical business systems in the energy and trading markets by leveraging strong leadership, effective team building, focused strategy planning and on- time execution

Skills Summary

Strategic Planning & Business Alignment

Talent & Change Management

Operational Efficiency/KPI/SLA

Budget & Cost Management

Commercial focus, customer culture

Disaster Recovery

App Development & Support

Business Analysis & Project/ Portfolio Management

Cloud and On-Prem Infrastructure & Operations

SMB/Enterprise/Transition

Wholesale Energy Trading

Midstream Operations

Crude Logistics & Marketing

Frac Sand Operations

Professional Experience

Head of Information Technology Twin Eagle Resource Management, Houston, USA 2014 – 2016

Part of senior management team, hired to lead the transformation from SMB to enterprise class environment to meet business needs and growth. Partner with executive team and senior stakeholders to define strategic and tactical goals, while also playing hands-on role to deliver high value business objectives

Establish the strategic vision and tactical goals, policies, and procedures for the information technology department; define and implement technology roadmap

Collaborate with executives, department managers, and power users to develop new initiatives; develop cost-benefit analyses for business process transformation and system evaluation; identify hardware/software solutions to accomplish business objectives

Implemented run vs. build IT organization; defined new structure and roles, led the change management process to build out team competencies to support enterprise class technology

Application development: custom development of real time alert system to instantly notify traders of significant market events achieving ROI in first week of implementation; re-architected legacy market data database/application to deliver 100% uptime performance for critical real-time trading data; implemented iterative development reducing release cycles to 2 weeks

Oversee system operations; ensure business applications meet uptime requirements; establish and maintain a highly available network infrastructure for internet, local and wide area connectivity, and remote access

Cost saving initiatives: Negotiated new MS license (Enterprise Agreement) and implemented Office 365 saving $100,000; saved $125,000/year utilizing outsource model for backup and database administration, improving reliability

Customer culture: Developed and implemented a customer service philosophy, establishing customer-centric approach to IT support; delivered 20% operations performance improvement by implementing KPI and business SLA for helpdesk and application support teams

M&A Initiatives: Led the IT integration of systems and staff following acquisition of national crude logistics business

Implemented PMO, executive steering and project reporting, improving transparency and increasing resource utilization

Business Continuity: Designed and implemented full suite of Disaster Recovery systems and business processes from the ground up, leveraging combination of cloud hosting and on-prem to provide optimal performance and resiliency

Security and infrastructure integrity: Complete infrastructure overhaul (core network upgrade with highly available design to support five nines uptime trading requirement; upgraded servers & storage to resolve application performance and capacity constraints); commissioned security assessment and vulnerability remediation plan; implemented IT controls, improving user communication and reducing unplanned outages by 25%

Financial: Launched formal IT budgeting process and quarterly executive update operating rhythm to ensure IT resources and projects closely aligned with critical business needs and strategic goals; vendor contract negotiations for all new computer equipment and software

Manage day-to-day operations of information technology department, including support and upgrade of commercial and ERP applications including SCADA, network & telecommunications, server/storage operations, user services and all other information technology functions. Establish and direct operational support policies and procedures

Director, Information Technology EDF Trading North America, Houston, USA 2009 – 2014

Responsible for all aspects of information technology required to grow and support EDF’s wholesale energy trading applications, telecommunications, and computing infrastructure. Directed staff and contractors, managing an annual operating budget of $5 million. Founding member of IT department expanding from 4 to 55 staff in 4 years to keep pace with progressive business expansion

Work closely with executive stakeholders and senior leadership to ensure consistent alignment of the IT strategic direction with the overall business plan and objectives

Identify business process and automation improvements, develop business case with ROI, design, develop and implement solutions; lead project portfolio steering, executive IT reviews; manage IT operating and capital budgets

Led a team to design and implement new energy trading products into Energy Trading and Risk Management system (EnCompass) to support growth into Environmental Products, and Gas and Power trading products

Custom iPad & web application development of mobile crude ticketing system to support start-up of a crude oil logistics business with dramatic expansion into trucking, rail, tankage and blending, and acquisition and integration of a national crude trucking company

Led the development and implementation of a comprehensive business continuity and disaster recovery plan; procured and implemented a secondary data center, work site recovery office and remote access solution

Provided leadership for infrastructure team in implementing and managing a virtual server and storage environment to support rapid scaling from 4-800 servers over 4 years; built out three North American offices (Houston, Calgary, DC); complete lifecycle upgrade of turret phones; outsourced managed backup solution; Office 2010 upgrade

Led the successful acquisition of physical and virtual power trading company; full integration of people, data and applications in 8 week period without business disruption

Launched company-wide systems and business process implementation of Dodd-Frank compliance program including custom development of Position Limit monitoring dashboard and Real Time Swap Dealer Reporting

Oversaw multiple system implementations for mid & back office systems including CubeLogic Credit Management, GlobalVaR reporting, option portfolio simulation to support extrinsic storage valuation and identify hedging strategies

Senior Consultant CAS, Houston, USA 2003 to 2009

Senior Consultant for technology consulting practice providing IT, project management and staffing resources to energy and telecommunications organizations

Project Office/PMO lead for $16MM global IT infrastructure separation of BP’s chemical business into a new, separate entity. Managed projects, budgets and back office to deliver new WAN/LAN network, core infrastructure, infrastructure applications and new desktop image

Contract negotiation, SOW and SLAs, deliverable tracking, risk controls, budget management, scheduling, implementation, cost tracking, reporting, invoice administration, and payment and document management

Implemented 10,000 global user, web-based application

Project Manager Enron Broadband Services, Houston, USA 2000 to 2003

Project Manager for the design and implementation of global business procedures and IT systems to accurately track and manage telecomm and network equipment

Implement on-time and on-budget ($1.5MM) a database and suite of 4 in-house applications to track $250MM of equipment real-time, including procedures, documentation and training

Led requirement gathering, definition of user interface and functionality, performed UAT, monitored project milestones, budgets, resources and tactical and strategic objectives

Manage cross-disciplined project team to reconcile asset tracking system with SAP resulting in $10MM saving

Defined business procedures and systems to facilitate the global sale of assets generating $30MM revenue

Regulatory Affairs & Contract Manager TXU-Europe, UK 1998 to 2000

Regulatory Affairs Manager TOTAL OIL (GAS MARKETING), UK 1995 to 1998

EDUCATION

Double Bachelor Degree with Honors, Business Administration and German

Middlesex University (UK) & Fachhochschule Reutlingen (Germany)

Languages: English (Native) / German (Advanced) / French (Conversational)

Project Management Professional (PMP) Certification (Active) US Citizen

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