Natural Gas Trader/Scheduler
Resume:
Robert Morris 713-***-****
**** ****** **., ***** ****, TX 77479 ********@*******.***
Professional Profile
Versatile, results-driven professional with over 20 years of comprehensive experience in natural gas trading, scheduling and business development. Building exceptional relationships with customers, peers and senior leadership in order to develop business solutions that deliver sustainable results. Excels within high stress, highly competitive environments where quick thinking and fundamentally based decisions are keys to success.
Physical and Financial Trading
Business Development / Account Management
Commodity Purchasing and Sales
Pricing Assets and Structured Deals
AMA and Asset Optimization
Deal Negotiation
Hedging Transportation and Storage
Fundamental Research and Analysis
Strategy Creation and implementation
15+ years Trading NE/GC Regions
Traded MW/MC, TX and West
Gas Scheduling
Deep Understanding of the PL Grid
Built and Maintained Pricing Curves
Professional Experience
Choice Energy, Houston, Texas 2016-2018
Broker - Natural Gas Basis Desk
Achievements:
Built a sustainable book of business from the ground up.
Secured a large account that was previously unattainable for the company through persuasiveness and persistence.
Recovered large account previously lost to company by leveraging my reputation to earn another chance.
Responsibilities:
Business development/account management - acquired new customers and grew and developed customer base by forging consultative relationships built by nurturing the relationship, performing customer visits, learning the customers business and needs, and by providing useful market intelligence to the customer.
Provided customers with continuous natural gas market coverage, providing executable markets with accurate and clean deal closes.
Maintained current pricing curves for over 50 market locations.
Provided and acquired market intelligence gathered as the result of actively managing customer accounts.
Mieco Inc., Houston, Texas (Hired by previous co-worker) 2012-2015
Senior Trader NE Region
Achievements:
Built a profitable NE book of business from the ground up, trading physical and financial gas products.
Grew PAL business from 0 to 5Bcf annually.
P&L in excess of $1M/yr. for 2013 and 2014.
Responsibilities:
Developed and executed trading strategies that were based on fundamentals.
Built and maintained customer account relationships in-order to participate in and close structured transactions.
Built and maintained industry relationships in-order to gain market intelligence and to participate in larger market transactions.
Maintained pricing curves and built pricing models used in deal evaluation process.
Traded Gulf locations and optimized asset portfolio. Example TGPL Z1-Z4 segmentation, Utilizing point gas and interconnect gas for short haul opportunities.
Daily optimization of company assets (Storage/Transportation).
Active in acquiring storage and transportation assets from either 3rd party owners or pipeline companies.
Scheduled gas on TGPL, Tetco, TGP, TCO and DTI.
ConocoPhillips, Houston, Texas (Hired by previous co-worker) 2007-2012
Senior Trader East Region
Achievements:
Grew east financial book volume by 30% annually.
Grew east trading physical volumes on average by 20% annually.
2010 P&L of $7.5M. 2011 P&L of $3.5M.
Limited company losses by $6M in 2010 through physical gas routing.
Developed an inexperienced team of traders into an effective team.
Responsibilities:
NE/GC speculative trading.
Provided hedges for structured transactions, transportation and storage assets.
Developed short term trading strategies around physical portfolio.
Built and maintained industry relationships in-order to gain market intelligence.
Actively managed customer accounts by learning my customers business and needs.
Optimized 700,000/d transportation and 1.5Bcf of storage across NE/GC regions..
Heavy pipeline segmentation in the Gulf region to optimize asset portfolio and provide short haul opportunities.
Provided pricing / traded flow from producer services and C&I groups.
Served Delta and Liberty power plant loads.
Monitored market for capacity and storage opportunities.
Developed a physical flow model as well as pricing models used in the deal evaluation process.
Maintained oversight of and developed less experienced physical traders.
Occidental Energy Marketing, Houston, Texas (Hired by previous co-worker) 2002-2007
Senior Trader NE/GC Region
Achievements:
Considerably grew Occidentals NE market presence by developing and cultivating customer relationships which allowed for rapid expansion into the NE market.
2006 P&L of $6M.
Landed AMA with PG Energy.
Responsibilities:
NE/GC speculative physical and financial trading.
Provided hedges for structured deals and transportation and storage assets.
Grew and developed customer base through active account management tactics, this included customer visits, daily customer calls and consistently providing superior customer service.
Represented Occidental at industry functions.
Managed PG Energy AMA.
Optimization of physical asset portfolio across the NE and GC regions.
Worked with origination to price RFP’s, AMA’s and structured deals.
Built a NE/GC transport and storage book.
Optimized NE/GC asset portfolio thru pipeline segmentation and short haul opportunities.
Enron Energy Services, Houston, Texas 2001-2001
Manager Commodity Risk Management West/Texas Region
Energy USA/TPC, Houston, Texas (Hired by previous boss) 1999-2001
MW/MC Basis Trader
ERI Energy Services (Hired by previous co-worker) 1997-1998
NE Basis Trader
Direct Gas Supply/Enserch Energy/TXU 1993-1997
Staff Accountant/Scheduler/Mgr. Operations/Capacity Trader
Early Career 1987-1993
Worked contract positions in either IT or accounting for BP, Exxon, Transwestern Pipeline
And Tennessee Gas Pipeline.
Education
Western Governors University - Texas, Austin, Texas
Bachelor’s of Science - Business Management
March 2016 – December 2017
Licenses
NFA Series 3
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