Luis Plata
**** ****** **. #***, *******, Texas *7051
Mobile: 832-***-****
Email: **********@*****.***
EDUCATION
University of Houston, C.T. Bauer College of Business, Houston, Texas
Bachelor of Business Administration, Spring 2014
Majors: Finance/Accounting
Program: Global Energy Management Professional Program
EMPLOYMENT HISTORY
Associate Scheduler
Enterprise Products, Houston, Texas May 2015 – Present
Plan, coordinate, and implement the movement of crude oil and refined products (Methanol, MTBE, Naphtha, VGO, Gasoline, Diesel, and Jet Fuel) through company and related assets (pipeline, waterborne) in a safe, efficient, and profitable manner.
Compile shipper nominations and other pipeline/waterborne information in order to coordinate and schedule all receipts/deliveries into the system on a daily and monthly basis.
Provide the preparation and communication of daily and monthly crude oil and refined product movement schedules for the Control Center and connecting carriers in order to coordinate deliveries out of the system.
Provide necessary information for accounting purposes at satisfactory time intervals.
Assist customers, and accounting, in resolving invoicing and other volume-related issues that may arise.
Provide Shippers with information regarding pipeline/waterborne maintenance, down time, etc., necessary for planning their receipts, deliveries, etc.
Recommend improvements in methods, procedures, and equipment used in accomplishing scheduling coordination with all parties involved.
Coordinate scheduling of crude and refined product movement activities with operations personnel in order to maximize operational efficiency.
Revise daily and weekly schedule as necessary to control & minimize imbalances.
Evaluate and resolve customer nominations and requests, at both the receipt and delivery locations, as well as any other customer inquiries.
Review and “approve” daily imbalances, and develop plan to resolve prior to end-of-month.
Assist Commercial, Engineering, and Operations personnel in issues that may arise.
Through customer contact, recognize and communicate commercial opportunities to commercial asset management and/or business development personnel.
Carry out operations in accordance with Company policy and procedure and all applicable local, state, and federal laws and regulations.
Crude Oil Analyst
CIMA Energy, Houston, Texas September 2012 – August 2014
Develop and manage models and reporting infrastructure necessary to provide consistent inventory numbers.
Coordinate Truck and Rail movements for all physical crude oil trading activities in region of responsibility
Coordinate domestic waterborne movements for all physical crude oil trading activities in region of responsibility
Enter scheduling data into the system of record and validate transactions against nominations or ticketing systems
Continually seek information that may impact market conditions and communicate that information immediately to commercial teams
Actualize and assist in reconciling past month activity in both scheduling and accounting systems
Identify areas of improvement whether with regard to efficiencies or controls
Ongoing market fundamental, price and position analysis
Analyzing and processing large amounts of data across multiple instrument types and from many sources
Drawing conclusions based upon data trends and statistical analysis
Assess and model complex structure transactions
Identifying the risk components and pricing characteristics of all complex transactions
Coordinating with the commercial teams to understand trade strategy and risk mitigation strategy
Work with risk, scheduling and commercial teams to develop short and long-term market views impacting overall strategy
SKILLS
Microsoft Excel (advanced), VBA, SQL, Great Plains, AGRIS V9, DTN Prophet X, OSCAR (ORACLE), TIMS/CAMS, TCMS
Bilingual: Fluent in English and Spanish