Manager Network Engineer
Resume:
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
SOPHOS GOUP, Houston, TX March 2018 – Current
Senior Consultant –Professional Services
Clients: Cenovus Energy Calgary, CA
Responsibilities include gathering requirements for Crude, C5, Credit & NGL
System Administrator for Allegro Nat Gas Production
Deployed new code and patches to Allegro Pre Prod and Production environments
Configuring Credit in Allegro Horizon.
Model New security groups and permissions in Allegro Horizon
Documented business processes for Crude
Create specification documents for new functionality requested by the business
CERTIFIED SAFETY, League City, TX Nov 2017 – March 2018
Senior Consultant –Professional Services
Clients: Alabama Power Birmingham, AL
Responsibilities included implementing SmartTrack
Configuring Access Points
Setup Gateways
Documented business processes for SmartTrack
VESSEL GROUP, Houston, TX March 2017 – June 2017
Senior Consultant –Professional Services
Clients: Par Pacific Houston, TX
Responsibilities included implementing Allegro 8.0.
Documented business processes for Valuation Risk
Configuration and testing of Trade Confirmations
Configuration of Exchange Calendars for ICE & NYMEX
Configuration of Holiday Calendars
Created test scripts for UAT
Modeled physical and financial trades for UAT
Team Lead for executing test scripts for Front, Mid and Back Office
ALLEGRO, Houston, TX Jan 2015 – Oct 2016
Senior Consultant – Professional Services
Clients: E. ON Climate & Renewables GmbH, Essen, Germany, TransAlta, Calgary, Canada
Responsibilities include implementing and supporting ETRM software for the energy industry.
Implemented Allegro Horizon Credit Risk component.
Created test scripts for Credit Risk UAT
Setup credit valuation modes.
Modeled Broker & TSO reports for the credit risk team.
Tested Broker & TSO report with the credit risk team.
Allegro Gas Implementation Project.
Configured gas pipelines, points and commodity, demand, transportation and storage fees in Allegro.
Configured Service contracts.
Configured Interconnects to control communication between upstream and downstream points.
Train users on the different quantity statuses in the Supply, Inventory and Market panes in Allegro.
Demonstrate the various ways to Path in Allegro including using Trans Qty.
Demonstrate how to create nominations and make adjustments in the Nomination pane.
Setup Streaming (automated scheduling).
Provide training documentation for Allegro gas users.
Troubleshooting issues for Allegro Gas users.
Worked with traders on the trade floor for support during and after go-live.
TRIPLE POINT TECHNOLOGIES, Houston, TX Aug 2011 – Jan 2015
Senior Consultant – Professional Services
Clients: Conoco Phillips/Occidental Oil and Gas
Responsibilities include implementing, supporting and training in ETRM software for the energy industry.
CXL Gas Implementation Project.
A member of a team that implemented CXL 7.12 with a successful Go-Live.
Managed all critical issues for the project, wrote enhancement documents and test cases.
Worked with COP users on all phases of CXL UAT testing including VCP.
Continued support for CXL users as additional enhancements for the product are implemented.
Project Manager for CXL Upgrade and Emissions implementation
SUNGARD ENERGY, Houston, TX Jan 2002 – Aug 2011
Manager Professional Services
Clients: Iberdrola Renewables, Exelon Energy, Conoco Phillips, Noble Energy, Progress Energy, Pennsylvania Power & Light, Powerex Energy, First Energy, Constellation Energy, Proliance Energy, Constellation Energy, Terasen Gas, Toronto Dominion, Xcel Energy, Williams Energy, Reliant Energy
Responsibilities include implementing, supporting and training in ETRM software for the energy industry.
Assisted various Energy companies on implementation, risk reporting, deal entry and training
Primary implementation resource on Aligne and ZaiNet platforms.
Serve SunGard Energy as SME on a variety of energy risk related topics.
Assist SunGard implementation team with static data and physical deal blotter configurations.
Responsible for reconciliation of transactions interfaced between Aligne, ZaiNet and other client interfaces.
Trade conversion into Aligne and ZaiNet from legacy systems.
Writing several training guides for ZaiNet, Panorama and Entegrate covering physical and financial deal entry also scheduling and reporting.
Defined functional design and specification documents for customer requested enhancements on ZaiNet, Panorama and Entegrate.
Created test cases to accurately test the requested enhancements.
Testing the enhancements for Aligne, Panorama, ZaiNet and Entegrate to ensure proper functionality is tested and no other impact to the application occurred.
Completed scoping of the upgrade of the ZaiNet application to Aligne 3.0.
Analysis of the current system and all interfaces to determine what the possible impacts of upgrading the system will be.
TLM, TPST & TPOP trade conversion, script writing to insert static data, create import templates for various interfaces with the corresponding XML output files.
Revising numerous reports and batches as part of re-implementations.
FUNDSXPRESS, Austin, TX May 2000 – Nov 2001
Sr. Technical Installer – Banking Applications
Implement and configure custom internet banking applications.
Consult onsite with banks to gather technical and functional requirements.
Supplied technical and functional specifications to the development team for custom bill pay and debit applications.
EQUITRAC, Houston, TX Mar 1997 – May 2000
Sr. Technician
Consult Law firms in Houston to gather technical and functional requirements.
Configured, installed and maintained cost recovery equipment.
Created training materials and conducted training on many cost recovery devices.
Conduct training sessions on cost recovery.
Houston Lighting & Power, Houston, TX May 1983 – Mar 1997
Journeyman Electrician
Worked in traveling electrical maintenance crew.
Performed electrical maintenance in power plants during shut downs.
Performed maintenance on gas turbines.
Rebuild electric motors, inspections on windings, bearing cleanup and replacement.
Wiring circuits and troubleshooting.
EDUCATION
US NAVY
Aviation & Electronics
CLC
Certified Novell Network Engineer
Certified OSHA 30
Certified HAZWOPER 40
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