Constellation Energy Group, a publicly traded Fortune 150 company with $20 Billion in revenue and 7,000 employees, is an energy company that conducts business through various subsidiaries, including a merchant energy business and Baltimore Gas and Electric Company (BG&E). The Company’s merchant energy business is a provider of energy-related products and services for a variety of customers. In 2008 Constellation provided approximately 26,600 megawatts (MW) of peak load (company aggregate); 407,000 million British thermal units (BTUs) of natural gas to commercial, industrial and governmental customers; delivered 25.4 million tons of coal to international and domestic third-party customers and to the Company’s own fleet, and managed approximately 9,000 MW of generation capacity. BGE is a regulated electric transmission and distribution utility company and a regulated gas distribution utility company with a service territory that covers the City of Baltimore and all or part of 10 counties in central Maryland. In March 2009, the Company divested its Houston-based downstream gas unit, as well as the majority of its London-based coal, freight, and international commodities business.

Constellation provides the opportunity to manage several teams, a combination of employees and contractors, ranging in size from 2 to 15. I have authored several performance reviews of both employees and contractors (several that have lead to promotions), negotiated statements of work, procured network and physical resources, managed O&M and Capital budgets in excess of $1 Million dollars, and generally managed 2 or more projects simultaneously. Success in several IT leadership roles I developed a strong reputation for turning difficult development efforts into sustainable value added solutions. Several outputs from my work in Back Office IT are inputs to Constellation's quarterly and yearly SEC filings.

I added clarity to an exchange brokerage account with an average initial margin in excess of $5,000,000 by developing a business intelligence system that consolidates position information and calculates margin requirements (using PC Span). The system explains market valuation differences and calculates several of the underlying data points necessary to make a relatively accurate prediction of the daily margin call for Controller reconciliation, collateral management, and the companies CFO. The system provides risk and variance analysis capabilities.

For the retail portion of Constellation, I completed the implementation of a vendor provided Activity Based Costing application consolidating financial information from 8 regional offices, across systems in numerous technologies, in ninety days on time and under budget. The system provides valuable insight to executive management and the business unit’s CFO on the profitable dimensions of the company’s endeavors, sales staff, compensation, procurement, and call center management initiatives.

While performing as Settlement System Team Supervisor I expanded wholesale commodity invoicing support to domestic and foreign Coal Trading, international natural gas & power trading, and European VAT Tax processing. I managed the upgrade of the system named "Settlements" from a .Net 1.1 web application with an Oracle 9i backend that utilized outdated RightFax and Documentum components to a .Net 3.5 application against an Oracle 10 database utilizing upgraded RightFax and Documentum components. During the upgrade, the team continued to provide enviable levels of customer service to 150 users on 3 continents. I also managed the expansion of invoicing to the wholesale side of Constellation’s retail customer unit, and moved the system from manual to electronic payment processing in support of the Treasury group. I created a structure surrounding settlements that made transitioning to a successor straightforward; leading to additional efforts and a promotion.

I introduced Eventum, an open-source issue management system, which supports customization to the production support needs of several applications. Eventum significantly reduces the amount of time and energy required to organize, prioritize, and manage issues, specifically during the tight deadlines of the Controller close processes.

As part of an Intellimatch reliability and upgrade project at team and I reduced the production workload required to support reconciliation processing for Operations and Controllers. During the project the team and I upgraded and integrated Intellimatch, a vendor provided reconciliation product, with Constellation’s enterprise scheduler while removing redundant and superfluous processes, a savings of 3 IT FTEs.

A team and I built upon my consulting experience for at Sogeti for Constellation and completed the first iterations of the replacement of the commodity trading organization’s counterparty CRM system. I also managed the completion and deployment of a sales apportionment system for the Tax group for the 50 US states and Canada.

All of my leadership and development roles at Constellation involve continually facilitating internal and external financial and SOX audits for systems under my control, and ensuring SOX compliant change management and best practices while utilizing agile and iterative development life cycles.

Sogeti’s 2,000 employees generate $112 Million in revenue through systems integration, staff augmentation, and other technology services. Sogeti provides expertise in data migration, enterprise business management, product lifecycle management, software testing, and applications management. The firm specializes in Sarbanes-Oxley compliance consulting and Microsoft and IBM software implementation. The company is a subsidiary of Sogeti, an operating division of global consulting firm Capgemini.

I successfully prepared a wholesale counterparty CRM system for a potential merger with a competitor, while simultaneously supporting enhancement requests from Operations, Finance, Legal, and Treasury under intense pressure to support expansion into International physical and financial energy markets. The Sybase and C++ application supported a wide range of commodity trading focused uses and produced numerous SOX controls nightly for things like wire information, legal agreements, and netting arrangements, all enhanced during my tenure as a consultant. The system fed CRM information to all trade entry (2 added during my tenure as a consultant), risk, collateral management, and invoicing systems, and the commodity group’s general ledger through TIBCO messaging. I developed and deployed several SOX relevant changes under significant time constraints.

Legg Mason, a Fortune 1000 global asset management company that generates $50 Million in Revenue from $650 Billion in assets under management, acts through its subsidiaries to provide investment management and related services to institutional and individual clients in the US and abroad. Legg Mason’s asset managers, each of which is an individual business that generally markets its products and services under its own brand name and, in many cases, distributes retail products and services through a centralized retail distribution network.

I replaced an Asset Reconciliation business intelligence Framework (ARF) developed in C++ against a Sybase database with a multi-threaded Java process, which reduced processing time from several hours to several minutes. The system reconciled asset positions with custodian banks nightly for several enterprises. The reward for successful implementation was a promotion and a new role as a technical team lead for a team of three development resources. The new role presented the need for a flat file processing framework in Perl that minimized development time and integration of repetitive text processing tasks and the enterprise scheduling system Autosys.

Both of my roles at Legg were on a team that supported nightly production batch processing for 7 different asset management firms (most internal, but 3 external) against security positions stored in Thompson Financial’s Portia. All members of the team spent time as part of an on-call rotation. Prior to leaving the firm career progression was rewarded and I was moved from the first line of support, to escalation support, a position reserved for resources with strong understanding of the asset processing being completed nightly. Time at Legg provided the opportunity to be a key member of several disaster recovery exercises testing ITs ability to react to IT related business discontinuities.