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PPL Corporation, headquartered in Allentown, PA, is an energy and utility holding company. Through its subsidiaries, PPL generates 19,000 megawatts of electricity from power plants in the northeastern and western United States, markets wholesale or retail energy primarily in the northeastern and western portions of the United States and delivers electricity and natural gas to 5.2 million customers in the United States and the United Kingdom.

• Successfully pushed the organization to adopt agile and iterative development; reduced time to market, and increased product fit to business requirements
• Drove change in a rigid and established culture
• Served as solution architect for a $30M IT investment to modernize a trading organization from trade capture to ledger process
• Structured vendor contracts
• Pushed the adoption of collaborative media to capture tribal knowledge growing a wiki to the definitive index of organizational knowledge
• Led a due diligence review for a software purchase of a competitors software suite, keeping senior executives at PPL abreast of the product and its potential
• Served as the main IT point of contact for a project to refine the companies daily P&L process for PPL’s Chief Risk Officer resulting in $30,000 worth of savings annually
• Served as the Energy Plus IT champion of PPL’s $2M 2010 United Way Campaign
• Owned four SOX relevant systems
• Maximized return on a $4M O&M and Capital budget
• Crafted a five year strategic plan for Energy Plus IT to mirror expected business growth and need
• Served as the IT owner for all trade capture across two trading floors supporting a business that transactions billions of dollars in energy contracts
• Developed staff and succession plans for IT for Energy Marketing & Power Management
• Restructured communication, and developed the concept of IT backlog management
• Facilitated allocation of scarce resources across multiple (and competing) business needs
• Grew the IT capabilities of the organization to accommodate trading on additional exchanges

Constellation Energy Group Inc., a publicly traded Fortune 500 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.

• Succeeded in managing several development efforts with teams ranging in size from 2 to 15
• Authored performance reviews, several leading to subordinate promotions
• Negotiated statements of work saving the organization money
• Squeezed efficiency out of O&M and Capital budgets in excess of $1M
• Turned chaotic development efforts and systems into stable, sustainable solutions
• Led a team tasked with bringing clarity to an exchange brokerage account with an average initial margin in excess of half a billion
• Implemented an Activity Based Costing application to consolidate financial information for 8 regional offices
• Expanded a wholesale commodity settlement system to bill coal, international natural gas & power trading, and assess European VAT tax
• Successfully updated a mission critical invoicing system from .Net 1.1 to .Net 3.5 without disrupting processing for 150 users on 3 continents
• Architected and implemented a process for full electronic payment approval saving 1 FTEs worth of processing annually
• Increased workload management for Back Office by championing Eventum
• Integrated SunGard’s Intellimatch with Constellations enterprise scheduler saving 3 IT FTEs
• Completed the development of a custom counterparty CRM
• Deployed a sales apportionment system saving 1 IT, and 1 Business FTE per year
• Owned 2 SOX relevant systems