BRENT T. BEEMAN 7926 JASONS LANDING WAY
SEVERN, MD 21144
BRENT@BTBEEMAN.COM
MOBILE: 443.956.0480
SUMMARY
Brent is a result-oriented executive passionate about strategy, and the presentation, systems, and access organizations need to excel.
RECENT EXPERIENCE
Director of Finanical Systems
Reznick Group, P.C. (Privately Held), Bethesda, Maryland
March 2011 - Present

Reznick Group is a top 20 national accounting, tax and business advisory firm. Reznick - known for its knowledge in real estate and tax credit services - provides public accounting services to a wide range of industries and Fortune 500 companies.

  • Received a Reznick Pyramid Award for demonstrating the ideals of the organization
  • Serve the CFO as a senior member of her staff and trusted advisor
  • Serve as the external IT liaison for the Internal Accounting, Human Resource and Firm Management Departments
  • Accountable for the Internal Accounting organization’s IT spend, and for external technology contracts for the department
  • Accountable for the day to day operation of Elite - the firm’s time, billing, collection and financial management system
  • Maintain the firms revenue and staffing profile forecasting systems, and draft and maintain the firm’s $250M operating budget
  • Improve and automate processes related to Time Entry, Billing & Collections, Employee on-boarding, Payroll, Staff Forecasting and Management, and Account Payable/Receivable management
Manager, Deal Capture and Supply Accounting Systems
PPL Corporation (NYSE: PPL), Allentown, Pennsylvania
October 2009 - March 2011

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
  • 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
Manager, Settlement and Margin Management Systems
Constellation Energy Group (NYSE: CEG), Baltimore, Maryland
July 2006 - October 2009

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
EDUCATION
MBA, International Business
Loyola College - The Sellinger School of Business & Management, Baltimore, Maryland
Graduate Certificate, Quantitative Software Engineering
Stevens Institute of Technology, Hoboken, New Jersey
Bachelor of Science with Honor, Computer Science
Stevens Institute of Technology, Hoboken, New Jersey
AFFILIATIONS
CurrentPrior
Co-Chair
Baltimore Area Council BSA Young Advisory Board, Baltimore, Maryland
Director
National Academy Foundation High School, Baltimore, Maryland
Cubmaster
Baltimore Area Council Pack 662, Severn, Maryland
Committee & Founding Member
Baltimore Symphony Orchestra FORTE
Head Coach
SAC Baseball 5/6 Gold Doubloons, Severn, Maryland
Young Membership Committee
The Center Club, Baltimore, Maryland
 First Lieutenant
The Maryland Defense Force (MDDF)

Skills Used Daily
Interpersonal;
Leadership;
Quantitative Project Management;
Financial Analysis;
Vendor & Contract Management;
Agile & iterative development;
IT infrastructure;
SOX compliance;
Object Oriented design;
Oracle; Microsoft (MS) SQL Server;
Database design
Design patterns;
Silverlight;
WCF & WCF Data Services;
Entity Framework;
EVA; SPI; SDLC; C#;
PL/SQL; Perl; CVS; TFS;
VI/GVIM; MS Excel; MS
Project; HP PPM;
Regular Expressions;
MS Visual Studio

Additional
Competencies
Risk analysis of physical & financial derivatives;
PMI; Six Sigma; TQM;
ITIL; C++; VI; Procmon;
Visio; Sybase ASE;
NANT; JUnit; NUnit;
ASP .Net; MS IIS;
Transact-SQL; Java;
UML; MS Source Safe;
Autosys; Portia; Power
Designer; Rapid SQL;
Eclipse; JDBC;
JConnect; VB;
JavaScript; VB Script;
DHTML; XML; Rational
Clear Case, Rose &
Pure Coverage; Borland
Optimize IT

Certifications
Sun Certified Programmer for Java

Awards

Digital
References

US Citizen

Training
Business Volunteers Unlimited - The Role of the Board: Essentials
Constellation Energy’s Management Development Program
MIT Executive Training: Diagnosing and Solving Complex Business Problems
Oracle Database: Advanced PL/SQL Edition 1
Oracle Database: SQL Tuning Edition 2
Futures, Options & Other Derivatives
Energy Trading Fundamentals
.Net Architecture and Development

References
Available upon request