Specialist Gas Trader - Colorado Springs Utility - Colorado Springs, CO
(2026-03)
Senior Gas Trader - Colorado Springs Utility - Colorado Springs, CO
(2023-10 - 2026-03)
- Negotiating short-term purchases and sales and delivery contracts to ensure demand is met.
- Performing analyses to predict and plan for load, supply resources, and/or reserve obligations.
- Trading around the supply portfolio using scheduling/constraint intelligence by using excess storage capabilities to firm up arbitrage moves.
- Scheduling, routing, and confirming gas using transportation, storage, and peaking contracts on various transporting pipelines through a nomination and confirmation process.
- Developing short and mid-term gas trading strategies around our Risk Management Policy.
- Releasing excess capacity to third parties to reduce the LDC's transportation charges.
- Developing and maintaining positive relationships with pipelines, suppliers, and markets to facilitate the uninterrupted flow of gas and resolve discrepancies.
Gas Trader - Puget Sound Energy - Bellevue, WA
(2019-12 - 2023-09)
Acquires sufficient and cost-effective supplies of wholesale energy commodities to reliably serve load and contractual commitments meeting all compliance and reliability requirements inherent to a FERC jurisdictional gas and electric utility.
- Negotiates and executes approved transactions necessary to efficiently optimize PSE's short term gas portfolio.
- Ensures compliance with all applicable FERC orders, NERC, WECC, and other applicable reliability standards, and business practices.
- Analyzes and assesses regional power, and regional & national natural gas markets in order to actively contribute to weekly position meetings.
- Coordinates energy delivery and supply efforts with Energy Supply, Risk Management, Load Office, and Gas Control.
- Reviews and prices structured proposals offered by counterparties.
- Analyzes PSE's commodity positions and makes recommendations on optimizing the value of PSE's assets.
- Collaborates with long-term resource and planning groups inside PSE to review asset acquisitions.
- Works with credit and contracts departments to establish new trading partnerships and opportunities.
- Keeps abreast of current industry market trends and developments and updates management of any relevant changes.
- Represents PSE in regional and national organizations and forums.
Gas Scheduler - Puget Sound Energy - Bellevue, WA
(2019-02 - 2019-12)
Real Time Power Trader - Arizona Public Service - Phoenix, AZ
(2017-06 - 2018-09)
Real Time Power Trader Associate - Arizona Public Service - Phoenix, AZ
(2015-07 - 2017-06)
