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Daniel Holzapfel

Houston,TX

Summary

To obtain a challenging position with a company that can utilize my knowledge and experience of Natural Gas and Electric markets, trading and scheduling.

Overview

16
16
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

Trader

NE, Uniper Global Commodities, UGCNA
12.2017 - Current
  • Trading: Daily, Balmo, and Prompt month of AGT/TGP 4-6/Iroq/ Tetco m2-m3/ PNGTS
  • Manage the gas supply for Kleen Energy Power, a 640 MW plant on AGT
  • Forward trading for both transport and spec books
  • Intraday optimization, of 100k of AGT term releases, plus incremental daily releases on all NE pipelines.
  • Manage 2 schedulers
  • Back up scheduling daily and weekends.

Trader/Scheduling Optimizer

NE, Cargill Inc
12.2015 - 08.2017
  • Trading: Daily, Balmo, and Prompt month trading of AGT/ TGP 5-6/ Iroq/ PNGTS/ Tetco m3
  • Intraday optimization, building relationships with counterparties to cross sell on multiple pipelines, bidding on daily capacity, and deal structuring
  • Daily Scheduling of 130k of AGT transport, plus any daily releases

Sr. Gas Scheduler

Repsol Energy
05.2014 - 12.2015
  • Duties included daily scheduling and optimization on Algonquin, Tennessee, Maritimes, Iroquois, National Fuel, Empire, Stagecoach, Portland Natural Gas, and Millennium Pipelines.

Gas Scheduler

Direct Energy
09.2011 - 04.2014
  • Duties include managing the daily scheduling to Direct Energy markets and transporting to counterparties on Tennessee, Iroquois, National Fuel, Empire, Stagecoach, and Portland Natural Gas Pipelines
  • In addition to scheduling, duties include managing the storage assets and looking for segmentation optimization opportunities to report to trading for both cash and bal mo, while maintaining storage targets
  • Pricing: Solely responsible for creating new retail gas models for 27 markets in the NY, Mid Atlantic and NJ/PA markets to pass to our pricing group
  • Since creating these models, Direct Energy has increased margin, while achieving growth of 19% in NY, 14%, and 55% in NJ/PA ytd (2013).

England Natural Portfolio Manager

New, Hess Corporation
04.2009 - 06.2011
  • Duties include statistical forecasting and daily balancing of (LDC’s in the New England region, representing 46% of the Hess New England portfolio on the Tennessee, Algonquin, Maritimes and Northeast Pipelines
  • Perform daily and monthly volumetric and financial analysis to model pool trends for the New England (retail) portfolio in order to calculate financial exposure and forecast deviations.

Associate Settlement Analyst

ISO New England
12.2007 - 08.2008
  • Duties included the processing of ISO Settlements for the New England markets, Open Access Transmission Tariff, ISO Tariff and other settlement-related processes/functions.

Business Management Intern

FPL Energy, FPLE
04.2007
  • Duties included the gathering of market information, which served as inputs to development projects pertaining to the expansion of power generation assets in domestic non-regulated markets.

Education

Business Finance, Economics

Northern Illinois University

Certification

Openlink Endur Allegro Apollo Scheduling Programmer Harvard Leadership Training Oracle Applications Advanced Wholesale Electric Markets (ISO New England)

Timeline

Trader

NE, Uniper Global Commodities, UGCNA
12.2017 - Current

Trader/Scheduling Optimizer

NE, Cargill Inc
12.2015 - 08.2017

Sr. Gas Scheduler

Repsol Energy
05.2014 - 12.2015

Gas Scheduler

Direct Energy
09.2011 - 04.2014

England Natural Portfolio Manager

New, Hess Corporation
04.2009 - 06.2011

Associate Settlement Analyst

ISO New England
12.2007 - 08.2008

Business Management Intern

FPL Energy, FPLE
04.2007

Business Finance, Economics

Northern Illinois University
Daniel Holzapfel