JACKIE BERRY
Charlotte,NC
Summary
Organized and dependable candidate successful at managing multiple priorities with a positive attitude. Willingness to take on added responsibilities to meet team goals.
Overview
13
13
years of professional experience
Work History
Natural Gas Scheduler
PIEDMONT NATURAL GAS
07.2022 - Current
- Ensures timely and accurate scheduling and confirmation of natural gas to meet core firm demand, balancing total city gate daily demand, delivery of pipeline off-system delivered sales, and pool sales
- Communicates with various large interstate pipelines, as well as many other providers of storage, gas supply, peaking services, marketers, etc., on an accurate and timely basis
- Verifies nomination volumes with Piedmont’s asset management providers; communicates with supply contractors and confirms nominations by third party marketers on Piedmont’s interactive electronic scheduling system, GTIS
- Nominates all contractual data on a timely basis to the applicable receipt and delivery pipelines
- Works with gas marketing personnel to ensure that customer and broker imbalances are minimized by communicating with brokers and customers in a timely manner
- Efficiently tracks the movement of all physical gas sales and maintains GTIS to show the contractual movements of gas
- Verifies imbalances on all applicable pipelines
- Produces various reports to monitor daily supply allocations per pipeline, daily confirmation of gas nominated, and daily imbalance reports for all special contracts and power generation
- Develops and maintains favorable relationships with gas purchasers, producers and suppliers
- Identifies incremental capacity and supply availability to optimize cost and improve profit for the company.
Gas Transportation Market Analyst
PIEDMONT NATURAL GAS
10.2020 - Current
- Managed transportation programs for third party marketers and large volume transportation customers for North Carolina, South Carolina, and Tennessee
- Managed the daily customer agent pooling activities of customer transportation accounts
- Provided customers and marketers with help desk support for Piedmont’s Electronic Bulletin Board, GTIS
- Updated and maintained GTIS regarding marketer nominations, added gas volumes, customer and marketer contracts, critical/non-critical notices, and the issuance of operational flow orders and operational alert warnings
- Oversaw and provided customer support pertaining to customer curtailment system as well as managed actual curtailment of customers
- Tracked large volume customer meters weekly to ensure daily measurement reads are visible in GTIS
- Provided support to billing for penalties, marketer imbalance cash outs, and other transportation related activities
- Performed analysis for the Annual Demand Therm Review
- Performed monthly analysis of marketer credit exposure.
Human Resources Consultant
DUKE ENERGY
10.2019 - 10.2020
- Assisted with driving effective workforce strategies, improving employee adoption on key strategic initiatives, and advancing business transformation & optimization by analyzing data insights
- Provided optimum customer service to employees and leaders on workplace issues, policy questions, employee programs, and other various topics
- Utilized Columns program to accurately triage heavy volume of incoming cases.
Senior Executive Assistant
DUKE ENERGY / PIEDMONT NATURAL GAS
08.2016 - 10.2019
- Managed the office of the EVP, President – Natural Gas and provided administrative support to the SVP – Chief Commercial Officer
- Maintained the calendars of both executives while anticipating the needs of each for upcoming meetings and commitments
- Reorganized/rescheduled meetings to better accommodate needs of each executive
- Provided document/record management, created/revised PowerPoint presentations for internal meetings and external speaking engagements
- Prepared and processed expense reports for each executive
- Provided administrative support in relation to external business responsibilities such as preparation for meetings with AGA and SGA executives and affiliates
- Acted as proxy to President when approving direct reports’ expense reports and time-off requests, as well as when approving invoices for large company projects
- Assisted with interview process of hiring new administrative staff
- Acted as point-of-contact for facilities-related questions regarding the Southpark location of Piedmont Natural Gas
- Managed Piedmont owned/operated business hospitality event tickets (Hornets, Panthers, Checkers, Knights, Masters, and others).
Administrative Assistant
PIEDMONT NATURAL GAS
03.2013 - 08.2016
- Maintained calendar of four executives, including the Chief Financial Officer and Chief Risk Officer / Treasurer
- Prepared and revised PowerPoint presentations and Excel spreadsheets for day-to-day use as well as for Board meetings
- Responded to a variety of complex information requests
- Successfully prepared and submitted expense reports for four executives and two directors each month before deadline
- Entered payroll data for 20+ employees before deadline every two weeks
- Coordinated travel arrangements for four executives and two directors as needed, as well as members of Board of Directors
- Organized bi-annual communications meeting for CFO (involving calendaring, meal-planning, room arrangement, agenda preparation and PowerPoint presentation planning)
- Coordinated with Premier Global Services and PRNewswire to schedule and plan the quarterly Earnings Conference Calls
- Coded and processed invoices effectively and timely
- Assisted with annual development of department budget and forecast.
Legal Assistant
MOON, WRIGHT & HOUSTON, PLLC
01.2011 - 01.2013
- Handled wide-ranging clerical tasks as the legal assistant to six bankruptcy attorneys
- Maintained calendars of attorneys, communicated daily with high-profile clients, and exhibited ability to uphold professional demeanor while working with sensitive information
- Prepared internal and external correspondence
- Prepared, issued and/or filed Complaints, Subpoenas, Discovery, and other various legal documents
- Assisted team with legal research using LexisNexis
- Consistently praised for fine attention to detail, willingness to learn new procedures, and ability to learn and master new concepts quickly.
Education
Bachelor of Arts, Elementary Education -
UNIVERSITY OF NC at CHARLOTTE
Charlotte, NC01.2009
Skills
- Logistics Planning
- Forecasting abilities
- Efficiency optimization
- Data Collection
- Process improvement strategies
- Exceptional interpersonal skills
- Meticulous attention to detail
- Strong Organizational Abilities
Timeline
Natural Gas Scheduler
PIEDMONT NATURAL GAS
07.2022 - Current
Gas Transportation Market Analyst
PIEDMONT NATURAL GAS
10.2020 - Current
Human Resources Consultant
DUKE ENERGY
10.2019 - 10.2020
Senior Executive Assistant
DUKE ENERGY / PIEDMONT NATURAL GAS
08.2016 - 10.2019
Administrative Assistant
PIEDMONT NATURAL GAS
03.2013 - 08.2016
Legal Assistant
MOON, WRIGHT & HOUSTON, PLLC
01.2011 - 01.2013
Bachelor of Arts, Elementary Education -
UNIVERSITY OF NC at CHARLOTTE
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