John K.

About John K.

I graduated with a BS in Civil Engineering from Polytechnic Institute of NYU and a MBA…

Experience

1. Energy Trader

   Con Edison

   Aug 2007 — Present

   Commodity Operations• Develop long and short-term studies and strategies for the hedging program. These include analysis of sales, supply assets, financial exposures, and financial positions utilizing net present value, Monte Carlo simulation, Black Scholes, and optimization based models.• Conduct independent valuations of Asset Management Arrangements for Con Edison firm pipeline and storage assets.• Execute futures, swaps, and option trades with NYMEX brokers and OTC counterparties.• Design and program applications in VBA for purposes of trading, reporting and compliance.• Monitor mid and back office performance including timely and accurate completion of trade confirmations, invoices, and settlements; Responsible for identifying and resolving trade discrepancies.• Generate MTM, actual and estimated gains and losses reports for portfolios; performance and risk reports on a daily and monthly basis; monitor adherence to position limits, margin and collateral requirements. • Helped develop, test and implement transition to centralized risk management system; Member of working group responsible for ongoing acceptance testing for security batches and maintenance releases.• Acted as point person in external audits for adherence to SOX controls, and internal audits of gas financial transaction policies.• Coordinate data analysis and create reports submitted to the New York Public Service Commission regulatory staff.• Monitor industry developments that impact the company\'s gas business, including regulatory issues, industry standards, weather trends; Monitor events that impact credit and liquidity risks of brokers and counterparties.

Education

• New York University

  Bachelor of Science - BS, Civil Engineering

• Cornell University

  Python for Data Science

• PGS Energy Training

  U.S. Electric Power Industry, Renewable Energy, ISO Markets, and Power Transactions

• Cornell University

  Spreadsheet Modeling

• New York University

  School of Continuing and Professional Studies, Finance

  2008 — 2010

• Brooklyn College

  Master of Arts, Computer Science

  2010 — 2015

• Pace University

  MBA, Finance

  2002 — 2006

Skills

• Hedging
• Asset Management
• Trading
• Commodity Markets
• Chartered Financial Analyst
• Risk Management
• Futures and Options Trading
• Financial Modeling
• Quantitative Analytics
• Energy Trading
• Natural Gas Trading
• Options
• Asset Managment
• Analysis
• Vba
• Quantitative Analysis