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IT Strategy, Project Management, Change Management, Business Process & Controls, IT Implementation, IT Service Provider

Bill Robinson is a Principal with International Commerce, LLC.  He is a seasoned professional with 27 years experience in Information Technology. Bill focuses on IT Strategic 

Roadmaps and Vision, technical and organization change management, and project management and implementation. He is successful in developing and building IT capabilities as a change agent. Bill bridges the gap between the business and Information Technology. 

Bill has spent half of his career working directly for energy companies such as El Paso, Koch Industries, Williams, and Enron. He started as a SCADA programmer for a major natural gas pipeline, where he also performed the duties of gas controller, measurement technician, and pipeline maintenance technician. This is where Bill laid his foundation of understanding the operational aspects of the energy business. After advancing into various leadership roles, he put his day to day operational experience to work with a large IT consulting firm. He moved up quickly within the organization to become the Vice President of their Gas Utility division.

Bill entered into the Energy Trading industry by taking on the responsibility of IT Vice President of Koch Industries Gas and Power trading organization. He continued consulting in the trading industry after joining Koch Ventures to start an Energy Trading Consulting company. He continues to provide support to Energy Trading IT organizations by helping them identify strategic roadmaps. These roadmaps are pragmatic and are based on Bill’s extensive implementation experience. Bill keeps his operational experience sharp, through continual project experience for major industry clients, ensuring they receive the best value for their IT investments.

RELEVANT EXPERIENCE

Bill’s experience is, in part, illustrated in the representative projects below.

• Industry:
  • Koch Industries – VP IT Energy Trading and Risk Management
    Largest privately held company in North America focused on trading, petroleum, natural gas, power, chemicals, weather, fibers and polymers, minerals, fertilizers, forest and consumer products, chemical technology equipment, ranching, securities and finances.Responsible for defining and implementing IT strategy and direction using a Market Based Management approach for Energy Trading group.
  • Eagle Global Logistics – VP IT North America & Global Sales/Marketing
    Leading $3.5 billion global transportation, supply chain management and information services company.Responsible for IT strategy, direction, and delivery for North American business and Global Sales and Marketing group including global customer solutions.
  • Transco Energy – Project Manager
    Natural Gas Pipeline company acquired by Williams Energy
    Performed the duties of project management and technical leader for a Gas Purchasing system.
  • Tennessee Gas Pipeline – Project Manager
    Publicly traded is one of the five interstate pipelines that make up El Paso Corporation’s Pipeline Group.
    Performed various roles as gas control dispatcher, programmer, and project management
• Consulting:
  
  • EDS – Account Management for a $30 plus million IT services contract.  Provided all IT services to a major Natural Gas Pipeline company. Managed a matrix organization of over 250 IT professionals. Ran the EDS Gas Utilities division. Generated over $20 million in revenue, while support 65 utilities.  Managed an organization of 60 IT professionals.   
  • Delinea – Account Management for a $20 plus million IT services contract. Provided all IT services to a major Energy Trading and Natural Gas Pipeline company. Built Energy Trading Center of Excellence while creating a consultancy of 20 IT consultants. Generated $12 million a year revenue stream.
  • The North Highland Company – Provided consulting services to a large Energy Trading organization.
  • International Commerce – Providing boutique and niche consulting services.
• Project Management:
  • Fortune 100 Energy Trading – Acquired and Transitioned Energy Transportation Telemetry infrastructure (SCADA) and applications for a multi-billion dollar Energy Trading company.
  • Mid Atlantic Utility – Managed process and controls project inclusive of process design, SOX controls, Roles Based Controls. Managed user acceptance test of a new Energy Trading and Risk Management (ETRM) solution.
  • Largest Privately Held Energy Trading Company - Implemented Project Management and Change Management capability
• IT Strategy/Vision and Implementation:  
  • Large Domestic Refiner -Designed and began implementation of a 5 year IT strategy for the Trading Organization.  Performed IT  Assessment – comparing best in class capabilities with existing capabilities, identifying gaps, recommending changes, and building project portfolio with value propositions.
  • Largest Privately Held Energy Company - Responsible for defining and implementing IT strategy and direction using a Market Based Management approach for the largest privately held company in North America. Designed and implemented a five year IT plan in three years, growing from a small trading operation to an elite Energy Trading organization.  This project included organizational design, IT processes and governance, all IT Platforms, applications,  service level agreements, and decision making frameworks.
  • International Crude Oil Trading Company - Performed IT Trade Floor infrastructure and support assessment for a Global Crude Oil trade floor. Presented full assessment with best in class implementation strategy.
• IT Design and Implementation:
  • Fortune 500 Natural Gas Pipeline and Energy Hub 
  • Designing infrastructure for a high availability systems for a startup energy hub business
  • Includes requirements for Powerplant, Facilities, Network, Applications, Internet, Service Level Agreements
  • Large Domestic Refiner
  • Successful implementation of a HP Blade Workstation solution addressing performance issues and providing the technical platform for a comprehensive Business Continuity plan.
  • Designed new trading network addressing pain point issues for the business.
  • Privately held Energy Partners firm -  Designed and Implemented Merger and Acquisition Transition Services and provided IT operations.
  • Largest Privately Held Energy Trading Company
  •  Designed and Implemented from scratch a new Trade Floor.  
  • Implemented both custom and package solution sets for Physical Energy commodities and Derivatives.  Solutions supported business processes associated with Front Office, Mid Office, Back Office, Fundamental and Technical Analysis, and Quantitative Analysis.
  • Risk management solutions provided for Mark to Market, Value at Risk, Market Value at Risk, Capital at Risk, Daily Earnings at Risk, Credit Management, and Portfolio Management.
  • Designed and implemented customer solution facing portal. Providing an infrastructure for origination, position management, and distribution of proprietary market points of view.
  • Implemented market data feeds and time series database. Database contained one source of the truth for all price curve data. Database contained both published and proprietary prices.
  • Implemented Service Level Agreements (SLA’s) tied directly to business processes (not just technical metrics). Implemented incentive systems tied to SLA’s for the IT organization.
• Processes and Controls:
  • Mid Atlantic Utility - Designing Business Processes, Key SOX Controls, Business Controls, and Roles Based Controls for the new ETRM Application
  • Largest Privately Held Energy Trading Company – Designed and implemented IT Trading Capability and Operations Methods and Manual

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