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Mike Jones

Energy & Commodity Trading Consultant
Amsterdam, Netherlands
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mike@justderive.com
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+31 (0)6 15 54 07 05
I am an energy and commodity trading consultant who focuses in the power, natural gas and derivatives markets. I have worked through the entire trade lifecycle from trade inception, logistics, risk management to trade settlement.
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Work Experience

Derivative Consulting

Energy & Commodity Trading Consultant
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May 2013 - Current

Provide subject matter expertise and deliver solutions for Allegro implementations in the Americas and EMEA.

  • Lead and manage enterprise-wide Allegro projects.
  • Identify and build tangible custom solutions to bridge the gap between a clients trading structure and Allegro.
  • Train and groom partner client power users and partner consultants.
  • Work with clients to define and implement trading scenarios in Allegro.
  • Model physical and financial trading strategies.

Allegro Development Corporation

Senior Energy Trading Consultant
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Oct 2006 - Oct 2012

Led and implemented solutions for Allegro’s Energy Trading and Risk Management (ETRM) software throughout the Americas and EMEA.

  • Highlights: Implemented two Allegro Success Stories (Ecopetrol, EOG Resources).
  • Key Projects: Noble Group, Saudi Aramco Trading, Eesti Energia, EOG Resources, Ecopetrol, Repsol YPF.
  • Certifications: Risk Management, Derivatives, Petroleum, Power, Natural Gas, Bulk Commodities and System Administration.

Education

University of Amsterdam

Master of Business Administration Business Administration and Management
  • Elected Class President
  • Student of the Year

Vanderbilt University

Bachelor of Engineering Mathematics & Computer Science
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1997 - 2002
  • Engineering Society President

Projects

Galp Energia

Lead Advisor
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Nov 2017 - Dec 2018

Lead advisor for partner consultants in Galp's NG and Power implementations.

Danske Commodities

Principal Consultant
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Feb 2016 - Dec 2017

Responsible for overall Allegro power implementation.

  • Advised partner consultants on effective use of the Allegro platform.
  • Modeled physical and financial trades
  • Exposed functionality gaps and advised on their resolution
  • Gathered specifications and wrote extension specifications
  • Developed and validated extensions

Modity Trading

Consultant
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Jan 2015 - May 2015

Optimizing trade book structure to better reflect in power, emissions and natural gas trading valuations.

Petro Ecuador International Trading

Lead Advisor
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May 2014 - Oct 2014

Model physical petroleum, power, emissions trades and financial trades along with the respective logistics.

Repsol Energy North America

ETRM Consultant/Scheduler
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May 2013 - Feb 2014

Scheduled natural gas throughout the northeast United States and consulted on effective use Allegro Trading platform.

Eesti Energia

Senior Consultant
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Sep 2011 - Jan 2013

Lead consultant for Eesti's power implementation.

  • Developed interfaces to capture price and power capacity data from the Nordpool Energy Exchange.
  • Modeled physical power and financial trades through trade inception, logistics and settlement.
  • Developed custom reporting to calculate risk (Monte Carlo VaR and Expected Shortfall).
  • Led implementation of Allegro’s first interface with Bloomberg called Bloomberg Price Connect.