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Revis L. Taylor 

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Resume Headline: Revis L. Taylor - Utilities Expert

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REVIS L. TAYLOR

249 Kettering Lane

League City, TX  77573

281-223-8008

rtaylor@rltconsulting.net

 

Experience as a Senior Systems/Business Analyst/Director of Operations/Project Manager/Portfolio Manager/Business Development Lead/Lead Testing Coordinator/QA Lead participating in business process improvement activities, requirements gathering through Agile and Waterfall methodologies, business development, extensive use of Visio to create “as-is” and “to-be” process flows for inclusion into Business Requirements and Use Cases for various Utilities and Competitive Retailers. Auditing of existing process flows. Use Case creation, QA Testing, RFP and vendor management activities. Seasoned professional with demonstrated success in delivering quality results and generating new consulting business at an executive level. Retail and Wholesale experience within the ERCOT, CAISO, PJM, MISO, ISONE, SPP and NYISO energy markets.  Skills include business requirements definition, business process development, Change Management, EDI translation (ANSI X12, version 4010), NT networking, billing and optimization of operational tasks within the deregulated and regulated markets. Proficiency in life cycle of energy customer – from meter read through settlements process with exposure to various CIS applications (Bid-to-Bill).  Experience with Smart Metering and Demand Reduction initiatives in 7 ISO Markets.  Experience interacting with Market Participants for Market changes. 17 years in the Utility Vertical.

 

Professional Experience

Capgemini Consulting Oct. 2014-Present

Ø      Project Manager for Hydro One

o Managing regulatory project for Unmetered Customer Audit

§  Work with CSO for Agent training to initiate outbound emails and calls requesting updated Unmetered account information

§  Work with AM IT group to create data extract for contacting the customers

§  Overall Project Management activities (estimating, forecasting, Client Updates, etc.)

Ø      Portfolio/Project Manager for Onshore and Offshore Resources for Energy Future Holdings

o          Managing Projects within the Energy Wholesale Vertical

§  ETRM

·            Application replacement project from ZAI*NET to Allegro

o      Implementation of Change Management strategies related to RICEF

o      Change Management activities affect the following Interfaces:

§     ZAI*NET to G/L Application

§     ZAI*NET to Counter Party Application

§     Lodestar to ZAI*NET (Customer Retail Load)

§     ZAI*NET to Energy Credit Application

§     ZAI*NET to Scheduled Trades to ISO Application

o Tactical and Business Analyst activities include:

§  Adherence to Client SDLC process (Waterfall Methodology)

·             Responsible for Project initiation, planning, design, build, test, deploy and warranty

o       Deliverables include:

§      Business Requirements Document

§      Design Document

§      Requirements Traceability Matrix

§      Test Cases

§      Test Results

§      AID documentation

§      Tollgate slides

 

Global Energy Consulting Partners, Inc. July 2014-Oct. 2014

Ø       President/Consultant – Various Energy Companies

o     Revamped Texas Market Entry Document

 

 

Universal Weather and AviationMay 2014-July 2014

Ø       Senior Business Analyst and Testing Lead for Microsoft Dynamics CRM Implementation

Ø       Scrum Master for daily Sprint meetings for Business and IT

Ø       Created Functional Specifications for CRM implementation

Ø       Wrote Business Requirements around MD CRM implementation

Ø       Performed Quality Assurance Testing for application enhancements

 

OTSI (Client—Kansas City Power & Light)Feb 2014-May 2014

Ø      Senior IT Systems Business Analyst

Ø      Senior BA Activities include:

§ Creation of Business Requirements documentation

§ Creation of functional specification documentation

§ Creations of SRS documentation (Software Requirements Specification)

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Ø      Advanced Metering Infrastructure (AMI)/AMR Project

§ Responsible for the following Work Streams, including review of final System Requirements and Functional/Component Testing as well as System Integration Testing

·        AMI Head End to CIS Meter Data Integration

·        AMI Head End to CIS Meter Read Integration

·        AMI Head End to Oracle Data Integrator Integration

·        AMI Head End to Outage Management System

·        AMI Head End to Oracle Service Bus (OSB) Integration

·        L+G Command Center Upgrade

·        HD Supply Power Solutions Interface Integration

·        On_Demand_Reading Tool Integration

·        General Dashboard Reporting Integration

·        RPI (Revenue Protection) Reporting

·        SmartGrid Alignment Integration

§ Use of ALM (Application LifeCycle Management) Tool for Testing and Defect Management

·        Daily Test Execution Metrics

·        Defect Reporting

Ø       Meter Data Management (MDM) Project

§ Interface between 3rd Party Systems Integrator and KCP&L Client

·        4 Phase Integration

o     Support for OMS (Outage Management System) Replacement with Oracle NMS (Network Management System)

o     Implementation of Core MDM (Meter Data Management) Functionality

o     Implementation of Enhanced MDM Functionality, including VEE (Validation, Estimation and Editing) Algorithms

o     MDM to Core CIS Implementation

·        Use of ALM for Testing and Defect Management

·        Assisted with BRD (Business Requirements Document)

·        Validated and commented on Third Party System Integrator CRD (Customer Requirements Document)

·        Authored SRD (Systems Requirement Document)

 

 

 

 

 

The Spear Group (Client-Entergy)April 2013-Feb 2014

Ø      Senior IT Systems Analyst

Ø       MV90 Application Operator

§ Responsible for VEE algorithms (Validation, Estimation and Editing of Meter Data)

§ Responsible for running MV90 daily tasks

·        Scheduling of automated Meter Interrogations

·        Manual running of Meter interrogations

·        Editing of data files for upload to validation disk

·        Troubleshooting meter instances where Meter reads are failing

·        Creation of Remedy tickets for field personnel to check meter integrity

·        Setting up of new customers in MV90 application

·        Creation of End of Month .PRN files for internal Entergy entities for Billing purposes

Ø       Technical Writing

§ Assist SME with MV90 Documentation

 

 

Information Technology Group (Client—Kansas City Power & Light)                              April 2012-April 2013

Ø      Senior IT Business Analyst

Ø       IT Consultant for SPP EIS and Integrated Market

Ø       Created SDLC procedures for department implementation

Ø       Co-authored Business Requirements for EIS and IM Market through use of BABOK methodology (Business Analyst Body of Knowledge)

§ Designed Project Definition and Planning document using BABOK methodology

§ Designed Analysis Phase document using BABOK methodology

§ Designed Preparation Phase document using BABOK methodology

§ Designed Construction Phase document using BABOK methodology

§ Designed Testing Planning and Preparation document using BABOK methodology

§ Designed Testing document using BABOK methodology

§ Designed Rollout phase document using BABOK methodology

§ Designed Rollout Planning and Implementation phase document using BABOK methodology

Ø       Creating SRS (Software Requirements Specifications) for IM Market, including technical specifications, Use Cases, Sequence Diagrams and DFDs (Data Flow Diagrams)

Ø       Responsible for ETL analysis and activities for PCI GenManager/GenPortal/GenBase products

Ø       Analysis of data flow from source systems to ODS to Data Marts to QlickView Report Engine

Ø       Responsible for System and User level testing, created RTM and Testing templates

Ø       Responsible for creating Testing Approach, Testing Strategy and Bug Triage documents

Ø       Work with Project Manager to ensure timely delivery of deliverables

 

 

Global Energy Consulting Partners Inc.Dec. 2011-April 2012

Ø      Project Manager/Senior Business Analyst

Ø       Consultant for ElectricityShop/TARGA Resources

Ø       Developed strategy for tolling agreements for Asset

Ø       Performed analysis of rate tariffs for Wise County Electric COOP

Ø       Performed analysis of rate tariffs for Brazos Electric COOP

Ø       Analysis of heat rate curves and forward curves using tariff info.

Ø       Conversion of fuel cost models to mmBTUs

 

LINN Energy May 2011-Dec 2011

Ø       Project Manager

o     Managed Record Retention and Information Management project ($100K)

o     Managed Contract Management project ($500K)

o     Managed MSA (Master Service Agreement) project ($700K)

o     Managed Houston Records Retention project ($3.5 Million)

o     Involved with FDG (Field Data Gathering) project writing Use and Test Cases

o     Use of Workflow Conductor/SharePoint 2010 to map AS-IS and TO-BE process flows

o     Use of Visio and Microsoft Project 2010 to initiate, plan, execute, monitor and control, and close out various projects

o     Use of ENERTIA application for Vendor Management

o     Use of Bamboo plug in to SharePoint 2010 for managing all Projects

o     Use of FileNet for capturing scanned images of Division Orders, Contracts and Leases

o     Use of PMBOK concepts and Project Methodologies

 

Global Energy Consulting Partners, Inc. Feb. 2011-April 2011

Ø       Project Manager/Consultant – NUECES Electric COOP

o     Helped with Texas EDI Transaction Management Issues

o     Used EDISIM application to analyze incoming and outgoing TXSET transactions

o     Wrote business rules/logic using EDISIM to validate TXSET transactions

 

 

Nouveon Consulting                                                                                     Jan. 2011 – May 2011

·               Senior Consultant Energy and Utilities Practice-Constellation New Energy

Ø       Subject Matter Expert for Demand Response/Load Response initiatives for the following ISO Markets:

§    NYISO

§    ISONE

§    PJM

§    ERCOT

§    CAISO

§    MISO

§    OPA

Ø       Use of PowerDesigner to map process flows for Demand Response activities

 

Global Energy Consulting Partners Inc.                                                          Nov 2010.-Dec.   2010

Ø       President/Project Manager/Business Development Lead

Ø       Created 380 page document on Retail Deregulation in the Texas Market

Ø       Created 54 Visio/Business Process flows for EDI transactions using the ERCOT model

Ø       Captured Testing requirements for the Texas Market

Ø       Captured metering and billing requirements for the Texas Market

Ø       Document is an end to end description of Retail participation in the Texas Market for Marketing purposes

 

Global Energy Consulting Partners Inc.                                                                                        Jan 2007 – Oct. 2010

Senior Consultant PG&E (Pacific Gas & Electric)

·               Senior Consultant for Front Office (Forecasting, Bidding and Scheduling)

·               Analysis of ZaiNet application for Deal Capture

·               Analysis of proprietary FBS system (Forecasting, Bidding and Scheduling) for Front Office

·               Lead liaison between Front, Middle and Back Offices for Trading Group

·               Interaction with Mid Office for Trading Risk Management

·               Interaction with Back Office for Settlements (nMarket application)

·               SME for CAISO MRTU (Market Redesign and Technology Upgrade—Zonal to Nodal)

·               Created Business Requirements around PCI’s GenManager application (Bid Submission)

·               Lead analyst for Demand Reduction Program

·               Created Visio flows for PLP (Participating Load Program)

·               Created business requirements for Demand Reduction Program

·               Created Project Plan for PLP Pilot and Production Readiness

·               Business interface for IT

·               Analysis and input into Enterprise Architecture for PLP

·               Back Office requirements gathering for Demand Reduction Program with SME’s

·               Senior Business Analyst for ETO Project (Energy Trading and Optimization)—Least Cost Mandate

·               Created Business Requirements, Process Flows, Functional Specifications for ETO Project

·               Created BPD document (Business Process Design)

·               Use of BPMN for constructing business process flows

·               Use of Accenture Development Methodology for last 2 years

·               Interface between Business/ISTS and Center of Excellence (CoE)

·               Functional Specification on Profit & Loss Statements

·               Functional Specification on ETL Business Logic for updates (IE. Price changes)

·               Functional Specification Ad Hoc Business Requirements

·               Business Logic Specification for BI Tool implementation and reports

·               Created Functional Specifications for the following:

Ø       IFM report (Integrated Forward Market)

Ø       RTM report (Real Time Market)

Ø       CRR report (Congestion Revenue Rights)

Ø       MRTU dashboard (Market Redesign and Technology Upgrade)

Ø       HASP report (Hour Ahead Market)

Ø       Ad Hoc Real Time Reports

Ø       SQMD (Settlement Quality Meter Data) Interface

Ø       Short Term Electric Supply (STES) Gas Transport Adders Interface

Ø       STES Master File Interface

Ø       STES ZaiNet Interface

Ø       STES SIBR (Scheduling Infrastructure and Business Rules) Interface

 

 

CAPGEMINI CONSULTING                                                                                                               Jan 2008 – June 2008

Business Process Lead (SDG&E Smart Metering Project)

·               Created BPD documents (Business Process Design) for Billing with SME’s

·               Created Use Cases for various system interfaces

·               Completed various ad hoc audit and “repair” requests for Visio flow diagrams

·               Helped support Workshop activities that were sessions for assigning action items, creating Visio flows, discussing business requirements, etc…

·               Managed action item assignments through HPQC (Hewlett Packard Quality Center) application

Independent Consultant UURLTConsulting (Sole Proprietorship)UUJan 2005 – Dec 2007                                                       

Provided consulting services to major corporate and government clients, specializing in developing business processes and requirements in the retail and wholesale energy markets.  Clients include American Electric Power, ERCOT (Electric Reliability Council of Texas), Constellation New Energy, PG&E (Pacific Gas and Electric), Juice Energy (Gestalt/Accenture as Service Provider) and Spark Energy.  Highlights and responsibilities within projects include:

·               Created Current Capability Assessment for Front Office functions for PG&E (Forecasting, Bidding and Scheduling, Unit Commitment and Portfolio Optimization for Day Ahead and Hour Ahead) using ADM Methodology (Accenture Development Methodology)

·               Responsible for all Front Office activities associated with California Market Redesign and Technology Upgrade effort/conversion from Zonal to Nodal

·               Created Business Process Design documentation and Functional Requirements for all Front Office activities

·               Created all Business Analysis activities associated with producing AS-IS and TO-BE Business Process Design

·               Created Level 1--Level 4 Process, High Level Sub-Process, Detailed Sub-Process and Interface flows/narratives for Trading and Bidding & Scheduling functions (Zainet, FBS engine and PCI’s GenManager)

·               Created Use Cases where New system functionality and New business processes were required

·               Created Functional Form design documents to complement Reporting, Interfaces, Conversion and Extensions

·               Completed End to End Retail Testing for Juice Energy using Texas EDI transactions

·               Created and refined functional process flows for cost development, fuel procurement, bid development, energy trading, scheduling and settlements within the Southwest Power Pool (SPP) market requirements

·               Created and refined transactional process flows for resource planning, ancillary services, native load scheduling, cost construction and offer curves submittal

·               Performed quality assurance for process definition and documentation for desk procedures

·               Performed SPP market trial and market testing for back office groups, and facilitated business process training for nMarket application

·               Developed test cases for unit, system, and UAT testing.  Clearly documented and communicated testing results.

·               Created and executed test cases specific to UI instances and logged/resolved issues/bugs as appropriate

·               Client business user support on an ongoing basis throughout testing/development cycle including ad hoc support for information, Document Flow content and Document Flow formatting requests

·               Developed business processes to support energy scheduling, settlements, trading and risk management activities that adhered to the market rules and parameters within SPP

·               Adhered to standards set forth in the RMP (Requirements Management Plan) for Iteration and Elaboration Phases

·               Used Rational Unified Process methodology to create Business Requirements documentation for the following:

o        MIS (Market Information System) web Portal

o        Registration system (Siebel)

o        Dispute Management system (Siebel)

·               Created and refined EDI Trading Partner Matrix for Great Lakes TP’s in MISO and PJM territories

·               Lead Application resource for EDI/Transaction Management interface between Siebel and CRM and usage data engines

 

DIRECT ENERGY (CENTRICA NORTH AMERICA), Houston, TX                Jan 2003 – Jan 2005

Director of Operation/Project Manager, Southern Region

·               Responsible for project management, change management and coordination of inter-departmental resources to support all retail operations and relationship management within the Texas energy market

·               Managed the overall cost structure and provided ongoing analysis of operations across service delivery processes for achievements in productivity, quality and timeliness

·               Performed due diligence analysis in Direct Energy acquisitions and created transaction management team and market stakeholder organizational makeup 

·               Responsible for publishing RFP material, response review and final recommendation to executive team concerning back office consolidation

·               Developed process controls with SIPOC, CTQs and KPI/SLA to establish sound vendor  management process

·               Analyzed the service delivery options in the marketplace to provide operations and process recommendations

·               Project sponsor for CIS migration effort that includes residential, commercial and multi-dwelling (CSA) entities

·               Managed overall implementation of Market code changes (2.0/MIMO) and CPR (Customer Protection Rules)

·               Overall Service Tower oversight, including Contact Center, Collections, Billing and Transaction Management silos

·               Led and implemented back-office consolidation effort to support business requirements of many areas of operations, such as customer enrollment, settlements, energy trading, retail billing, risk management and disconnects and reconnects for retail customers

 

SIMPLIFIED DATA SOLUTIONS, Houston, TX                Dec 2002 – Jan 2003

Director of Operations/Project Manager/Business Development Lead

·               Oversaw company’s transaction management reporting to Vice President of Operations

·               Responsible for business development, Marketing, product promotion, needs assessment and requirements gathering

·               Maintained integrity of a multi-applications systems which included GENTRAN for data translation (650, 810, 814, 820, 867, 997 FA Transaction Types), proprietary CIS/CRM tool, and billing engine

·               Interfaced with development team for new requirements, including hands on debugging of applications and use case creation for Development Team

·               Lead liaison between SDS and six Competitive Retailers

 

ELECTRIC RELIABILITY COUNCIL OF TEXAS (ERCOT)—ISO, Austin, TX                    Jan 2001 – Dec 2002

Senior Systems Application Analyst

·               Market contact for Certification Testing Team, responsible for Market Participant Connectivity and EDI Certification, market compliance within predefined TXSET protocols, and dispute resolution

·               Managed all aspects of  Paperfree EDI Translation Application, including trading partner setup, UNIX files maintenance, error resolution, and enabling of e-FTP for automated encryption/decryption process

·               Analyzed technical and non-technical issues within the Certification environment including migration of new code maps to business, audit and tracking discussions with Market Participants

·               Designed automated tracking tool to enable effective management of issues and timely resolution of disputes

 

RETX.COM, Atlanta, GA                                                                                                                              Sept 2000 – Dec 2001

CCM Account Manager

·               Managed product implementation for energy service providers including Excelergy's ABP3000

·               Supported Customer Choice Manager Application Suite & Meter Transaction Management Applications

·               Managed EDI qualification in the CA market; Wrote use cases for development team for coding the MTM application for both the CA and PA Markets

 

UTILITY.COM, Houston, TX/Emeryville, CA                                                                                                  Mar 1999 – Aug 2000

Meter Operations Specialist

·               Responsible for outlining requirements for new market penetration within Energy industry

·               Managed processes concerning new market implementation and execution

·               Responsible for the entire Metering database (daily imports, loadprofiling data, settling with power)

·               Managed team responsible for daily data integrity and database issues

 

ENRON ENERGY SERVICES, Houston, TX                                                                                                  Jan 1998 – Mar 1999

AMR Operator/MDMA Specialist – Deregulated Energy
·         Responsible for MV-90 and MAPS data collection, validation and transfer of interval data
·         Provided MDMA (Meter Data Management) cross-training and troubleshooting of MDMA issues
·         Participated in industry conferences to analyze and improve overall business processes in the deregulated market

·               Responsible for providing bill quality data for retail customer billing

 

 

Technical Skills

·               GENTRAN

·               PaperFree EDI

·               EDISIM

·               XML

·               DMAIC

·               SIPOC

·               PEACE 6.3

·               MV-90 (v.2)

 

·               Windows NT/2000/XP/

·               Windows 7/Win 8/8.1

 

·               Visio 2013

·               Microsoft Office 2013

·               Siebel Energy 7.7

·               GenPortal

·               Microsoft Dynamics CRM

·               IBM Pequisite Pro

·               GenManager

·               GenBase

·               Application Lifecycle Manager (ALM)

·               RUP Methodology

·               PowerDesigner 15.3

·               nMarket

·               SalesForce.com

·               Rundeck PRO

·               Rational Method Composer

·               Workflow Conductor

·               PCI Suite

·               Hewlett Packard QC

·               Project 2013

·               SharePoint 2010

·               PCI DW/BI

 

 

Education

UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON, Houston, TX

Bachelor of Arts in Political Science/German, Magna Cum Laude

 

UUMemberships and Certifications

University of Villanova – Graduate of Essentials of Business Analysis Program

University of Villanova – Graduate of Mastering Business Analysis Program

University of Villanova – Certificate of Achievement in Project Management for IS/IT Professionals

IIBA (International Institute for Business Analysis)

ASQ (American Society for Quality) - Six Sigma Greenbelt Studies/Lean Six Sigma Classes

PMI (Project Management Institute)

MCP (Microsoft Certified Professional in Networking Essentials, NT Workstation 4.0, and NT Server 4.0)—1998

PMP (Project Management Professional) – Currently underway.

CBAP (Certified Business Analyst Professional) – Currently underway.

 

Languages

 

Fluency in written and verbal English

Knowledge of written and verbal Greek, German, Afrikaans, and Russian

Ability to learn foreign languages quickly

 

 

 



Experience

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Job Title

Company

Experience

Business Analyst

Global Energy Consulting Partners, Inc.

- Present

 

Additional Info

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Current Career Level:

Manager (Manager/Supervisor of Staff)

Years of relevant work experience:

10+ to 15 Years

Date of Availability:

Within one month

Work Status:

US - I am authorized to work in this country for any employer.

Active Security Clearance:

None

US Military Service:

Citizenship:

None

 

 

Target Job:

Target Job Title:

Business Analyst

 

Target Company:

Company Size:

Occupation:

Project/Program Management

·         General/Other: Project/Program Management

·         Program Management

·         Project Management

 

Target Locations:

Selected Locations:

US-TX-Houston

Relocate:

Yes

Willingness to travel:

Up to 100%

 

Languages:

Languages

Proficiency Level

German

Intermediate