Mark A. Elinski

1826 Roanwood Drive.

Houston TX  77090

(281)507-3890

melinski@earthlink.net

 

Career Objectives:  Seeking a senior level development position that would leverage analytical and development skills.  Have over 10 years of experience in the ETRM/CTRM environments doing implementations, development and support using C, Java, VB, C# based languages with heavy various verities of SQL.    Prefer fast paced environments.

 

Employment History

Motiva – Houston Texas

Endur Data Analyst6/16 – 8-15

Contract through Advanced Data Solutions.  Project to extract data from Shell instance of Endur and a proprietary Shell DataMart (data warehouse) to feed an instance of a new credit risk management system.  Because of a change in direction for the project Endur expertise was no longer needed.

 

Southern California Edison – Rosemead California

Senior Developer2/15 – 6/15

Contract through Artech Info and Infosys.  Create a custom GUI (chart) to display various data related to compliance and curtailment in an Endur V14.0 power environment.  This included a program to calculate the Theoretical Output for solar and wind farms.  The output from the program would be loaded into the tran_schedule_detail table within Endur where it would be displayed on a chart imbedded in the GUI chart.  Work was done in Open Components and C#.Net.  Contract expected to be completed mid-June, 2015.

 

Trailstone – Austin Texas

Senior Developer9/14 – 12/14

Contract through The Structure Group. Assist in the development of a MS SQL Server reporting database and associated SSIS data import functionality to load .CSV files currently being produced from Report Builder.  SSAS was used as the presentation layer.  Develop custom JVS scripts in Endur V12.1 to generate a Change in PnL report around an existing unfix/refix process using  JVS.  Other custom development as needed. 

 

Detroit Edison – Ann Arbor, Michigan

Senior Developer6/14 – 8/14

Contract through The Structure Group. Development of Real Time Position pages and testing in Endur V12.1.  Assisted with miscellaneous development in JVS and other systems testing to support an upgrade from versions 8 to 12. 

 

Sirius Solutions – Houston, Texas

Senior Developer11/12 – 6/13

Senior Developer/Analyst supporting Endur trading at JP Morgan during ramp down as they move to in house developed platform.  Included support for North America and Europe as required.

 

The Structure Group (Contract)

Contracted to Shell Oil  – Houston, Texas 4/12 - 8/12

Developer

Short term contract for the BAM Stabilization Effort.  This was a 6 month short term project to assist the existing Endur V11.0 support team clear 300+ support tickets.   Tickets entailed modifying existing scripts and creating new scripts/plug-ins with JVS, OpenComponents.  Contract was completed ahead of schedule in 4 months.  Shell manager:  Sreeni Gangu.

 

 

Citigroup – Houston, Texas3/11 – 4/12

Vice President  (Adjusted 8/6/2009 – Original 3/31/2008)

Provide custom programming/analysis solutions and modifications for Endur Version 8.0R2 and assist in the implementation of Version 10.0R1.  Utilized flexibility and a wide range of skill sets to develop and maintain a variety of projects including various custom reports, PnL Explain Report,  RTP pages , resets, automate desk top support activities, develop numerous interfaces between Endur and external analysis tools.  

 

 

Disys - Atlanta, Georgia/Houston, Texas10/10-01/11

Contract:  GenOn (RRI/Mirant)

Develop an interface between Endur and Epsilon to interface deal data any time a cash settlements event is generated within Endur.  Process utilized a combination of stored procedures and AVS scripts to transfer data to the legacy RRI billing system.

Barclays Capital – Houston, Texas10/09-08/10

AVP Commodities IT

Provide analysis and custom programming modifications to existing processes across the broad spectrum of the commodities market in an international banking environment for Endur V 8.0R2.   Various tasks included analysis and modifications to existing scripts, SQL stored procedures, VB scripts and batch files to support Operations Services. for the LME,   Developed AVS and SQL for custom reporting on the Red Kite project,  various scripts to a Resets Project and initial stages of a Connex based export from Endur to an enterprise wide data repository messaging bus.

 

Citigroup – Houston, Texas3/08 – 10/09

Senior Technical Specialist

Provide analysis and custom programming modifications for Endur Version 8.1R2 in an international commodities trading environment.  Develop custom reports to support trading on the London Metals Exchange (LME), historic price models, price curve uploads, custom calculated price curves, utility scripts to improve script performance and error handling, RTP modifications and troubleshooting.  Tasks spanned a full spectrum of  commodities.

 

Open link Financial Services – Houston, Texas4/04 – 3/08

Senior Technical Consultant

Provided technical support and custom programming and analysis for Endur versions 5.3R2 through 8.1R2.  Environments include Gas, Power and other commodities.  Back-end platforms include Oracle, MS SQL-Server and Sybase.  Responsibilities include development of custom solutions including analytical tools, reports, custom credit scripts, custom invoices and associated scripts; modify standard reports to client specifications and custom interfaces with external systems as needed.   Client specific projects include

EPCO.  Lead technical consultant for Gas/Crude transport implementation including g-motion, custom interfaces with legacy systems and external e-mail systems for electronic confirmations.

 

Dominion Exploration & Production.  Design and code 10 interfaces to legacy systems during the implementation of Gas Marketing System /Producer Services/NGL installation.  Assist in the testing and design of Producer Services and NGL modules for the core Endur product.

 

Hess Corp.  Complete implementation of Power Market Gateway (prices, schedules and settlements, ICE interface). 

 

Strategic Energy.  Implement Power Market Gateway – Settlements.  Custom modification to execute power daily swaptions.

 

Bonneville Power Administration.  Implementation of Endur 7.0 R 1 in a Power environment.  Analysis and custom development for custom interfaces between People Soft for Accounts Receivable /Accounts Payable information and a custom interface between ACES power scheduling and Endur using Open Connect/Connex.  Trained and mentored as staff of 6 client programmers.

 

Enbridge, Inc.  Toronto, Ontario, CA – Analysis and custom programs to generate Hedge Mix recommendations using complex algorithms and statistical analysis.

 

Austin Energy, Austin, TX – Custom reports to support custom confirms, custom invoicing, FERC reporting, gas cost reporting and broker margin reports.

 

PEMEX Gas y Petroquímica Básica (Pemex’s Natural Gas division), Mexico City, Mexico - Developed a custom interface between Endur and SAP. (non real-time)

 

JP Morgan/Chase – Houston, Texas7/03 – 3/04

Contract Programmer (ComSys)

Worked on the Endur Upgrade project (Endur V5.0r2 to the latest Endur V6.0r2) and participated in the following key functions (regression test reports, isolate data discrepancies issues, provide feedbacks to OLF maintenance release, correct scripts with compatibility issues, modify scripts to reduce warning messages, which impact report performance, due to stricter parser in V6.0r2).

Developed interface AVS scripts for data feeds between Endur and Data Acquisition Center.

Involved in technical analysis, specification and development for new Endur project

Provided AVS technical support for Mid, Front and Back office.

 

Enbridge Inc.  Houston - Texas2/03 – 7/03

Contract Programmer (Magic)

Responsibilities included development of an interface between Altra-GMS and Endur.  The interface was used to import and modify deals in Endur 5.3 R2.  The project was developed with a combination of VB.net and VB 6.0 utilizing VB Toolkit API.

Westney Project Management Services, Inc. – Houston, Texas7/02 – 9/02

Contract Programmer

Developed an evaluation tool using Microsoft Visual Basic 6.0 and SQL that compares the cost viability of Large Integrated Decks, Small Modular Decks and Float over decks based on an elaborate filtering system and cost factors. 

 

EnCana/Pan Canadian Energy Services Inc. – Houston, Texas10/01 – 8/02

Senior Developer

Provide programming support for OpenLink/Endur, a proprietary energy trading system with a Sybase database backend configured for a Natural Gas trading environment.  This includes generating and maintaining industry specific reports using AVS Script and T-SQL.  Maintain an Excel based tool to push forward price curves directly to the Sybase back end database using VB toolkit AIP add-in utility.  Develop an interface to export Mark –to-Market and Value at Risk calculations from Endur to CCM (a credit profiling software package).  Provide input for future project planning and implementation.

 

Dynegy Inc. – Houston, Texas2/99 – 10/01

Senior Programmer/Analyst

Provide miscellaneous support and script modifications to existing AVS scripts for Power and Coal.  Provide first line of support for Abacus (OpenLink/Endur) Real Time Position Pages (RTPE) and primary support of Power Pre-Processing Validation Script.  Provide necessary support/modifications for Curve Marking Tool (Excel adds in written in Visual Basic that downloads multiple forward price curves.)  Develop, support and manage custom software to support Traders, Risk Analysts and Statistical Analysts.  Projects include database design and the supporting generic software to automatically acquire, validate and load data from various external sources including CAISO, CalPX, PJM, NOAA, Dow Jones and other web based FTP and HTTP sites (Web Scraping).  Design and develop Access application to track and maintain contracts, invoices and users for Market Data feeds.  Develop a VB application to automatically submit web based bid forms in rapid succession to the California Power market.  Develop a Front end application that replaced a series of user developed Excel charts to automatically download necessary data and present it in a user friendly interface utilizing ADO and ODBC access to Oracle and SQL Server back ends. This project also included the acquisition of data from independent external sources.

 

 

Elite Business Systems, Inc. - Houston, Texas5/97 – 2/99

Senior Analyst

Developed business applications and diagnostic tools using Access 2.0, Access 97, Visual Basic 5.0/6.0, C, Microsoft Outlook and Delphi on a consulting basis.  Responsible for limited administration of  SQL Server, development of Stored Procedures and SQL scripts. 

 

 

Telecheck – Houston, Texas9/93 - 5/97

Programmer Analyst II

Analyze, develop and maintain relational databases using RDB, SQL Server, and S1932.  Develop stand-alone applications and analytical tools in PL/I, C and C++ that were used for decision support and Risk Analysis.   Provide Systems Administration for DEC/VAX and Dec/Alpha clusters.  Administer daily production jobs and troubleshoot Microsoft Access/Excel applications as needed.

 

EDUCATION

University of Pittsburgh, Bradford, PA  16701

Bachelor of Arts Degree – 1992

Major:  Computer Science – GPA 3.89

Minor:  Accounting – GPA –4.0

Overall GPA:  3.60

Bryant & Stratton Business Institute, Buffalo, NY  14202

Associate of Occupational Studies – 1977

Major:  Marketing Management

Overall GPA:  3.625

 

Languages

AVS , JVS, Open Components, VB Toolkit API for Endur/Findur, Visual Basic 6.0, VBA, SQL, T-SQL, PL SQL,  JAVA2, HTML, XML , ASP, PL/I,  Pascal, Delphi, Cobol, C, C#

Relational Databases

Access 2.0, Access 97, Access 2000, Microsoft SQL Server, DEC RDB, S1032,  Fox Pro, Fox BASE, Rbase, Dbase III/IV

Other Databases

OpenLink Endur Versions 5.0 R2, 5.3 R1/R3, 6.0 R2, 7.0 R2/ R4, 8.0 R1, 8.1 R2, 9.0 R1, V12.0, V14.0

LIM

Other specialized tools

Openlink’s Open Connect/Connex, Power Market Gateway

Specialized Training

New Horizons:  Crystal Reports 8.0 Level 1

New Horizons:  Crystal Reports 8.0 Level 2

OpenLink : Enterprise Toolkit Solutions  (VBToolkit/AVS)

OpenLink : Introduction to AVS

Hilton Computer Strategies:  Systems Administration for Microsoft SQL Server 6.0

Hilton Computer Strategies:  Systems Administration for Microsoft SQL Server 6.5

New Horizons: JAVA Programming Language   (Comparable to SL 275 Java Programming)