Tom
Bowcutt.
ENERGY TRADING PRODUCT CONSULTANT:
TECHNOLOGY, DESIGN, ANALYSIS & MANAGEMENT
PROFILE:
19 years in the energy industry, within wholesale commodity trading. Experienced leading teams delivering technology solutions within both waterfall and agile environments. Previously Head of Product Management for a global provider of online energy trading software. Worked at several of the UK’s Big Six energy firms, a technology consultancy, a creative start up and has helped design the UK electricity market.
EXPERIENCE
2017-CURRENT
Product Consultant
2016-2017
Product Manager
2009-2016
Business Analyst
2013-2015
Volunteer
2006-2009
Senior Consultant
2002-2006
Business Consultant
INDEPENDENT
Product design consultancy to energy innovation lab. Creation of an online flexibility trading platform for demand side response, battery storage and distributed generation customers.
ASPECT ENTERPRISE
Head of product management, cloud based commodity trading software. Online Energy Trading and Risk Management (ETRM) solution and a real time market data and trader decision support tool.
CENTRICA ENERGY
Leading business analysis for wholesale energy trading. Responsible for functional design and delivery of power trading and logistics systems for UK and Europe.
OUT OF THE DARK
Volunteer member of commercial advisory group for start-up charitable social enterprise. Strategic advice to charity joint CEOs on re-branding and web platform enhancement.
REAL TIME ENGINEERING
Consultancy during introduction of the Irish Single Electricity Market (SEM).
ELEXON
Responsible for UK electricity market design (contract, process and systems) and regulatory change in relation to settlement, cash out, imbalance pricing, contract notification, transmissions loss allocation and credit risk.
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EDUCATION
1997-2001
University of Birmingham
Physics MSC (ii.i). Masters project developing medical software for holographic imaging of brain tumors.
1995-1997
Queen Mary’s College
A–Levels: Mathematics (A), Physics (A), Chemistry (B)
1990-1995
Brighton Hill Community School
9 GCSEs (4A*, 2As and 3Bs). School prizes for Best GCSE Results, Science, Creative Design and English.
SKILLS
Product Management Certification: Pragmatic Marketing - Foundation, Focus, Build
Business Process Modelling: Casewise, Visio, Nimbus Lean Six Sigma process improvement: Greenbelt Finalist British Computing Society (BCS): National Business Analyst of the Year
Waterfall - Prince Agile - Scrum
Team Leader - Managing product owners and globally distributed BAs Leading complex cross disciplinary teams. Cultural Change: Waterfall to agile working. Onshore to offshore development team.
Training Courses with EFET and APX Commodity Coverage: UK Power, Euro Power, Gas, Oil, Metals
Morningstar Updata ASPECT DSC Chart IQ BM Reports Market VuePoint
Trade Execution Platforms: APX (UK and Netherlands) Trayport The I.C.E.
Energy Trading and Risk Management software: Bespoke In-house, Endur Openlink, ASPECT ETRM ETRM Strategy Consultancy
Design and Build of Multiple Websites HTML, CSS, Invision.
Customer Relationship Management software: Salesforce, Little Green Light.
Business Intelligence (BI) software: Qlik Microsoft Power BI Tableau SAP BI
Microsoft Azure: Virtual Machines SQL DB Creation .NET Website Blob Storage Machine Learning
Database design and data modelling SQL Queries Stored Procedures DB creation
Microsoft .NET, Visual Studio, TFS Online JIRA / Confluence C++ Game Development (Unreal Engine) VBA Macros Java GitHub / SourceTree
Test Management Test Scenario / Script Test Execution Microsoft Test Manager HP Quality Center
PTC ThingWorkx If This Then That (IFTTT) Amazon ALEXA Harmony Hub
3D Graphics
Web Design
