Peabody EnergyDirector, Strategic Planning
Jun. 2002 - Jun. 2009St. Louis, MissouriDirector, Strategic Planning (2007 to 2008)
Managed projects supporting a variety of corporate initiatives including short/long-term planning, market analysis, and legislative industry efforts. Responsible for data management of operations metrics, measurement standards implementation and analysis in creation/update of five year strategic plan and management goals. Director, SAP Implementation –Member of Project Management Office “PMO” (2006 to 2007)
Change Management team lead on $50 million SAP project that replaced 20+ legacy systems in Finance/Accounting, Production, Maintenance, Sales, Procurement, and Reporting. “Key Performance Indicators” (KPI's), “fit-gap” analysis, and best-practices benchmarking reports. Decision Support – Continuous Improvement (2005) Manager (2004)
Developed modeling tools to extract and analyze cost and yield data from legacy, mainframe and reporting platforms. With senior operations managers, identified KPI monitoring statistics for operations including productivity, costs, and risks to create a best-practices resource platform with automated templates. Responsible for financial analysis to support major capital requests for operations.
• Conducted valuation to support price paid ($550 million) for two Lease Bonus Applications sites (successful) for a total of 600 million tons of Powder River Basin coal underlying Federal lands.
• Selected by COO to serve as analytic support for two (fuel, tires) of four company-wide “Commodity Teams”. Manager, Generation Development, Business Development (2003 to 2004) Associate (2002)
Responsible for creating and maintaining financial/operational models to support evaluation and execution of project development, redevelopment, and other investment opportunities, including significant site cost and engineering planning.