scott smith resume 2015
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SCOTT D. SMITH
SUMMARY Accomplished leader and change agent with over fifteen years experience in the energy and utility industry. Unique history serving the energy market including, traditional vertically integrated electric and gas distribution, energy trading, wholesale generation, advanced metering and smart grid software. Balanced experience includes technical sales management, delivery management, program management, technology solution design, enterprise system implementation, business requirement analysis, and customer management. Resourceful, metrics driven professional with an extensive track record of achievement directing customer projects that focus on execution and customer success.
KEY ACHEIVEMENTS
EXPERIENCE
Energy Business Transformation
• Collaborated with SAP on the development of the SAP Lighthouse solution • Led the technology evaluation for a Smart Grid product suite for a Fortune 500
integrated utility. • Led the architecture and implementation team for the deployment of SAP
infrastructure • Led the merger and acquisition team for the integration of professional services
and global sales training • Managed global implementation teams for Smart Grid implementations at dozens
of utilities in the United States, Europe and South America.
Customer Solution Design
• Led analysis of dozens of global customer requirements proposals for technical and functional analysis and solution design for meter data management and smart metering
• Present solution design to customer executives and technical teams • Develop proof of concept solutions for new customer requirements • Design function and technical requirements for smart meter metering to meeting
regulatory and business case requirements as a multi-‐state regulated electric distribution company
SELF EMPLOYED 2013 -‐ Present
SMALL BUSINESS OWNER 2014 – Present
Owner of a retail business focused on automotive services and repair.
• Responsible for the turn around of a failing retail business with a first year growth of 31% increase in revenue.
• Provide a new strategic direction with an increase in product offering, improved marketing and increase in customer awareness and satisfaction.
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INDEPENDENT CONSULTANT 2013-‐2014
Consult with utilities and industry vendors on the analysis of technical, business and market requirements for energy products.
• Responsible for the development of the go-‐to-‐market strategy and sales execution for a new business unit for a Fortune 100 electric distribution company. The new business unit expanded the company into a new deregulated business to provide energy management services for the small and medium business market
• Consult with Texas based startup on an energy management solution and identify market requirements for product development and sales positioning
VICE PRESIDENT GLOBAL TECHNICAL SERVICES, EMETER, A SIEMENS BUSINESS 2011-‐2013
Responsible for the management of the Global Technical Services Organization with over 70 resources providing sales, implementations, custom development, training and product support. Provide sales leadership with the presentation of production demonstrations, sales proposals, global conference presentations, new product launches for partners and global sales training.
• Manage global implementation teams for the technical solution design and implementation of meter data management
• Key Account management with EDF UK, CPFL (Brazil), IESO (Canada), CNP (Houston), and SPAusNet (Australia)
SOLUTION ACCOUNT MANAGER, EMETER 2009-‐2011
Responsible for individual customer accounts focusing on project execution, requirements management and customer relationship management. Provide leadership to translate customer requirements into product enhancements for current and future project phases.
• Manage the IESO (Independent Electric System Operator) project for the implementation for Meter Data Management supporting over 79 electric distribution companies and over 4 million electric meters.
• Manage the Toronto Hydro electric distribution implementation of the meter data management system for the largest time of use billing implementation
DIRECTOR, AMI MARKET MANAGEMENT, TRILLIANT INC. 2008-‐2009
Leader on the Market Management team for AMI and market development focusing on business development. The role’s focus was broad in terms of an internal focusing of matching utility requirements to Trilliant solution offerings, sales support in responding to AMI proposals for large utilities, identifying partnership opportunities to leverage market positions and supporting regulatory workshops, conference and market positioning.
• Led the effort to compile a competitive analysis on AMI market providers to
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allow for sales positioning and product manage strategic road map development.
DIRECTOR, TECHNICAL SERVICES, ENERGY EAST 2003-‐2008
Managed the development and operations of the consolidated IT infrastructure for 5 gas and electric distribution utilities. The role’s focus was the design and implementation of a shared service model and the daily operational management for a 24 X 7 environment in support of grid operations.
• Successfully let the architecture and implementation teams for the implementation of SAP, eDiscovery, disaster recovery, data consolation and SharePoint and messaging projects
• Worked with special project teams on the architecture of SAP for customer information systems, mobile workforce management and back office systems including participation with the SAP Lighthouse working group on smart metering.
ADVANCED METERING INFRASTRUCTURE (SPECIAL ASSIGNMENT), ENERGY EAST
Project Lead on the effort to map the AMI Use Case model to the specific requirements for Energy East. Spent 15 months working on the Energy East AMI project covering key initiatives.
• Developed initial project planning for AMI initiative by defining project scope, drawing up project schedule, and evaluating business process impacts.
• Implemented system architecture design planning including impacts to Customer Information Systems (CIS), outage system management, web presentation, and work management.
Actively participated in several industry organizations to develop solutions for Energy East including AMI MDM from Utilipoint, Utilimetrics, and the SAP Lighthouse Council on AMI. DIRECTOR OF INFRASTRUCTURE SERVICES, PG&E NATIONAL ENERGY GROUP 1999-‐2002
Promoted from Manager of Systems Engineering to lead 35 -‐ 50 personnel including senior engineers, middle managers, and project managers charged with supporting IT infrastructure for national energy company with a 24-‐hour trading floor and 2,200 total employees. Conducted strategic planning for future growth, resolved complex issues, managed vendor relationships, and reviewed internal customer proposals for additional IT systems. Defined priorities and goals, and led meetings with staff, management, and customers.
• Spearheaded IT consolidation of a corporate merger and expanded technological capabilities to satisfy demands of evolving trading business.
EDUCATION University of North Carolina at Charlotte, 1996
Bachelor of Science, Business Administration; Management Information Systems