Benjamin A. Kreischer

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Atlassian Engineer / Project Manager (Jira, Confluence)
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  • Sonic Automotive
    Atlassian Engineer / Project Manager (Jira, Confluence)
    Sonic Automotive
    Dec 2022 - May 2023 (6 months)
    - I worked on organizational-scale platform data migrations both internally and with 3rd party vendors. - I performed much of my work in the spirit of moving standalone groups into a more dynamic, data driven, collaborative organization framework. - Multiple Azure DevOps projects, and multiple Jira Server to Jira cloud migrations were successfully ported. - I was responsible for the planning, communications, resource planning, risk mitigation, as well as performed as the migration engineer. As the Jira administrator/program and project manager for Sonic Automotive, I was brought on for an enterprise-wide project to configure, customize, and maintain a new Agile-based Jira Cloud environment across the enterprise with DevOps, Project Manageme
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    Project manager / scrum master
    AXE ANALYTIX
    Jan 2022 - Sep 2022 (9 months)
    - Developer of analytical and business intelligence platforms, from ideation to deployment, with ETL processes, AI and ML model design, training, scoring, and application interactivity architecture. - AI/ML functionality assist in data discovery, finding program risk and market opportunities, presenting highest potential ROI projects to stakeholders.
  • Charles Schwab Corporation
    Program Manager
    Charles Schwab Corporation
    Sep 2021 - Oct 2022 (1 year 2 months)
    - Managed PCI, vulnerability, and configuration drift remediation across Schwab service center ecosystem. - Managed 25 portfolio epics of 500+ stories. - Designed team agile ceremonies – planning, standups, retrospectives. • Solutions architect for wholesale development of workflow processes, spanning multiple productivity tools, and external system interfaces. Reengineering email, Jira project management, documentation in Confluence/Sharepoint, meeting space/IM collaboration interface in Teams, Office365 apps, and Microsoft Power Platform. • From day 1, administered Jira implementation, Sharepoint, Confluence and Teams for a geo-located team of 25 spanning 4 time zones. Developed tools, reporting, and training to manage workflow and grow t
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    Strategic Sales Originator
    Direct Energy
    Feb 2018 - Jan 2020 (2 years)
    - Project manager for daily product pricing tools, expanding existing capabilities 50x to compete with Direct Energy’s largest competitor
  • R
    Long term predictive and analytical energy consultant
    RESOLUTION ENERGY
    Jun 2016 - Jan 2018 (1 year 8 months)
    - I was responsible for implementing a stochastic-based risk engine using Palisade's @Risk suite and Excel 365. - This engine aimed to evaluate various aspects of incremental power supply transactions for energy clients. - The evaluations included proposed bilateral transactions, plant acquisitions, retirements, fuel requirements, sensitivity analysis, hedging effectiveness, and risk mitigation. Project manager and lead developer of stochastic based risk engine using Palisade's @Risk suite and Excel 365 to evaluate incremental power supply transactions for proposed bilateral transactions, plant acquisitions, retirements, fuel requirements, sensitivity analysis, hedging effectiveness, and risk mitigation for energy clients. Sole developer
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    Manager of Analytical Intelligence Services
    ACES POWER MARKETING
    Jan 2005 - Jun 2016 (11 years 6 months)
    - Led the Special Projects initiative, spanning nearly every domain at ACES - Develop and implement a framework for analyzing portfolio optimization data from a host of statistical packages, both commercial and proprietary - Served in both internal and external client facing roles, reporting to the VP of Business Development and the PMO/CIO office. If a problem or opportunity was multi-department, I managed the project(s) for 11 years Extensive project success of more than 50 material projects included load forecasting, client salvage and recovery, capital asset valuation, forensic deal review, asset acquisition and retirement analytics, member rate structure review, MISO capacity modeling and forecasting, transmission position consulting,
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    Quantitative analyst
    ACES POWER MARKETING
    Dec 2000 - Jan 2005 (4 years 2 months)
    Provided extensive analytical, consulting, and strategic implementation capabilities across multiple internal and external departments, predominately portfolio strategy, new business development, trading, leading to greater adoption of stochastic based modeling results throughout the customer base. •Modeled all aspects of analytical and strategic development of power and natural gas portfolio recommendations for the majority of the largest energy cooperatives in the country providing portfolio hedging recommendations and strategies valued > $2 billion to C-level executives, and staff SME's using all available energy technologies, including renewables, carbon-based assets, and fuels procurement strategies. Served as the internal portfolio
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    Consultant
    ETC Proliance Energy
    Jan 1998 - Jan 2000 (2 years 1 month)
  • KSM (Katz, Sapper & Miller)
    External auditor / accounting system consultant
    KSM (Katz, Sapper & Miller)
    Jun 1993 - Dec 2000 (7 years 7 months)
    External auditor for public and private companies for adherence to bank reporting requirements and US GAAP compliance, spanning a spectrum of industries. •Planned effective auditing processes, audited financial statements and assess accounts for accuracy and regulatory compliance, inspected internal systems and controls, assessed risk management tactics, reported systematic errors or fraud indicators. •Carried out quality audits and assurance services, obtaining all necessary audit working papers, documenting findings, communicating accounting and financial findings to partners and clients. •Performed extensive inventory auditing functions, becoming the firm expert in training incoming auditors on best practices, and efficiency improvem
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  • Northcentral University
    Doctor of philosophy - data science
    Northcentral University
    Jan 2021 - Current (4 years 5 months)
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    MBA - finance
    Indiana University, Kelley School of Business
    Jan 2003 - Jan 2005 (2 years 1 month)
  • Manchester Metropolitan University
    Master of Accountancy
    Manchester Metropolitan University
    May 1992 - May 1993 (1 year 1 month)
  • Manchester Metropolitan University
    Bachelor of Science - Accounting
    Manchester Metropolitan University
    Aug 1988 - May 1992 (3 years 10 months)