1. ALLEN HUMBOLT
Quantitative Analyst, Statistician, Market Analyst, Financial Trader
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14107 E. 87th Street North, Owasso,OK 74055
918-740-1364 (cell) 918-272-6707 (home) allenhumbolt@gmail.com
Summary
Accomplished quantitative analyst, financial trader, energy market analyst,and statistician with a valuable
combination of trustworthiness,insightful analysis, communication skills, and quantitative expertise. Trusted with
executing $ billions of oil, natural gas, NGL, and basis hedges. Market analysis insights and communication to upper
management helped lead to $ hundreds ofmillions in hedging gains. Quantitative expertise formed the core background
for such success. Tenure includes many years of analytic and energy experience, including the past 10 years as the
financial trader for Samson.
Education
 M.S. in Statistics, Oklahoma State University (Stillwater, Ok) 1978
 B.S. in Mathematics, Panhandle State University (Goodwell, Ok) 1976
Professional Skills
 Quantitative Analysis: Implemented VBA program to calculate Greeks and price options until Bloomberg
capabilities provided better real-time capability. Provided trading floor with statisticalanalyses and programs.
 Statistical Analysis: Proficient in a wide variety of statistical methods with extensive expertise in experimental
design and an experiment's data analysis (ANOVA, GLM, variance components analysis, etc.), regression
analysis, and statistical quality control.
 Financial Trading (hedging): Utliized ICE, Bloomberg (and its fair value calculations) and linked spreadsheets
to assess ifbids and/oroffers were good for swaps,puts,calls, and collars. Established relationships with
roughly a dozen counterparties and learned who typically provided the best trades for what commodity and
tenor. Utilized Liquidity Partners settlement marks combined with ICE realtime near-term pricing to assess
NGL bids. Provided initial mark-to-market (present value) of trading book.
 Market Analysis: Held weekly and monthly meetings with the CEO, COO, CFO, and others to recommend
and develop commodity hedging strategy and targets. Provided twice daily market report to top executives
including the CEO as well as weekly and periodic reports on critical issues. Participated in a variety of other
team meetings such as semi-annual corporate price forecasting and monthly marketing meetings.
 Statistical Software: Many years of experience utilizing SAS and Splus, including a stint as a SAS consultant
and responsibility for providing corporate training in Splus.
 Trading Software: Utilized Morningstar's LIM as well as the Bloomberg for commodity settlement data and a
wide variety of other data including supply/demand data, as needed, and was the corporate contact for
numerous data capture requests. Monitored ICE for trading natural gas and basis. Used Allegro for financial
trade entries.
 Other Corporate Responsibilities: corporate Dodd-Frank regulatory contact; vendorcontact for electronic
subscriptions ofPlatts, OPIS, Liquidity Partners, and Morningstaras well as for PIRA's North American
Natural Gas subscription and similar subscriptions to CERA and Wood Mackenzie; corporate trainer in
derivatives used for hedging and general market trends, SPC, Quality Improvement programs, and Splus
software.
A Few Key Accomplishments during Career
 Hedged $ billions of commodities to reduce cash flow risk -- hedges which gained $ hundreds of millions.
 Listened to the interests of two different CEOs and created market reporting that led to acclaimed commentary
and included a twice-daily report followed by the CEO, key executives, and a few dozen recipients in total,
with the CEO making specific requests for additions to the distribution list.
 When the company needed to focus on the short term, promoted and upon approval then executed a derivative
that provided short-term security by financing it with an option sold for the longer term.
 Instituted a statistical mixture design for gasoline blending which saved a refinery an estimated $4 million per
year , and convinced the software vendorto include mixture designs in the next software revision.
 Received 3 promotions in 3 years for work with personnelon a manufacturing floor.

2. Detailed Employment History
University ofTulsa School ofFinance (Aug 2015 - present) - Applied Assistant Professor - Tulsa
 Applied Assistant Professorof Operations Management: teaching business statistics starting Fall 2015.
Samson Investment Co. (2001-2011) / Samson Resources (2011-2015) - Quantitative Analyst - Tulsa
 Key Accomplishments: providing market updates and insights to upper management; executing $ billions of
hedges which ultimately earned hundred of millions of dollars; providing a derivate hedging structure
(extendible collar) to meet a critical short-term need.
 Quantitative Analysis: wrote VBA program to value calls and puts and report Greeks.
 Statistical Analysis: Modeled natural gas supply/demand as well as numerous oil and gas historical drivers.
 Financial Trading: Hedged $ billions in energy futures and made $ hundreds of millions in hedging gains.
 Market Analysis: Provided weekly and twice daily market reports to CEO and upper management.
 Software Skills: Splus and Excel for statistical work; VBA for option pricing; Bloomberg, Allegro,
Morningstar's LIM, and ICE for trading activities.
BSI (2000-2001) - Statistician - Kansas City
 Key Accomplishment: worked with a team to provide a "dashboard" forH&R Block tax season activities.
 Statistical Analysis: For a small consulting company, provided statisticalanalysis in SAS for clients, with the
primary client being H&R Block.
 Software Skills: SAS utilized exclusively.
Koch Industries (1988-2000) - Statistician (5 yr); Quantitative Analyst (6 yr) - Wichita
 Key Accomplishment: utilized a statisticalmixture design to save $4 million/year in gasoline blending
activities and convinced the blending software vendor to include mixture designs in the upcoming software
release.
 Statistical Analysis and Quality Improvement efforts: provided training, basic statistical methods, and problem
solving skills for Continuous Improvement program; provided experimental design expertise for research
organization as well as refineries.
 Quantitative Analysis/Statistical Analysis: provided statistical analyses and Splus programs for analysts and
the trading floor.
 Software Skills: Utilized SAS for all 11 years as well as Splus for last 5 years.
McDonnell Douglas (1985-1988) - Senior Technical Specialist - St. Charles & St. Louis
 Key Accomplishment: efforts to implement Statistical Quality Control yielded 3 promotions in 3 years and a
ranking as the top employee in a department of about 60.
 Statistical Analysis: Statistical Process Control training provided in both formal and informal settings; a wide
variety of statistical analyses utilized to assist teams on a manufacturing floor.
 Software Skills: SAS
Phillips Petroleum R&D (1978-1985) - Statistician - Bartlesville,Ok
 Key Accomplishment: work in refinery groundwater monitoring was recognized as one of the department's top
three accomplishments in an annualreview.
 Statistical Analysis: Focus was on designing experiments and analyzing the results (ANOVA, GLM, Variance
Components analysis).
 Software Skills: SAS
Software Background: Microsoft Office skills, background in trading software (Bloomberg, Morningstar's LIM,
Allegro, ICE) and statistical software (SAS, Splus), with less extensive experience in Visual Basic and Matlab.
Professional Activities: Member of American Statistical Association (ASA)
References available upon request.