This document contains Christopher Perrotta's resume. It outlines his objective of continuing his successful career as a power trader and analyst. It details his experience trading power at Enmax Corporation and Capital Power Corporation, where he optimized generation portfolios and developed analytical tools to improve market analysis and asset optimization. It also describes his experience as the president and founder of ThisCity.com, the website he launched in 2007.

1. Christopher
Perrotta
(403)
689-­‐9258
#2102
1514
11
Street
SW
Calgary,
Alberta
T2R1G9
chrisperrotta84@gmail.com
Objectives
1. Continue
to
establish
a
successful
and
competitive
career
as
a
trader
and
analyst
through
incremental
experience
and
achievement.
2. Maintain
a
role
in
a
fast
paced,
analytical
and
performance
orientated
environment
3. Work
for
ethically
sound
organizations;
remain
true
to
employers,
colleagues
and
myself.
Trading
Experience
West
Real
Time
Power
Trader
Enmax
Corporation,
Calgary,
Alberta
Power
Portfolio
Management
Ø Optimization
of
2.5GW
portfolio
of
Coal,
Natural
Gas
and
Wind
assets
in
the
AESO
market
Ø Navigation
of
Joint
Venture
and
PPA
agreements
relating
to
specific
assets,
capacity
and
dispatching
Ø Responsible
for
all
plant
dispatch
received
through
ADaMS
and
relay
to
plant
operators
Ø Compliance
monitoring
and
reporting
Ø Hedging
through
physical
power
trades
between
AESO
and
Mid-­‐C
markets
Program
Development
&
Process
Improvements
Ø Independently
created
numerous
tools
using
Excel
and
VBA
to
improve
market
analysis
and
optimize
asset
offers,
including:
Ø ETS
7
Day
Offer
program
to
create
and
manage
all
unit
offers
directly
through
an
Excel
interface,
eliminating
limitations
of
the
ETS
web
interface
and
enabling
the
creation
of
other
value
add
functions
Ø Shepard
Offer
tool
to
generate
P/Q
pairs
and
manage
complexities
of
operational,
JV,
and
AS
constraints
Ø In
development
of
Offer
Identification
and
Forecasting
tool
to
automatically
assign
P/Q
pairs
to
specific
assets
on
an
hourly
basis.
This
data
was
then
to
be
used
to
in
conjunction
with
market
demand
and
other
fundamentals
from
which
to
build
future
curves
for
daily/weekly
pool
price
forecasting
Ø Numerous
other
tools
and
changes
to
processes
resulting
time
savings
of
~2.5
hours
for
completing
daily
Real
Time
tasks
February
2015
–
November
2015

2.
East
Real
Time
Power
Trader
Capital
Power
Corporation,
Calgary,
Alberta
Power
Portfolio
Management
Ø Part
of
a
team
established
to
integrate
1GW
of
CC
generators
located
in
NEISO
that
were
acquired
by
Capital
Power
in
2011
Ø Developed
market
analysis
tools
and
methodologies
used
to
forecast
pricing
of
the
NEISO
DA
and
RT
markets
Ø Optimized
asset
capacity
through
market
analysis,
coordinating
gas
purchases
with
gas
traders,
and
offering
generation
into
the
NEISO
DA/RT
markets
Ø Provided
daily
analysis
to
Cash
Trader
to
execute
Mass
Hub
financials
with
favorable
risk/reward
profiles
for
hedging
and
speculative
purposes
Ø Created
several
additional
tools,
such
as
tool
used
to
identify
the
DA
commitments
of
generators
not
previously
visible
to
ourselves
or
other
market
participants
Speculative
Power
Trading
Ø Three
years
of
experience
scheduling
physical
power
in
IESO,
PJM,
MISO,
NYISO
and
ISNE
Ø Highest
profitability
of
our
five
RT
traders
for
2013.
Ø Intimately
involved
in
developing
and
optimizing
NYISO
virtual
strategies
on
a
daily
basis
Ø Independently
researched
and
formalized
several
long
term
trading
strategies,
including
o NYISO
Virtual
tool
used
determine
optimal
bid/offers
based
on
known
fundamentals,
adopted
and
used
daily
by
DA
Trader
o NYISO
and
NEISO
Offpeak
Virtual
Strategies
January
2011
–
November
2013
Entrepreneurial
Experience
President
&
Founder
ThisCity.com,
Calgary,
Alberta
Ø Manage
a
small
team
of
contract
software
developers
Ø Conduct
client
prospecting,
sales,
and
customer
relationship
management
Ø Develop
and
execute
online
and
offline
marketing
initiatives
History
Ø Founded
company
in
January
2004
Ø Developed
the
concept
and
lead
development
of
ThisCity.com
Ø Conducted
market
research,
wrote
several
business
plans
Ø Represented
the
company
in
a
successful
lawsuit
against
a
web
development
company
for
malpractice,
awarded
damages
Ø Launched
website
in
July
2007
Ø Recipient
of
a
$10K
Alberta
Technology
Innovation
voucher
and
nominated
for
numerous
awards.
Ø Currently
maintains
1,000
business
members
and
is
used
by
200,000
Calgarians
each
year
January
2004
–
Present

3. Education
Bachelor
of
Applied
Business
&
Entrepreneurship
Mount
Royal
University,
Calgary,
Alberta
September
2003
–
December
2007
General
Studies
Grande
Prairie
Regional
College,
Grande
Prairie,
Alberta
September
2002
–
April
2003
Interests
&
Skills
Ø Trading
equities,
options,
commodities
and
FX
Ø International
politics
and
finance
Ø Desktop
Applications:
Microsoft
Windows
and
Office,
Macromedia
Dreamweaver,
Adobe
Photoshop
Ø Web
Applications:
cPanel,
Plesk,
FTP
Clients
Ø Internet:
HTML,
search
engine
optimization
&
marketing
Ø Intermediate
level
computer
troubleshooting
and
repair
Ø Typing:
70
words
per
minute
(WPM)
Ø Bilingual:
English
with
French
second
language
Reference
David
Backe
Manager,
Trading
Operations
Wholesale
Energy,
Enmax
Corporation
(403)
514-­‐3142