The thinking behind the writing.
I spent a decade inside a mid-cap energy company working across corporate finance, enterprise risk, sustainability, and data analytics — not as a specialist in any one, but as the person asked to connect them. The common thread was always the same: take a messy, cross-functional problem, structure it until the trade-offs are visible, and help the right people decide.
The writing on this site comes from that work. Not the sanitized version, but the actual logic — how the models were framed, where the assumptions broke, what the second-order effects turned out to be.
What I work on
Most of my career has been spent in the gap between analysis and decision. Finance teams build models. Risk teams flag exposures. Data teams build dashboards. But someone has to synthesize all of that into a frame that executives can actually act on — and then stay close enough to execution to know whether it worked.
That has meant building scenario models that shaped capital allocation, designing hedging dashboards that commodity traders used daily, standing up enterprise risk governance from scratch, leading cross-functional ESG reporting before it had a regulatory mandate, and architecting a data lake and BI practice from vendor selection through executive delivery.
The range is deliberate. Complex decisions don't respect org charts, and the most valuable work happens at the intersections — where financial modeling meets risk appetite, where data architecture meets the question the CEO is actually trying to answer.
Career
Surge Energy Inc.
2024 — PresentBusiness Intelligence Analyst
Built the company's data lake and BI practice from the ground up — architecture, vendor selection, data governance, and delivery. The work put capital deployment, production performance, and operational KPIs into a single system that executives use to make real-time decisions. Turned scattered spreadsheets and tribal knowledge into something measurable and shared.
Surge Energy Inc.
2018 — 2024Planning Analyst
Six years working across every analytical function the company had. Built the corporate cash-flow and scenario models that drove quarterly guidance. Engineered commodity hedging dashboards that traders used to manage real exposure. Launched enterprise risk management governance — the framework, the register, the reporting cadence. Led cross-functional ESG reporting through its first three disclosure cycles. Each of these started as an ambiguous mandate and ended as an operating system.
Independent
2017Consulting
Worked directly with founders and operators on the problems that precede growth: market entry assessments, financial models for capital raises, and the roadmaps that connect strategy to execution. Short engagements, high stakes, no room for ambiguity.
Deloitte
2014 — 2016Transfer Pricing Analyst
Financial modeling for intercompany transactions across multinational structures. The work was technical — aligning tax strategy with Canadian regulatory requirements — but the real education was in how large organizations make decisions: slowly, through documentation, stakeholder management, and institutional process.
Education
MBA, Finance
University of Calgary
2016 — 2018
Bachelor of Commerce, International Business
MacEwan University
2006 — 2011