Brett Rudder
I'm an experienced energy markets analyst. I work with electricity market data to create tools used to evaluate policy and market conditions. I have worked on electricity market optimization, financial portfolio analysis and renewable energy integration.
Experience
Senior Analyst, California ISO
Mar 2017 - Present, Sacramento, CA
- Currently working in the Department of Market Monitoring. My team focuses on analyzing new market policy, especially with regards to decarbonization, renewable integration, and storage.
- I work with data everyday, cleaning and integrating new data sources, as well as maintaining and coming up with new analysis on existing data.
- I'm most passionate about projects related to renewable integration, burgeoning decarbonization technologies, and building optimization models, all of which I've I the opportunity to work in this role.
Head of Operations, Seed Commodity Exchange
Apr 2016 - Dec 2016, Chicago, IL
- Seed is a venture capital-backed commodity exchange start-up.
- I manage and monitor the trading platform, including servers and data-centers and automated surveillance of trading activity.
- Worked with futures, options and swaps data. I use VBA and Python to write risk assessment and data analysis tools that help Seed understand market conditions and problems.
- I assisted or led in the drafting of many of the company's foundational documents: the exchange rule book, market design, surveillance practices, corporate compliance documents, et al.
Senior Analyst, Market Regulation, Intercontinental Exchange
Nov 2013 - Apr 2016, Chicago, IL
- I monitored electricity and natural gas futures markets (financial derivatives, physically delivered futures, swaps and options) for exchange rule violations and overall market stability.
- My everyday tasks involved statistical modeling, data management, anomaly detection making charts and graphs and pulling data from various sources using APIs.
- Worked daily in python (pandas, numpy, et al.), VBA and Business Objects.
- I contributed to several energy related policy initiatives and traveled frequently to present and discuss those projects with federal regulators and other corporations.
- Created and supervised the implementation of reports to disseminate energy market information company-wide. Reports included data analysis, visualizations and written narratives on market conditions.
Economist, Division of Analytics and Surveillance, Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC)
May 2011 - Oct 2013, Washington DC
- I created anomaly detection algorithms and economic analysis to monitor the health of electricity and natural gas markets nationwide.
- Developed strategies to identify and prevent market power abuses, gaming and other non-compliance with market rules.
- Provided statistical and analytic support for enforcement cases, including market manipulation cases.
- I worked to develop a deep understanding of energy trading and transaction analysis. Especially with regard to market rules and supply/demand fundamentals.
- Worked daily in a large relational database using SAS.
- I also interned in the Division of Energy Market Oversight during the summer of 2010.
Skills
Energy Markets
Extensive experience and training with RTO/ISOs. Especially with market related data (supply/demand fundamentals, prices, etc.), financial analysis and optimization.
Data/coding
I'm excited about applying the latest technology to energy market problems.
Have used daily: Python, SAS, VBA, Business Objects, SQL, git, bash.
Worked with periodically: Julia, Matlab/Octave, R, Java.
Finance/economics
I hold the Energy Risk Professional (ERP) certification.
I've worked on major projects to evaluate the finances electricity supply resources, and explore how policy changes impact electricity market optimization outcomes.
Education & Professional Development
University of Arizona
Tucson, AZ
Double Major:
- BA Mathematics - Concentration on Statistics.
- BA Economics - Concentration in analytical methods and econometrics.
Continuing Education - Stanford University
For credit courses through the Stanford CS department.
CS 229 - Machine Learning, Winter 2016
CS 157 - Automated Logic, Summer 2016
CS 221 - Artificial Intelligence, Winter 2017
CS 228 - Probabilistic Graphical Models, Winter 2018
STEM Mentor Volunteer
Science Technology Engineering and Math (STEM) Mentor with Adler Planetarium youth programs.
- Jan 2014 - Present
- Help HS students develop STEM skills and understanding.
Education & Professional Development
University of Arizona
Tucson, AZ
Double Major:
- BA Mathematics - Concentration on Statistics.
- BA Economics - Concentration in analytical methods and econometrics.
Continuing Education - Stanford University
For credit courses through the Stanford CS department.
CS 229 - Machine Learning, Winter 2016
CS 157 - Automated Logic, Summer 2016
CS 221 - Artificial Intelligence, Winter 2017
CS 228 - Probabilistic Graphical Models, Winter 2018
STEM Mentor Volunteer
Science Technology Engineering and Math (STEM) Mentor with Adler Planetarium youth programs.
- Jan 2014 - Present
- Help HS students develop STEM skills and understanding.
Additional work experience
Deck Hand, Alaskan Fishing Vessel Aleutian SunMay 2009 - Nov 2010, Petersberg, AK
Research Assistant, National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER)
Aug 2006 - May 2009, Tucson, AZ
Strategy Officer, Rural Agency for Development (Rafode)
Mar 2008 - Mar 2009, Kisumu, Kenya