candace holden

Contract assignment - general office duties, travel bookings, PO's, AR/AP data input into financial systems

Provide logistics, transportation, supply/demand analysis and marketing skills to a variety of contract positions on an on-going basis.

Established the parameters for setting up a new condensate rail business. Found and acquired from a variety of lessees, the railcar lease equipment necessary to ship product. Helped with the set up of managing railcar requirements, information flows and management of product into and out of the new Edmonton terminal. Analyzed and evaluated software necessary to record and manage: the supply and demand; pricing and invoicing of railcar product shipments.

* Evaluate software and its application to current business requirements in the downstream energy sector. * Prepared customer specific data for marketing demos to Sales Team for potential client sales. * Kept problem logs current and liaised with clients to help them work with the software system. * Reported to programmers the outstanding issues and explained problem logs with suggestions for improvement.

* Start up business establishing propane supply terminals in the US Northeastern states. * Acquired the necessary purchased and leased railcars to manage the rail terminal shipments. * Set up the procedures and processes for the forecasting, supply and demand outlook and turnaround times to keep terminals full in peak season. * Managed the storage inventories in off season. Involved in the trading/swapping of product to balance inventories at all terminals and storage facilities. * Monitored pricing and predicted changes to mitigate increases in costs for decreases in sales.

Start up company that required knowledge in the rail transportation business to set up and acquire railcars and the management of the assets. Newly developed propane and ethane pipelines into storage facilities that required storage and inventory management skills to establish supply and demand forecasts and balancing of underground storage inventories.

* As a producer of Natural Gas Liquids (propane and butane) responsible for the forecasting of supply and demand and marketing of products. * Establish term contracts and spot contracts as necessary to balance supply inventories. * Develop client relations and establish marketing program. * Monitor continuous movement of supply. * Ensured safety procedures were in place and followed all necessary protocols for shipments of hazardous commodities.