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Project Management For Utilities, Gas, Power & Energy

Example Utilities, Gas, Power & Energy Clients / Experience

Project Management is an on-demand project management and process improvement solution created to facilitate an overall approach to project delivery, performance, and success. Our process helps customers achieve speed to market, provides governance and oversight support, and ensures project success.

We Improve Project Success by

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Providing reliable and proven processes

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Managing all resources & minimizing costs

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Proactively managing risks & dependencies

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Enhancing stakeholder satisfaction and visibility from demand to project closure

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Proactively managing project delivery, performance, and success

Midwest Energy

Various Initiatives

Midwest Energy

  • CIS Billing System Upgrade
    Successfully managed vendor- required billing system upgrade. Coordinated the efforts of all impacted stakeholders, vendors, and resources.
  • Demand Rate Implementation
    Successfully managed Rate Design and Implementation to help align customer behavior with cost causation for small commercial and residential customers.
  • Disaster Preparedness Plan
    Assisted Midwest Energy IT and business stakeholders with identifying critical functions, capturing data and system classifications/categorization; and documenting and testing Disaster Preparedness Plan annually.
Belco

Various Initiatives

Bermuda Electric Company

  • Customer Self-Service Portal
    Successfully managed customer self-service portal implementation with outage map. Coordinated the efforts of all impacted stakeholders, vendors, and resources. Managed day-to-day project management activities to coordinate project interdependencies across at least five system/platforms to ensure successful integration and on-time/on-budget delivery.
  • HRIS & Payroll System
    Successfully managed customer self-service portal implementation with outage map. Coordinated the efforts of all impacted stakeholders, vendors, and resources. Managed project interdependencies across at least five system/platforms to ensure successful integration and on-time/on-budget delivery.
CIS Billing System Upgrade

CIS Billing System Upgrade

City of Idaho Falls

  • CIS Billing System Upgrade
    Successfully managed vendor required billing system upgrade. Provided project management support to coordinate the efforts of all impacted stakeholders, vendors, and resources.

Our Process

Our smooth process for your business growth Line

Governance & Oversight

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Project Planning Project Kickoff Project Management Portal Customer Environment Project Management Plan Project Plan Staffing Plan

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Working Sessions Current State and Future State Assessment Gap/Fit Analysis Business Process Analysis (BPA)

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Configuration Specifications Software Setup Data Integrations Data Conversion Plan System Runbook

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Test Cases and Scenarios System Test Plan Client Validation Issue Review and Resolution Customer Operational Guidebook

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Training Cycle Testing Issue Resolution Data Conversion System Live Transition to Customer Support

Technology Solutions

“I can’t say enough about how great Horizon is. The way they present ideas, talk through items to ensure the full group is understanding, and how willing they are to adjust their thought process when new requirements come to light is invaluable. Horizon is a key piece to this process, and everyone here is thankful for that.” —HORIZON UTILITY CLIENT

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Assessments

  • Provided Functional Lead Consultants for software assessment project: upgrade existing systems or implement new software solutions?
  • Provided Functional SMEs who interviewed Project Managers, Engineers, Finance & Accounting users to solicit requirements and understand current pain points
  • Mapped requirements and provided recommendations including a roadmap detailing how to adopt recommendations

Integrations

Developed Solution Design for integrations between Oracle Cloud Financials, Oracle Cloud PPM and:

  • Maximo
  • PowerPlan
  • Capital Planning & Budgeting tool (i.e., Enterprise Project Management – EPM)
  • The Project Management / Project Planning applications (i.e., MS Project, Unifier P6 etc.)
  • Customer Billing Systems (i.e., C2M)
  • Legacy Work Management Systems (i.e., WIMIS)

Solution Design

  • Authored and evangelized design that transformed the enterprise to a Project Centered organization.
  • Streamlined and automated:
    • Contribution in Aid of Construction (CIAC) process including CIAC consumption and work authorization process
    • AFUDC calculations on pre-unitized project costs
    • The in-service process including moving project costs from 107 to 106 in-service and ultimately from 106 to 101
    • Joint Use billing process
    • The unitization process, reducing all manual intervention that were required thus eliminating the capital projects backlog for
      – Capital Blanket projects
      – Capital Specific projects
      – EPC related projects
    • Unitizing incremental costs on projects that were previously capitalized
    • Intercompany billing processes creating transparent transactions between legal entities satisfying FERC audit requirements
    • Capturing the appropriate transactions in the FERC and GAAP ledgers
    • Joint Venture Management processes including how partners are invoiced
    • The project cost collection process for all projects including:
      – Operations & Maintenance (O & M)
      – Capital
      – Administrative
      – Billing
  • Created Finance footprint for 110 countries: established requirements, identifying Oracle gaps & solutions
  • Built & led Conceptual Prototype for finance & PPM
  • Created design to satisfy various revenue recognition localizations requirements

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