Tom Reynolds

Experience

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  EDF in the UK

  Sept 2011 - Oct 2020

  OutlineEnsured that trading strategies, optimisation and transactions of the Shift Trading Team were maximised in a sustainable and consistent manner.Key Responsibilities● Developing business processes to become ‘best in class’ for optimisation of battery storage assets.● Monitoring performance daily, coaching traders whilst designing and rolling out new trading strategies to maintain #1 rankings for asset optimisation.● Managing workload of the trading team in their delivery of subject matter expertise to business change projects.● Acting as the main commercial interface between Shift Traders and supporting day staff, e.g. Asset Operations, Market Analysis, Quants, IT & Powershift.Key Achievement/Projects● Improved tools and code for trading data analysis and execution, using both Python and Excel.● Delivered trading from home arrangements and managed team throughout COVID-19 pandemic. Show less OutlineMaximised the value of EDF Energy’s power and gas position in the spot and prompt markets.Key Responsibilities● Dispatching flexible coal and gas generation, optimising running patterns according to energy market conditions via the day ahead index, daily auctions and direct trading up to delivery.● Communicating energy market information to wider teams in EDF Energy.● Publishing UK nuclear fleet availability changes to the wider market.● Maintaining out of hours communications with 11 large power stations.Key Achievement/Projects● Earned hundreds of thousands of pounds in revenue in the Balancing Mechanism per shift.● Earned >£50k per year in personal trading decisions regarding imbalance volumes.● Completed challenging bespoke training programmes for power and gas trading authorisations. Show less OutlineDeveloped the programme of work to build an organisation of over 750 staff. Represented the ultimate customers of the first nuclear power station to be built in the UK for a generation: the operators.Key Responsibilities● Controlling technical design risks that could lead to future generation losses of up to £100 million over the station's 60-year operating life.● Leading the scheduling and risk management during early development of the Pre-Ops directorate.● Consulting for the control room screens and procedure development programme. Undertook training on control room simulators to develop knowledge.● Delivering and developing training for multiple modules of EPR Systems courses.● Championing organisational learning with a focus on industrial Safety Rules.● Designing mechanical plant systems with the designers, fulfilling the role of Intelligent Customer.Key Achievement/Projects● Scheduled and coordinated an executive committee of the company board for over 4 years.● Created and chaired monthly schedule review meetings, managing schedule quality for the whole Pre-Operations Programme.● Facilitated an international conference of 50 attendees at the company's flagship training centre.● Organised and conducted tours for 25 project staff inside SZB power station's containment building. Show less Outline:Safely and efficiently refuelled a pressurised water reactor on two separate outages. Via radio, coordinated the team who transferred irradiated fuel on critical path.Key Responsibilities:● Authorised and accounted for all fuel transfers between buildings.● Operated and maintained communications and inspection equipment.● Ensured adequate shift coverage for a continuous activity spanning several days.● Completed technical training for the assigned roles whilst mentoring less experienced colleagues.● Prepared paperwork beforehand, completed procedures during and archived documentationfollowing refuelling activities.Key Achievements/Projects:● Zero safety events.● Authored a mentor guide for future team members.● Achieved the fastest core offload time in the station's 20-year history. Show less Outline:Undertook a variety of Nuclear Science and Engineering training courses in addition to placements onnuclear generating sites to gain operational experience.Key Responsibilities:● Worked two-month rotations in technical departments on nuclear power stations around the UK(Operations, Technical & Safety, Engineering on location and centrally).● Researched projects pertaining to visual fuel inspections and plant modifications.● Supported nuclear operators and technicians in control rooms and out on plant.Key Achievements/Projects:● Produced a 60-page report benchmarking international best practices for In-Service Inspection.● Averaged 95% score across all technical training courses. Show less

  • Shift Trading Team Lead

    Jan 2020 - Oct 2020

  • Shift Trader

    Aug 2017 - Jan 2020

  • Operational Development Engineer

    Sept 2012 - Aug 2017

  • Fuel Route Engineer (Secondment)

    Jan 2013 - Jan 2014

  • Nuclear Graduate Trainee

    Sept 2011 - Aug 2012
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  EDF Renewables UK & Ireland

  Oct 2020 - now

  OutlineEnsuring that all technical and energy market related aspects of operational performance are analysed and optimum commercial performance is achieved. Including 500MWh storage, 1400MW wind & 177MW solar PV.Key Responsibilities● Inspiring a team of 14 managers and analysts to continually seek to improve commercial asset performance, whilst representing their interests across Asset Operations and the wider business.● Maintaining relationships with National Grid ESO, Routes to Market, OfGem and investors.● Digitising capabilities for performance and optimisation, enabling greater use of data and technology to realise insights into asset performance.● Ensuring compliance with all market rules and regulations.Key Achievements/Projects● Defined and led implementation of a new Grid Code Trading/Control Point strategy for UK Renewables, alongside international EDF entities.● Built a cross-technology team of analysts who lead projects to improve commercial performance. Show less OutlineEnsuring that every operational asset is achieving peak commercial performance.Key Responsibilities● Leading a programme of portfolio opportunity projects, prioritised by value & ease of implementation.● Tendering operational and in-construction assets into new ancillary services, placing hedges for windfarms and overseeing all trading activities performed by EDFR’s battery trading partners.● Originating battery storage trading & optimisation contracts as well as all ancillary service contracts.● Planning storage outages commercially at EFA block level and reducing unplanned downtime.● Managing onboarding, commercial and technical performance analysis/reporting for storage.● Advising development teams about ancillary service assumptions for project business cases across wind, solar and storage technologies.Key Achievements/Projects● Spearheaded inclusion of renewables into the Capacity Market, adding £9m of value in one auction.● Ran Operational Decision Making processes to manage restrictions on operational assets.● Coached a team through multiple tenders with associated governance, including NESO’s Electricity System Restoration services & the Constraint Management Intertrip Service.● Developed and ran the business’s first battery reporting system using Python, SQL and Tableau. Show less

  • Head of Performance & Optimisation

    Oct 2024 - now

  • Revenue Optimisation Manager

    Oct 2020 - Dec 2024