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Trevor Sutherland

Trevor Sutherland

Energy Strategy, Analytics & Technology

Louisville, Kentucky, US
(859) 230-3418
English, Persian, French, German

Background


About

About

Senior energy analytics, market intelligence, and data strategy professional with a track record of designing quantitative decision-support systems across energy markets, pricing strategy, sustainability investments, and enterprise transformation initiatives. Experienced in translating complex market, regulatory, operational, and financial dynamics into actionable insights, risk frameworks, and scalable data capabilities that support strategic decision-making. Combines deep energy market expertise with modern analytics, software engineering, data governance, and AI enablement to help organizations navigate uncertainty and accelerate business outcomes. Areas of focus include energy markets, quantitative risk analysis, forecasting, market intelligence, data modernization, enterprise analytics, and practical AI adoption.

Work Experience

Work Experience

  • Managment Consultant, Accenture

    Mar, 2026 - Present

    Lead analytical, market intelligence, and digital transformation initiatives that support strategic decision-making across energy markets and enterprise operations.

    • Develop quantitative risk and scenario-analysis frameworks supporting energy market decision-making, including evaluation of natural gas market risks and contingency planning for European operations.

    • Produce recurring market intelligence covering North American energy markets, communicating key developments, risks, and opportunities to executives, commercial teams, and external clients.

    • Serve on cross-functional market and risk committees, providing analytical input and hedging recommendations to support commercial and risk-management objectives

    • Represent business stakeholders in long-term data modernization efforts, helping define enterprise data strategy, architecture, governance, and platform priorities.

    • Lead initiatives to improve data lineage, traceability, accessibility, and reporting through modern cloud-based data platforms and structured ingestion, transformation, and reporting layers.

    • Support organizational adoption of analytics, machine learning, and AI capabilities by establishing practical frameworks for sustainable, governed, and business-aligned use.

  • Sr. Data Scientist - AI Foundry, Trane Technologies

    Apr, 2024 - Mar, 20261 year 11 months

    Design, architect, and build a bespoke agent-orchestration application for an internal LLM chat application.

    • Work with a small team to build, deploy and maintain an enterprise-wide internal ChatGPT analog in less than 3 months.

    • Consult with business stakeholders to design, create, and deploy generative AI business solutions in an agile/scrum/kanban based framework.

    • Supervise junior developers and seasonal interns to make improvements to the system and introduce software development best practices.

    • Partner with team members, business representatives, and IT and business leaders to develop and implement roadmap for future feature development.

    • Assist infrastructure and DevSecOps efforts through research and the creation of GitHub Actions / Terraform scripts.

  • Sr. Data Scientist - CHVAC Services, Trane Technologies

    Jul, 2021 - Apr, 20242 years 9 months

    Supported 7 SMEs across the entire commercial services portfolio of products, providing advanced data science and engineering help and augmenting capacity when needed.

    • Provided analytic support to a pricing transformation project valued at $30M / year.

    • Worked with summer interns to refactor 5 data sets into one, creating a single source of truth for reporting.

  • Financial Professional 2, MRA Analysis, Humana

    Sep, 2020 - Jul, 202110 months

    Prepared quarterly reports for compliance and oversight. Refactored standard reports from Excel/VBA into SQL stored procedures

    • Automated repetitive work using VBA, SQL and PowerShell.

    • Validated all MRA risk scores across entire customer base on a quarterly basis for bookkeepers and Federal oversight

  • Sr. Analyst, Quality Engineer, IT, Nationwide Advisory Services

    Dec, 2019 - Sep, 20209 months

    Performed manual and automated testing for web-based applications, including end-to-end testing, regression testing, and UX validation.

    • Participated in the launch of a new Tier I financial product

    • Assisted with testing for integration with two external vendor websites

  • Energy Markets Analyst, Trane Technologies

    Oct, 2016 - Dec, 20193 years 2 months

    Held regular market calls with customers and internal groups over current regional and national trends in natural gas, power, and related markets.

    • Created analysis for sustainability-centered financial agreements totaling $500M.

    • Built machine learning models to forecast energy markets, reducing errors and expanding services.

  • Energy Scheduler, Trane Technologies

    Nov, 2015 - Oct, 201611 months

    Forecasted load and validated wholesale power invoices, developed applications to automate processes.

    • Developed applications in PHP, C#, and VBA to reduce data entry errors.

  • Manager, Coffee Times Coffee House

    Oct, 2009 - Nov, 20156 years 1 month

    Trained and managed a staff of up to 17 employees.

Projects Experience

Projects Experience

  • EVA – Employee Virtual Assistant (Enterprise GenAI Platform)

    Oct, 2024 - Feb, 20261 year 4 months

    Enterprise-scale generative AI platform designed to accelerate decision-making and knowledge access across a global organization.

    • Architected and delivered an internal ChatGPT-style platform used by >20,000 employees with ~5,000 regular users

    • Designed and implemented a modular agent-orchestration architecture enabling retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), file uploads, web search, and code execution

    • Led a from-scratch rewrite transitioning the system to a composable, agentic design to improve extensibility and governance

    • Developed lifecycle and validation model for user-maintained RAG agents, including corpus testing and pre-deployment quality checks

    • Built and deployed using Python, FastAPI, Semantic Kernel, Azure AI Foundry, Promptflow, and Azure-native infrastructure

    • Launched initial production version in under 90 days and iterated through multiple enterprise releases

  • Pricing Transformation (Value-Based Pricing Analytics)

    Jul, 2021 - Apr, 20231 year 8 months

    Analytics and decision-support initiative enabling transition from cost-based to value-based pricing in commercial energy services.

    • Supported transition to value-based pricing by translating proprietary pricing methodologies into transparent, decision-ready metrics

    • Designed and maintained analytics dashboards tailored to field sales, regional leadership, and corporate stakeholders

    • Partnered with subject matter experts to formalize assumptions, sensitivities, and pricing drivers

    • Enabled improved pricing discipline and contributed to approximately $30MM in sustained annual revenue growth over three years

  • Prospector (Sales Opportunity Vetting Platform)

    Mar, 2022 - Apr, 20231 year 1 month

    Internal analytics platform to accelerate evaluation and prioritization of commercial energy service opportunities.

    • Led data engineering efforts integrating Salesforce, BigQuery, and on-prem Oracle data sources

    • Designed analytics layer supporting rapid opportunity screening and standardized evaluation criteria

    • Delivered Salesforce-integrated dashboards with embedded Tableau visualizations for field and leadership use

    • Reduced time required to vet complex sales opportunities and improved consistency of deal evaluation

  • Contract Attachment Simplification

    May, 2023 - Aug, 20233 months

    Consolidation of business-critical reporting to improve clarity, consistency, and downstream analytics readiness.

    • Coordinated with multiple business stakeholders to align on shared definitions, assumptions, and KPIs

    • Consolidated three Tableau dashboards and five Alteryx workflows into a single, authoritative reporting workflow

    • Integrated reporting outputs with Salesforce via deep links across multiple object types

    • Established a standardized dataset suitable for downstream machine learning and advanced analytics use cases

  • Virtual Power Purchase Agreement (VPPA) Risk Analysis Framework

    Mar, 2019 - Nov, 20198 months

    Quantitative modeling framework for evaluating financial and market risk in virtual power purchase agreements.

    • Developed long-horizon power price forecasting models using Prophet and Bayesian Structural Time Series (BSTS)

    • Simulated regional generation fleets, fuel inputs, regulatory regimes, and ISO/RTO-specific market mechanisms

    • Forecasted hourly zonal power prices across PJM, MISO, NYISO, ISO-NE, and ERCOT up to 30 years forward

    • Enabled scenario analysis and what-if exploration of market fundamentals and policy impacts

    • Applied framework to client decisions totaling approximately $500MM in net present value for sustainability and generation investments

  • SQL-Based Financial Reporting Automation

    Dec, 2020 - Aug, 20218 months

    Automation of time-intensive financial reporting processes to improve accuracy and close efficiency.

    • Replaced complex Excel-based reporting with parameterized MS SQL Server stored procedures

    • Automated monthly financial close reporting processes

    • Reduced manual effort by approximately 40 hours per month while improving reproducibility and auditability

Skills

Skills

  • Energy Markets & Commercial Analytics

    Natural Gas Markets

    Power Markets

    Energy Procurement

    Commodity Risk Management

    Hedging Strategy

    Market Intelligence

    Energy Market Fundamentals

    Renewable Energy Analysis

    Virtual Power Purchase Agreements (VPPAs)

    Long-Term Energy Forecasting

    Scenario Planning

    Commercial Decision Support

  • Quantitative Analytics & Modeling

    Quantitative Risk Analysis

    Statistical Modeling

    Time Series Forecasting

    Machine Learning

    Predictive Analytics

    Scenario Analysis

    Optimization

    Experimental Design

    Business Intelligence

    Decision Support Systems

    Data Visualization

  • Data Strategy & Governance

    Data Modernization

    Enterprise Data Strategy

    Data Governance

    Data Architecture

    Data Lineage & Traceability

    Master Data Management

    Information Management

    Data Quality Programs

    Cloud Data Platforms

    Reporting & Analytics Architecture

  • Artificial Intelligence & Emerging Technology

    Generative AI

    Large Language Models (LLMs)

    Agentic Systems

    AI Enablement

    AI Governance

    Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG)

    Model Evaluation

    Semantic Kernel

    Azure AI Foundry

    Model Context Protocol (MCP)

  • Software Engineering & Data Engineering

    Python

    FastAPI

    REST APIs

    Data Pipelines

    ETL / ELT Development

    SQL

    PostgreSQL

    Snowflake

    MongoDB

    Redis

    Docker

    Git

    CI/CD

    Linux

  • Cloud & Platform Technologies

    Microsoft Azure

    Azure OpenAI

    Azure App Service

    Azure Functions

    Azure Logic Apps

    Azure Storage

    Azure Cosmos DB

    Azure Container Registry

    Azure AI Services

    Cloud-Native Architecture

  • Leadership & Collaboration

    Strategic Planning

    Stakeholder Management

    Cross-Functional Leadership

    Technical Program Leadership

    Executive Communication

    Requirements Gathering

    Change Management

    Process Improvement

    Technology Adoption

    Team Enablement

Education

Education

  • Diplomacy and International Commerce, M.A., University of Kentucky

    Aug, 2010 - Dec, 2012

    Analytic Methods for Intelligence

    Geopolitical Modeling

    Cross-Cultural Negotiations

    Energy Security

    Defense Statecraft

    Economic Statecraft

  • Political Science, B.A., Wittenberg University

    Aug, 2002 - May, 2006

    International Relations

    Political Philosophy

    International Political Economy

    Classical Guitar Performance

    Vocal Performance

    Music Theory

    Silver Jewelry Making

Awards

Awards

  • Chairman's Award , Trane Technologies

    Awarded on: Dec 01, 2024

    Innovation in the area of generative AI product development.

  • President's Award , Trane Technologies

    Awarded on: Jan 01, 2024

    Data engineering and solution development on Project Prospector.

  • President's Award , Trane Technologies

    Awarded on: Jan 01, 2024

    Creation of orchestration layer for Employee Virtual Assistant (EVA).

Volunteer Work

Volunteer Work

  • Board Member, Worthington Place Homeowners Association

    Dec, 2025 - Present

    Elected voting member of the HOA board, responsible for community decision-making and neighborhood advocacy.

    • Collaborated with a 5–7 member board to represent and support a neighborhood of 200+ homes.

    • Coordinated with contractors to ensure prompt winter snow removal and proactive seasonal preparation.

Publications

Publications

Interests

Interests

  • Violin

    Scottish FiddleClassical Violin
  • Woodworking

    Hand ToolsHandmade Furniture
  • Martial Arts

    Kung FuJiu-JitsuHEMAFencing