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In a recent CommodityLogic staff meeting, I took stock of the number of
people and projects that I have provided from Energy Operations to that team. From conversations that you and I have had, I get the impression that perhaps others have led you to believe that my commitment to CommodityLogic has been limited. The truth is that I hand picked key members of the team and transferred projects that we were already undertaking in Energy Operations to round out the suite of products to be offered through CommodityLogic. I just thought that it might be helpful for you to have the facts so that you are fully informed whenever you are involved in conversations around CommodityLogic. Staffing Contributions CommodityLogic Project Manager (NomLogic): Carrie Slagle, Manager CommodityLogic Project Maanger (Integration): Susan Harrison, Manager CommodityLogic Project Manager (ContactLogic) Mary Solmonson, Senior Director CommodityLogic Team Member (NomLogic): Molly Sumrow, Specialist User Requirement and Testing Staff: Energy Operations Gas Schedulers, Power Confirmation Team and Financial Settlements Projects Transferred to CommodityLogic NomLogic (previously known as Contract Exchange in Energy Operations) ContactLogic (global databases in Energy Operations) Two of the Project Managers on the team, Carrie Slagle and Susan Harrison, were transferred from Energy Operations to CommodityLogic. Both had worked in managerial roles in our natural gas business, reporting to Brent Price. Both had been significantly challenged in the first half of 2000 by roles where they were charged with managing large teams of people. But knowing both Carrie and Susan well, I viewed them as valuable members of the operations team who know a lot about the business. Both have proven in the past to be good project leaders. Therefore, identifying them as project managers for CommodityLogic made a lot of sense -- providing gas operations experience to the CommodityLogic effort and utilizing their skills most appropriately . Brent Price and I worked together to sell Susan and Carrie on the assignment and to transition them to their CommodityLogic roles very quickly. One of the key team members working under Carrie Slagle on NomLogic was a scheduler on our gas team (Molly). Bob Hall, our opeartions controller over natural gas, suggested that a scheduler on the team would be valuable, since Carrie and Susan have actually never scheduled gas themselves. NomLogic was already a project that was underway in Energy Operations. We started the project shortly after the tremendous ramp up in natural gas volumes due to EOL transactions. We called the project Contract Exchange, and Bob Superty, who is the daily manager over gas logistics, was the project sponsor. Tom looped in our Contract Exchange project into CommodityLogic and subsequently renamed it NomLogic. Molly had been a member of the Contract Exchange project team, and we transfered her along with the project to CommodityLogic. Many of my key employees in gas scheduling, confirmations and settlements work very closely with the various CommodityLogic project managers. It is input from my group that has created the modules by defining user requirements and they have served as the testing teams as well. In the fall, I assigned Mary Solmonson to focus full time on CommodityLogic. I recognized that we needed more senior level involvement and I viewed Mary's participation as a good way to leverage my time. Previously, she was a senior director managing our Global Databases group. With an IT development background and a very thorough knowledge of our operations business, Mary was the perfect candidate out of my direct report team to focus on CommodityLogic. Unfortunately, her recent health problems will curtail her involvement going forward. During the five months that she was assigned to CommodityLogic, Mary developed a plan for ContactLogic that Tom feels is excellent and notes that it is an important complement to the other modules. Early in the project, I had also selected two very key and knowledgeable operations professionals to be part of the CommodityLogic team - Leslie Reeves, who played a significant role in building Enron's power business from day one, and Todd Hall, with experience in natural gas and emerging products. They were part of the CommodityLogic team in the early days, and both made personal decisions to exit the team and return to managing mid and back office operations. Susan Harrison and Carrie Slagle were their replacements on CommodityLogic.
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