Experience

ELES, d.o.o., combined transmission and distribution system operator of the Republic of Slovenia

• Slovenia
• Oil and Gas
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Market Relations Specialist

  • Mar 2019 - Present

  On behalf of ELES actively participating in different international design and implementation working groups focusing on improving the current energy market in Europe . My role is to represent company’s views in drafting a common market design for trading with electricity within Europe and to implement adopted market design on an international and local level.

• SIDC Testing and Quality Assurance group Co-leader

  • Feb 2021 - Sep 2023

  Leading the testing working group for the central platform within the European Single Intraday Coupling (SIDC – formerly XBID) project from planning phase to a successful Go-live deployment. The role includes daily coordination and support with internal and external stakeholders, planning and preparation for future releases, problem-solving activities to enable smooth testing and meeting the product quality standards when following the agreed project timeline.

• Senior Scheduling Engineer

  • Jan 2014 - Mar 2019

  ▪ Responsibilities included in the Junior Scheduling Engineer position. ▪ Responsible for REMIT implementation and daily reporting to ACER. Successfully designed and implemented an internal system for automatic creation of reports. Past and on-going projects where I was actively involved: ▫ Italian Borders Working Table (IBWT) Implementation of Day-Ahead (DA) Market Coupling (MC) on Slovenian borders. ▫ Single Intraday Continuous Coupling (XBID) Leading the project… Show more ▪ Responsibilities included in the Junior Scheduling Engineer position. ▪ Responsible for REMIT implementation and daily reporting to ACER. Successfully designed and implemented an internal system for automatic creation of reports. Past and on-going projects where I was actively involved: ▫ Italian Borders Working Table (IBWT) Implementation of Day-Ahead (DA) Market Coupling (MC) on Slovenian borders. ▫ Single Intraday Continuous Coupling (XBID) Leading the project implementation within ELES. Member of a different working groups and managing systems modifications and internal processes ▫ Central East Europe Scheduling Working Group ▫ Single Allocation Platform ▫ Central East Europe Flow-based Market Coupling ▫ Cross-Border Intraday Implicit Allocation (ID-IA) on IT-SI ▫ Terms and conditions for Balancing market in Slovenia ▫ E-Badge Project ELES as a TSO was participating in EU project for cross-border balancing activities. I was part of the team responsible for preparing scenarios and perform the tests within determined scenarios. The cross-border activities were executed between Slovenia, Austria and Italy.

• Junior scheduling engineer

  • Jul 2012 - Jan 2014

  ▪ Responsible for supervising the reservation and nomination process of schedules for cross border contracts for future, day-ahead and intraday timeframes (available 24/7). ▪ Responsible for exchanging and matching of metering data on interconnection tie-lines with neighbouring countries. Calculation of the compensation for SHB Block (all Control Areas) for accounting and settlement process. ▪ Forecasting the consumption, production and losses of electrical energy in Slovenia… Show more ▪ Responsible for supervising the reservation and nomination process of schedules for cross border contracts for future, day-ahead and intraday timeframes (available 24/7). ▪ Responsible for exchanging and matching of metering data on interconnection tie-lines with neighbouring countries. Calculation of the compensation for SHB Block (all Control Areas) for accounting and settlement process. ▪ Forecasting the consumption, production and losses of electrical energy in Slovenia. Creating, learning and maintaining the models of Slovenia for different areas within Slovenia. ▪ Trading with electrical energy for purposes of ELES Balance group (covering grid losses and system balancing). ▪ Responsible for Slovenian local issuing office (LIO) of Energy Identification Codes (EIC). LIO is responsible for issuing, maintaining and communication with Central Issuing Office in Brussels (CIO). I have proposed and successfully implemented a new software tool for mitigating the issuing, maintaining and communication process with all stakeholders. ▪ Preparing different daily, monthly and yearly analysis and reports within the organization. Standardized reports were automated with self-coding programs (VBA, VB).



Microsoft

• United States
• Software Development
• 700 & Above Employee

• Microsoft promoter for OEM business

  • Dec 2008 - Jun 2012

  - Promoting the newest versions of Microsoft products in retail stores, - Telesales (Selling products and tracing customer satisfaction of purchased products) - Mystery shooper - Promoter at events (Študentska Arena event)

• Member of a NT conference staff

  • May 2007 - May 2011

  This is the biggest IT and technological event in Slovenia. I was a member of a team responsbile for technical and customer support during events.