Meet Benjamin Gallegos, a Houston-based energy risk professional, software developer, and system implementation specialist with a strong financial background. With over a decade of experience in a variety of business settings, including oil field services, manufacturing, merchant energy trading, and energy exploration and production environments, he's a jack of all trades when it comes to managing risk and implementing technical solutions. Gallegos has a particular interest in database development, IS audit, system implementation, technical documentation, and data migration and conversion projects.

Gallegos is a graduate of Houston Community College and the University of North Texas. He's worked as a Principal and Practice Director at AFG Capital Management, Vice President of Sales at SMART Group, Senior Developer/Consultant at Titus Consulting Group, Applications Developer at Forge USA, Risk Control Analyst at Sequent Energy Management, Controller at Apex Oil & Gas, Managing Partner at Peak Producer Services, Accounting Manager at Crow Holdings, and Staff/Senior Accountant at Crow Holdings. Currently, he is a Data Analyst at Texas HHSC.

Gallegos' specialties include energy risk management practices, VaR methodologies, quantitative commodity portfolio analyses, mark-to-market valuation and calibration, statistical modeling, work flow analysis, ER modeling, system design and process documentation, business information requirements gathering, high-level project definitions, and system evaluation. He has experience using applications such as MS VBA, C/C++/Java 6.1/J2EE, MS .NET framework, PHP, Oracle Database 10g/9i, and PL SQL.