Ed Baker

Partner

Ed Baker has been a consultant, and with ScottMadden, since 2001. He specializes in operations improvement, financial analysis and modeling, outsourcing advisory services, and fleet playbooks/management models. He is a graduate of the Babcock Graduate School of Business at Wake Forest University, where he was a Babcock Scholar. While at Wake Forest, he won the Kiplinger Prize for academic achievement and leadership potential, the Robert N. White Award for most outstanding management consulting practicum project and the Babcock Award for managerial potential, based on scholastic performance, leadership, and integrity. Prior to attending graduate school, Ed was vice president of professional banking with a North Carolina bank. He earned a B.S. in financial management at Clemson University, cum laude.

Specialties

Recent Assignments

Specialties

Operations improvement and process redesign
Financial analysis
Merger and acquisition integration
Business planning
Nuclear generation business management
Nuclear new build
Gas LDC operations
RFI and RFP development

Recent Assignments

For a top ten fleet operator, managed the development of its playbook/management model to operate as a fleet, including establishing corporate functional oversight and clarifying accountabilities
For multiple gas LDCs, managed large multi-team projects to assess their current state processes, functions and organizations, and led teams through developing future state designs and business cases to support implementation
Developed root cause hierarchy and metrics to identify key drivers of performance for a non-regulated division of a large gas utility; implemented new metrics along with newly designed reporting tools
Developed a business plan outline for an international nuclear operating company embarking on its new build program; outlined the contents of a business plan, reviewed the current state, conducted an assessment of critical gaps, and recommended a roadmap for populating the business plan
Worked with a large gas and electric company to assess its technical training function and outline a future state vision aligned with its strategic direction
Developed a “playbook” to document a large generation company’s approach to building new nuclear generation; assisted with the marketing and launch of a new business line, including responding to opportunities to provide this service to others
Managed a 23-team functional area gap review and improvement plan for an underperforming nuclear station’s alignment with their operational “Playbook”
Assisted a large field services company define its business requirements and led the RFI/RFP development and selection process for a mobile automated workflow solution
Worked with the low carbon development group of a large energy company to facilitate the creation of its mission, vision, guiding principles, scope, and goals. Documented a standard methodology for performing mergers and acquisitions in addition to the construction of renewable power generation and energy storage. Developed the process for conducting technology research and providing market intelligence to decision makers and influencers within senior management
Worked with an 1,800-employee company to define and document their core business processes into an operational “playbook”
Managed a 17-team, 50+ member project for a large utility merger that assessed each company’s processes and organization gaps, identified best practices, and outlined implementation plans
Managed the analysis/documentation of a billing process, determined the cause of manual work and exceptions, and developed the business requirements and implementation plan to improve the process

Contact Information

Phone

(404)814-0020

E-mail

edbaker@scottmadden.com

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