status clayton discuss request come back office monday regarding trip portland trip requires explicit prior permission boss absence stinson vasant absence case ask permission request denied vince clayton vernon enron 07 20 2000 03 12 pm vasant shanbhogue hou ect ect cc vince j kaminski hou ect ect subject status vasant hope wonderful vacation back home rested recovered long flight back wanted give update eol project gas model intentions enron software compiled c unix platform developed debugged listen eol trades process book file away addition software developed debugged mark market continual basis store entirety open positions eol dynamic matrix facilitating analysis yet get back software informed trades ultimately rejected credit purposes data files stored format reading excel sas written data step program basic tabulation routines elucidating structure data process documenting regards gas model slow performance compaq dell agreed loan one competing machines compaq see performance issue lp related compaq researching issue compaq dell new machine day financial obligation anyone able immediately ascertain whether problem model compaq specific also process documenting gas model tried best vasant frustrated death mother internal systems day sas could open full query eol database enough free space server hard drive workfiles discussing issues good friends mine power trading people known 10 years indicated ubiquitous power traders similar pc new one complained day 1 slower old ones also remains large frustration development data warehouses brief tenure gone two differing proposals address told tools available real time data harvesting requests typically met well really tested yet example weather still record disk hourly nws observations goes satellite interests help enron well well enron well empty words ira 100 invested enron stock fund believe best contributions enron areas systems well modeling difficulty working research group terms systems development frankly people enron seem care researcher thinks systems directly generating revenues enron really customers except relatively small deparrtmental infrastructure expenses happens power trading posted opening modeling forecasting person spoke asked take job reporting george hopley wonderful opportunity vasant interested large system modelng power grids well improving traders access real time fundamentals data completely candid kevin presto regarding shortcomings research told disgusted repeatedly failed meet time deadlines also understand yet enron 1 year thus may bid job permission agree move good enron work enron acquiescence move endorse merely permit comfortable known years hard worker honest unpretensive already ordered state art unix workstation server told commit whatever resources necessary successful including hiring analyst work already able teach analysts improved techniques data harvesting analysis learned requesting permission bid job opening would lateral move position salary would commit help way possible future regards gas model eol database continue work improvement complete documentation happens away enron business portland monday tuesday back wednesday wanted talk face face instead email enron business supercedes team designing data warehouse floor trader support clayton