professional experience
Principal Engineer & Consultant
Phoenix Engineering Services
Denver, Colorado
February 2016 - Present
- Manage and support engineering and consulting projects
- Develop custom software for utility clients
- Consult on NERC compliance and other topics
Black & Veatch
Atlanta, Georgia & Denver, Colorado
January 2013 - February 2016
- Direct technical and business development of analytic solutions for the electric utility market
- Cultivate relationships with clients and strategic partners
- Drive organizational alignment between large vertical divisions
- Consult internally and externally on a wide array of electric utility subjects
- Manage and support engineering and consulting projects
NERC
Atlanta, Georgia
August 2011 - January 2013
- Analyze major Bulk Electric System events; was a key contributor to the September 8, 2011 Blackout analysis, power system simulation, and FERC/NERC Staff Report
- Perform steady-state & dynamic simulation and protective element modeling
- Execute special studies and provide engineering support to the larger organization
- Participate in key reliability initiatives and recruit industry support
- Coordinate the System Analysis and Modeling Subcommittee
- Help redefine and modernize the Reliability Standards, definitions, and metrics
- Compose and edit technical guidelines, reports and white papers
- Represent the organization at technical conferences
Telvent
Atlanta, Georgia
March 2010 - August 2011
- Consulted utility clients on SCADA and distribution operations solutions
- Provided power system and utility operations expertise to internal staff
- Guided Distribution and Outage Management Systems (DMS/OMS) product development
- Composed technical proposals for multimillion-dollar contracts
- Built software solutions and system architectures for projects
- Identified and developed relationships with potential clients and strategic business partners
Georgia Power Company
Atlanta, Georgia
June 2009 - March 2010
- Provided expertise and support in protection design, commissioning and testing
- Coordinated scheduling and execution of multimillion-dollar projects
- Supervised internal and external construction and maintenance crews
- Mentored and trained new engineers
- Re-designed protection schemes and logic on-the-fly
- Continued engineering duties as outlined below
July 2007 - June 2009
- Commissioned new and retrofit substation equipment
- Identified and corrected physical, protection and control design errors
- Performed end-to-end testing of protection schemes and associated relays
- Provided state-wide application support (including VB.NET programming)
- Managed routine substation testing and maintenance
- Installed and configured microprocessor relays and associated SCADA equipment
- Calibrated electromechanical and solid-state relays
- Developed automated relay testing routines and procedures
- Provided state-wide relay testing and commissioning support
- Responded to Control Center requests and emergencies (on-call rotation)
- Drafted and executed substation switching orders
- Represented department on company-wide technology committees
Cellnet Technology, Inc.
Alpharetta, Georgia
August 2006 - July 2007
- Managed prototype development teams for multimillion-dollar projects
- Initiated and chaired the AMI (now Smart Energy) Profile Task Group for the
cross-company ZigBee Alliance - Drove development of demand response, energy management and efficiency solutions
- Assisted with prototype engineering, protocol specification and code validation
- Identified and developed strategic partnership opportunities
- Translated market requirements into engineering specifications and high-level designs
- Consulted executive management on market positioning strategy and product roadmap
- Provided on-site and remote technical support to high-profile customers
- Acted as a subject matter expert on utility operating practices and organization
- Coordinated with channel partners, vendors and manufacturers
- Drafted RFI/RFP responses and market requirements documentation (MRD)
- Recommended product enhancements and proposed implementation methods
- Performed competitive and market analyses
- Designed customer ranking formula for sales commission structure
Baltimore Gas & Electric Company
Baltimore, Maryland
June 2005 - August 2006
- Performed requirements management, test planning and defect/resolution tracking
for Outage Management System (OMS) upgrade - Worked with Operations, IT and vendors on OMS upgrade
- Reduced and simplify manual data entry and processing through automation with Visual Basic
- Updated distribution system emergency response plan and practices
- Coordinated and conducted company-wide cross-discipline training sessions
- Led inter-department, cross-discipline process improvement teams
- Performed workload and manpower management studies for executive management
- Performed statistical analyses and develop 10-year multimillion-dollar budget
for aging cable replacement - Produce Operations training materials (including video and computer-based training)
- Responded during storms and emergencies (on-call rotation)
- Represented Operations management on project teams and technical committees
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