Anthony Funk, Mem Email & Phone Number

Juno Beach, Florida, United States

Juno Beach, Florida, United States

Engineering and Commercial Rotation Program - supporting strategic renewable repower objectives

Juno Beach, Florida, United States

Business Services Manager overseeing NextEra Energy Solar PV, Thermal Solar, Distributed Generation, and Energy Storage asset cost and performance.

Juno Beach, Florida, United States

Business Services leader overseeing NextEra Energy Resources Solar PV, Distributed Generation, and Energy Storage assets. Responsible for overall total cost, metrics, initiatives, and reporting out to senior leadership.• Managed total cost O&M and availability lost revenue yearly budget of $78 MM for the solar PV, storage, and distributed generation portfolios and presented current month, year to date, and year end financials to executive management• Led the energy storage augmentation strategy by developing a cross-functional team with operations, engineering, central maintenance, and cost & growth to modify technical requirements and adjust augmentation capacity resulting in $10 MM in savings • Maintained partnerships with operations by providing financial leadership to support decision making and strategy development resulting in a 4% year over year total cost reduction• Provided guidance and council for energy storage availability lost revenue calculations by translating PPA language and overseeing calculation development highlighting $7 MM in revenue opportunities• Mentored teammates on improving critical thinking ability, trend identification, and technical knowledge to enhance partnerships with the operation and engineering teams and improve employee engagement• Supported annual velocity cost savings initiative resulting in $20 MM in savings

Regional Engineering Leader for FPL Solar PV & Storage, South Region• Led the Solar & Storage Florida South Region operations team of engineers with zero safety events by implementing a zero today regional culture, training with a focus on our electrical safety program and a minute-by-minute safety mindset, promoting the electrical safety cycle, and mentoring through field observations and coaching• Maintained all profitability indicators through innovative operational practices, strategic resource placement, and third-party DC field contract development resulting in a favorable $251k variance from the year end budget of $1.15 MM• Managed 8 utility scale Solar & Storage sites producing the lowest EFOR (0.31%) and ALF (1.05%) performance in the state by growing team capabilities, cross training engineers on all technologies, and applying quality tools & methods to daily tasks• Completed the first company successful combustion turbine black start from a battery energy storage site by collaborating and leading a cross functional team with engineering & construction, development, fossil operations, and power delivery organizations• Implemented and completed a DMADV green belt project to design an automated DC field work order dispatching process resulting in an 85% reduction in non-value added field time and $2.5 MM 5-year NPV O&M savings• Executed and integrated work management processes with full utilization of the ROCC, CWE, and Maximo tools resulting in a yearly process health score of 89%, exceeding the regional target of 80%

• Managed Manatee Solar Photovoltaic Site producing the lowest availability loss factor in FPL’s fleet (0.41%) by predicting and adapting to changing equipment conditions, proactively structuring preventative maintenance, and addressing technical challenges with methodical troubleshooting and root cause assessments • Certified Six Sigma Green Belt - Completed a DMADV project to design an automated DC field work order dispatching process resulting in an 85% reduction in non-value added field time and 2.5MM 5-year NPV O&M savings• Compiled, calculated, and analyzed key company financial statistics and performed industry comparison studies against Black and Veatch & Lazard best-in-class averages aiding senior leadership to track company progress and highlight continued success

Charlotte, North Carolina

• Provided direct engineering guidance to the Eastern Carolina generator fleet of 53 natural gas and coal fired units (~12,000 MW) varying in rating, manufacturer, and configuration resulting in the lowest number of lost megawatt-hour events (11%) of all four regions in the fleet • Developed and executed detailed work scopes, specifications, and maintenance strategies encompassing all generator related outage work accounting and for unit condition, fleet risk, performance deviations, and manufacturer recommendations saving millions of dollars in emergent events• Researched new data driven monitoring techniques such as Electromagnetic Spectrum Analysis (EMSA) contributing to the development of new analytical techniques that could have prevented (at least six) failures and act as the company liaison to the Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI)

Charlotte, North Carolina Area

• Designed, developed, tested, and implemented the Optimized Planning and Tracking of Interval-Based Maintenance (OPTIM) application; a strategic outage planning analytics tool that allowed budgeting resources to be allocated more efficiently across over 650 turbine and generator assets and 2600 maintenance activities• Created and maintained a fleet health dashboard containing 3400 calculations and 3900 PI data points published monthly/quarterly to the Fossil Hydro Operations organization• Performed financial analysis comparing the dollar-per-megawatt hour risk incurred across the generation fleet by splitting $125M O&M dollars between projects at different funding levels

Bartow, Fl

Hines Energy Complex - Four 2x1 combined cycle units ~2000MW CapacityRotation 1: Instrumentation and Controls Rotation 2: Electrical Systems

University Of Florida

• Managed student interactions with Microsoft and Windows products at the 8th largest University in the nation• Planned, organized, and executed creative student-driven events throughout the year to promote products and awareness by performing hands-on trials to over 1600 students• Reported technical and financial statistics from student feedback and findings in weekly management meetings

Bachelor’S Degree, Electrical Engineering, 3.00/4.00

Activities and Societies: President & Founder UF Power and Energy Club, Project Lead Haiti Power System Project, Dance Marathon, Lambda.

Master'S Degree, Engineering Management, 4.00/4.00

Graduated Summa Cum Laude. Masters of Science in Engineering Management with a concentration on lean six sigma, logistics, and supply chain.