Alyssa Gates Email & Phone Number

• Responsible for providing engineering and technical guidance for capital construction substation projects from conception through final construction to design engineers, supply chain, management, and construction.
• Ensure project needs are met including material, scope, and logistics through constant communication with multiple stakeholders including Engineering Design, Construction crews, and Management.
• Create and manage Capital and Maintenance projects by estimating project costs in TEAMS and forecasting major materials needed.
• Serves as the departments Invoice Reconciler in Maximo with responsibilities including processing invoice holds and approving invoices, purchase requisitions, and purchase orders. Ensure vendor promise dates meet the.
• Closeout all capital work orders by reconciling material units in TEAMS, sending asset retirements in PowerPlan to Property Accounting, and re-estimating work orders to match actual costs.
• Support Construction and Maintenance efforts within the Transmission Organization.

• Support for design activities for large capital electric utility transmission projects from conception through start of construction including managing scope, initiating budgets, and ensuring scheduled dates are met.
• Served as a consistent point of contact for engineering deliverables to the project manager to ensure completion of project materials in a timely manner.
• Led and managed Condition Based Maintenance (CBM) pilot initiative to install infrared cameras in substations to monitor major equipment such as transformers, transmission breakers, and CCVTs.
• Spearheaded project meetings to discuss logistics and deliverables.
• Assisted in the overall implementation of the standard Gated Process while managing multiple projects.

Starkville, Mississippi, United States

• Created and Edited User Guides using document and process improvement to better user interaction with software tools.
• Constructed a 3D Plant model using GCD Creator
• Assisted in training for the implementation of new software tools for generation plants system wide.

Corinth, Mississippi

• Process mapped over 800 sub-parts.
• Contributed to various projects to help eliminate waste and capture cycle times.
• Analyzed data to provide an analysis of processes in different assembly and disassembly areas.

Master Of Business Administration - Mba, Project Management, 4.00

Bachelor Of Science - Bs, Industrial And Systems Engineering, 3.76

Activities and Societies: National Society of Black Engineers Institute of Industrial and Systems Engineers Nu Beta chapter of Delta Sigma.