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Formed in 1907, Cleveland Public Power (CPP) is Ohio's largest municipal power provider serving over 1.5M megawatt-hours of electric energy to more than 74,000 local residents and businesses each year. CPP also owns and operates more than 61,000 streetlights, recently converted to LED.

Subject Matter Expert (SME) and member of the Leadership Team responsible for the formulation of regional strategic priorities and business initiatives to drive key programs and projects for the region and ultimately, organizational growth. Provide regulatory consulting support, ensuring internal legal and regulatory compliance frameworks balance with business productivity enablement, strategic goals and objectives. • Spearheaded the end-to-end lifecycle for the 18-month CAISO Energy Imbalance Market (EIM) initiative. • Negotiated with internal and external stakeholders on complex strategic issues impacting the progress of major regional and WAPA-wide projects. • Conceptualized and developed a collaborative and equitable solution to address renewable interconnection demands and the predicted associated strain on voltage control. • Recruited as SME and Thought Leader to represent public perspective at state hearings in relation to industry-relevant laws and regulations.

Drove the development and implementation of a region-wide project management framework to effectively plan and schedule large-scale maintenance, rehabilitation, and construction initiatives relating to electric transmission assets and regional power, for a continuous, forward rolling five-year period. Executed process improvement and operational measures, and integrated robust stakeholder communication with cohesive risk mitigation strategies, to ensure the delivery of project management best practices. • Standardized critical project management and administrative processes for construction and maintenance projects located across three geographical zones to help streamline project performance. • Strategically guided executive leadership in the adoption a customer-centric culture of change to better connect people and business with core organizational goals and values through high quality customer service and deliverables.

Oversaw the design of a strategic plan to support the effective execution of special projects and programs for the Power Marketing department, with a focus on integrating knowledge, skills, tools, and techniques, to formulate impactful data-driven outcomes. • Introduced a contemporary IT and business system together with proprietary software to automate and streamline processes for faster and better alignment of people and technology, providing a single source of truth that supported a collaborative work environment. • Established a Hydropower Operations Committee for the Central Valley Project and encouraged a best practice sharing ecosystem between various professional and industry bodies, and key internal and external stakeholders.