Aaron Prazan Email & Phone Number

Houston, TX, US

• PM for a $6.5M DOE grant to install synchrophasors at bulk power substations, implement NERC CIP cybersecurity controls, and validate data from new phasor monitors. Involved in all parts of the project from initiation.
• Coordinate effort of direct reports and team leads from IT, engineering, construction, operations, and multiple vendors
• Weekly and monthly reporting to DOE, NYISO and other stakeholders, including Earned Value Metric analysis to monitor the project and index its performance
• Frequent and detailed reporting to stakeholders, upper management, grant awardee, and US DOE using multiple project dashboards
• Lead contact for detailed audits of timesheets, purchasing practices, cyber security, and other project deliverables subject to evidentiary documentation.
• Smart Grid project team liaison with business operations to create group to assume permanent asset ownership and promote use and understanding of the value added by synchrophasor technology

• Provided technical expertise supporting operations using a proprietary electric field detector in the field to detect active faults in underground electric infrastructure in cities across the US and Canada, including.
• Supported utility customers in response strategies for data produced by infrastructure surveys, and program management to improve system safety.
• Advised industry (Canada Electric Safety Administration, IEEE, UL) on low voltage electric infrastructure fault detection and repair, including significant contribution to ESA Guidelines for Design, Installation.
• Wrote regulatory and legislative briefings on the subject of urban contact voltage presented to the NJ, NY, and MD utility regulatory commissions, supportive legislators in state assemblies, and city officials.

• Engineer responsible for ensuring electric capacity met or exceeded projected demand for each year of a 10-year plan within LA Metro East service area at the circuit, substation, and sub-transmission levels under base.
• Used CYME, PSLF, CAPE, and limited PSCAD and Matlab models, as well as hand calculations to work solutions to voltage drop, fault duty, effective temperature, impedance to customer, SAIFI, CAIDI, and other common.
• Designed projects to upgrade infrastructure to meet projected demand growth and proposed projects to Planning Board for approval.
• Supported field organizations to determine protection requirements, investigate power quality problems, reliability inquiries, major distributed generation installations, and other engineering support functions.
• Led corporate task force on stray voltage investigations with support from PQ, Engineering, R&D, and electric operations.
• Sponsored 2 Coop Electric Engineering Senior Design teams at California State Los Angeles in the design of a harmonic filter for legacy substation relays and modeling of harmonic signals on a 4-wire distribution system.

• Engineer responsible for understanding and reducing hazards associated with pedestrian shocks and manhole fires & explosions.
• Analysis of new and legacy databases to describe relationships between hazardous events and system conditions including weather, infrastructure type, cable age, structure size and congestion, demographic data, system.
• Developed and implemented new testing technologies using electric field detectors, shunt resistors, field grounding and other techniques to assist field personnel with fault location and repair
• Project manager for development, production and deployment of 15 vehicle mounted electric field detectors capable of detecting 1V on a manhole 15ft away while driving, to-date detection and repair of over 70,000 active.
• Co-authored studies on Thermal Decay of Secondary Insulation Materials measuring for the first time the quantity of hydrogen, methane, and acetylene gas produced by anaerobic decay of insulation and a machine-learning.
• Initiated a project to install isolation transformers in streetlights to prevent the possibility of pedestrian shock from shorted service conductors.

• Responsible for direction and supervison of skilled electric utility mechanics in Manhattan Electric Construction performing large service installations, vault construction, and network equipment maintenance. Workers.
• Assigned and recorded inspection results for the department to meet annual inspection goals; followed up on defects found to ensure repair deadlines were met. Responsible for timely report and cleanup of environmental.
• Managed capital tool inventory and vehicle fleet key inventory
• Completed corporate training including meter installation, network protector maintenance, 460V network protector vault construction, electric service troubleshooting and asbestos handler supervision.

Served as Navigator in USS Samuel B Roberts (FFG-46) and Communications Officer in USS Ramage (DDG-61). Separated with an Honorable Discharge.Earned Surface Warfare Officer designation, two Navy Achievement Medals, Kosovo Campaign Medal, National Defense Service Medal, NATO Medal, Good Conduct Medal