Barry Failor, P.E. Email & Phone Number

Palmer, Alaska, United States

I am responsible for managing all of MEA's 21 substations, the Transformer Shop, and the Commercial Metering shop. We cover operations, maintenance, and repairs for all large Power Transformers as well as the several thousand distribution transformers through the MEA network. Our metering shop is responsible for nearly 2,000 three phase commercial meters and meter installations.

Jber, Ak

I managed the daily operations of two generation facilities with a combined total of 16.1MW of capacity and the electrical distribution systems that serve power to the Ft. Richardson side of Joint Base Elmendorf Richardson. We operate a 7.1 MW primary power station that is fueled by landfill gas. It's the only generation facility of its kind in the State of Alaska. We provide an average of 75% of the demand for Ft. Richardson on an annual basis and approximately 25% of the total demand for JBER as a whole. We also operate 9MW of diesel back up generation.

Sacramento, California Area

My role was as a project lead and electrical engineer. I'm assigned projects by our department manager and my role is to perform engineering tasks and manage a small team working on the project. Projects can vary from small service type jobs where we may only be replacing a breaker to design of a large 300,000 square foot manufacturing/warehouse facility. We also serve hospitals, hotels, data centers, and retail outlets. My specific responsibilities include design and engineering, submittal review, client interface, code review, and schedule coordination. I am responsible for ground up electrical systems design for the distribution and associated systems. I am also responsible for providing short circuit, load flow, protective device coordination, and arc flash studies and reports for clients. I regularly use ETAP, SKM Power Tools and Revit in our design process.

Anchorage, Alaska Area

My role is the work group lead for electrical designers in the Anchorage office. My responsibility is the management of electrical designers as well as the various projects we work on. I monitor the project budgets and schedules to ensure the work is executed on time and in budget. I also serve as the technical expert for electrical design for the office. Projects we work on vary from 10MW generation additions for 2 processing pads on the North Slope to small refinery additions throughout Alaska and the Pacific Northwest.

Functioned as an electrical engineer for a prototype flue gas scrubber project designed to function on a 150MW coal power plant. My role was to design and locate all medium voltage switchgear and coordinate the operation and control of the gear. I also modeled the system in ETAP to run load flow, short circuit, and relay coordination. Finally, I was responsible for revising the plant control panel in areas that were affected by the addition and relocation of the switchgear and associated equipment. I was tasked in a lead role for electrical while we developed a proposal as part of a joint venture with Haskell-Davis to provide EPC services for the George Sullivan Plant in Anchorage.

Greater Denver Area

Lead Designer for Nuclear Services. Specifically working on Independent Spent Fuel Storage Installations at various plants in the US. During that time I received training and certification for Safeguards Approval which requires and extensive background checks and security clearance with the NRC.Working on a natural gas fired generation project located in Las Vegas, NV as a PDS designer/modeler and electrical designer. Responsible for modeling and verifying vendor data for 7 modular power distribution centers. Also involved in the cable routing effort using automated cable routing software GSN. Was temporarily assigned on site in Las Vegas to support the construction effort and cable pulling and termination effort.

Boise, Idaho Area

Studies Engineer, April 2001 – November 2004Transferred from the Industrial Division of Power Engineers to the Transmission & Distribution Division to work as a studies engineer performing various investigations such as: substation grounding safety, soil resistivity measurements, corona and EMF studies, audible noise calculations, power quality studies, transmission line interference, transmission/ distribution load flows, stability studies, and distribution system protective device studies. Also periodically work with our testing and maintenance group in the field. I worked with OTI’s ETAP, Advantica’s SynerGEE Electric, Aspen’s Distriview, SKM’s PTW, GE’s PSLF, and more.Electrical Engineer, November 1995 – April 2001Worked on various projects as an electrical engineer, meter programmer, and drafter as well as CADD Coordinator for the electrical division. Worked as a PDS designer using EE_Raceway and PD_Equip. Worked as principle design engineer on small to medium industrial and commercial facilities projects. Performed power quality studies to trouble shoot for clients. I was the contact point for metering and test equipment for the electrical department responsible for programming and training others to use the equipment.