Bob Suehiro, P.E. Email & Phone Number

Redwood City, Ca, Us

Redwood City, Ca, Us

Redwood City, Ca, Us

Joined during transformation and growth period to lead the effort to expand and scale the business—strengthening utility infrastructure, construction quality, safety, service delivery, credibility, and customer satisfaction in response to market/environmental demands. Partner with CEO and COO to set company strategy and 5-year plan. Lead three direct reports. Combined $11M Electric Operations with $12M Engineering & Design businesses, August 2019—setting market strategy to provide end-to-end engineering, project management, inspection, and quality assurance services.  Expanding new combined business opportunities within the Western U.S. and Hawaii, diversifying client base and vendors/suppliers to minimize risk and scale business growth in working with the top-3 utility companies.  Built and expanded Electric Operations T&D business from $3M to $55M in revenue by securing contracts and on-boarding highly qualified and experienced journey-level inspectors. Ensured the highest degree of quality and safety increasing ISN from B to A

Durham, North Carolina, Us

Accepted opportunity at startup seeking to operationalize and commercialize game-changing, state-of-the-art technology (PowerLine Guardian power flow devices) on utilities globally. Provided consulting services for end-to-end processes of planning, design, engineering, project management, construction, IT integration, operations, and maintenance of products, technology, and performance. Drove grassroots effort, traveling extensively in Europe and Australia.  Brought short-/long-term vision and leadership for utility electric operations, working jointly with CEO/business leaders on strategy, competitive market positioning, business development, customer relations, and negotiations.  Developed customer operations strategy, opened cross-functional communication and collaboration across the organization, and led strategy implementation to advance product sales, installations, and ongoing service and support.  Cultivated instant credibility with utility clients at the C-suite/senior level, leveraging 3+ decades of industry expertise and leadership. Drove door-opening strategies and developed loyal, trust-based relationships as valued strategic partner, finding win-win opportunities based on research, strengthening customer experience (100% satisfaction). Oversaw successful customer support installations—400 units worldwide, working with software engineers and manufacturing on planning, delivery, installation, initialization, operation, and maintenance. Utilities: EirGrid, Ireland; RTE, France; TransGrid and Western Power, Australia; Pacific Gas & Electric, Minnesota Power, and Georgia Power, U.S.

Oakland, California, Us

Project Director leading the Electric Transmission Operations portion of enterprise cost efficiency and process improvement program. Prepare PG&E for FERC 1000 competition in the bulk transmission space of 230kV and 500kV greenfield construction. Manage reports to Executive VP/VP’s electric operations on successes and roadblocks overcome. Pivotal role in bringing external consultants (McKinsey) and multi-disciplinary internal teams to a common understanding and collaborative hard-driving schedule for in-year cost reduction realization of 9% on a $1.2 Billion portfolio, or $105 Million. Review all project analyses for impact to on-going operations, green-light implementations and milestones completion. Prepare best practices for on-going, repeatable and sustainable results. Integrate proven continuous improvement, change leadership, and change management principles to ensure year over year success.

Oakland, California, Us

Responsible for the development and implementation of PG&E’s work force strategy and resource planning for the gas operations line of business. PG&E’s annual and multi-year work plan requires the integration of 4,800 employees and 2,000 contractors into an efficient, safe, and productive workforce executing on nearly $3 Billion of capital and maintenance projects and programs. Develop and implement an executable T&D work plan through the optimization of insource and outsource strategies over a 1 year, 3 year, and 5 year planning horizon.

Oakland, California, Us

Lead and manage 820 employees in the construction and management of $700M of Capital projects in both gas and electric underground infrastructure. Excellent safety performance with a 65% reduction in OSHA incidents over two years. Achieved the best safety performance in the company. Achieved the highest employee satisfaction and engagement scores. Also managed financial, work and resource functions for entire gas T&D consisting of 2,200 employees and $1.7 Billion spend and achieved less than 1/2 percent deviation year over year.

Oakland, California, Us

Responsible for engingeering, estimating, service planning and support service functions for Energy Delivery. Total of 900 employees over the entire southern half of the service territory. Ensure rates, tariff, design standards, commercial contracts, and policies are enforced. Ensure safe operations, high customer satisfaction, high quality engineering and service planning services, and provide excellent clerical support functions for the entire Energy Delivery business

Oakland, California, Us

Responsible and accountable for the Electric T&D engineering and system performance. Lead and manage 258 Transmission and Distribution Planning engineers and their associated projects, budgets, operations engineering, system reliability, system integrity, and emergency response. Responsible for T&D Design Standard development and maintenance, regulatory issue resolution and influence, updating work procedure documents, updating standard practices and company policies.Responsible for FERC rate case and distribution General Rate Case filings involving electric capital and O&M requests.

Oakland, California, Us

Responsible and accountable for design, estimate, project management, construct and maintain gas and electric infrastructure to ensure safe, reliable, and efficient service to over 1.4 million customers in 18,000 square miles of territory with 850 employees. Improved safety performance by 30% and received safety commendation award from President and CEO. Also responsible for Gas and Electric T&D's Financical and Resource management totaling in excess of $3 Billion and over 5000 FTEs. Year over year results were within 1% of budget and at targets.

Oakland, California, Us

Maintain gas and electric infrastructure in accordance with company standards and policies to ensure safe, reliable, and efficient gas and electric service to over 350,000 customers in 1,000 square miles of territory with 156 employees. Achieved the safest workforce within the PG&E T&D organization - Improved safety performance by 78% and ended with final year performance of no lost time incidents. Achieved most improved service reliability performance with over 35% improvement in electric reliability.Achieved Best in system in Gas Maintenance and Operation. Fewest gas leaks per mile, no negative audit findings, lowest unit cost for trenching.

Oakland, California, Us

Lead and manage 45 division Gas and Electric Service Planning, Engineering Design, Estimating, Mapping,Records and Gas instrumentation and regulation personnel to ensure safety, compliance, high customer satisfaction, and efficient operations all within approved annual budgets. Manage the division Capital and O&M budgets, performance metrics, and resources to ensure annual budgets and goals are met and exceeded. Performed key PGE contact responsibilities for city, county and utilities involving reconstruction of PGE gas and electric distribution facilities.

Lecturer for new course offering for senior level power emphasis student. Also taught power systems lab.

Bachelor Of Science - Bs, Electrical And Electronics Engineering

Utility Executive Course, Business Administration And Management, General

Bs, Electrical Engineering