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Gilbert, Az, Us

Gilbert, Arizona, United States

Manager of Energy Management System (EMS) Applications at SRP. Manage a team of Engineers and IT staff to support the EMS and improve operation tools. Explore opportunities in new and upcoming technologies such as operational software using Synchrophasor Data.Hi-Lights:• Guided a team to an achievement of 100% uptime of an Energy Management System (EMS) for four years in a row, even during years of performing major upgrades.• Effected change in quality tools and services by implementing quality control measures and collaborative team developed process improvements.• Constructed business cases for major purchases including those for enterprise engagements.Example: Built a convincing business case to purchase OSISoft PI real-time data archive system for operational data. Provided evidence in saving the company over $6 million dollars with an investment of a little over $2 million. ROI was in 5 years. Provided close to 30 projects in business case that will derive additional value leveraging the new system.• Efficiency initiative to streamline processes to help comply with Critical Infrastructure Protections (CIP) standards, improving work efficiency while maintaining integrity of the systems.• Chaired working groups and task forces within the Western Electricity Coordinating Counsel.Formerly performed as Chair of the WECC EMS working group for coordinating and facilitating discussions and decisions centered around a WECC member Utility's use of an Energy Management System. Team shares and develops best practices, procedures, guidelines, and policies all relating to the use of the EMS in an effort to improve reliability and security of the system while instilling collaboration amongst member utilities.

Managed a team of .NET and PowerBuilder developers to create, support, and modernize Power Operations applications.Hi-Lights:• Reworked the department’s process for accepting, developing, and delivering application project work into an agile methodology. Team experienced an increase in team morale and productivity.• Reduced application system architecture, eliminating under-utilized and unneeded capacity while maintaining high availability and reliability. Project resulted in savings of over $300K in hardware and support costs annually.• Established a design review process for application development best practices and incorporated agile principles.• Developed a strategy and roadmap to consolidate technology platforms and modernize legacy applications that resulted in a significant reduction of incident support tickets.• Through persistent vendor relationship, helped drive the change within our application services provider to create a Quality Assurance program and improve the quality of product delivery.

Developed and supported applications in Lotus Notes and Web applications in C#.Hi-Lights:• Implemented an agile methodology to provide external department data from an existing legacy system through web-services. • Created the entire department’s SharePoint structure and document management process• Automated version control in the business’s Operating Practices tools, eliminating manual processing and reducing storage space utilization by 50%• Improved the outage management software tool by automating the approval process workflow, reducing the turn around time for approvals.

Mba, Business

Bachelor Of Information Technology, Computer Systems

Summa Cum Laude

Computer Science

Computer Science

Engineering

Freshman year required core classes