Responsible for NERC continuing education and system qualification on the Balancing Desk for the WACM and WALC balancing areas. SPP Western Energy Imbalance Services (WEIS) Market TrainerNWPP Reserve Sharing Group TrainerInstructional Design Trainee using Adobe Captivate, TechSmith Camtasia, QTD Employee Portal

Dispatches a combination of coal, combined and simple cycle gas, hydro, pumped storage, wind, solar, and oil generation to ensure lowest cost to customers while covering load obligations. Bilateral sales within the Western Interconnection and into SPP and CAISO. Ensures compliance with NERC Balancing Area ACE Limit standards. Responsible for Emergency Response, Northwest PowerPool Activations, and compliance with all NERC Standards.

Monitored the integrated transmission and generation system to ensure reliability and compliance with all applicable criteria. Used advanced applications to perform real time network analysis, and to solve transmission constraints. Monitored WECC paths for system operating limits and redispatched generation to relieve loading.• Coordinated operations of 37 member Balancing Areas and associated Transmission Operators/Owners to ensure reliability of the Western Interconnection.• Assisted in training Reliability Coordinators in California ISO, BC Hydro, Alberta Electric System Operator, and the Southwest Power Pool during “shadow operations”.• Performed power flow and contingency analysis studies and directed implementation of mitigations to ensure standard operating limits and interconnection reliability operating limits were not exceeded.

• Conducted safe switching training for WAPA and external company field and dispatch personnel.• Switchman trainer for the Cody Hot Line School 2017 in Cody, Wyoming. • Used QTS Training Database and ADDIE processes to create, deliver, and record training.• Personally trained and ensured WALC and WACM Balancing Area Transmission System Operators were cross-trained and certified to assume duties in either Balancing Area.Union Steward for AFGE.

Operated the WACM power system as a Balancing Area and Transmission Operations dispatcher. • Prepared and performed switching, directed and supervised switching and clearances on transmission equipment 12kV to 345kV.• Maintained logs, ensuring compliance, and maintaining good communications with the Reliability Coordinator, field personnel and BA members.• Responded to power system emergencies to ensure personnel and equipment safety, power system stability, and customer restoration. Union Steward for AFGE.

Managed team of six Power System Dispatchers as they operated a twenty-four hour/day, seven day/week transmission switching desk in the WACM Balancing Area.• Responsible for all hiring, training, certification, counseling, scheduling, and mentoring the team of Power System Dispatchers. • Implemented Real-Time Study Procedures with Study Tool Network Analysis and Real Time Contingency Analysis and trained the team to perform and document studies before all transmission actions.• Completed WACM Balancing Area’s 2015 NERC Audit with no adverse findings in Operations.• Selected for the 2015 WAPA Leadership Emergence and Development program, an eighteen-month program to develop future senior leadership.• Developed and administered a Western-wide survey on current practices for Western’s new Asset Management initiative, then collected and compiled responses for the VP of Asset Management.• Performed incident investigations and Human Performance Investigations as a part of Western’s adoption of Just Culture. Also a member of:Equal Employment Opportunity Committee (EEO)Combined Federal Campaign (CFC) Committee WECC Human Performance Working GroupNATF Human Performance and Operations Task Groups

Operated and monitored a Federal Transmission System with 120 substations, over 7400 miles of transmission lines, and 5 managed paths in the Western Interconnection.WACM Balancing Area in Colorado, Wyoming, and parts of Nebraska, Utah, Montana and Arizona. • Prepared and performed switching, directed and supervised switching and clearances on transmission equipment 12kV to 345kV.• Maintained logs, ensuring compliance, and maintaining good communications with the Reliability Coordinator, field personnel and BA members.• Responded to power system emergencies to ensure personnel and equipment safety, power system stability, and customer restoration.

• Coordinated power system outages with multiple stakeholders.• Wrote Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs), incident and investigation reports, switching instructions, and NERC and WECC Compliance Documentation.

Trained in Basic Search and Basic Rescue as a Volunteer. What an awesome group of professionals; I also am on the In Town Coordinator rotation; I help the Incident Commander with initial call out and response records and rosters.

Physical and Financial Power Trading in IESO, PJM, MISO, NYISOStatistical And Technical AnalysisTagging in OATI (like a champ!)Deal RecordingRisk ManagementTransmission AncillaryServicesI was selected by the VP of Operations and transferred from generation dispatch to short term power marketer/trader – as a recognition for my personal contributions and abilities. My primary function was to generate revenue by trading physical and financial power in PJM, NYISO, IESO (Canada ISO), and MISO. We used nodal arbitrage, InterContinental Exchange (ICE) Trading (PJM West Hub Bal Day), Options and Swaps and scheduling of physical power to create revenue for CONECTIV. Performed accounting, reconciliation, and risk management. I used OATI tools and eTags to manage my energy transactions on a daily basis.- Successfully scheduled physical power flows from Canada into MISO, through SPP, and into Southwestern Virginia as an experiment with a gross profit of $100,000 per day.- Used knowledge of MISO and PJM transmission systems to make daily profit on nodal arbitrage.- Scheduled physical power flow across the Variable Frequency Transformer into New York City.- Net profit on my personal trades was approximately $100,000 a month throughout my tenure as a trader.

I am a PJM Certified Transmission System Operator and Generation Dispatcher currently involved in dispatching generation in the PJM and NY ISO. I have been learning how to conduct real-time power trades in NYISO, PJM, and MISO.My job includes analyzing the Day Ahead and Real Time Markets in order to maximize profit for my company while meeting all requirements for the respective operating areas. I also dispatch in PJM’s Ancillary Markets.Dispatched and operated simple cycle and combined cycle natural gas power plants and coal power plants via radio, telephone, and SCADA remote computer terminal. I was given authority to bring on generation speculatively, as well as in support of power grid reliability. I operated over 2500 MW in 5 states, with operations and maintenance teams at each site. I was responsible for monitoring and reporting our power plants’ “on dispatch” performance and making notifications to the engineers on needed improvements. Submitted price and cost schedules, marketed spinning reserves and AGC/regulation services to the market. Reacted to power emergencies and activated reserves to support reliability.I used production theory economics to save our operations several hundred thousand dollars per year through more efficient use of our transmission assets and fuel supply. (On-Dispatch)I worked directly with Conectiv’s gas schedulers.

I spent some time working a side business creating websites and hosting for several small companies. I also set up networks, acted as a computer admin and did a lot of IT project management.

Conective aka: Atlantic City Electric CompanyI operated a Distribution and Transmission System to ensure reliability, safety, and efficiency. I was responsible for preparing switching instructions, supervising the operation of substation and distribution system equipment, and maintaining voltage schedules for Atlantic City and the bottom third of the state of New Jersey.

I was assigned to be the Network Administrator and Information Systems Security Officer. I was certified as an Information Assurance Security Officer and was responsible for networks and all encryption information for my company. Project highlights included a Windows 2000 network upgrade, implementation of a company server system, and general computer support.

I completed US Army Prime Power School at Fort Belvoir, VA and was assigned to B Company at Fort Bragg, NC. There, I operated and maintained prime power generation equipment (up to 4.5 MW), substation and distribution systems. I attended substation maintenance and electrical testing training. I performed engine overhauls on EMD Prime Movers and electrical maintenance on generators and switchgear for Operation Northern Watch- Incirlik, Turkey in 1999 and 2000. I also got to perform Circuit Breaker Relay Testing and Maintenance for several veteran's administration hospitals. I helped build a transmission line in Puerto Rico, and also got to do power surveying in New Orleans, Louisiana in support of the US Army Corps of Engineers and FEMA. (2000 or 2001)

Infantryman, Radio-Telephone Operator, Team Leader, Nuclear-Biological-Chemical NCOAir Assault, Combat Lifesaver