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San Ramon, California, Us

Led sales and business development for US East. Worked with existing and prospective customers to meet growth initiatives. Supported major projects with West Coast based IOU's and expansion to the UK leveraging the Distributed System Platform. Led strategic partnership relationships with numerous entities, AWS preferred, numerous integrators, and technology partners.Coordinated proposal process, including solution development, pricing and partner strategy, contract management, MSA, negotiations and invoicing.

San Ramon, California, Us

Oversaw development and deployment of the Transactive Energy software platform, driving growth in new market sectors across the globe. Drove the development of platform from proof of concept to enterprise cloud/ on premise enterprise SaaS offering. Developed strategic partnerships to aide in development of market leading solutions, including new assets, communications protocols, applicable codes and standards. Communicate vision and strategy to leadership team, key and prospective customers, investors, and policy makers. Developed product marketing and represented Opus One as a thought leader and industry expert at industry events and conferences. Worked with Scrum master to drive product 3 year development roadmap and participated in epic/ story development, review and priroitization.

San Ramon, California, Us

Led the development of Enterprise SaaS Transactive Energy Platform on GridOS, worlds first live distribution level energy market place. The Distributed System Platform was deployed in New York, as part of the REV Policy initiatives in conjunction with National Grid. Set up PMO for US operations, managed clients, conducted technical sales, consulting, solution architecture, functional and non functional requirements, instituted Agile development practices, through testing and commissioning. Represented the company and thought leadership, monitoring policy, market and competition to inform business and go-to-market Strategy. Developed and deployed Distributed System Platform on time and met customer requirements. Addressed numerous challenges, with creative problem solving, leveraging industry experience to ensure the project was completed.

New York, Ny, Us

Developed the Distribution System Platform requirements in support of theStates recent Clean Energy Plan and Reforming the Energy Vision proceeding with the Public Service Commission in New York. Integrating existing Demand Side Management, newly approved Advanced Meter Infrastructure and REV Demonstration Projects into our core business.Principle author for 5 year road map and implementation plan (DSIP), to integrate DER into planning and operations, including interconnection requirements.Developed and deployed the first system data sharing portal in NY State, identifying hosting capacity requirements and capabilities for each distribution network are in the distribution service territory. Key member of NY Joint utilities team , coordinating stakeholder engagement, public meetings enrollment and sharing conference marketing material on the newly deployed portal. Led Operations and Data Management groups to ensure access of information to all appropriate parties, as well as proper security and confidential protocols where developed and put in place. Leveraged 15 years of big data management and admin Roels across multiple business groups to develop 5 year load growth plans, publish maps and associated data in advance of regulatory requirements for DSIP filing.

New York, Ny, Us

Led energy efficiency, demand response and dynamic load management programs for New York City and Westchester. Lead five business teams, consisting of 20 direct reports and over 50 vendors/ subcontractors, to overhaul failing programs and exceed regulatory mandated EEPS 2 goals. $250MM overall approved Public Service Commission Budget. Managed projects to increase energy savings and reduce costs for residential, multi-family and small business customers through stakeholder management, change management, and process reengineering. Managed ConEd’s relationships with external stakeholders, regulators, and the public, by modernizing our communication platforms and methods, including: social media, redesign and launch of internal and external websites, and program design.Implemented Salesforce CRM across multiple programs. Launched Rush Hours Rewards and Bring Your Own Thermostat (BYOT) programs, along with several other gamification pilots to drive customer engagement and participation in DLM programs. These initiatives set the standard and where ordered by regulators to be adopted across New York State.Modernized company tracking and reporting of program program goals, which allowed for better visibility to identify failure points and correct mid stream. Including Salesforce, Tableau, Sharepoint to track , trend, coordinate and report on program goals. Overhauled product offering, proposed and received approval to integrate new measures such as LED lighting and heat pumps into existing programs. These new technologies offered greater savings for our customers and forever changed how these programs where designed and operated, integrating new means of greater savings, for less overall costs.Led the operational calling of demand response programs for the entire service territory, included coordination with NYISO, bulk and distribution control rooms as well as informing and reporting to NY DPS. Led development of platform, training, policy and procedures.

New York, Ny, Us

Managed a diverse team of 40 professional trainers and consultants that supported all Central Operations departments. Directly responsible for overseeing all aspects of training, that was administered to almost 8,000 employees and external customers annually. Coordinated with all customer groups internally and externally to ensure all of their training needs are being met, while generating $1MM annually in external training revenue. Reported training improvements, participated in cross-functional process improvement teams and reported results to senior executives.Led development of modernizing over 2,000 course, digitizing course work, transitioning to e learning platform, updating new technologies. This paid off dramatically when hurricane Sandy wiped out the entire training library and we had 87% of courses moved to the cloud already, the rest where reconstructed from existing paper copies, leaving Central Operations as the leader in getting training restored following this catastrophe. Led the redesign of the train center following the destruction in 2012, modernizing and updating labs to meet the new training requirements going forward.Worked with R&D to test and develop numerous safety devices, including remote racking devices, arc fault and NFPA 70 requirements.Updated training center with modern, state of the art simulators, to ensure employees had the benefit of training and qualifying on the latest equipment they would operate and maintain in the field. Authored hazardous energy control procedures, to ensure safety of staff and students as well as compliance with applicable safety regulations. Participated in numerous cross functional teams including human performance, accident investigation, qualification requirements, labor and contract negotiations, staffing and man power budgets, capital and resource planning initiatives, PMI certification, leadership development and recent college graduate mentoring programs.

New York, Ny, Us

Developed, maintained and administered hands training courses for a variety of technical disciplines across central operations. Courses covered engineering, operations, maintenance and construction training courses for transmission and distribution substations, up to 500kV. Developed non-intrusive impedance testing training for critical battery back up systems in power plants and substations.

New York, Ny, Us

Distribution System Operator - Analyzed and evaluated the transmission and distribution systems to ensure safe, efficient, and reliable operations around the clock. Directed all work being performed on electrical systems throughout the Company, ensuring a safe work environment and expeditious return of equipment to service for routine and emergency operations. Program administrator for all operating systems, work order management, SCADA, PI. Developed, maintained, tested databases and operational switching systems to ensure the safe and accurate operation of over 100 substations. Operations lead for the technical requirements to replace legacy switch order management system (SCADA), including end to end testing and commissioning of an independent control center, as well as 100 substations and associated control equipment. Integrating databases as well as seamless operation executed without a single incident.Commissioned numerous substations and led many load transfers, including several hundred million dollar joint T&D substations, largest in the last 50years. Issues all permits for construction, testing and commissioning.Coordinated really protection to ensure safety and security of the power systems with local telco providers.

New York, Ny, Us

Supervised union crews in the performance, instrumentation and control, and chemical testing labs, to support the safe, efficient, and reliable operation of the generating station. Managed outage coordination teams for boiler refurbishment and led development of asset management systems.

Washington, Dc, Us

Supervised a team of 15 electricians, scheduling all operations and maintenance work associated with the generation and electrical distribution systems onboard a United States Navy nuclear submarine. Performed testing and maintenance on the main storage battery, to ensure safe and reliable operations.

Bs, Organizational Leadership

Ms, Organizational Leadership

Comprehensive Project Management Graduate Level Certificate, Project Management

Bsast, Nuclear Engineering Tech

A.S, Electrical And Mechanical Technologies

Certification, S8G Operator, Electician

Certificate, Nuclear Physics

2 Year Certificate, Robotics And Pre-Engineering

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