Drew Thompson Email & Phone Number

New Orleans, La, Us

Ensuring successful execution of Entergy New Orleans / Metro distribution reliability strategy in an effort to meet company goals as well as New Orleans City Council expectations. My team supports 5 networks (Chalmette, Orleans, East Orleans, CBD & Algiers) with storm restoration, local outage management, system support with new initiatives along with developing my 15 (1 Line Supervisor, 1 Utility Foreman, 1 Service Operator, 9 linemen, 1 Engineer, 1 Analyst & 1 Project Manager) amazing team members to reach local, regional, state and enterprise goals with safety, family and reliability leading our efforts. In addition we support over 212,000 customers in Orleans Parish along with St Bernard. Since 2021 to 2023, I’ve been able to spend 40% or $105M/$265M of the budget on reliability resulting in 24% improvements dating back to 2019. 2021Finance - Overall Cap and O&M. $53M - Metro Cap and O&M $22M Metric Performance - SAIFI 1.10- SAIDI 120- Outages 233,554Safety - safety incidents 02022Finance - Overall Cap and O&M $83M- Metro Cap and O&M $40MMetric Performance - SAIFI 1.19- SAIDI 149 - Outages 252,604 Safety - Non-ANSI 12023Finance - Overall Cap and O&M $129M- Metro Cap and O&M $43M Metric Performance - SAIFI. 1.14. 13.7% improvement PY- SAIDI 129. 4.6% improvement PY- Outages 241,304Safety - Non-ANSI 12024 Finance - Overall Cap and O&M $134M- Metro Cap and O&M $53MMetric Performance - SAIFI- SAIDI - Outages Safety - Non-ANSI

New Orleans, La, Us

Responsible for distribution line reliability in the Metro Area. Performs a wide variety of reliability related activities related to improving the overall reliability performance of distribution lines. Projects areas may include grid/system design, operations and maintenance, assest management, reliability, computer applications, safety and root cause failure analysis.

New Orleans, La, Us

Responsibilities include daily operations of four local offices (Warren, Crossett, Fordyce and Monticello), storm restoration, local outage management, system support with new initiatives along developing my 16 (1 Operations Coordinator, 1 Storeroom Keeper, 2 Clerks, 12 linemen) amazing team members to reach local, regional, state and enterprise goals with safety, family and reliability leading our efforts. This team consisted of 4 serviceman and two (2) crews covering four (4) local subnetworks of the Warren network Responsible for collective bargaining agreement [CBA] under local 750 and 1703 under the IBEW. My region was responsible for 22,300 customers.

New Orleans, La, Us

Responsible for all maintenance duties at the New Orleans Power Station (NOPS) which includes two (2) direct reports. It's the first power station unit in Entergy's power generation fleet utilizing 128 Megawatt Reciprocating Internal Combustion Engines (RICE) to control peak demands along with our first transition towards introducing more renewable units going forward.

New Orleans, La, Us

Responsible for about 100 + large commercial and industrial accounts in Orleans Parish and St Bernard Parish totaling about $50M in revenues yearly. In addition, I lead three (3) other customer service reps in the metro region.

New Orleans, La, Us

Responsible for 40 large commercial customers such as The Mercedes Benz Superdome, Champion Square, Coast Guard, US Army Corp of Engineers, VA Hospital, Children Hospital, Ochsner Hospital, Enwave, Touro Hospital, The Smoothie King Center, WWL Channel 4 News, WDSU Channel 6 News, Hyatt Regency Hotel, LSU Interim Hospital, LSU Dental School, Sewage and Water Board of New Orleans, Housing Authority of New Orleans (HANO), Regional Transit Authority (RTA), Folgers, Benson Tower, Entergy, Jackson Barracks, University Medical Center (UMC), United States Department of Agriculture (USDA), New Orleans Cold Storage, New Orleans East Hospital, NASA, The Ritz Carlton and many more with day to day operations along with industrail customers in Orleans Parish totaling out $26M in revenues yearly

New Orleans, La, Us

Design solutions to aging power lines based off inspection data. Most construction projects range from $20,000 to $2,000,000 dollars.

Atlanta, Georgia, Us

Designed transmission lines in the state of Georgia ranging from 69kv to 500kv

New Orleans, La, Us

Designed distribution lines in the Northshore area in voltages under 34kv.

New Orleans, La, Us

Assisted with transformer rated metering (CT's and PT's) for residential, commercial and industrial customers in the state of Louisiana.

Master Of Business Administration (Mba)

Bachelor Of Science (B.S.), Electrical Engineering