Elaine Viegas, M.Sc. Email & Phone Number

Chicago, Il, Us

• Oversees the overall project planning, including (but not limited to) defining the project scope and requirements, • Lead and oversee execution of substation designs for client with regulatory requirements • Apply client’s standards, guidelines, specifications, also best practices, procedures and appropriate industry standards in design • Coordinate project activities with internal team • Create and maintain project documentation • Support the development of plans & sections, details, control building layouts, P&C one line diagram, AC/DC schematics, control panel layouts and WD, station service AC/DC distribution diagram, BOM, cable schedule etc. • Manage project subordinates and other project resources to ensure quality, schedule and budget requirements • Support vendor drawing review and disposition• Creating and managing the project schedule, • Maintaining open communication with the project team and client. • Drive quality and keep leadership advised• Support data and document entry into various platforms• Reporting safety, health and quality issues to management• Manage mid to large size projects and programs• Elaborate proposals and their related costs• Prepare contract amendments, change order, and claims documentation• Prepare status reports, including corrective actions• Assist management as directed• Ability to consistently work independently and present high quality of work• Ability to roll up sleeves and support project execution as needed

Chicago, Illinois, Us

• Coordinate project status with client representative and others, while building relationships• Lead and oversee execution of substation designs for client with regulatory requirements• Apply client’s standards, guidelines, specifications, also best practices, procedures and appropriate industry standards in design• Coordinate project activities with internal team• Lead teams in the design and delivery of green and brown field high voltage electrical substation project.• Develop team by driving recruitment• Create and maintain project documentation• Support the development of plans & sections, details, control building layouts, P&C one line diagram, AC/DC schematics, control panel layouts and WD, station service AC/DC distribution diagram, BOM, cable schedule etc• Drive quality and keep leadership advised• Creation and management of the project quality, schedule, and budget• Drive schedule and budget adherence• Manage project subordinates and other project resources to ensure quality, schedule and budget requirements• Support vendor drawing review and disposition• Support data and document entry into various platforms• Reporting safety, health and quality issues to management• Manage mid to large size projects and programs• Coordinate bidding of contracts• Elaborate proposals and their related costs• Prepare contract amendments, change order, and claims documentation• Planning strategies, investigating project costs, and identifying & solving project problems• Prepare monthly status reports addressing accomplishments, issues, schedule and budget, including corrective actions• Assist management as directed• Ability to consistently work independently and present high quality of work• Advanced presentation, written, verbal communication skills• Ability to roll up sleeves and support project execution as needed• Responsible by bi-weekly technical trainings for Substation’s team & daily questions time meetings with Substation's team

Chicago, Illinois, Us

• Assist management as directed.• Coordinate personnel across Substations Project Managers.• Manage all Substations engineers.• Timesheets approvals.

Chicago, Illinois, Us

* Creating and enforcing project quality plan* Lead all quality assurance efforts on behalf of the team.* Keep Milhouse Engineering management advised of all quality.* Identifying and resolving design issues.* Design to client and regulatory requirements per the direction of your Project Management team.* Develop and maintain project documentation regarding protection and control design and construction.* Coordinate / communicate project status with client representative and others* Data and document entry into various platforms* Design and delivery of green and brown field high voltage electrical substation project.* Support the development of P&C one line diagram, AC/DC schematics, control panel layout and wiring diagram, station service AC/DC distribution diagram, bill of material, cable schedule, plans & sections, details, control building layouts etc.* Manage mid to large size projects and programs* Schedule and budget variances in a timely manner.* Manage project subordinates and/or other project/discipline resources to quality, schedule and budget requirements.* Vendor drawing review and disposition.* Maintaining project files.* Creating and enforcing project quality plan.* Data and document entry into various platforms.* Assist management as directed.

Chicago, Illinois, Us

Contractor at PSEG:* Design and delivery of green and brown field high voltage electrical substation project.* Develop and maintain project documentation regarding protection and control design and construction.* Support the development of P&C one line diagram, AC/DC schematics, control panel layout and wiring diagram, station service AC/DC distribution diagram, bill of material, cable schedule, etc.* Identifying and resolving design issues.* Assistance in quality checks.* Schedule and budget variances in a timely manner.* Manage project subordinates and/or other project/discipline resources to quality, schedule, and budget requirements.* Vendor drawing review and disposition.* Maintaining project files.* Creating and enforcing project quality plan.* Data and document entry into various platforms.

Pennsauken, New Jersey, Us

Responsible for overseeing the technical aspects of wiring design, which includes:* Understanding project scope, * Planning deliverables, * Assigning work to designers within the office, * Supervising design work stages,* Identifying and resolving design issues, * Coordination across disciplines within and outside the office, * Assistance in quality checks, * Assistance with client technical coordination, and* Elaboration of regular reports/updates to design manager regarding project status.

Pennsauken, New Jersey, Us

• Developing complete packages of power distribution center, high/low voltage circuit breakers, feeder position, transformer replacement, and substation switchgear.• Interpreting electrical design concepts, determining requirements of detailed design, identifying design problems, and recommending changes. • Reviewing electrical schematic wiring diagrams and supporting documents, and ensuring that the design plan is in accordance with the client's standards and internationally acceptable codes. • Developing complete packages of fire protection/alarm systems. • Executing project task plan. • Comparing schematic drawings with wiring diagrams for accuracy. • Designing and creating final electrical construction wiring drawings.• Preparing schematic diagrams, block diagrams, control drawings, interconnection diagrams, bill of materials, drawings list, and physical layout/routing. • Supervising workers designing when lead-engineer of the project, and workers engaged in drafting. • Reviewing works orders and procedural manuals, and confers with the vendors, clients, and supervisors to resolve problems and modify designs. • Coordinating across disciplines, performing check print reviews. • Field walk-throughs for technical inspections.• Activities in kick-off and follow-up meetings.

Amsterdam, Nederland, Nl

Blue Project - Bunge Foods• Responsible for guarantee application of industry standards and good practices, and providing guidance and direction related to quality and performance across all subcontractors.• Responsible for the Project Management of all Electrical Engineering in the Construction of the new Fluminense Flour Mills in Duque de Caxias – RJ. Involved activities:o Medium and Low voltage Electrical Installations (4 substations) / Automation and ProcessingEquipment/ Fire Detection and Alarm / Lightning Protection System / Voice and Data / RFIDSystem.o Monitoring compliance to approved plans and specifications.o Daily field walk-throughs for technical inspections, specially identifying possible overlap activities.o Monitoring and ensuring the Contractor’s compliance with the approved Contractor’s QualityPlan.o Elaborating a daily Construction Report describing the work executed by each contractor inaccordance with client’s procedures.o Verification and approval of technical documents issued.o Leading cross-functional project teams of contractors, suppliers, other departments, and/or otherstakeholders.o Providing reporting to the director’s board, schedules, and recourse impacts that affect the overallexecution of assigned substation projects.o Representing the Company in the negotiation of scope and schedule changes.o Processing, and approving monthly construction for payment.o Making presentations on project status and arranging the work timetables at follow-up, start-up, precommissioning and, commissioning meetings.o Start-up problem resolution.

Amsterdam, Nederland, Nl

Nuclear Power Plant Angra III • Project Management• Supervision and revision of the electrical projects (1,405 MW).o Electrical layout of industrial installations and SE's of high, medium and low voltage, involvingactivities related to: ▪ Conception and designing the route of cables and assembling details; trays sizing, gutters, conduits, duct banks; Definition of electric penetrations between fireguard and water areas; Cable fixtures; Grounding; Lighting; Equipment Support; Sealing materials specifications; Substations Physical arrangement.• Designing the Fire and Alarm Protection System for the entire facility.• Leading cross-functional electromechanical project teams of contractors, suppliers, other departments, and/or other stakeholders.• Documentation control.• Quality control of the projects issued by the contracted designers’ companies.• Monitor and ensure the Contractor’s compliance with the approved Contractor’s Quality Plan incoordination with Quality specialists.• Maintaining a safety and conscious work environment by following Arcadis Procedures & International Quality Standards (ISO 9001: 2008). o Elaboration of Training Courses to all electrical department workers.• Elaboration of technical proposals for bids.

• Researching at Development Projects at LASPOT (Power Systems Laboratory) at COPPE /UFRJ.o Power Systems studies up to 500kV: Power Flow Studies, Short Circuit Studies, Contingency Studies, Static/Dynamic Voltage Stability Analysis, Transient Stability Analysis, and Dynamic Stability Analysis.o Key Words: 500kV, IEEE Standards, XML, SIMULIGHT, ANAREDE, ANATEM, and ANAFAS.

Madrid, Madrid, Es

• Construction Management in the branch of Protection and Control of substations and transmission lines up to 500kV.o Monitoring equipment specifications and acquisitions.o Field-walks, contractor interface and engineering assessments.o Providing reporting to the director’s board, schedules, and recourse impacts that affect the overallexecution of assigned substation projects.o Representing the Company in the negotiation of scope and schedule changes.o Making presentations on project status and arranging the work timetables at follow-up, start-up, precommissioning and, commissioning meetings.o Leading cross-functional project teams of contractors, suppliers, other departments, and/or otherstakeholders.o Start-up problem resolution.o Field inspections as part of a competitive bids.

• Electricity I - 1° & 2º semesters/2011o Theory and Laboratory experiences related to: low voltage electrical installations, DC & AC circuits analysis, Electromagnetic circuits, and Transformers.

Br

• Head Engineer of the Engineering Department in Rio de Janeiro.• Responsible by the conceptualization and implementation of a new integrated information software.• Manager of maintenance contracts for all nine facilities at Rio de Janeiro State: property maintenance, HVAC systems and, the elevators.• Verification according to the Codes and Bid contracts of Projects developed to retrofit installations at Heatlh Museum: electrical, voice and data, fire and alarm protection, and lightning.• Experience with the implementation of the Energy Efficiency Program Light/Aneel.• Participation in the committee for labour safety and health.• Participation in the committee for implementation of a public expenditure project.

Brussels, Brussels, Be

• As Engineer of Protection and Control of Power Systems up to 500kV, developing the following activities:o Designing electrical projects, which included: Logical Diagrams; Protection and Control wiring drawings; Cables List; Bill of Material; One line, Three Lines and Protection Diagrams; Panels Design; and Protection and Control Technical Studies.o Preparation of electrical projects for permit and for construction.

• In the department of Protection and Control of Power Systems, in the branch of substations and transmission lines up to 750kV, which included the following activities:o Control Systems, Supervisory, and Protection, developing detailed designing of schematics and wiring drawings, such as: one line, three line, communication architectures, logical diagram analysis.o Programs used AutoCAD, QCPro, and Diaglog.o On-site panels inspection.o Equipment testing before delivering to client’s site, which included: relay testing and SCADA.

Master'S Degree, Electrical Engineering - Power Systems

Phd Program, Electrical Engineering

Specialization, Electrical Engineering

Master'S Degree, Electrical Engineering

Bachelor, Electrical Engineering

Technician, Electrotechnical