Galen Brown Email & Phone Number

Boulder, Colorado, United States

I oversee multiple projects including bespoke consulting reports, and software implementations. I also work closely with development and sales to make decisions about the product roadmaps. Along with the executive team, I play an important role in assessing customer satisfaction, market opportunities, new technologies, and the long term direction of the company and our products.

Boulder, Colorado, United States

As a Senior Analyst, I manage implementations of Lacima Analytics for clients across the globe, support existing clients, and perform internal and external training on modeling and commodity markets. I also perform quality assurance testing of the software and help design new features and upgrades.

Boulder, Colorado, United States

As an analyst, I support our clients from pre-sales through go-live with technical expertise, consulting, training, and issue resolution. I work with the clients to understand their needs, translate their needs into technical specifications for the software, liaise with the Development group on any new features or changes that are required, and I manage the implementation. After go-live I provide support for the software, and continue to coordinate with development for any of the client's needs.

Boulder, Colorado, United States

I was Ascend's principal liaison to two major Northwest utilities and the primary tester for novel development projects for each utility. The first project, Wind Ancillaries, stochastically simulated wind power generation at multiple sites, calculated the spinning and non-spinning balancing requirements for the wind generation, and co-optimized thermal and hydropower generation to maximize revenue, while meeting the balancing requirements. My responsibilities on the project included working with the customer to understand and represent their requirements in the model, formulating testing criteria, running studies of stress cases, and summarizing and checking the results for quality and accuracy.The second project, Hydro Ops, optimized hydro project systems to price, subject to engineering constraints, water-treaty constraints, and business requirements. As part of this project I wrote the company's first automated quality-assurance testing program (using SAS) to verify the application and priority of constraints.

Boulder, Colorado

Although I joined Ascend with no background in electric utilities, my duties quickly evolved to include project coordination, training and guiding new staff, and being a liaison with customers.