Create, update, and maintain the various EM&T policies and procedures that ensure compliance with NERC, SPP, MRO, and OPPD standards, requirements, policies and procedures. Provide analysis of Energy Marketer performance, investigate anomalies, and recommend improvements in operating practices or procedures to increase profitability or improve reliability. Interact proactively and professionally with internal and external customers for process improvements that will enhance decision making for compliance and reliability. Ensure Energy Marketing staff meets or exceeds continuing education requirements to maintain individual status as NERC Certified System Operators in accordance with NERC and OPPD policies and procedures.Implement weekly meetings with staff to drive innovative solutions while solving problems effectively. Reevaluated common practices to reduce costs and improve efficiency.

Performed market analytics to identify revenue generating opportunities for OPPD within the SPP Integrated Marketplace. Actively participated in the Southwest Power Pool Integrated Marketplace and efficiently managed the OPPD generation fleet by optimizing generation offer parameters committed by the Day-Ahead Market and Real-Time Reliability Unit Commitment processes while meeting NERC reliability criteria and maintaining environmental compliance under all operating conditions. Deploy energy and operating reserves as instructed by the SPP Real-Time Balancing Market.Effectively responded to SPP reliability directives related to unit commitments, dispatch or actions taken in abnormal and emergency operational events within the SPP footprint. Served as point of control and communication for actions to correct capacity and energy deficiencies through direct control or indirect notification. Responded to transmission line loading relief and re-dispatch events through the modification of generation patterns as directed by the SPP Reliability Coordinator. Maintained real-time interaction with the transmission operators, plant operators, and SPP to ensure generation unit commitments and purchased energy schedules were accurate for both the day-ahead and real-time in order to control the overall cost of energy and ancillary services while ensuring system reliability. Maintained generation unit availability or capacity status in the CROW outage scheduler in a timely fashion. Responded to emergency situations as required by NERC Reliability Standards, SPP and MRO regional standards, and OPPD Policies and Procedures.

Estimate, budget, and award contracts to efficiently and economically complete projects. Supervise and oversee contract personnel through various phases of construction projects to ensure specifications are being met. Ability to successfully schedule multiple projects to avoid project overlap and inefficiency. Coordinated weekly and monthly staff meetings to sustain projects ahead of schedule.Reinforce, monitor and hold contracting staff accountable for the effective application of OPPD’s standards.Used innovative strategies to conserve project schedules and stay under budget. EngineeringDesigned work-orders to execute projects efficiently and successfully while meeting OPPD Standards through City and County regulations and code requirements. Effectively apply leadership to internal and external staff through logic, experience, and collaboration.Determined proper practices to ensure structural integrity of projects while attaining scheduled goals. Maintain industry knowledge through seminars, annual re-certifications, industry articles, and monthly meetings.