• Represented Grant’s interests in Western Electricity Coordination Council (WECC), Peak Reliability, NERC, NWPP, ColumbiaGrid and other organizations and forums.• Represented Grant at regional and neighboring utilities meetings as required to solve interrelated system issues. Negotiate solutions to technical issues with regional utilities as needed. • Represented Grant on the WECC’s Planning Coordination Committee (PCC), WECC’s Reliability Subcommittee (RS), WECC’s Technical Studies Subcommittee (TSS), WECC's System Review Work Group (SRWG)• Responsible as a primary process owner (PPO) and a subject matter expert (SME) for numerous NERC/WECC Reliability standards. Coordinated and contributed to other Standards as needed.• Utilized engineering methods to demonstrate compliance with NERC/WECC Reliability Standards. • Participated in the development of new WECC/NERC standards to influence the successful implementation of clear/concise standards that support improved reliability for the electric system.• Taken lead roles in collaborative study teams to identify and evaluate solutions to relieve identified deficiencies in the regional transmission grid. • Performed and documented transmission planning studies (e.g. power flow, voltage stability and transient analyses) to produce annual transmission system assessments, seasonal operating studies, and Total Transfer Capability (TTC) studies. • Performed Short Circuit analysis to assure Grant’s equipment is operating within criteria as specified by Grant’s or industry standards.• Prepared and submitted WECC base case model data• Recommended alternative engineering solutions to management to meet business needs.• Delivered on commitments and assisted in the management of outside engineering departments to accomplish the assigned work• Provided technical oversight, direction and guidance to Engineering Staff• Provide technical expertise for critical transmission planning projects

• System analyst for power flow and transient analysis to evaluate the system performance associated with the addition of a transmission line and associated system upgrades• System analyst to determine the optimum amount and location of load to be dropped during a contingency outage of a critical line• Performed transmission power flow and generation interconnection studies• Performed AC Contingency Calculations for the 500 kV and 230 kV single contingency branch outages• Developed flexible transmission and distribution system long range power plans to meet corporate reliability and system performance goals• Prepared construction work plans, loss analyses, investigations of shunt capacitors and static VAR compensators’ (SVCs) locations and sizes• Performed load flow and short circuit analyses for normal system operation and planned outage system contingency on the existing and future systems• Investigated shunt capacitors’ locations and sizes to improve low voltage levels and power factor• Developed protective device settings and coordination studies• Modeled and performed motor starting analyses• Developed computer models for various single and double circuit configurations to predict the electric and magnetic fields, corona loss, audible noise, radio, and TV interference levels within the right-of-way• Developed grounding analyses of various substations, generation plants, switching stations and telecommunication wireless projects