My role as a Field Applications Engineer was to support Sunverge’s fleet of battery storage systems remotely and on site. During my time at Sunverge, I had been heavily involved in the installation of Sunverge Solar Integration Systems (SIS) for the AGL SAVPP in Adelaide.The breadth of this role covered solar / PV arrays, inverters, lithium battery systems, control systems, cloud based monitoring, installation and maintenance.My tasks have included:• On site… Show more My role as a Field Applications Engineer was to support Sunverge’s fleet of battery storage systems remotely and on site. During my time at Sunverge, I had been heavily involved in the installation of Sunverge Solar Integration Systems (SIS) for the AGL SAVPP in Adelaide.The breadth of this role covered solar / PV arrays, inverters, lithium battery systems, control systems, cloud based monitoring, installation and maintenance.My tasks have included:• On site field maintenance and support for Australian and New Zealand Sunverge fleets (e.g. AGL, Ergon, Vector, Ausnet, United Energy, Powercor)• Writing manuals and field instructions.• Provide face to face installer training.• Achieving product compliance with Australian Standards.• Phone customer/fleet technical support.• Setting up Sunverge support & logistics facility in Adelaide.• Managing the battery upgrade project in Adelaide.• Investigation and analysis on unit performance.• Liaising with customers, partners and installers.• Providing technical advice for product development.• Monitoring of Sunverge units. Show less

I managed the power quality allocations for new major connections at Ausgrid. The objective of this was to ensure that new connections do not adversely affect the existing electrical distribution network with issues such as harmonics and flicker. This role involved:• Assessing new connections’ contribution to power quality through measures such as harmonics and flicker and compliance with standards such as AS/NZS 61000.3.6 and AS/NZS 61000.3.7. This includes the effect of disruptive… Show more I managed the power quality allocations for new major connections at Ausgrid. The objective of this was to ensure that new connections do not adversely affect the existing electrical distribution network with issues such as harmonics and flicker. This role involved:• Assessing new connections’ contribution to power quality through measures such as harmonics and flicker and compliance with standards such as AS/NZS 61000.3.6 and AS/NZS 61000.3.7. This includes the effect of disruptive equipment such as solar/PV, motors, cranes, welding equipment or power electronics on the distribution network and involves setting limits on operations of equipment to limit power quality impacts on the distribution network.• Harmonic analysis of electricity network resonant peaks using DigSilent and PSSE.• Notable projects include the North West Rail Link (NWRL), Global Switch, UNSW, Equinix and Port of Newcastle.My role also involved investigating power quality and voltage complaints and covered:• Analysing metering data for affected installations using internal SCADA logs or from other PQ metering equipment (e.g. PQ box 100) for power quality phenomena such as voltage dips, flicker and transients.• Liaising with affected customers on impact of complaints.• Investigation of source of power quality disturbance and prescribing solutions.Other work includes ad hoc power quality queries, assessing the effect of equipment, such as capacitor banks on the electricity distribution network. In addition to this, I have maintained some of my responsibilities from my previous role in Ratings Development/Production such as RIC development, substation ratings and control room advice. Show less

During this period, I was part of the Ratings Production team (May 2010 to Jan 2012) and then moved to the Ratings Development team (Jan 2012 to Jan 2015) within the same section, Ratings & Supply Quality.A major part of my role at with Ratings was with the continued development of the Ratings and Impedance Calculator (RIC), which was a replacement for Ausgrid’s existing ratings database and engine. The activities involved were as follows:• Engaging software developer IBM… Show more During this period, I was part of the Ratings Production team (May 2010 to Jan 2012) and then moved to the Ratings Development team (Jan 2012 to Jan 2015) within the same section, Ratings & Supply Quality.A major part of my role at with Ratings was with the continued development of the Ratings and Impedance Calculator (RIC), which was a replacement for Ausgrid’s existing ratings database and engine. The activities involved were as follows:• Engaging software developer IBM. • Acceptance testing and data verification during commissioning stage.• Defect detection, analysis, problem solution and testing of defect fixes.• Continued development of the RIC system by conception, specification and extensive testing of enhancements, e.g. new substation ratings rules, report development, user interface (UI) changes, rating new equipment such as gas insulated transformers.• Creating and modifying spreadsheets and tools for RIC testing. This often involved SAP and XML editing for testing scenarios.Other duties included:• Adapting existing and developing substation and equipment rules, including the “Zone Substation Configuration Manual” and the “Transformer and Substation Ratings Manual”.• Performing underground cable ratings.• Producing and validating ratings reports for internal use (e.g. control room, planning) and the regulator.• Contributing to the Distribution Substations Working Group.• Installing, monitoring and analyzing of temperature monitors for substations.• Providing ad hoc ratings advice for distribution, sub-transmission, underground, overhead and equipment problems. Show less

I worked in the Maintenance, Breakdowns & Investigations team of Field Services North and my portfolio was underground cables, which covered power and streetlight cable faults and corrective repairs. This involved organizing fault repairs and all the associated tasks that go with it for all cable faults in my region. My role also included distribution substation construction projects, including pole top transformers, kiosks and chamber substations.This responsibility consisted… Show more I worked in the Maintenance, Breakdowns & Investigations team of Field Services North and my portfolio was underground cables, which covered power and streetlight cable faults and corrective repairs. This involved organizing fault repairs and all the associated tasks that go with it for all cable faults in my region. My role also included distribution substation construction projects, including pole top transformers, kiosks and chamber substations.This responsibility consisted of:• Organising repair crews and numbers, fault location, asset access, traffic management, cranes, cable laying, road permits, mobile generators.• Liaising with affected groups such as internal (e.g. cable jointers, substation technicians, control room), councils, RTA and other utilities.• Notifying and negotiating customer outages, including schools, hospitals, small businesses and residents.• Attending sites and co-ordinating different groups.• Capturing data, reporting and creating and modifying notifications and work orders in SAP. Also, I had a hand in developing the processes for the usage of SAP for Field Services as SAP had only been commissioned for plant maintenance work in late 2008.• Writing disconnection/reconnection orders for the control room.• Short form contract work (e.g. service termination box replacements).• Project tracking, close-outs and financial tracking. Show less

At the Western Power Graduate Program, I completed 5 rotations as follows:Transmission Lines and Cables• Managed the design for the KW-SF 82 132kV underground cable project. This entailed procurement of cable accessories and design aspects of cable route and transition pole arrangements.• Prepared major estimates for new transmission lines. This involved preliminary design of transmission lines, costing and construction timelines.• Performed easement calculations for… Show more At the Western Power Graduate Program, I completed 5 rotations as follows:Transmission Lines and Cables• Managed the design for the KW-SF 82 132kV underground cable project. This entailed procurement of cable accessories and design aspects of cable route and transition pole arrangements.• Prepared major estimates for new transmission lines. This involved preliminary design of transmission lines, costing and construction timelines.• Performed easement calculations for transmission lines with respect to nearby properties.• Prepared a construction manual for a 132kV underground cable installation.Network Reinforcement• Performed design work and estimation for LVABC & HVABC reconductoring, pole-top reclosers and substations.• Created overhead design and template for urban recloser and automatic load-break switch poles.Distribution standards & policy• Formulated policy for “Locating Ground Mounted Equipment”.• Formulated policy for “HV Substation Feeder Exit Circuits Isolation”.• Performed fuse grading studies for HV boric acid fuses (replacement of drop-out fuses in bushfire prone areas).• Formulated draft policy on cable markers for route identification.Transmission Field Engineering• Supervised commissioning of Bibra Lake zone substation.• Assisted protection commissioning of circuit breakers and capacitor banks.• Assisted investigations into trips.• Prepared reports and presentations on electromagnetic field risks of transmission lines and induction risks in substations.Reliability Improvement Strategy• Identified and compiled a list of poles for the “Pole Siliconing” program.• Data validation of customer complaints and outages.• Carried out feeder fault cause investigations.• Assisted in formulating compelling cases for reliability projects. Show less