Mark Prentice Email & Phone Number

Mount Vernon, WA, US

Mount Vernon, Washington, United States

Kirkland, Washington, United States

Kirkland, Washington, USA

• Performing on-site and remote work for Electric Utility Customers. Primary focus on Operational Systems Technologies (EMS, DMS, OMS, SCADA):
• Technical analysis, debugging, testing, documentation of SCADA/Distribution Management/Energy Management Systems.
• Project Management: execution plans, communicating plans, monitoring execution of plans, reporting on status of execution, and defect tracking, stakeholder reviews.
• Solution Architect for Energy Management, Gas SCADA and OSISoft PI, and configuration database system implementations
• Quality Assurance - EMS, DMS, OSISoft PI and Gas SCADA Implementation
• Installation, configuration, testing, and support operational technologies systems

Redmond, WA, USA

• R&D Product Development Manager and technical Team Lead.Primary contact for Paris-Based Delivery team into R&D organization for large multi-year Energy Management System project to be delivered to national-scope.
• R&D development scope of roughly 6M euros, with critical functional deliveries in 2011 for use in both layered solutions from Paris organization, as well as functional milestone demonstrations to the end customer.
• Coordination of detailed requirements with R&D Component owners.
• All R&D scope, budget, requirements must be coordinated with Marketing and built into baseline product roadmap for release to all customers.
• Participation in executive steering committee meetings, measuring global-execution on the project.

Redmond, WA, USA

• Development Manager/Technical Lead for 100% redevelopment of data engineering toolset to provide static data models to all runtime engines for critical electrical grid infrastructure systems (EMS, MMS, SCADA).
• Worked with Marketing to formalize requirements for large, strategically critical, highly-visible, multi-year development project.
• Planning, architecture, design, prioritization, development process.
• Core staff of 6, and roughly 12 local-site casual contributors, and several remote U.S. subcontractors. Annual development budget of 1.5M-2M Euros.
• Grew off-shore subcontracting team of 8, specializing in.NET thick-client User Interface development, and full-product testing.
• Early adopter (within AREVA T&D) of Agile Methodology on a large R&D project. Off-short UI developers tightly integrated in 24-hr development cycle, with continuous integration. Tight requirements management integrated.

Bellevue, WA, USA

• Lead architecture, design, implementation and testing of critical 7x24 baseline SCADA applications and subsystems.
• Provided labor estimates and schedules for custom development on large Energy Management System projects.
• Key technologies: C/C++, Microsoft.NET, Active X, proprietary RTDB and UI frameworks.
• Staff management and planning for 10 software engineers.
• Evangelist at User Group forums and direct customer meetings on product evolution.

Bellevue, WA, USA

• Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA) applications engineer providing both hardware and software services.
• Lead developer of embedded communications protocols for the electric power industry. Wrote embedded software in C and applications level software in C and Fortran.
• Develop and support baseline product and project custom software.
• Designed and developed embedded tools for VME-based protocol-translation software package.
• Network hardware and software troubleshooting expert.
• Design and developed Communications Front End Processor training course. Instructed the course and transferred content to other instructors

Bellevue, WA, USA

• System management and helpdesk group. Managed user accounts and responded to technical and non-technical support requests.
• Installed server software in primarily DEC VAX/VMS environment.
• Focal-point for secure dial-in modems, processes, accounts, and user support.
• Network communications specialist (Hardware and Software).

Electrical Engineering, Power Systems And Computer Engineering

Bs Electrical Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering

Electrical Engineering

Associate Of Arts And Sciences (Aas)