Michael J. Vincent Email & Phone Number

Newark, New Jersey, US

• Internal Title: Principal Engineer
• Supervision of management associates (engineers, supervisors, technicians, etc) who support growth projects with the purpose of outage risk mitigation, outage planning, and scheduling. Able to apply firm-but-fair.
• 1 of 6 employees selected to participate within PSE&G’s best practice team charged with streamlining operations without sacrifice to reliability, O&M improvements, organizational reorganization, and increasing.
• Served as subject matter expert for electrical and electronic power systems on wide variety of special teams focused on root cause analysis and lessons learned.
• Design and develop solutions (contingency plans and restoration procedures) to out-of-configuration electrical equipment in an effort to maintain continuous power and customer reliability to facilitate transmission.
• Able to work across all voltage classes, make operating orientated type decisions focused on safety, customer reliability and system stability. Strong working relationships across all of areas of the company.

Newark, New Jersey, US

• Internal Title: Staff Engineer
• Preformed 20+ employee appraisals, fact-finding sessions, and the administration of discipline within the OPEIU collective bargaining unit agreement
• Responsible for leading a team of seven OPEIU engineering technicians and 6 summer interns to accomplish sophisticated UG new installations and retro fit, buried underground distribution re-conductoring, and.
• Monitors and modifies day-to-day construction activities to ensure budget and manpower requirements are in alignment with scorecard targets.
• Analyze Metropolitans system performance, recommend power quality and reliability improvements, design, layout and administer work to other work groups. Project classifications included Poorest Performing Circuits, OH.
• Preparation and administration of system contingency plans as engineer on call during routine and emergency situations. Substation Shutdowns, Sub-transmission Line Outages, 4kV UG Radial, and other out-of-configuration.

Newark, NJ, US

• Successfully administered Undergraduate Engineering technical electives and core classes
• Prepared lesson plans, grade exams, case studies, lab reports, etc.
• Aligned classroom lecture and theory with laboratory experiments
• Developed and modified course outcomes to better align student skills with corporate need
• Made use of online platforms to deliver material and improve course experience

• Responsible for the safe and reliable operation of a commercial salt-water pool consisting of $1.4M plant property and equipment, 30 employees, $200K operating budget, and 800 members.
• Negotiated complex business transactions and contracts including membership categories & rates, the development of an additional revenue streams using the parking lot off-season, special needs camp swim time, swim team.
• Established long term and short-term business strategies to remain competitive despite increased levels of competition. Analysis of club operations and overall general condition assessment to determine efforts required.
• Developed marketing strategy to grow membership by 23% after churn over 3 years
• Ensure all permits, licenses, statutes, and codes were understood by staff and enforced.
• Act as an ex-officio member for all committees, sub groups, and special interest teams.

US

• Carried out project cost estimation using Means Electrical Cost Data for $100K+ projects
• Upgraded entire airport lighting communications system with multiple communication protocols
• Designed airport runway lighting schemes which adhere to FAA standards

• Coordinated the development and installation of a SCADA system in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil for 2nd largest Brazilian electrical utility company
• Designed and developed test apparatus, policies and procedures for electrical/mechanical devices
• Published technical drawings and reports for internal and external company use
• Prepared cost estimates for fabrication, assembly and inspection of various technical projects
• Orchestrated improvements to software and hardware issues using electronic test equipment
• Administered inspection, final test and quality assurance of printed circuit board and assemblies

Msee / Msem, Electrical Engineering, Power / Engineering Managment

Mba, Finance

Bsee, Electrical Engineering

Aas, Electromechanical Technology

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