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St Paul, Minnesota, United States

St Paul, Minnesota, United States

Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

Perform cyber security and process focused compliance activities with electrical utilities in support of electrical grid reliability, resiliency, and availability using professional judgment and supporting evidence.Support initiatives promoting consistency among regional compliance oversight entities.Encourage a culture of compliance through outreach and presence at reliability organization functions.Maintain technical aptitude through attendance of training opportunities and pursuit of certifications relevant to professional function.

Medina, Mn

Provide technical, hands on engineering support dedicated to a large, strategic customer with a complex SCADA system.Technical SupportExposure to Red Hat 6, Windows 2012 and 7, Oracle 11, OSIsoft PI HistorianMultiple subsystems dedicated to production, quality assurance, development (SCADA and transmission modeling systems), and training Production redundantly split geographically across the west half of the United States that requires 99.9% up timeProducts supported include SCADA, communications, historical (traditional RDBMS and big data driven high speed historian), client-server interfaces, maintenance, power systems (generation and transmission), hardware, operations, custom applicationsDevelop and manage software and hardware upgrade trajectory through system replacement spanning projected out several years.Ensure customer satisfaction through technical issue management, training, soft skill applications, and working with various customer contacts to troubleshoot and resolve challenges.Product manager and co-creator of quality inspection automation tool, resulting in higher quality systems and reduced time and effort for engineers to execute quality inspections.Product manager and design consultant of software installation automation tool, resulting in increased production throughput and quality.Perform project quality inspections for systems built by peers prior to major project events to promote readiness for success of system and project team.Deployed data synchronization standards for system builds in cooperation with development and systems engineering teams.

Medina, Mn

Product manager and co-creator of quality inspection automation tool, resulting in higher quality systems and reduced time and effort for engineers to execute quality inspections.Product manager and design consultant of software installation automation tool, resulting in increased production throughput and quality.Managed and executed program to organize, communicate, and document latest software features internally to facilitate factory process standards updates.Performed distribution of critical software bulletins internally and externally.Lead software certification team responsible for building and maintaining systems in support of testing and certifying software for customer systems. Executed testing activities (continuous and event based) which informed engineering of maturity of release lines and provided feedback to development. Provided training, mentoring, and career development guidance for employees.Performed on site customer ownership readiness audit of large customer system to identify areas of improvement as well as provided guidance to manage the documented issues.Directly supervised, trained and mentored a team of 2-4 members.

Medina, Mn

● Supported management of project testing events● Consulted on test procedure creation and maintenance● Managed resources that performed test procedures during project test events● Supported maintenance of test procedure and testing tool TestLink● Joined project as System Build Lead to drive the technical system build, quality, and internal test event preparation with a team of 3 engineers. Created alternate approaches to track system technical configuration issues for more effective management of resources and resolutions. System consisted of RedHat 6, Windows 2008 and 7; consisted of production, quality assurance, development, and training systems with advanced applications and high speed historian.

Medina, Mn

● Supported project build efforts through designing software deployments on project systems, implementation of software deployments and upgrades, reviews of project teams and peer designs and implementations. ● Worked with project engineers and project teams to improve design, implementation, and quality processes.● Performed several proprietary and third-party software upgrades for customers on mission-critical systems. Supporting resource in execution of hardware and software upgrade and OS migration of large production system that managed portions of southwestern state. Proprietary software upgrade to versions about 5 years newer. System consisted of production, quality assurance, training, development, and specialized market isolated domains. Redesigned and implemented site failover process as well as test mode for backup control center based on latest technology which required heavy bash scripting, Linux service manipulation and management, as well as accounting for impacts to related systems. Migrated from AIX to RedHat 6; also involved Windows 2008 and 7; Oracle RDBMS; OSISoft PI Historian; custom product support.● Provided training, mentoring, and career development guidance for employees.

Plymouth, Mn

● Reviewed designs and implementations produced by team members and provided feedback to improve and bring to standard system builds as well as improve standards and deployment practices.● Coordinated with internal teams (project, training, proprietary and third party software testing) to understand, design and deploy internal and customer systems.● As team lead provided training, mentoring, and career development guidance for rotating group of between 3 and 9 employees on their path to other roles.● Oversaw and performed deployment, quality checks, and testing of cutting edge software on off the shelf hardware to leverage and interface with standard industry third party software on very large, strategic systems. Worked with development groups to quickly and effectively resolve issues. Contributed to maintaining contract schedule as well as core software improvements which benefited subsequent systems.● Managed creation and maintenance of deliverables to project teams as well as internal reusable assets (build guides, troubleshooting information repositories, automation scripting). ● Traveled internationally to support technical group establishment and build systems with company partner.

Plymouth, Mn

Installed proprietary software on off the shelf hardware to leverage and interface with standard, industry common third party software.Worked with project teams to understand, provide feedback on and improve, and implement a design to build a system to customer specifications, as well as company and industry standards.Reviewed designs and implementations produced by team members and provided feedback to improve and bring to standard system builds.Provided feedback to process and product owners to improve company deliverables.Submitted software defect and enhancement requests, worked with development team to understand issues and impacts, verified updates.Submitted process improvement ideas to engineering leadership for evaluation and incorporation into standard project processes.Worked with internal training, proprietary software testing, and third party software testing groups to design and deploy systems to facilitate their functions.Worked with resource managers to assess, estimate, and allocate resources to project activities and tasks as team lead.