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Denver, CO, US

Denver, Colorado, United States

• Accountable for the development, execution, and improvement of the Continuous Improvement and Management Review element within the Black Hills Energy PSMS Program, long term strategic planning related to PSMS.
• Completed the first PSMS Maturity Assessment of BHE using feedback from various PSMS element owners resulting in the development of an innovative PSMS Maturity strategy that will be shared at the American Gas.
• Developed PSMS Framework documentation for Leadership & Management Commitment, Stakeholder Engagement, and Management Review and Continuous Improvement
• Collaborated with the Incident Investigation Program Manager to further develop, revise, and improve the existing Incident Investigation program to reflect PSMS Framework, Standard, and Procedure best practices
• Implemented PSMS Governance charters and held regular meetings for the director-level Strategic Leadership Committee and the manager-level Tactical Leadership Committee

Greater Los Angeles Area

• Accountable for the management and regulatory compliance of in line inspections and external corrosion direct assessment of high pressure natural gas pipelines, ensuring compliance to SoCalGas’ Transmission Integrity.
• Responsible for the Engineering response to restart leaks on Pipeline 235 Rupture and repair.
• Leads Engineering effort to integrate ILI pipe tally results to GIS system as a result of lesson learned on Pipeline 235.
• Established project management matrix to track the status of projects (Inspection and Validation)across the project lifetime to determining project metrics, identify project gaps, resource deficiencies, and possible.
• Led Engineering discovery, determination, and remediation response, and facilitated communication for impacted stakeholders for 26 immediate an safety-related conditions.
• Developed Immediate Condition and Safety-Related Condition Communication plan to effectively and consistently communicate the impact of safety conditions to stakeholders across the organization.

Downey, CA

• Responsible for developing responses to California Public Utility Commission staff data requests, project management, internal policy development, developing project contingency plans, providing guidance to policy.
• Represented SoCalGas Engineering Services department for the Custom Calculated program working with the California Public Utility Commission Staff, Pacific Gas and Electric, Southern California Edison, and San Diego.
• Spearheaded deployment of a “Repair Indefinitely” policy position at the statewide level, which positively-impacted large commercial and industrial customers.
• Led selected projects receiving an “Approved” designation by California Public Utility Commission staff.

Downey, CA

• Responsible for the identification, development, review, and execution of energy-efficiency projects with large commercial and industrial (C&I) customers. Responsible for project management, management and completion.
• Represented SoCalGas in a customer service advisory role to a diverse clientele providing tailored technical solutions, assessment expertise, and policy guidance to each client.
• Managed and completed more than 300 custom energy-efficiency audits and assessment for C&I customers resulting in the identification and approval of more than 30 million therms in savings.

Downey, CA

Responsible for the identification and development of energy efficiency project feasibility studies, leading customer interactions, field assessment teams and spearheading the development of energy efficiency tools for use with the Custom Calculated Energy Efficiency Program. Other responsibilities including obtaining on-site measurements and customer.