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Oklahoma City, Oklahoma Area

Oklahoma City, Ok

• Responsible for leading an incident and injury free work environment for Business Area.• Responsible for multi-million dollar budget annually• Responsible for a Distribution Control Center to provide the safe, reliable, and efficient operation of the system• Responsible for Substation Operations compliance to NERC testing, reliability centered maintenance testing, failed in service, and operation of substation equipment• Responsible for troubleshooting, service restoration, and voltage investigations for the entire system to assure economical and reliable customer service.• Responsible for the meter maintenance of the system including Smart meters. • Analyzes and recommends staffing requirement for assigned functions, and recommends individual employee hiring and termination decisions.• Develops and maintains a working relationship with other Business Area leaders, and all management areas of the company to ensure a coordination of efforts and a continual flow of communications.• Evaluates and recommends policies and processes on manpower, tools, and equipment requirements to ensure an efficient use of resources.• Participates in community activities and organizations to promote the Company and enhance its image in local business and civic affairs.

Oklahoma City, Ok

• Responsible for leading an incident and injury free work environment for Business Area.• Responsible for multi-million dollar budget annually• Responsible for an organization of 500 members that perform utility construction

Oklahoma City, Ok

• Responsible for leading an incident and injury free work environment for Business Area.• Responsible for multi-million dollar budget annually• Responsible for the overall distribution operations of the Business Area which includes Engineering, Project Management, Coordination and Construction to provide a safe, effective system and facilities to meet the customer needs• Develops and maintains a working relationship with other Business Area leaders, and all management areas of the company to assure a coordination of efforts and a continual flow of communications.• Evaluates and recommends policies on manpower, tools, and equipment requirements to ensure an efficient use of resources.• Participates in community activities and organizations to promote the Company and enhance its image in local business and civic affairs.

Oklahoma City, Ok

• Direct and oversee the performance of a large multi - discipline team. Disciplines include Engineering, Project Leaders, Customer Service Coordinator, Line Construction, Service Reps, Troubleshooters, Substation Operations, Voltage, Meter Techs, Field Services, and Meter Readers. • Review and evaluate new and existing performance measures and goals to insure that optimum safety and productivity are maintained.• Responsible for the direction and coordination of strategic initiatives and multi-million dollar budget that advance the company’s business and community strategies at the local level. • Develop, coordinate and leverage relationships with key stakeholders. Develop and communicate critical business intelligence to team members and senior management. • Investigate, respond to, and resolve customer and Corporation Commission Complaints or issues. • Conduct accident prevention meetings and review Operating Practices and Approved Work Methods.

Oklahoma City, Ok

• Provided expertise on the operation and use of the Outage Management System and Mobile Dispatch System• Led version upgrades and testing to systems• Provided configuration changes• Led training• Served on Utility User Groups for the industry and vendor• Ensured reports were build and maintained to meet business unit needs

Oklahoma City, Ok

• Centralized planner for all Substation Operation Groups.• Responsible to schedule all testing, switching and coordinate material and equipment needed to perform the task.• Created and maintained work orders in SAP.• Maintained Equipment record database.

Oklahoma City, Ok

• Developed and monitored reliability data for company.• Met with local Reliability Teams in their districts to identify and correct reliability issues and concerns to the system and their ability to respond.• Served on Southeastern Exchange Reliability and Power Quality committee. • Provide monthly reports to upper management and executives.• Served on VP of Power Delivery Management Team.• Worked with EPRI on national reliability standards

Oklahoma City, Ok

• Coordinated, directed, and assisted in the checking all wiring for generation, transmission and some distribution substations to assure no mistakes were made in the installation.• Coordinated, directed, and assisted in the checking of relay and control equipment in generation, transmission and some distribution substations to make sure it operates properly in the protection of expensive equipment.• Maintained protective relays by cleaning, testing, adjusting, and proving proper operation of equipment that has been in service for some time.• Member of the Relay Specialist Team that built the world’s most modern substation, “Robinson Ave. Substation.” Installation included state of the art Sweitzer Solid State Relays, SEL-387, SEL-2PG10, SEL-321, SEL-2020 Communications Processor, SEL 501 and SEL-551. All relays were wired using the SEL-2810 Fiber Optic Transceivers.• Maintained and repaired all Power Line Carrier and transfer trip, SCADA RTU, Fault Recorders, and satellite time sync devices. • Provided technical support to Field Operations personnel during installation and troubleshooting of equipment.• Provided technical advice and testing of Electro Mechanical Relays, and Solid State Relays to External Customers such as AES, Tinker Air Force Base, Conoco, and Dayton Tire. • Investigated and repaired all EHV substations and power plants in the 69kV to 500kV Range.

Oklahoma City, Ok

• Installed and maintained all components of the Overhead and Underground Distribution System.• Operated all trucks and equipment applicable to performing line work• Completed Lineman training.• Performed Transmission maintenance• Provided lead man skills and abilities

Edmond, Ok

• Installed and maintained all components of the Overhead and Underground Distribution System.• Operated all trucks and equipment applicable to performing line work• Maintained traffic control systems

Master Of Business Administration (Mba), Business Administration And Management, General

Bachelor Of Science, Southern Nazarene University

Bachelor Of Theology, Theology

Associate Degree Electrical Engineering Technology, Electrical Engineering Technology