Samuel Woolard Email & Phone Number

Austin, Tx, Us

• Manages and directs overall activities of field services that are responsible for constructing and maintaining the LCRA Transmission System and providing various services to internal and external LCRA customers• Develops and implements departmental management systems, annual budgets, work priorities, related schedules, and long-term strategic plans • Provides strategic planning and vision for overall direction of department and how its work accomplishes LCRA's mission• Provides leadership and direction to staff. Hires, trains, promotes, assigns work, evaluates, and manages performance and handles all aspects of staff supervision. Maintains awareness of department issues and responds to employee needs and concerns. Communicates with employees to ensure accurate and timely dissemination of information.• Develops and/or implements policies and procedures.• Manages internal and external resources to provide required services. • Establishes and maintains business practices, prepares proposals, establishes commitments, and ensures customer satisfacation.• Leads staff to evaluate and propose use of innovative technologies and new practices. • Develops technical and leadership skills within department.• Develops and manages multiple department budgets. • Ensures appropriate records are maintained for personnel, budget requirements, capital equipment, management systems, policies, and procedures.• Provides oversight and testimony, as necessary, in regulatory and legal proceedings such as transmission cost of service rate cases.• Makes presentations to LCRA management, LCRA Board and LCRA customers as required.

Hartford, Connecticut, Us

• Responsible for the Distribution Design, System Resiliency, Single Pole Administrator, Graphical Information System (GIS) and Distributed Generation teams for Connecticut • Oversee team of approximately 150 union and non-union engineers and technicians plus contract engineering services• Develop and implement a $270 million-dollar capital program compromised of new customer, reliability, regulatory commitment, capacity improvements, resiliency, and basic business projects• Create tactical and strategic distribution plans, projects and studies to ensure corporate goals are met• Act as Planning Chief for CT during all weather-related and emergency events• Drive a strong focus on safety through employee engagement initiatives and regular site visits• Present senior executive management with regular updates to maintain visibility on engineering capital programs, improvement initiatives and emerging technologies• Chair Eversource Technical Review Team (CT), providing engineering guidance on the early phases of project development and risk analysis• Review and evaluate proposals and locations for emerging technologies including battery storage, fuel cell and demand response initiatives that meet the requirements of future-forward thinking in distribution planning• Maintain strong working relationships with internal legal and regulatory stakeholders to plan and respond to Public Utilities Regulatory Authority (PURA) and other government entity requests• Represent the company at the Public Utilities Regulatory Authority (PURA) hearings in engineering- related matters including rate case support• Negotiate with local union leadership regarding contractual obligations • Create long term staffing plans that include consideration for capital budgets and corporate objectives• Engage with local universities to review research initiatives that demonstrate the value of Eversource Distribution Programs

Perth, Western Australia, Au

• Leadership of professional employees that devise and implement an asset management plan for transmission and distribution equipment and protection systems ranging from 6 kV to 330 kV• Devise/manage tactical (0-2 yrs), long (2-5 yrs) and strategic (beyond 5 yrs) asset management plans for transmission and distribution equipment and protection assets • Represent the company as team leader and subject matter expert during external audits• Cultivate relationships with internal and external stake holders to obtain support for division directives• Align strategic options with business objectives to achieve optimal solutions• Investigate Asset failures and perform Root Cause Analysis (RCA), using results of investigations to validate and if necessary refine asset strategy• Research current trends in the industry for management of assets and implement new strategies• Ownership and responsibility for capital and operations budget for substation equipment• Use industry knowledge to align company with current utility practices (CIGRE, ENA, EPRI, IEEE, BSA-PAS) • Sponsor asset replacement and regulatory compliance solutions regarding transmission plant. (approx. $200 million over the 5 year access arrangement period)• Ensure compliance with safety, environmental and other regulatory requirements for transmission equipment • Analyze and develop risk models utilizing various techniques (belief networks, condition based risk, FMEA)• Oversee and foster developmental growth for the asset management team• Align strategic options with business objectives to achieve optimal solutions• Consult with key decision making processes regarding problem solving and technical solutions

Lewisville, Tx, Us

• Supervise and develop substation maintenance, engineering, drafting, and meter shop employees • Organize operational and capital improvement budget along with accountability for ensuring that cash flows fall into projected budgets• Identify and implement company policy and procedures in response to NERC requirements• Prepare and engage in disaster/emergency response plans for transmission and distribution systems• Lead process improvement teams utilizing Six Sigma methods with a focus on reducing operational costs• Engage large industrial customers by giving presentations at users’ group meetings, working with them on power quality issues, and sharing best practices • Review company engineering, operations and maintenance guidelines and procedures, ensuring best practices while meeting compliance with regulatory bodies - where necessary assist in writing new maintenance and engineering policies and procedures• Assist other departments in substation, transmission, distribution and metering projects and engineering analysis - articulating results of studies and analysis to senior management• Devise and implement process improvement plans utilizing a combination of technology and training • Cultivate engineers and technicians companywide by providing technical assistance and guidance in both transmission and distribution facilities design and improvements• Represent the company at the regional reliability organization working group meetings including chairing the system protection working group• Management of small and medium transmission and distribution substation construction projects

Lewisville, Tx, Us

• Supervision and development of the high voltage metering group• Prepare coordination and fault current studies• Develop relay settings for new installs and additions to the transmission and distribution system • Design new relay protection systems along with updates to existing equipment • Provide fault support both in person and through the phone• Prepare analysis of faults on the transmission and distribution system and identify equipment failures • Recommend/Document corrective action plans for equipment failures• Represent the company at the regional reliability organization working group meeting• Design and commission protection and SCADA communications schemes • Received an award for innovative technology and presented the results to the board of directors along with other company executive officers

Lewisville, Tx, Us

• Leadership and development of distribution planners for North Texas Business Units• Manage electric substation and distribution construction projects • Utilize the bid process for selection of material and contractors • Ensure all new and retrofit construction meet current National Electric Safety Code (NESC), National Electric Code (NEC) and OSHA rules • Perform electrical distribution (below 25 kV) planning and analysis - studies included load growth forecast, coordination studies, reliability and general system improvements• Create budget based on distribution analysis, submitted and defended the budget to management • Support electric line crews on construction issues and perform engineering analysis of customer complaints for power quality • Lead initiatives bringing in new test equipment and techniques for substation assets, learning the new equipment and providing training to substation technical staff• Provide on call emergency response to substation outages• Install substation RTU and establish communications with intelligent electronic devices• Troubleshoot communications issues with RTU, IED and Master Stations• Provide electric substation field engineering including system integration and communications between different intelligent electronic devices and remote terminal units

Lewisville, Tx, Us

• Assist all areas of distribution and transmission engineering • Meet with residential and commercial customers on projects to gather information and troubleshoot issues • Perform both emergency and scheduled maintenance on substation and distribution equipment • Act as system dispatcher for Transmission and Distribution fault restoration• Assist field technicians in installing new substation equipment • Provide Power Quality Analysis for customer complaints• Analyze fault causes on circuits and report findings to management • Provide reports (Root Cause Analysis) to management on distribution feeder performance and suggest corrective action

Masters, Business Administration

Masters In Engineering, Electrical Engineering

Bachelors Of Science, Electrical Engineering

Associate In Arts, General Studies