Scott Derrickson Email & Phone Number

Eau Claire, Wisconsin Area

• Develop and maintain a high level focus for the Service Policy and BCL functions for NSP-Wisconsin jurisdiction. Collaborate across Xcel Energy jurisdictions to determine roles and responsibilities of Service Policy.
• Achieve measurable outcomes in: training, compliance, financial impacts and customer satisfaction. Develop and present recommendations to upper management. As necessary, collaborate with external entities (PSCW, MPUC.
• Maintain understanding of internal department and customer needs for training and compliance support, and ensure resource allocation to meet these needs. Provide feedback and recommendations to other parts of company.
• Manage the selection, training, evaluation, and development of employees within Service Policy and BCL to assure optimum productivity, retention, and motivation. Responsible for the daily, weekly and monthly planning.

Hayward, WI

• Responsible for directing the work of the team by prioritizing and assigning work, developing goals and targets, and monitoring results. Responsible for signing and approving work done by designers under direct.
• Represent the department as the point of contact for and establish effective working relationships with internal and external customers and coordinate departmental activities with those customers.
• Support and actively participate in the development of direct reports through training, mentoring, and succession development. May recommend direct reports for promotion within the engineering hierarchy.
• Conduct performance appraisals for employees. Responsible for all hiring and disciplinary decisions as well as hiring authority for all direct report positions.
• Responsible for overall Capital and O&M budget for dept. and all continuing training and conferences for the NSPW Design group.

Hayward, WI

• Responsible for effective and efficient use of resources with emphasis on safety, customer satisfaction, quality improvement, and regulatory compliance. Oversees the contract crews to verify assigned work is completed.
• Develop a daily work plan in coordination with the Field Operations Manager and Strategic Resource Planning personnel to meet the requirements of resource plan. Independently assign resources to the work, request.
• Maintain data integrity within the various systems used to manage daily work and scheduling activities. Create daily crew roster, which includes crew complement, location of work, equipment being used and equipment.

Liberty Lake, WA

• Lead Application Engineer and Data Engineer on several multi-million dollar LD-Pro Distribution software implementation projects, including Northeast Utilities, and CenterPoint Energy.
• Provided Application Engineer Duties such as training in Overhead and Underground Distribution design, Template building, GIS consulting, Work Management software consulting on an as needed basis.
• Held overall responsibility for managing all project deliverables for customer LD-Pro implementations.
• Provided direct management to core Itron project team, core customer project team, and also third party vendors.
• Multi-tasked across all project related activities and/or multiple implementation projects.
• Provided consulting work for Sacramento Municipal Utility District involving underground subdivision designs.

Associate'S Degree, Electrical And Electronics Engineering, 3.97

Electronic Technology

Sonar Technician, Electrical And Electronics Engineering, 98%

Sonar Technician in the U.S. Coast Guard. Had two years of schooling in active and passive sonar systems. Was able to trouble shoot down.