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Greater San Diego Area

Kay Stefferud currently serves as Director of Renewable Energy Projects. Kay is a collaborative, versatile and results-oriented system engineer, who has technical, program and team leadership experience in dynamic, rapidly-evolving environments. She uses her analytic problem solving skills in requirements specification, design, and test and system.

Greater Los Angeles Area

Evaluated status of current smart grid projects relative to a maturity model, leading industry practices, technology trends, system architecture, regulatory considerations and overall strategic and business drivers. Kay prepared briefings for executive-level and senior management detailing assessment findings and recommendations. In addition, Kay helped.

Southern California

Program Manager for the team which produced a functional specification defining vendor-neutral information for the SDG&E smart grid development team and customers on the evolving options for incorporating renewable energy. SDG&E’s smart grid deployment programs are targeted at integrating customer systems into smart distribution operations that will make.

San Diego

System Engineer for team that conducted system requirements analysis, evaluated and mapped interoperability requirements, developed transaction model, prepared field test and acceptance test plans and recommended suitable smart appliances for the UCSD campus microgrid controller.

Canada

Kay evaluated detailed costs and benefits for Demand Response and HAN program for use in the Smart Grid Business Plan for BC Hydro. The cost benefit analysis and business plan evaluated predicted costs and benefits for four different scenarios based on the degree of environmental commitment and implementation.

California

Program Manager and system engineer for team working with the California Energy Commission, CAISO, UCSD and SCE to improve the accuracy of solar forecasting for large solar rooftop installations totaling 500 MW. Project addresses both short- and long-term forecasting operational needs by combining satellite and ground-based sky imagery to track cloud.

California Wide

Co-Program Manager for CaLEAP project analyzing all aspects of community energy resiliency including preparing for, responding to, recovering from and mitigating against disasters. Lead team of 16 EnerNex experts conducting energy resiliency workshops throughout California, met directly and in video conferences with stakeholders including federal, state.

Wrote use cases, system specifications and RFPs for multiple microgrids for a utility in the northeast. Working with utility stakeholders, led a formal process defining requirements for multiple community microgrids servicing critical facilities including fire/police stations, schools, shelters, fuel stations and nursing homes. Microgrids, and other grid.

Kay defined procurement specifications, reviewed cost analyses and determined cost trade-offs for one of the largest campus microgrids in the country. The microgrid is designed as an energy resilient system which transitions to on-site power sources during grid failures including long term outages caused by natural disasters including earthquakes. The.

• Simultaneously led teams completing Smart Grid, Navy and cyber security projects on-schedule and under budget while increasing customer confidence and contract awards. Co-chair of the UCA AMI-ENT Use Case team leading.
• MicroGrid Senior Staff System Engineer - Developed system and sub-system requirements and architecture for the first utility-scale MicroGrid in the US. Produced use cases, business process models and detailed.
• Operations Center R&D Principal Investigator - Principal Investigator (PI) for an R&D project developing IA and sensor applications for commercial and military markets. Java/C/C++ applications include secure SOA web.
• FCS Systems Engineering Manager/SE CAM/IPT Lead/Safety Engineer
• Principal investigator and program manager for R&D cyber security and hardware sensor data fusion projects using SOA web services, C/C++ and Java. Initiated two patent applications.
• Introduced and implemented secure coding standards to eliminate security vulnerabilities before installation; and

Designed, developed and maintained network management and real-time monitoring software for embedded network devices including routers, frame-relay devices, and network monitoring equipment. Promoted to Project Leader for the Network Monitoring and Management group. Developed C/C++ software to implement IP standard TFTP protocol, data filtering.

Master Of Science (M.S.), Systems Engineering

Ba, Statistics