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West Palm Beach, Fl, Us

Juno Beach, Fl, Us

Power Generation Division, Engineering and Operations Support Services, Solar, Energy Storage, & Distributed Generation (DG) Fleets-Troubleshot and restored functionality to underperforming assets in company’s distributed solar and storage fleet

Juno Beach, Fl, Us

Finance, Integrated Resource Planning-Initiated programs to improve efficiency and accuracy of team operations, including ones to automate data analysis process using Python-Helped prepare presentations for upper management and CEO on economic and technical aspects of DC-coupled solar and storage systems, newly proposed solar tax credits, grid decarbonization, and possible extreme winter scenarios -Ran power system economic simulations to determine optimal mix of energy generation sources to feed grid-Developed algorithms to simulate simplified economic dispatch of generation fleet when more complex simulation would be too time intensive-Identified and helped correct problematic assumptions in planning process associated with renewable energy technologies

Juno Beach, Fl, Us

Power Delivery, Grid Control Systems, Distribution Applications-Coordinated installation, configuration, and site acceptance testing of software and served as inter-departmental liaison between engineers and project managers as technical lead of 2018 Distribution Management System (DMS) upgrade project-Brokered knowledge transfer between company and its software vendor, General Electric─ including process documentation and FPL-customized installations in GE test environments─ as GE Power Grid Solutions project engineer in inaugural FPL/GE Employee Exchange Program (Feb-May 2019)-Identified several key software enhancements needed to improve reliability of DMS’s fault isolation function while collating months of feeder outage data from different applications-Provided on-call IT support to Power Delivery control centers and daily maintenance of DMS, Outage and Switch Management (OSM), and related software applications -Created Java, Perl, Python, and Batch scripts to automate data manipulation, analysis, display, and cleanup procedures for monitoring and control of generation, transmission, and distribution systems-Developed series of training sessions for new hires to review operating procedures and troubleshooting techniques relevant to team

Madison, Wi, Us

-Performed economic simulation and behavioral experiment to assess effects of different pricing schemes on residential electricity consumption in isolated microgrids-Collaborated with interdisciplinary team of professors to identify price signals that minimize blackout incidence resulting from overconsumption

Juno Beach, Fl, Us

Customer Service, Smart Grid and Meter Services-Proposed and developed preliminary, MATLAB-based dynamic model of utility’s smart meter communication network to test radio signal transmission after system recovery from blackout-Applied model to identify infrastructural changes necessary to improve signal transmission -Organized and led inter-departmental meetings with managers and engineers to evaluate progress of project, discuss model specifications, and exchange data for use in model-Prepared manual and presentations to explain model and potential future improvements to senior management

Pittsburgh, Pa, Us

-Helped develop dynamic model of power transmission system to investigate effect of cyber-attacks on state estimation -Performed power flow analysis with real-world data to obtain system’s true states

-Conducted independent study quantifying life cycle emissions of major forms of power generation in U.S. -Forecasted abatement in carbon emissions associated with replacing all retiring power plants with photovoltaics over next 25 years

New York, Ny, Us

-Helped assemble and test integrative pressured solar water heater to guide design of solar thermal system in development-Brainstormed and performed alterations to heater structure with graduate students in order to enable successful testing -Measured energy efficiency using solar simulator and documented procedure for doing so

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

Master Of Science (M.S.), Energy Science, Technology, And Policy

Bachelor Of Arts (B.A.), Bachelor Of Science (B.S.), Environmental Biology, Environmental Engineering