Developed regulatory strategies for clean energy; managed and executed regulatory deliverables.• Led diverse, cross-functional teams in the fulfillment of annual filings of Grid Needs Assessment and Distribution Deferral Opportunity Report since 2018.• Led initial strategy development to integrate distributed energy resources (DER) into distribution planning, which became the key foundational strategies for SCE within the High DER proceeding.• Developed strategies and regulatory positions to positively influence procedural outcomes, including new Integrated Distributed Energy Resources pilots, modifications to the existing Distribution Investment Deferral Framework Process, and the closing of the Distribution Resources Plan proceeding.• Developed a quantitative prioritization framework to rank DER deferral opportunities, which was adopted by the California Public Utility Commission as the template for all California Investor Owned Utilities.• Managed the Department of Energy demonstration project Electric Access System Enhancement to enable effective operational connection of DERs to the grid.• Managed cross-functional teams to execute Integration Capacity Analysis and Locational Net Benefit Analysis demonstration projects to identify the optimal locations for DER integrations.

Managed and performed consulting projects to promote DER proliferation and grid modernizations.• Managed Photovoltaic market assessments and Plug-in Electric Vehicle impact studies for an Asian utility.• Led a distribution system analysis demonstration project and developed a distribution planning roadmap for an Asian utility.• Recommended underground cable infrastructure replacement strategies based on the risk assessment of aging cable to distribution reliability to support a utility’s General Rate Case.

• Managed the filing of a California utility’s second Electric Program Investment Charge (EPIC) program and coordinated across its T&D organizations to identify research and demonstration projects to meet the state’s energy and climate goals.• Developed strategies to proactively replace aging infrastructure for a California utility based on novel simulation approaches and cost-effectiveness analyses.• Performed scenario-based grid impact and cost impact assessments for Photovoltaic interconnection and Plug-in Electric Vehicles charging, and recommended mitigation strategies.• Expanded team core business offerings by developing various analytical methodologies and tools, including representative-sampling based DER system impact analyses and time-series simulation based predictive reliability analyses.

• Developed distribution reliability improvement roadmaps through innovative predictive reliability evaluation and risk assessment for utilities across the North America.• Led medium- and long-term load forecasting studies using both statistical approaches and spatial forecasting methodologies for several utilities across the U.S.

• Developed an analytical tool to statistically identify areas prone to extreme climate events and assess the costs and benefits of various storm hardening options of given locations, based on Monte Carlo simulations of Atlantic hurricanes, for a southeast utility consortium.

• Customized a reliability simulation tool to support several distribution reliability studies.