Bill Capps Email & Phone Number

Kansas City, Missouri Area

(Under Contract to) Board Of Public Utilities – Kansas City, KS

• Work onsite at Board of Public Utilities plant supporting EASi’s electrical designers resolve data and design inconsistencies, auditing and updating distribution feeder circuit data for a public electric utility.
• Gathered Business requirements through interviews with electrical designers; Compiled legacy and digital electrical infrastructure data; Conducted data profiling and analysis to assess data quality and recommended data.
• Developed process for export coordinate data from Topobase database to convert state plane coordinates to latitude and longitude coordinates to validate underground service type.
• Conducted field surveys to verify computer aided drawings represent the as-built condition of the primary feeders, secondary services and transformer banks.

Overland Park, Kansas

• Support of data collection, organization, conversion and migration activities for a complex, large-scale Pipeline Integrity Management project focused on supporting core business processes required by Pipeline.
• Lead 9-member data conversion team tasked with capturing and transforming pipeline attribute, inspection and spatial data from over 41,000 documents and a file geodatabase into a standard digital format.
• Devised Data Quality Assurance procedures to discover inconsistencies and anomalous data; Created quality assurance components such as drop-down lists and validation rules using database domains to eliminate.
• Conducted web-based and on-site training on data capturing processes and ASME B31.8 standards and specifications consistently reducing data errors found by 3rd party auditor Bureau Veritas.
• Developed MS Access application to automate the extraction and transformation process of survey data eliminating redundant data entry errors and reduced production time required from eighty man-hours to one man-hour.
• Utilized Locate Feature Along Route to spatially locate imported coordinate data from combined close interval potential surveys (CIPS) with direct current voltage gradient surveys (DCVG); Modified feature layer.

Belton, MO; Baghdad, Iraq; Mosul, Iraq; Muqdadiyah, Iraq; Helmand Province, Afg

• Lead sixteen-member Tactical Psychological Operations Detachment in support Operation Enduring Freedom. Provided sound advice to the Detachment Commander on a wide range of topics including the well-being, esprit de.
• Led four-person Tactical Psychological Operations Team during three tours in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom. Developed detailed mission plans, forged relationships with local Iraqis to acquire information on.
• Assisted British Army graphic artists in the design and development of printed media to influence local nationals to support the Afghan government and report insurgent activity.
• Performed research and analysis of targeted audiences to identify key communicators, applicable themes and symbols to create effective messaging and means of dissemination in support of counter-insurgency operations in.
• Developed and executed numerous training sessions in realistic combat scenarios for 100 personnel in preparation for deployment to Iraq and Afghanistan; Trained and mentored United States Marines to conduct effective.

Kansas City Area, Missouri

• Performed hydraulic system planning analysis on natural gas transmission and distribution systems for new and existing customers according to construction standards utilizing the company’s project tracking system (Gas.
• Assisted pipeline engineers mitigate risk on gas main replacement, regulator station design to accommodate distribution network expansion or configuration changes.
• Gathered temperature and customer total connected load data to develop demand models based on a system design peak hour of 75 heating degree days for all Missouri Gas Energy service areas.
• Built system capacity model consisting of pipeline configuration and peak demand/load data to replicate the insufficient capacity of the C-039 158 psig Beltline feeder system to determine the feasibility of connecting.
• Conducted system capacity study to replace 10 miles of 6 and 8-inch steel gas main with 10-inch PE pipe to support increasing the system pressure feeding Excelsior Springs, Missouri from 58 psig to 90 psig to.
• Researched and maintained Synergee Gas Modeler facility libraries with pipeline friction factors, roughness values and regulator sizing co-efficients.

Kansas City, Missouri

• Analyze and trend Electronic Flow Measurement (EFM) data ensuring accuracy and completeness, set up and maintain electronic gas volume correctors, troubleshoot and resolve problems and variations in measurement data.
• Administered Electronic Flow Measurement Data Collection System (Metretek DC2000). Insured the integrity of electronic flow measurement (EFM) data. Resolved exceptions inclusive of system processing errors, missing or.
• Collaborate with Measurement Technicians to ensure accurate configuration of flow computers and ensuring continuous communication with the Metretek DC2000 data collection system.
• Designed and Developed the front-end of a Retail Natural Gas Management System to reconcile and bill customer’s delivering third party natural gas supplies to the Missouri Gas Energy for distribution.
• Designed and developed Natural Gas Meter and Flow Computer Management application enabling supervisors to track equipment installation, replacement and equipment calibration scheduling.
• Involved in various phases of Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) of the Retail Natural Gas Management System such as requirement gathering, design and code development.