SUMMARY:

Lead Energy Consultant in Transmission, Substation & Generation. Expert in design, construction, and management of substation, transmission, distribution, and power plant projects. I have perfect safety record along with 27 years of experience in the utility sector and 14 of those years in continuous management roles. Ambitious leader who creates strategic alliances with organization leaders to effectively align with and support key business initiatives

SKILLS:

EPC, High Voltage

Substation

Substations

Transmission Line

Transmission Line Design

Transmission Lines

Turbines, Circuits

Telecommunications Equipment

Telecommunications

Blueprints

Energy Management

Engineering Support

Nuclear Power

Site Assessments

Compliance, estimating

Generators

Test Plans, quality control

Mechanical/Electrical Engineer

Electrical Engineer

PMI/PMP

PMP Certification, PMP

Project Manager

Switching

Data Acquisition

Technical Support

Microsoft Office, excel, Microsoft Outlook, Outlook, Microsoft Powerpoint, PowerPoint

MICROSOFT WORD, Word,Documentation

Proposals, Scada

Organizational Skills, Office Skills, Collection, OEM

Procurement, Scheduling

Cost Control, Operations

Power Plant Equipment, Site Management,Osha 30, Permitting

Accounting, Budgets, quality assurance

Strategic Planning, Equipment Selection,Integrator, Integration, OSHA, maintenance,Online Learning

EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

Senior Operations Transmission / Substation/ Nuclear Protection Risk Control Engineer

Responsibilities:

• My responsibilities included implementation of the risk control process throughout transmission for all aspects of Confidential Capital and O&M portfolio which could impact nuclear offsite power, industrial customers and Tier 1 substations with a primary focus on relay protection and control along with transmission operational system risks.
• Provided/developed technical review of work strategies and documents pertaining to the reliability risk associated with tasks being performed by all organizations within transmission.
• My job role required experience with relay, protection, isolations, or settings with an understanding of transmission line design and substation work practices, standards, and procedures.
• Also demonstrated experience with, planning, project management, operations, and construction.
• My organizational skills included working with others on multiple projects simultaneously with precise communication skills with superiors, colleagues, and individuals inside and outside of the Confidential .
• Professional office skills used included Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, Outlook, and PowerPoint), budgets, financial procedures, and property accounting.

Confidential

Transmission/ Substation Commissioning Site Manager

Responsibilities:

• Supervised multiple teams of contractors and commissioning supervisors through the planning, execution and testing of new construction of collection substations for wind turbines and new Transmission structures and lines.
• Directly interacted with EPC Contractors, engineering firms, OEM equipment suppliers, off - taker Utilities, regional transmission system operators.
• Responsibilities also included writing substation switching orders and leading switching coordination efforts for newly developed Transmission lines and Substations.
• Managed the execution of supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA) planning, testing, energization, troubleshooting, supporting documentation along with telecommunications equipment.
• Oversight for all testing of protection relays and associated compliance documentation.
• With attention to detail my achievements for Confidential and Confidential wind-farm substations came in 4 weeks ahead of schedule with a prefect safety record.

Confidential

Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Provided leadership, oversight management, delegation, and coordination to the various internal and external organizations.
• My job role required establishing communications with Lead stakeholders to structure, lead, all project related meetings and reports required to ensure open communication between all team members, key stakeholders, and management which included monthly project reviews, kickoff meetings, weekly reports.
• Project management responsibilities included developing project scope, scheduling, cost, safety, estimating, schedule formation and monitoring, cost control measures, procurement/contracting strategies, equipment selection, vendor selection, start-up and commissioning plans, and integration processes as with regulatory strategy, procurement strategy, contractor and supplier strategy, resource plan, budgets, lessons learned, risk plan, safety plan, environmental plans and project close out.

Confidential

Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Managed overlapping Transmission and substation projects from the early design and permitting phase to the execution and completion phase of a 76-million-dollar transmission project.
• Responsibilities including developing and writing project scopes, design and study phase proposals and managing schedules this included the oversight of contractor resources.
• Also worked with environmental stakeholders to develop and execute key compliance during ROW activities.
• Organized, coordinated, and developed presentations for key stakeholders internally to complete commissioning and start-up key functions and close out.

Confidential

Project Manager/Site Manager

Responsibilities:

• Managed and Supervised EPC contactors on numerous Substation, Transmission Line projects.
• Responsibilities were multi rolled as Project Manager/Site Manager for Confidential.
• My daily role to organize and developing project written proposals, procurement coordination, developing schedules, engineering support and documentation for client close out.
• As a substation site manager overseeing commissioning of EPC projects consisting of 69kV to 500kV breaker overhauls, station battery replacements, protection relay additions and Scada and telecom upgrades.
• Leadership to key stakeholders, contractors and clients on engineering changes and environmental compliance.
• Key Perfect safety record managing contractors for all projects and excellent tack record maintaining schedule and maintaining control cost to completion of each project.

Confidential

Senior Transmission/ Substation Commissioning Manager/PM

Responsibilities:

• Active role as a commissioning manager/Pm to subcontractors preforming protection and control commissioning duties and Scada, telecom upgrades to energized brownfield substations.
• Responsibilities included developing project schedules, writing scope of work plans, overseeing testing and commissioning plans.
• Developed and coordinated outage schedules and was the main point of contact to lead contractors safely and efficiently to completion of each project to close out.
• Duties also included revisions of blueprints and as-built drawings submitted for final review.
• Each project I served as the primary point of communication for clients needs and worked closely with project teams to ensure safety, Confidential and environmental compliance standards.
• Also worked closely on creating and developing easement permitting and environmental ROW permits for teams in beginning stages of projects.
• Completed many Substation and Transmission program training seminars for client.

Confidential

Substation Commissioning Engineer/ Site Manager

Responsibilities:

• Oversight and site management of commissioning crews in energized brownfield substations.
• Main responsibilities included coordination with developing schedules and work scopes for clearances and testing.
• Developed and reviewed commissioning test plans.
• Successfully managed crews in compliance in substation quality control standards and was responsible for final as-built engineering drawings.
• Daily activities also included overall safety for equipment and personal, reporting, client coordination, creating work scopes for personal.
• Maintained an excellent safety record and compliance record and all projects.

Confidential

Substation Commissioning Manager

Responsibilities:

• Managed and supervised contractors on high profile transmission, substation and distribution projects in Texas and New Jersey coast during Confidential .
• Texas role and responsibilities as site manager overseeing large substation 345Kv greenfield and brownfield projects.
• Also coordinated and provided oversight to subcontractors for 10-year breaker maintenance programs.
• As a site manager each site I developed and implemented project policies and procedures including work scopes and insured contractor compliance.
• When Confidential devastated New Jersey coast line electric grid I was responsible for large number of subcontractor's and provided overall oversight to 12 substations at one time.
• A responsibility for this fast-paced high demand role was to restore each substation back into service quickly and safely with the removal of all relays, control circuits, breakers and switchgear.
• With providing strategic planning and management for all sites was successfully able to maintain safety and quality assurance to restoring the grid back into service in a record 2 months' time frame.

Confidential

Electrical Engineer

Responsibilities:

• My role was to provide technical support for the overhaul for 3 large 345mw generators, testing and maintenance of large 230Kv transformers, and all power plant equipment upgrades.
• Worked as a lead tech role followed clearance and testing procedures and had a perfect safety track record.
• Highlight for project completion all three generators, plant equipment were overhauled and a record time frame and completed within budgeted guidelines
• Many other utility projects worked on and completed dating back to 1993 including working in 12 nuclear plants, fossil generating plants, wind farms,natural gas generating plants