• Over 45+ years of experience in electric system design, planning, engineering, and management

• Specialist in protective relaying, metering, and substation control systems

• Experienced in utility substations design, high-voltage overhead and underground distribution design, photovoltaic and wind project design

• Significant experience with the design, construction, and inspection of photovoltaic power plants from kW to multi-MW rating

• Specialist in system studies and special investigations including finite element thermal analysis, protection coordination, magnetic fields, voltage drop, and fault current analysis

• Experience with commercial building electrical design; electric service design, power distribution and grounding; experienced with arc flash analysis and mitigation

• Extensive background in long-range planning, contingency studies, and construction work plan development

Master of Engineering, Electrical Power Engineering, California Polytechnic State University (1976)

Bachelor of Science, Electronic Engineering, California Polytechnic State University (1975)

• Protective relay coordination designs and settings for SEL, ABB, Basler, Cooper relays, including commissioning support

• Expert in interconnections between distributed power producers and electric utility systems

• Power substation control design for large and small substations including full control schematics and wiring diagrams

• Evaluation of power factor and loading for industrial and generation facilities including design of multi-stage automatic power factor correction control for capacitor installation

• Designed and evaluated medium-voltage (4-, 12-, 21-kV) distribution systems capacity, protection, and voltage regulation improvements

• Developed methods for evaluating and optimizing the locations of transpositions in medium-voltage high-power circuits

• Designed expansion of and control improvements to high-voltage (60-, 69-, 115-, 230-kV) transmission systems

• Developed specifications and standards for materials and construction practices

• Provides detailed power quality analyses for distributed generation

• Provide low-voltage and medium-voltage design for the connection of photovoltaic power projects in net metering and independent power production applications

• Acted as 3rd-party reviewer for large (100MW+) photovoltaic power plant projects providing comprehensive design review

• Provided on-site construction inspection for large-scale photovoltaic power plant including substation, underground collection and inverters

• Act as owner’s engineer during the interconnection application and study process for photovoltaic power plants connected to medium- and high-voltage grids

• Provided collection and substation design for wind projects from single-generator to large-scale projects.

• Prepared design documents for navigation and airport lighting system upgrades and construction at various municipal, county and state airports in Washington & Oregon; multiple locations.

• Provide general engineering support for airport facilities including terminals, hangars, etc. at multiple locations.

• Perform fault studies, load-flow/voltage drop studies, long- and short-range workplans

• Protective system coordination studies including complex distance and over-current devices and complete system studies

• Perform finite element analysis of the thermal capacity of underground transmission cables including transient and dynamic loading

• Familiar with underground transmission line design including cross-bonding.

• Provide forensic support in areas of underground cable analysis, protective systems, arc flash hazard, and power quality.

• Electrical service upgrades for elementary and high schools; feeder and branch systems for major equipment upgrades, complete power design

• Interior classroom and exterior lighting including occupancy and timed controls for compliance with state regulations; egress lighting requirements; parking lot lighting; security lighting; night-sky compliance

• General layout for data systems including Cat 5 cabling, telephone, security, fire alarm

• Standby power generation for data centers; redundant power supply design for data centers