Experience

Engineer (2025 - present)

• Project management for large multifaceted engineering and construction projects

Power systems planning engineer (2022 - 2025)

• Primary contact for DER within organization
• Key contributor on North American Transmission Forum (NATF) Distributed Energy Resources Modeling and Study Practices document
• Presented at EPRI conference on improved EVs2Scale GIS tool being developed and utilized for T&D planning studies
• Co-lead a team of approximately 20 engineers from external companies to perform integrated planning and minimize costs to customers - designed SharePoint site for improved engagement, collaboration, and information sharing
• Led data analyst intern to partially automate DER interconnection study process, resulting in a 80% reduction in engineering study times
• Developed plan for companies first battery storage micro-grid project as non-wires alternative

Industrial plant technician - variable (LLC contract work)

• Install electrical equipment upgrades such as fiber communications and digital relaying to improve safety and reduce downtime of plants

Operations engineer (2020 - 2022)

• Performed real-time studies for system operators to find optimal switching under pre- and post-contingent conditions
• Developed and executed coordinated plan for adjusting transformer tap ratios to mitigate high voltage across region
• Maintained models to perform power flow, state estimation, and contingency analysis
• Identified operational voltage issues caused by faulty plant AVR and pursued mitigation with wind developer
• Responsible for compliance with various NERC standards