Assisted utility client in managing and performing their Climate Adaptation Vulnerability Assessment (CAVA) project, including identifying Transmission and Distribution assets with greatest risk to climate hazards, developing mitigation options to address the vulnerabilities, and providing long-term goals for adapting to climate risks. The results of this study enabled the utility to incorporate climate change adaptation into its asset strategy, planning, and operations. Specific aspects of climate change that were addressed in this project include ambient temperature increase, sea-level rise, wildfire ignition, changes in average annual precipitation, increased extreme precipitation events, changes in snowpack, increased drought conditions, subsidence, and cascading impacts.
Performed a pre-fire season audit of a utility's Public Safety Power Shutoff (PSPS) processes to identify potential gaps and improvements.
Assisted a utility's Enterprise Risk Management group with developing risk strategies related to risk taxonomy, risk tools, and recommended use of risk tools, including fault tree, event tree, decision tree, bow-tie analysis, risk matrix, Failure Modes and Effects Analysis (FMEA), Quantitative Risk Assessment (QRA), Probabilistic Risk Assessment (PRA), Monte Carlo simulation, and sensitivity analysis.
Assisted a utility client in California with the program management and execution of their Wildfire Mitigation Plan (WMP) commitments, including the installation of additional automated devices to enable sectionalizing of the grid and reduce the impact of Public Safety Power Shut-off (PSPS) events; and the replacement of equipment in high fire threat areas that creates ignition risks.
Assisted utility client with the development of the data management, process workflow, reporting, and mapping process and tools to support their fire rebuild programs including the rebuild of hundreds of miles of the electric distribution system underground and replacing hundreds of miles of damaged natural gas lines.
Provided business case development support for a utility's System Hardening program, which includes overhead system hardening, undergrounding and removal of overhead lines in high fire threat or buffer zone areas.
Provided program management oversight of a utility's distribution operations Work Requested by Others (WRO) projects portfolio, which is triggered by customer requests. The projects' scope included relocating of existing electric facilities and/or undergrounding of existing overhead electric facilities. Program management activities included customer contact, and managing the design and engineering, job cost estimation, contract preparation and administration, billing, construction, third-party inspection, and facility mapping tasks.
Conducted GIS asset data causal evaluations associated with Corrective Action Plans (CAPs), provided training to the client's team, and assisted with process development and improvements for a utility's GIS Electric Asset Data Management & Improvement team.
Performed an audit to review and validate a utility's System Hardening miles and spans, records, and as-builts and managed the resolution of closing the findings.
Provided program management support for a utility's Distribution Operations Capacity and Reliability programs including managing the scope, financials, schedule, work plan, and resources, driving stakeholder coordination and communication to facilitate work between the different dependency groups (permitting, land, environmental, joint pole, FAA, etc.), and providing reporting and visibility into the progress and potential risk areas of the programs.
Developed a user interactive tool for a utility's Distribution Operations projects portfolio that gathers data from multiple disparate sources, including offline trackers, Share Point lists, existing SQL databases, and systems of records (i.e. SAP and P6) to provide a central transparent source of truth for the team to collaborate and make timely data-driven decisions. The views/tables developed in the tool are key inputs to the project delivery organization's reporting providing the team and leadership with status and performance updates. Led the development of the workflows and change management efforts for this project.
Led a multi-year data improvement initiative for the Transmission Integrity Management Program within a utility's Gas Operations, that identified, collected, digitized, prepared and delivered critical historical documents and datasets for incorporation in GIS to better inform the utility's risk algorithm and enable predictive risk intelligence.
Led the Governance and Program Controls on a $3B portfolio of large load interconnection projects, including the Caltrain Electrification, California High Speed Rail, San Jose Redevelopment, and Bart Extension for a large utility and stood up a governance organization to ensure compliance with the customer agreements, including developing the organizational structure, roles & responsibilities, and processes and procedures. Also supported the federal and state audits of the projects.
Developed a unit cost benchmarking tool for electric transmission and substation projects by compiling an actual cost database capturing project scope, cost categories, and project specific factors and developing a unit price database to be used as an estimate benchmarking tool to provide estimates for future projects early on in the initiation phase for portfolio planning purposes, check estimates for inflight projects, cost forecast validation, and a benchmark for bid evaluations. The tool also provided insights into cost drivers and trends and identified opportunities for efficiencies.
Performed documentation and records reviews and validation of a utility's Cross Bore Inspections Program to ensure records are traceable, verifiable, and complete, assessed compliance with the Distribution Integrity Management Program's procedures, and evaluated the effectiveness of the procedures.
Provided risk analysis services such as probabilistic scheduling, Monte Carlo simulations, and schedule and cost risk assessments, on large projects including Silicon Valley Berryessa BART Extension, Transbay Terminal, and Embarcadero-Potrero Substation Projects in the Bay Area.
Established a repeatable process that produces and manages an executable, integrated multi-year project portfolio, including managing the project development phase for the new projects. Managed a large team of engineers and contractors to scope new electric transmission and substation projects, including developing schedules and forecasts that were used to support setting a multi-year budget.
Analyzed and reviewed project's schedules and forecasts, prepared presentations and dashboards for the client's senior leadership and organization meetings, reviewed resource utilization regularly and proposed recommendations, and assisted the client with setting the annual budget and forecast and resource balancing.
Developed and updated complex resource-loaded schedules for multi-million-dollar capital electric transmission and substation projects, performing analyses on schedule progress, evaluating and tracking monthly cash flow, and developed reporting on the project overall health.
Developed major electric transmission project's business cases by building resource-loaded schedule scenarios, analyzing schedule impact on the project cost, exploring opportunities for schedule and cost savings, and building a quantitative risk register.
Devised an Earned Value Management approach tailored to the client's needs and supported its implementation.
Developed a detailed analyses of project issues, delays, and costs, built daily as-built schedules and databases, and analyzed as-planned and as-built schedules to determine entitlement and allocate responsibilities for schedule delays and cost impacts for a contractor on multiple university projects in Hawaii.
Prepared time impact analyses to quantify construction delays on a large offshore oil development project.
