I deliver for product engineering teams through expertise, experience and nuanced understanding of technical and human factors.
I build, coach, and lead expert teams to design, simplify, and engineer 21st century embedded systems, controllers and ecosystems in the Energy Transition space.
System Architect
Improving controls architecture and data comms., for BESS projects. Automated software validation. Industrializing SOE/SOH estimations
- BMS Integration
- State Estimation
- Power Plant Control
- Architecture Simplification
- Automated Test
Sr. Engineer : Systems and Architecture
Contributing to simplification and rearchitecture of serial production code operating in >56000 wind turbines. Improving automated software validation. Design review of new controllers.
- SIMD Vectorization of computationally intensive algorithms
- Controller feature simplification
- Automated Test
Principal Software Architect
Executed design, implementation and delivery of eLumina HVDC Control platform (Conceptual design through Market release)
- Directed modernization of HVDC Plant IO system from Profinet to IEC-61850
- Spearheaded IEC-61850 Digital Substation for HVDC
- Rearchitected Hot-Standby, and concurrent redundancy for HVDC control and protection units
- Designed real-time data distribution, concurrency, determinism and task orchestration for HVDC control and protection platform
- Unified, and extended commercially available IEC-61850 system configuration tool to HVDC projects
- Extended and adapted IEC-61850 data model for HVDC control, protection, and station HMI
- Innovated control application model, and data flow for Bipole, and multi-terminal controls
Consulting Engineer [GE Controlled Title]
Chaired technical gate reviews for NPI programs.
Advised engineering teams in multiple P&Ls on engineering programs
- Requirements gathering, analysis, definition of done
- System architecture, tradeoff studies
- technology maturity and readiness
- industry best practices
- Staffing and resource management
- Product safety
- Engineering design
- Quality (QFD, FMEA, Fishbone diagrams, Hypotheses testing etc.)
- SW quality
- Rollout of Secure Development Lifecycle
- Validation, Regulatory compliance, Customer Acceptance
- Program and product cost optimization, schedule management.
System Architect
Drove delivery of a generationally new Smart Meter for a new market segment (EU - Spain)
Executed system architecture functions for a new product line in record time (> 24 months) and budget.
Orchestrated a technology overhaul for the company product development practices.
- New line of microcontrollers
- Use of RTOS
- New communication method (Power Line Carrier)
- New communication protocol (DLMS/COSEM)
- New meter calibration method
- Over the Air Firmware update
- Cyber security
- Regulatory compliance to IEC regime
- Multistage customer acceptance testing, and mass rollout
Senior Engineer/Technologist
Role in a cross P&L function for GE Energy Services. Rapid prototyping and lean product development. Technology harmonization of acqiured product lines. Soft skills: crossfunctional collaboration, influencing
- Asset Performance Management for Power Transformers
- Demand Response system
- Decentralized Distribution Automation (FLISR, VVC)
Lead System Architect
Lead architect role for delivering a generationally new Substation Gateway for the GE Harris business.
- Telecontrol Protocols
- Realtime substation data appliance
- Off-shore product development
- NERC-CIP
Lead Engineer
When KVB-Enertec was acquired by GE Power, my group was integrated with the GE-Harris business unit in Calgary.
- Six Sigma
- Team Leadership
- DNP3
- Requirement Specification