2017 Digital Grid Customer Summit Session Speaker Biographies

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1 2017 Digital Grid Customer Summit Session Speaker Biographies April 3-7, 2017 PTI PSC/EBA Breakout Session April 4, 2017 Day 2 Hugo Bashualdo Sr. Manager Distribution Planning & Microgrids, Siemens PTI Mr. Bashualdo has over 23 years of specialized engineering and managerial experience within the power distribution system. His technical expertise includes distribution planning, distributed generation interconnection studies, and reliability improvement. In the Power Utility Industry, he managed distribution planning, distribution system design, construction, maintenance and operation. He focuses on enhancing distribution system reliability, improving power quality, reducing power losses, and increasing system capacity. Since joining Siemens PTI in 2012, he has been dedicated to redesigning the distribution system planning methodology to include the integration intermittent distributed energy resources (DER) and microgrids studies. Mr. Bashualdo designed post-processing tools for an easy and quick system impacts assessment with different levels of renewable generations.

2 2 Amar Patel Staff Consultant, Siemens PTI Mr. Patel has more than 10 years of wireless telecommunication research and industry experience in the fields of automation, sensor networks, intelligent buildings, and Smart Grid. He has managed, executed, and delivered numerous smart communications studies to power utilities. Mr. Patel joined the Distribution Planning and Microgrids group of Siemens PTI Consulting in 2013, bringing his knowledge in analytics and visualization of smart grid simulation and modeling to the power systems domain. He has been participating in power system studies involving renewable generation, distributed energy resources, and microgrids. Recently, he has developed an advanced distribution analysis platform that identifies, quantifies, and locates the impact of distributed generation on a distribution system. Bo Poats Executive Vice President, Pace Global (A Siemens Business) Bo Poats is Vice President at Pace Global, A Siemens Business, where he has served in a number of leadership positions over the past 20 years including market assessment, financial valuation and risk management practice areas. Mr. Poats is responsible for structuring and managing select utility and IPP services, including utility scale gird-based transformation and distributed energy integration strategy, contract origination, commodity and enterprise risk management. Mr. Poats has advised on over 300 projects in his tenure at Pace Global, including renewable energy, and emerging grid technologies. He has supported project commercial structuring and valuation across in the electric and oil and gas sectors, including rate and market structures spanning a variety of regulatory regimes, domestic and international jurisdictions and market environments. Bo holds a Series 3 CTA certification, and has served as an expert witness in numerous legal and regulatory venues.

3 3 Michael Mount Vice President, Pace Global (A Siemens Business) Mr. Mount provides strategic and commercial advisory consulting to a wide range of clients focused on the transformation of energy generation and delivery. Mr. Mount s experience includes directing energy planning, engineering, construction and transaction advisory services for utilities, IPPs and large energy users from Hawaii to Maine. Mr. Mount has gained his industry experience serving both as a management consultant, a VPlevel utility executive and a sales executive in the solar industry. He has directed multiple engagements to guide C-level leadership teams and business units in developing actionable and measurable strategic plans in utilities and other industries. Mr. Mount has also used his knowledge of the utility operations and management to lead multiple due diligence and assimilation projects for gas and electric utilities and IPPs, including large renewable energy companies. Joe Canterino, PE Software Business Lead, Siemens PTI Mr. Canterino s decade of experience working in utility Planning, Transmission Operations, and Work Management gives him keen insight into how to solve technically challenging power industry problems using practical, real world applications. Mr. Canterino is a registered Professional Engineer who can effectively balance the capabilities of technology with the needs of the client. He can design flexible solutions that are both technically involved, and user friendly. From firsthand experience, he has a direct understanding of customer challenges, and how to translate them into a design for a customer solution.

4 PTI U.S. PSS User Technical Conference Breakout Session and Courses April 4-7, 2017 Days 2-5 Joe Canterino, PE Software Business Lead, Siemens PTI UTC Speaker Mr. Canterino s decade of experience working in utility Planning, Transmission Operations, and Work Management gives him keen insight into how to solve technically challenging power industry problems using practical, real world applications. Mr. Canterino is a registered Professional Engineer who can effectively balance the capabilities of technology with the needs of the client. He can design flexible solutions that are both technically involved, and user friendly. From firsthand experience, he has a direct understanding of customer challenges, and how to translate them into a design for a customer solution. Joe Hood Technical Portfolio Manager, Siemens PTI UTC Speaker & New PSS E Add-on Modules Workshop Leader Since joining in 2012, Joe has been involved in dynamics model development for equipment manufacturers, transient stability analysis for transfer studies, and congestion analysis for wind farm integration. Furthermore, his strong programming and automation skills allow him to work especially efficiently for customers - through automation, efficient data mining and innovative approaches to visualizing complex information. Krishnat Patil Senior Staff Engineer, Siemens PTI UTC Speaker & GIC Analysis Using PSS E Dr. Patil has over 11 years of experience in developing production grade software tools including PSS E, Python extension modules and Python applications. He is an expert in various aspects of power system analysis, modeling, and simulation. He has played a major role in the development of the Python extension modules for PSS E s short circuit and GIC functions. Many of the Python applications and extension modules he has developed have been extensively used by many utility engineers to optimize and speed up their routine tasks. Dr. Patil has published over 15 papers or articles in various journals, conference proceedings and the Power Technology newsletter. He has also developed and taught numerous Siemens PTI courses to power system engineers.

5 5 Derek Lane Engineering Manager, Quality Assurance, Siemens PTI PSS E Automation with Python Instructor Dr. Lane has worked extensively in the simulation of electric energy markets including the development and application of Security Constrained Unit Commitment and Security Constrained Economic Dispatch for determination of location-based marginal prices (LMP). Dr. Lane s interests also include the use of complex adaptive systems (e.g., agent-based models) in market simulation and distributed computing to find solutions for computationally intensive power industry applications. Dr. Lane managed Siemens PTI s Software Quality Assurance group, which encompasses software quality control, customer care, software documentation, online websites and portals as well as the software development and testing infrastructure. Dr. Lane s background in Systems Engineering, with its focus on design, testing, and verification of the entire system of interest, including all stakeholder interests, provides him the foundation to ensure the quality of the user experience with Siemens PTI products; this is complemented by his years of experience in software production and high performance computing. He now leads the Software Engineering Power Systems group. Chuck Dubose Senior Staff Software Engineer, Siemens PTI UTC Speaker With over 35 years of power system experience, Mr. DuBose has extensive knowledge in transmission operations, power system models, and software. He is skilled in converting the needs and requests of the client into software requirements as well as assisting software engineers with CIM data mapping and power system operations and design. Mr. DuBose is an expert in translating business requirements into software solutions. He has been at the forefront of the development of Model on Demand (PSS MOD) and its deployment into the industry. He has trained new software users of this product and assisted them in defining business processes to suit their requirements. With prior experience working directly for utilities, Mr. DuBose has accumulated a wide variety of experience in transmission and distribution construction practices. Mr. DuBose s breadth of practical experience reaches into almost every aspect of power system design and operation.

6 6 Ulrike Sachs Senior Key Expert for System Planning Software, Siemens PTI UTC Speaker Mrs. Sachs has nearly 20 years of experience leading the development of PSS SINCAL at Siemens PTI. She has many areas of expertise including the analysis, design of network planning systems. She has also developed several methods for the simulation of networks including fault analysis and protection, and harmonics and ripple control. Over the past two decades, Mrs. Sachs has been the face of PSS SINCAL at dozens of User Group Meetings all over the world presenting new features to customers, and keeping a pulse on customer needs. Philip P. Barker Founder and Principal Engineer, Nova Energy Specialist, LLC Distributed Generation & Energy Storage Applications Instructor Mr. Barker has worked as a consulting engineer in the electric power industry for 30 years. His experience includes 14 years with Power Technologies, Incorporated (PTI), 3 years with the Electric Power Research Institute s Power Electronics Applications Center (EPRI PEAC), and over 13 years leading Nova Energy Specialists, LLC, a consulting firm he founded providing analytical services related to power systems, distributed generation, and energy technology research. Mr. Barker currently offers through Nova Energy Specialists several engineering seminars and short courses related to power distribution, distribution generation, power quality and lightning protection. Over the course of his career he has instructed well over 1500 engineering professionals in these topic areas.