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.
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