Test Operations Manager

• Jul 2023 - Present

Senior Test Technician

• Mar 2020 - Present

- Install, test and commission electrical equipment in Southern California Edison (SCE) and customer substations. - Coordinate construction plans and cutover schedules with engineering, operations, and craft disciplines to meet project deadlines and budget. - Provide direction and oversight to wiring crews and other test technicians on the jobsite to ensure all work is performed safely and in accordance with current standards. - Develop comprehensive logic testing procedures for Programmable Logic Controllers in SCE substations. - Calibrate and test electromechanical and microprocessor relays using Doble Protection Suite. - Circuit breaker trip testing and functional testing of all protection and automation schemes. - Complete initial energization and in‐service testing of all new equipment. - Identify design issues and provide solutions to SCE engineering departments. Show less

Test Technician

• Mar 2017 - Mar 2020

- Install, test and commission electrical equipment in transmission and distribution substations throughout SCE service territory. - Calibrate and test electromechanical and microprocessor relays using Doble Protection Suite. - End‐to‐End testing of pilot relaying schemes over fiber‐optic and pilot wire. - Circuit breaker trip testing and functional testing of all protection and automation schemes. - Perform testing of PT’s, CT’s, CCVT’s, capacitors, and voltage regulators. - Develop project schedules including cutover plans to in‐service new equipment. - Identify design issues and provide solutions to SCE engineering departments. - Review station drawings and provide markups as necessary. Show less

Technical Specialist/Scientist

• Jul 2015 - Mar 2017

- Commission and maintain PLC’s providing automatic substation features such as line and bank reclosing as well as voltage control through load tap changers, capacitors, and voltage regulators at all substations across SCE’s 50,000 square mile service territory.- Interface PLC’s with protective relays, remote terminal units (RTU), human machine interfaces (HMI), sensors, and other substation devices using TCP/IP, RS-232, RS-485, Modbus, Modbus Plus, IEC 61850, and DNP3 protocols.- Perform comprehensive testing for the commissioning of new MEER buildings including trip testing of all circuit breakers, secondary push, verifying correct operation of FlexiTest and roto switches, and verifying all alarms, metering, and controls to the station HMI and remote Energy Management System (EMS).- Provide substation automation training classes for Test Technicians at SCE’s Substation Training Test School. Show less

Professional Trainee

• May 2013 - Jul 2015

- Create and test protective relay test plans for field testing using Doble ProTesT and Doble Protection Suite software. Protective elements tested include: Overcurrent, Directional, Differential, Distance, Out-of-Step, Synchronization, and Reclosing for GE (F35, F60, L90, D60, T35, T60, G60, C60, C70) Schweitzer (311L, 311C, 387, 351, 351S, 352, 421, 287V, 121G), and ABB (DPU, TPU) microprocessor relays.- Produce test plans and provide technical expertise for protective schemes using GSE messages to communicate over IEC 61850. Show less