Experience

Mitton Electronet Ltd

• New Zealand
• Oil and Gas
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Principal Engineer

  • May 2013 - Present

  Development and review of protection strategies, policies and standards, design and review of protection schemes, derivation and review of protection settings and support for protection testing, maintenance and operations. Development and review of protection strategies, policies and standards, design and review of protection schemes, derivation and review of protection settings and support for protection testing, maintenance and operations.



Transpower

• United States
• Renewables & Environment
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Asset Manager Protection & Automation

  • May 2004 - Nov 2012

  Responsible for managing a group of 14 protection & automation engineers and consultants. The protection and automation group was a cross functional, integrated team that provided asset development, asset management and asset operation support. Work included developing strategies, policies, standards and business cases, testing and standardising on new relays, checking for compliance, supporting projects, approving designs and settings, analysing incidents and protection performance and providing after hours operational support. Managed an increase and development of a team from an initial base of 5 staff, introduction of IEC61850 relays and systems and implementation of a protection setting management system. Delegate for CIGRE Australasian Protection and Automation Panel B5. Show less

• Senior Protection Analyst

  • May 2002 - Apr 2004

  Responsible for relay setting approvals, relay performance and operational issues analysis and commissioning plans and communication outages reviews. Managed investigation into numerical relay rebooting from electromagnetic interference.



Western Power

• Australia
• Utilities
• 700 & Above Employee

• Secondary Asset Engineer/ Protection Planning Engineer

  • Jan 1997 - Aug 2000

  Responsible for secondary asset management, protection planning and team leading. Scoped and costed protection projects, prepared capital authorisations and investigated development options on protection SCADA integration. Responsible for secondary asset management, protection planning and team leading. Scoped and costed protection projects, prepared capital authorisations and investigated development options on protection SCADA integration.

• Protection, Control and Measurements Manager

  • Feb 1994 - Dec 1996

  Responsible for management of the Protection, Control & Measurements Branch (consisting of 12 protection engineers, a metering engineer, SCADA engineer and secretary). The branch was a cross functional, integrated team that provided asset development, asset management and asset operation support to Transpower. Work included developing strategies, policies, standards and business cases, testing and standardising on new relays, managing and supporting projects, approving designs and settings analysing incidents and protection performance and providing after hours operational support. Delegate for CIGRE Australasian Protection Panel AP34. Show less

• Senior Protection Engineer (South Island)

  • Oct 1989 - Jan 1994

  Responsible for protection project management, technical support, work programme and budget development, policies and standards administration.



Ministry of Works, Power and Water

• Protection Engineer

  • Aug 1986 - Jul 1989

  Commissioning, testing and maintenance in the transmission division. Responsible for onsite switching and isolation (Senior Authorised Person). Commissioning, testing and maintenance in the transmission division. Responsible for onsite switching and isolation (Senior Authorised Person).