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CAREER OBJECTIVE
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Retired since Aug 2019
WORK EXPERIENCE: TRANSPOWER SYSTEM OPERATOROperations Planning Engineer, Wellington Mar 03 to Jul 19 Employed by Power System Consultants (PSC), until Jul 03, for Transpower, then became a Transpower employee. Planning core grid outages from nine weeks out to real time, using
power flow tools and SCADA. Use Transpower’s EMS power flow package. Work
also involves in liaising with Field services, the asset owner of the grid. STUDENT Victoria University Part Time, Wellington Mar 04 to Oct 04 Finished all of 3rd year in Graduate Computer Science Diploma. TRANSPOWER NATIONAL COORDINATION CENTRE Operations Planner, Hamilton Mar 02 to Feb 03 Employed by PSC, for Transpower Planning core grid outages from four weeks out to real time, using power flow tools and SCADA. Use Transpower’s EMS power flow package. Work also involves liaising with Field services, the grid asset owner, and Alstom, the system operator contractor. Implementation of macros to co-ordinate and check information from
various databases. STUDENT Victoria University, Wellington Mar 01 to Oct 01 Completed most of 3rd year in Graduate Computer Science Diploma. STUDENT Hutt Valley Polytechnic Oct to Nov 00 Participate in a two month Cyber-technology course relating to Web design, including the implementation of JavaScript and the use of Apache Web Servers.
Web design/modifications/tutoring. Maintaining small LANs, Wellington.
Installation/maintenance both software/hardware of personal computers,
Wellington. Feb 01 PARSONS & BRINKERHOFF POWER, (PB Power) Power Systems Engineer/Consultant Mar 00, Jul - Aug 00 USA: Power flow contingency analysis and transient stability analysis for the impact of IPPs into the Entergy power grid (Entergy is a power utility in Louisiana). Ireland: Power flow contingency analysis and transient stability
analysis for the impact of IPPs into the ESB grid. STUDENT Victoria University, Wellington Mar 98 to Oct 99 Completed 1st/2nd year in Graduate Computer Science Diploma. SOLE AGENT Operations Engineer, Wellington Dec 96 to Feb 98 Same duties as below when employed by Power System Consultants, PSC, for Transpower. Subcontractor to PSC, GST Registered. Reason for leaving:
POWER SYSTEM CONSULTANTS Operations Engineer, Wellington Mar 96 to Nov 96 Consultant used primarily to review commissioning plans for the Transpower network and modify/approve the plans. Assist Operation Planning Engineers in planning for NZ. Responsibilities
ELECTRICITY CORPORATION OF NEW ZEALAND, ECNZ Power System Engineer, Wellington Jan 94 to Feb 96 To monitor/analyse the New Zealand power system from generation to the Transpower transmission network and implications for new generators. Responsibilities
Purchase a PC version of PSS/E, negotiating a 70% discount. Setting up procedures for monitoring Transpower using ISO 9000 procedures and practices. Reason for leaving:
Power System Engineer Jun 92 to Dec 93 Monitoring the New Zealand power system from generation to the Transpower network. Responsibilities During the power crisis of 1992 my main task was to use the existing
models used by FRG to explain why our major hydro reservoirs were so low.
Modelling assumptions were under scrutiny, e.g. the SPECTRA and minimum
zone models. Achievements
Reason for leaving:
Engineer (Operations) Nov 87 - May 92 To efficiently utilize hydro energy of ECNZ and minimize thermal
fuel costs given the environmental constraints. Responsibilities
Developed computer programs necessary for producing the business and operating plans, yearly, for the generation planning budget. Produced a report for the need for using the Western Diversion of the Tongariro scheme. It concluded that the cost to the corporation would be several million dollars, as water would go down the Wanganui River instead of into the Tongariro/Waikato stations. This information was used for the court hearings that were going on about the water rights for the Wanganui River. Wrote a program (PL/1) to extract information from the Transpower Information System that enabled a two page daily energy summary report for monitoring the energy management throughout New Zealand, thus saving processing time. Reason for leaving:
ELECTRICITY DIVISION OF THE MINISTRY OF ENERGY Assistant Engineer, Wellington May 83 - Oct 87 Engineering auditing and technical support for thermal power stations.
SOUTHLAND ELECTRIC POWER SUPPLY, (SEPS) Assistant Engineer, Invergargil Sep 80 to Apr 83 Planning and maintenance of transmission systems and the need for
new substations. Work associated with substations and Monowai Power Station.
CHRISTCHURCH CITY COUNCIL Assistant Engineer Dec 79 - Aug 80 Software and hardware support for computer systems to control Central
Christchurch City traffic.
EDUCATIONAL DETAILS Bachelor of Engineering (Electrical)
STUDENT Victoria University Wellington Mar 01 to Oct 01, 2004 Completed 3rd year in Computer Science Major Projects: Responsibilities: Develop the interface between MySQL and Perl. Implement the query Students by Course, using Perl/MySQL. Testing of the program was also carried out with a small database representation. Title: Develop a C program for implementing TCP. Description: The Internet is modelled using the CNET simulator program and a go back N implementation was developed. Title: Develop a Java program for implementing SMTP mail. Description: A text based mail was implemented. COMP 307 Title: Develop a Prolog program for solving a search problem for a planning task Description: One task was the problem of filling jugs to a certain measure, given different jugs sizes and no graduations on the jugs. This is a classic searching problem, which could be enhanced by various techniques.
CAREER OBJECTIVE
INTERESTS Family, Church, Flying light planes, music, reading, current events, cosmology
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