Support for the Electrical Contractors in the territory. Support includes: IBEW / Management relationships, contracts, policies, training, progression, job estimating, legislative activities, industry and territory strategy.

* Responsibilities: Consulting to Operating Company to troubleshoot reliability issues at Jersey Central Power and Light, improve overall operating performance and bring compliance to FirstEnergy standards. JCP&L was undergoing two reliability audits that reduced earnings by $30 Million. Earnings were restored when the reliability issues were addressed.Accomplishments: * Reliability Improvements. * Recommended improvements to substation metering and relaying. * Developed and implemented an Operating Company Compliance Show less

* Responsibilities: Supervised a department consisting of 200 employees and a $16 Million budget involved in Substation, Garage, Meter, Stores, Facilities, and Transformer and Tool Repair activities responsible for constructing and maintaining assets used in the support of utility operations. * Acievements: * Lowest cost Region * Safety record was the best among all Public Utilities * Performed $4 Million of contractor work for customers resulting in a significant profit

* Responsibilities: Optimally plan for additional transmission, substation and generation facilities. * Achievements: * Conducted cost/benefit analysis for improving transmission facility utilization. * Performed studies to determine the need for additional transmission or generation facilities

Provide Construction, Maintenance and Storm Damage Restoration of Transmission and Distribution Electrical Facilities and Vegetation Management to ensure clearances for Electrical Facilities. To improve Financial performance we reduced cost, increased asset utilization, pushed for more work which resulted in an increase in Revenues. The Company had P&L responsibility. For the first time in 12 years the Company had a positive and significant Net Income in 2017.

* Responsibilities: Optimally plan for additional transmission, substation and generation facilities. * Achievements: * Conducted cost/benefit analysis for improving transmission facility utilization. * Performed studies to determine the need for additional transmission or generation facilities

* Responsibilities involved supervising a department of 430 employees with a $45 Million budget involved in engineering, line, forestry, dispatching and claims activities, in support of electric service to 685,000 customers in about 1,000 square miles of territory. * Achievements: * Created a new organization resulting from a merger * Reduced staffing from 600 to 430 employees * Reduced absenteeism by 75% * Cut the accident rate in half * Reduced the operating budget by 40%. * Improved customer service (electric reliability) * Participated in U.W.U.A negotiations that resulted in performance improvements

* Responsibilities: Supervised a section of 20 electricians involved in the maintenance and construction activities associated with transmission and distribution substation facilities. * Achievements: * Improved efficiencies * Reduced cost * Performance and innovation pacesetter for the other Divisions

Provide consulting services associated with business performance including: staff management, selection process, business development, construction, maintenance, operations, general asset management, organization process, resource allocation and performance measures.

* Responsible for overseeing an enterprise wide implementation of SAP for FirstEnergy. The implementation involved modules supporting finance, human resources, supply chain, customer, work management and all business units. The project cost was $120 Million and involved 9,000 users. * Accomplishments: * The implementation was completed in 17 months and on budget. * At * Go-Live * Employees were paid correctly. * Customers were billed correctly. * Financial books were closed within 5 days.

* Safety record was the best among all Public Utilities * Performed $4 Million of contractor work for customers resulting in a significant profit; Responsibilities: Supervised a department consisting of 100 employees in the engineering, warehousing, substation, and field work. Workforce was responsible for serving residential, commercial and industrial customers. * Achievements: * Reduced the operating budget by 25%. * Internal best in class performance in safety, cost and customer response * Participated in three IBEW labor agreement negotiations * Participated in engineering services study that improved efficiency by 40%

* Responsibilities included oversight of Transmission Operations including Planning and Protection, Dispatching, Substation Maintenance, Transmission Line Maintenance, Workforce Development, Performance Improvement, Asset Management, Consulting to Operating Companies., * Managed staff of 600 employees and budget of $50 Million. * Sponsored a $14 Million Control Center renovation to improve grid operations. * Implemented a $10 million Energy Management System taking advantage of newer technology. * Installed a state estimator and power network analysis that aided grid performance visualization. * Installed a dispatcher training simulator to aid in training dispatchers. * Built backup control centers to provided redundancy * Created a ten year capacity plan to detail system requirements * Funded helicopter line patrols and maintenance from the helicopters * Guided Transmission Operations to a Best in Breed and Compliance Culture