DENNIS GENE ASTLEY

**** **** ***** *** *****

Pueblo West, CO 81007

719-***-****

JOB OBJECTIVE: Power System Engineer

Education: Graduated from Lamar University with a Bachelor of Science

degree in

Electrical Engineering in December 1989.

Graduate of the Robert I. Kabat Management Internship

Program

Graduate of the NRECA CEO Leadership Lab

Currently a Registered Professional Engineer, by exam, in the states of

Texas and Colorado

Chief Operating Officer for San Isabel Electric Association in Pueblo West

Colorado Feb 2011 - April 2015 )

Accomplishments Include:

Management of a department of almost 50 people including staking engineers,

meter technicians, a staff engineer and line workers that cover three

divisions. The cooperative has upgraded to a modern GIS package and is

preparing to deploy it with the crews.

San Isabel Electric Association now uses a line contracting bid process

where the bidder bids on a unit and we assign work to the contractor as

needed. With my direction, San Isabel Electric Association has developed a

water heater program that is increasing energy sales to offset the loss of

interest in the ETS program. During my tenure, San Isabel Electric

completed an overhaul of retail rates to match the new wholesale rate

design. As leader of the rate committee, the engineering and operations

team developed a spreadsheet to analyze the impact of retail rates on

revenue using the previous year usage. Using this spreadsheet, the General

Manager and I developed the retail rates currently in use.

Working with our Staff Engineer, we were able to justify the construction

of an additional substation in Pueblo West that will pay for itself by

reduction of losses in less than 10 years.

When a large industrial consumer visits with questions and concerns, I

participate in those meetings with the manager and key account manager and

usually answer the questions that related to how the rates and charges are

justified. When a wind developer wanted to connect turbines to our system,

I led the writing of the power purchase agreement and compiled the

interconnection agreement.

Previously employed as Manager of Engineering for Jo-Carroll Energy in

Elizabeth Illinois (July 2009 - Feb 2011)

Accomplishments Include:

Successful deployment of a SCADA system by Survalent. Successful

deployment of an AMI system by Cooper Power Systems (formerly Cannon

Technologies). Jo-Carroll Energy acquired the Illinois assets of Alliant

Energy several years ago and has undergone some painful growth. The

acquired assets were in need of significant improvement and standardization

and additional staffing has been necessary to handle the work load. We

moved past the pilot phases of SCADA and AMI and started full deployment of

each - all while installing broadband service for the members that would

also carry data for cooperative purposes. I also had the responsibility of

monitoring all of the NERC reliability traffic and attempting to maintain

compliance since our acquired assets also classified us as a Load Serving

Entity.

I led the team in planning the design of how to serve a federal supermax

prison facility that was planned in our service territory. The Army Corps

of Engineers was tasked with conversion of a new state prison to a federal

supermax that would require extensive electrical facility upgrades. We had

a single day to meet management requirements for a plan and successfully

did so.

We worked with a large chemical facility on upgrades to meet their growing

needs while upgrading and maintaining neglected facilities acquired from

Alliant Energy.

Previously employed by North Western Electric Cooperative in Bryan, Ohio as

President. October 2001-July 2009

Accomplishments Included:

Executive Management of an electric power distribution cooperative serving

almost 6,000 meters that is predominately residential. The cooperative

also serves several large industrial/commercial consumers and two schools.

After careful consideration of the benefits to the community, the

cooperative diversified to offer a long-distance telephone service and

WildBlue internet service. We worked to get special discounts from local

service providers for cooperative members who subscribed to wireless

internet that was faster and cheaper than WildBlue. The cooperative offers

Operation Round-Up and reached the milestone of more than $100,000 donated

back to the community during my tenure. Under my direction, we developed a

management team that worked well together and allowed the cooperative to

smoothly operate when individual members of the management team are away

from the office. Some of the accomplishments that I made with the Board of

Trustees were: A rate re-design to minimize the impact of weather on

revenue, a rate increase, a strategic plan with a follow-up four years

later, a venture into offering WildBlue internet, and compliance with OSHA

requirements. North Western Electric Cooperative has 19 employees and is

safety accredited. The cooperative was number one in the state for member

satisfaction and continued to do so even with a rate increase. The

cooperative was fiscally sound with an equity level approved by the Board

of Trustees and a capital credit rotation of approximately 18 years. By

implementing an aggressive, carefully prepared work plan, we were able to

maintain a very high reliability and minimal power outages. Under my

leadership, North Western Electric Cooperative met the NRECA goal of 4.4 %

membership in ACRE/COPA by promoting Coop Owners for Political Action. Our

grassroots efforts provided hundreds of letters to elected officials during

a call to action.

During my tenure I had the privilege of working with a large dairy owner on

the installation of a methane digester and the cogeneration facilities that

it powered. We successfully navigated the retail/wholesale power supply

requirements and rate issues so that he could operate his generation

equipment as a power supply to Buckeye rather than a self-generation

system.

I also worked with a group that was planning the construction of an ethanol

plant. One of the investors already operated an ethanol plant in Indiana

and I visited it to learn more about the operation. I helped the

developers with transmission planning and sizing requirements. I developed

a retail rate for them with an explanation of a pass-through rate from

Buckeye Power.

I sat on the Board of Trustees for Buckeye Power, United Utility Supply and

the Board of Directors for the Williams County Economic Development

Corporation.

Previously employed by Wabash County REMC in Wabash, Indiana as Chief

Executive Officer: January 2000 - September 2001

This cooperative was approximately 5,500 meters and I was there less than 2

years. The reason for leaving this position was political strife among the

directors that started when I was selected to be CEO instead of the Board

President. My most notable achievement at Wabash County REMC was

successful negotiation of a three-year union contract.

Previously employed by Pioneer Electric Cooperative Inc. in Ulysses, Kansas

as Manager of

Engineering Services: April 1995 - January 2000

During my tenure, the cooperative was experiencing a tremendous growth in

consumers and sales of energy. The load served was predominately

commercial oil field and agricultural in the form of center pivot

sprinklers. As the first degreed engineer on staff, I was able to bring a

lot of the work performed by consultants in-house and we were better able

to respond to requests for service to large commercial accounts. As a

member of the five-person management team, I was able to learn about

financial and marketing aspects of the cooperative business and expand my

education through completion of the NRECA Management Internship Program.

During my time at Pioneer Electric, I:

Digitized the system map so that updates could be easily accomplished and

the map could be color coded for ease of reading.

Constructed a computer model of the vast distribution system for in-house

load and fault studies.

Hired an additional staking engineer.

Supervised an engineering department of 5 employees.

Prepared a 4-year workplan.

Participated in the design of a new headquarters complex.

Worked with numerous oil and gas companies on their electrical needs.

Assisted a carbon plant in reviewing their electrical facilities with an

infra-red camera.

Worked with large cattle and swine operations on electrical needs of their

feed mills and reducing their power factor penalty.

Previously employed by South Texas Electric Cooperative Inc. in Nursery,

Texas as Planning Engineer: September 1990 - April 1995

Duties included performing power flow studies using Electrocon and PSS/E

and submitting data to ERCOT for coordinated transmission studies. As part

of a small engineering team I performed many duties from substation meter

reads to power plant control software programming to various design

projects. I represented the G&T on 5 ERCOT task forces at the time.

I worked with our communications consultant in planning of the microwave

system expansion that included the distribution substations. Another

communications project I managed was the installation of the PBX system.

Personal: Age 50; married - four children; willing to relocate.

References:

Randy Bryan; Retired Right-of-Way Manager for San Isabel Electric

Association, Walsenburg, CO 719-***-****. Mr Bryan was part of my team

at San Isabel until a recent early retirement offer was extended.

Mike Mansour; Consulting Engineer for Exponential Engineering, Ft. Collins,

CO

970-***-****. Mr Mansour is our representative from a Colorado

consulting firm and I have worked with him on several projects.

Allyn Svoboda; Retired Staff Engineer for San Isabel Electric Association,

Pueblo West, CO 719-***-****. Mr Svoboda was part of my team at San

Isabel until a recent early retirement offer was extended.

Billie Jean Cortese; President of Pueblo West Band Boosters, Pueblo West,

CO 719-***-****

Mrs. Cortese is the President of an organization in which my wife and I are

actively involved.

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