Engineer Manager
Resume:
SATHIBABU CHAKKA (P.E)
**** ***** ****** *******, *** # 1927
abl6ql@r.postjobfree.com
Austin, TX 78728
PROFILE
Twelve years of experience in the Electric Power Industry dealing with
various aspects of the Electricity Market including Transmission
Planning, Generation interconnection, Renewable Integration, Financial
Modeling, Market design and Energy Market operations.
. Proven success in leading and managing projects
. Leadership and supervisory experience
. Experience in structuring and negotiating power purchase agreements,
short term and long term wholesale power purchases and sales.
. Strong understanding of the technical, financial incentives and
legal/regulatory framework for Renewable resources.
. Experience in creating appropriate company filings for FERC, NAESB and
NERC policies and procedures
. Played a vital role in internal and external stake holder working
groups and have gathered enough experience in leading various task
forces
. Registered Professional Engineer (PE)
. Advance degree in Electrical Engineering with Power System option
AREAS OF EXPERTISE
. ERCOT Wholesale Electricity Market,
. PUC regulations,
. Electric utility operations,
. Financial Modeling and Resource Planning,
. Risk Management,
. Energy Efficiency and Renewable energy technologies,
. Fiscal Planning and Budgeting,
. Compliance,
. Transmission Planning and Generation Interconnection
EXPERIENCE
AUSTIN ENERGY, AUSTIN, TX
Manager, Energy Market Analysis and Planning, Jun '09 - present
. Manage a team of Engineers, Analysts, Economists that support the
Wholesale Energy Market Operations including energy marketing and
dispatching, resource planning, market systems development and
implementation, Wholesale market analysis, fuel procurement, risk
management, energy supply and sales.
. Responsible for the planning and development of utility scale
renewable power projects that meet Austin Energy's strategic
objectives.
. Develop and implement wholesale energy supply marketing and operating
strategies and Integrate with ERCOT for Nodal Market.
. Currently involved in the Integration of 30 MW Webberville Solar Power
Plant, 200 MW round mountain wind farm and 50 MW Saragossa solar power
plants into Austin Energy portfolio.
. Responsible for technical design, technical evaluations, financial
analysis, RFP Solicitations/Evaluations/Negotiating PPA and program
management of activities associated with renewable generation projects
from exploration to implementation.
. Monitor the efficiency of the operations, contractual agreements,
financial integrity as well as environmental and regulatory compliance
of the projects.
. Manages and implement hedging goals and strategies and identify
appropriate hedging instruments for use in managing fuel and power
supply risks and establish goals and strategies for off-system energy
and capacity
. Responsible for O&M and capital budgets, work plans and achievement of
objectives. Manage staff participation in the ERCOT market design and
development process.
. Represent the City of Austin and Austin Energy interests to boards,
commissions, councils.
. Responsible for crucial decisions with significant financial impact on
multi-million dollar budgets.
Acting Manager, Market Operations, Mar '10 - present
. Lead the Energy Market Operation department with the absence of
Manager
. Manage a team of Operators, dispatchers, marketers responsible for
Qualified Scheduling Entity (QSE) functions including operation of
computerized energy market systems providing network analysis, short
term load forecasting, generation dispatch, capacity optimization,
bidding and energy purchase and sales
. Develop and implement policies, procedures and process improvements
and operational tools for real time market operations
. Manages timely, efficient and effective transition of real time
operations and support activities to the Texas Nodal market.
. Responsible for O&M and capital budgets, work plans and achievement of
objectives.
. Responsible for Demand Side Management and Environmental dispatch.
Acting Director, Energy Market Operations, Dec '09 - Jan '10
. Served as acting director for Energy Market Operations division of
Austin Energy during the absence of the Director who oversees the
functions of Market Analysis, Operations, Market Systems and Fuel Risk
departments.
MIDWEST ISO, CARMEL, IN
Lead, Transmission Asset Management, Jan '06 - Jun '09
. Supervised a team of engineers including 2 PHD and 2 Master's that
support the design, development and implementation of the Seams
agreements between the neighboring entities, congestion management and
market operations
. Actively involved in various working groups such as congestion
management working group, seams implementation working group, IDC
working group, AFC working group and NERC ORS group etc., in the
capacity as a business owner and subject matter expert (SME) in
providing technical inputs to support market operations and congestion
management
. Involved in Shaping the future direction of Transmission Load Relief
(TLR's) and Integration of New members with Midwest ISO
. Co-lead the development and implementation of a proposal for modeling
of transmission use in the market environment
. Provided assistance in the development of various white papers for
market to market and market to non-market coordination
. Responsible for establishing and monitoring goals for the engineers
and their performance evaluation. Track and Manage work flow
. Responsible for hiring, training and development of the staff
. Performed benefit analysis with and without relaxation of constraints
with regard to Market to Market settlements.
. Participated in the NERC ORS meetings and performed the analysis to
raise the market flow threshold and netting of allocations for
reporting market flows to the IDC for use during TLR.
Senior Engineer / Engineer II, Transmission Asset Management, Sep '03 -
Jan '06
. Involved in the Day1/Day2 Transition which involves testing and
implementation of the software changes to support AFC calculation in
MISO's Day 2 System, Integration of New Members, design and validation
of market design.
. Played a Lead role in implementing the seams operating agreements
between various reciprocal entities and developed tools to accomplish
the same.
. Review, assess and, if necessary, create appropriate company filings
for FERC, NAESB and NERC policies
. Played a major role in testing, streamlining and implementing the OATI
impact calculator and NNL Engine that calculates impacts and
allocations on the flowgates for the reciprocal entities
. Represented Midwest ISO in several technical working groups, task
forces and meetings
. Supported Real-time operations by serving as on-call person during the
non-business hours
. Involved in documenting the changes to the existing modules and
responsible for organizing all the tools used by the EMS application
group
. Responsible for training the group about the newly developed Long term
AFC calculator.
ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY, TEMPE, AZ
Graduate Research Assistant, Electrical Engineering Department, Jul '01 -
Aug '03
. Performed academic research in Power System Analysis under the
supervision of Dr. G. T. Heydt for Consortium for Electric Reliability
Technology Solutions (CERTS) and the Power System Engineering Research
Center (PSerc)
. Identified the mechanism of loop flows and formulated an prototype
monitoring system to accommodate loop flows using estimation
techniques and pricing schemes such as Megawatt mile and PJM's
Locational Marginal Pricing Method
. Studied effects of load changes, generation changes, line outages,
generator droppings and transmission congestion on the loop flow cost
. Researched on Internet based forecasting and State estimation
applications
LARSEN AND TOUBRO Ltd., CHENNAI, INDIA
Assistant Engineer, Transmission Division, Jul '98 - Jul '01
. Conducted load flow analysis, steady state and transient stability
studies using ATP software to identify transmission and generation
additions to enhance the operation of the National grid (India)
. Performed the voltage, reliability studies and system loss analysis of
the distribution system
. Involved in development of Online Power Flow (OLPF) module.
. Played a leading role in implementing the EMS application functions at
customer site.
. Designed, tested and commissioned 11/33kv substations and distribution
lines for Andhra Pradesh Transmission Company funded by JBIC - Japan
. Performed Probabilistic risk analysis for various Build Own Operate
and Transfer (BOOT) projects using Monte Carlo simulations
. Acquired strong computer programming skills, especially for
engineering calculations
. Responsible for fixing the bugs encountered during testing process
EDUCATION
Six Sigma Certification, Arizona State University, Dec 2008
MS, Electrical Engineering, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, Jul
2003
Bachelors in Electrical Engineering, UCE-Burla, India, June 1998
MEMBERSHIP/AFFILATIONS
Board of Director - Indian Federal Credit Union
Member of IEEE
Profession Engineer - State of Ohio
NRIVA Member - Austin Chapter
PUBLICATIONS
. S. Chakka, S. Suryanarayanan, G. T. Heydt, R. G. Farmer, "An
estimation technique to assign contribution factors for loop flows in
an interconnected power system," J. Electric Power Components and
Systems, v. 32, No. 8, August 2004, pp. 813 - 826.
. S. Suryanarayanan, R. Farmer, G. Heydt, S. Chakka, "Estimation of
unscheduled flow and contribution factors based on Lp norms,"
submitted to Power Engineering Letters, IEEE Transactions on Power
Systems, November 2002.
. S.Chakka, S.Suryanarayanan, G. T. Heydt, "Analysis and estimation of
loop (parallel) flows in wide area interconnected system," Proceedings
of North American Power Symposium, 2002 pp.176-180.
. S.Chakka, G. T. Heydt, "Identification of the loop flow cost using
loop (parallel) flow technology," IEEE Power Engineering Society
Summer Meeting, Chicago, July 2002 (Won first prize in paper
competition)
. S.Chakka, "Harmonics due to Cycloconverters," A technical report on
harmonics in power systems, Chapter 12, Arizona State University, May
2002
. S.Chakka, "Electric power market scenario of India and China," A
technical report on marketing electric power, Chapter 2, Arizona State
University, Dec 2001.
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