Manager Engineer
Resume:
Gaylan Bishop
Youngsville, NC 27596
ablvgs@r.postjobfree.com
Objective: A challenging position as a manager of an engineering group for high voltage substations.
Qualifications Summary:
20 years of successful management experience in high voltage engineering environments.
These successes include high production levels, consistently meeting deadlines, innovative
developments, and maintaining good employee morale. Registered professional engineer
(NC).
Accomplishments:
Management
Led a highly productive substation design team in the fourth largest utility in the nation.
This team always delivered more projects than their counterparts, with a larger
percentage on schedule
Restored productivity in a design group of disgruntled employees by implementing a new
workplace code of courtesy
Managed Substation & Transmission engineering department of a large municipal utility
Directed service operations (district and region) for two large electric equipment
manufacturers
Exceeded P&L targets (operating margins) for service operations
Took over a service district that had recently had a major HR issue involving removal of
their manager, and restored productivity and morale
Engineering
• Designed a low-cost strain bus for 138kv transmission substations
• Created a new 138kv ring bus arrangement for confined areas, that
reduced space requirements by 45%
• Coordinated the design of a new 345kv, 70 Kip dead-end tower, which
also had an air break disconnect mounted on the structure
• Developed production standards for substation design that allowed better
resource planning and allowed greater accountability
Business Development
• Started a turnkey substation business for a subsidiary of a large electric
utility. Sold eight large substation projects in the first two years
• Sold industrial power contracts in newly deregulated Texas utility market.
Specialized in marginal industrial customers and consistently brought in
the highest margins in the company
• Developed turnkey substation projects at a large design/build firm, for
utility and alternative energy customers. These were new markets for
this company and I added three major utilities to their customer base and
sold a substation to a wind farm project
• Consistently exceeded operating margin targets in all my assignments
Work Experience: Region Services Manager, Square D Services,Youngsville, NC, 2007 to 2010
District Service Manager, Eaton Electrical, Houston, TX, 2004 to 2007
Manager, Business Development, Dashiell Corporation, Houston, TX, 2001 to 2004
Manager, Business Development, Reliant Energy, Houston, TX, 1996 to 2001
Education: BSET (Power), University of Houston, Houston, TX
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