George H Hollenbeck

*** ********* ******, ********, *** York 13031 • 315-***-**** • ac79y4@r.postjobfree.com

Professional Summary

Mr. George Hollenbeck has over 30 years of experience in the electric utility business, mostly focused on generation, T&D engineering and IT projects around EMS systems. He holds an Associate’s degree in Applied Science, Electrical Power Technology from Canton Technical College, Canton, NY and is a candidate for B.S. in Computer Engineering Technology, SUNY Institute of Technology, Rome, NY.

Mr. Hollenbeck is a very organized, customer driven and self-motivated worker, who enjoys working as a team player. He has designed multi-disciplined projects for hydroelectric and electric substations (including bulk power) for most of his career with Niagara Mohawk Power Corp., Brookfield Renewable Power and Rochester Gas & Electric.

Over the past eight years he has worked as a consultant and employee for utilities in Canada and the US designing and implementing SCADA systems for their electric networks.

Work History

Display Build Lead 1/2016 to 12/2017

Eversource – Boston, MA

Lead the display development and build of one major and three minor SCADA installations at Eversource (Boston, MA) for electric control centers in Boston, Salem, Plymouth and West Springfield, MA locations.

Directed and coordinated the display building of over 5,000 displays by 20 display builders. Conversions included GE GEN4, (2) GE Power Link and Siemens (Telegyr) to the GE Alstom SCADA system.

Lead Analyst 10/2013 to 12/2015

Rochester Gas & Electric. IBERDROLA – Rochester, NY

Assisted in the design and development of two major SCADA installations at RG&E and NYSEG (Vestal, NY) from to the Siemens SCADA platform.

Coordinated the Point-to-Point testing from the Master to the RTUs for both projects supervising up to a dozen co-workers and TRC contract Engineers.

Re-designed the Electric Control Center at RG&E design for the primary Operator Consoles to incorporate the transition of one control platform to another.

Senior Consultant 10/2010 to 05/2013

UTILICASE Solutions Inc. – Montreal, Quebec, Canada

The United Illuminating Company, Orange – CT 10/2011 to 6/2013

Project Engineer: Designed database and displays for UI's new ABB Ventyx SCADA installation. This effort included initial data conversion from UI's existing efacec ACS SCADA system, developing standard database naming conventions for apparatus and multiple T&D relays, alarm management, change management, ICCP, and creating new attributes for the more advanced system.

Assisted UI's NERC Coordinator and developed a plan and documentation for the Electric Control System's CIP 7 which resulted in a successful NERC CIP audit.

Initiated a new SCADA alarm management philosophy which utilizes alarm priorities to define specific call-out directives for the Electric System operators. Leaders from every effected department now participate in this on going process.

Great Lakes Power Transmission – Northern Ontario 7/2011 to 8/2011

Scored and contributed to the selection process for GLPT's new SCADA.

Assisted with GLPT's OSIsoft PI historian vendor selection.

Northeast Utilities – Hartford, CT 10/2010 to 6/2011

Assisted with the testing and installation of CONVEX's new Alstom SCADA System. Also, assisted with the Connecticut Light & Power, and Yankee Gas Telegyr SCADAs.

Administered CONVEX's New England's Transmission Outage Administration program acquiring regional user's change requests, defining these for the Vendor, and testing prior to implementation. Also, provided user administration.

Electrical Designer 06/2000 to 06/2010

Brookfield Renewable Power – Liverpool, NY

ABB Network Manager System (2008-2009)

Member of Brookfield's International System Control Center Standardization Team, attended several standardization workouts in Montreal, QC, Gatineau, QC and Marlborough, MA.

Successfully developed a standard “class” assignment for alarm management which the "Team" adopted attended hands-on seminar for working with ABB Network Manager Database and drawing development tools.

Developed database conversion, naming conventions, PI tags and alarm management for all Brookfield – NY database points for implementation into ABB Network Manager.

Assisted Synexus, Montreal with integrating the ACS Hydro Calculator into the ABB Network Manager.

ACS System (2006-2008)

Designed and integrated Advanced Control Systems (ACS) Prism Master Station. Also, received training for Prism Database and Draw Vector and Linux Administration.

Developed database, alarm management, & user interface displays. Also, developed a Visual Basic "Flow Calculator" using polynomials for hydroelectric calculations.

TELEGYR System (2000-2009)

Designed and integrated TELEGYR Systems 8000 Master Station and Automatic Generation Control (AGC) for 81 new/existing RTU design applications. Also, received training for TELEGYR Interactive Database Editor and Picture Editor.

Authored:

“GMS Emergency Generator & UPS Procedure”

"GMS SCADA Functional Specification”

“Functional Specification for GMS SCADA”

“Commissioning Procedure for RTUs & IEDs”

Duties:

Database and display administrator for 10 years.

Y2K testing and documentation for all hydro stations, substations, and Carr Street Co-generation Plant.

Electrical design projects at Astoria, Narrows and Gowanus Generation Stations.

Designer 02/1974 to 06/1999

Niagara Mohawk Power (National Grid) – Syracuse, NY

Electrical Design

Designed and integrated approximately 45 SCADA EMS RTUs for Bulk Power Stations and Hydro Stations, (RTUs: Moore Systems, Inc., Tejas Controls, Inc., Landis & Gyr Systems, Inc.).

Co authored “Functional Specification for EMS Remote Terminal Installations”.

Received “Outstanding Performance Award” for developing automatically generated wiring diagrams for EMS projects.

Developed several automatic control systems utilizing both PLC ladder logic and C language programming for several hydro-electric plants that increased generation output approximately 5%.

Extensive design experience in bulk power, transmission and distribution stations.

Mechanical Design

Designed several hydro mechanical governor installations.

Civil & Structural Design

Designed the Middle Falls intake structure that won an "ACI Award of Merit" by the American Concrete Institute.

Designer for Peck's Lake Dam and met budget for the successful $2,000,000 Civil/Structural construction project.

Education

Associate of Applied Science: Electrical Power Technology 1974

SUNY College of Technology at Canton - Canton, NY

Bachelor of Science: Computer Engineering Technology Current

SUNY Institute of Technology - Rome, NY

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