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Richard La Donald Smith

Electrical Engineer Background and Qualifications.

1.Manager of Engineering and Operations for Merced Irrigation District. Engineering duties included participating as a team member in the design of a transmission line and substation and providing direction to engineering staff. Operations duties included scheduling line crew construction, maintenance, and safety and training.

2.Performing Arc-Flash Calculations for industrial clients, assisting clients in acquisition of Personal Protective Equipment, and then performing on-site training as necessary to comply with NFPA 70-E and OSHA requirements.

3.Worked as a power simulator instructor for ERCOT/NERC training for NERC Certified System Operators. Wrote training materials for simulator instruction as well as training for ERCOT Operational Drills. I am currently NERC Certified as a Reliability Coordinator Operator.

4.Tasked with developing Lakeland Electric Generation Resource Plan. Recently completed training on PowrSym3 Modeling Software, worked with Lakeland Electric’s PowrSym3 Consultant developing a power resource model for use at Lakeland Electric.

5.Manager of System Control for Lakeland Electric responsible for 28 NERC Standards and went through NERC Audit in 2013 with no violations, rewrote and updated all Standard Operating Procedures for System Control prior to NERC Audit.

6.Assisted a manufacturing client, to investigate unusually high number of cogeneration facility forced outages. Found in my investigation that cogeneration facility had incorrectly placed generation synchronism mechanism on the wrong side of a “Delta” “Y” metering point and was closing the generator 30 degrees out of phase with the utility bus, thus accounting for significant mechanical issues resulting in a high forced outage rate.

7.Designed and constructed two new distribution substations that resulted in valuable training and experience with 138KV to 12 KV substations developed AutoCAD skills.

8.After five years of field trails of implementing Westinghouse fixes to dry low NOx systems. Completed a settlement negotiation with Westinghouse on the Silas Ray Power Plant that was constructed in 1998. This unit was never able to achieve air permit limits for CO and NOX and thus Westinghouse finally agreed to install an SCR at their cost.

9.Gained training and hands on experience with microprocessor-based relays in performing system protection studies and relay replacement and upgrades.

10.Tasked with startup and constructing new Westinghouse Combined Cycle Combustion Turbine at PUB that resulted in valuable training and experience with large generator controls and operation.

11.Provided methods to reduce cost of power to our consumers by Expanding the existing Interruptible power program from 1.3 MWs to 26.8 MWs by assisting large industrial customers with peaking generator installations, largest site developed was 10.5 MWs.

12.Increased reliability in Load Management System by initiating the replacement of the existing Zellweger MPC Controller with a new microprocessor-based controller, also acquired my North Carolina Master Electricians License for Four County EMC’s use in installing load control devices in customer facilities.

13.Provided methods to reduce the cost of power to consumers by expanding the existing load management program from 3MWs to 16 MWs by providing Tri-County Cooperative Customers with turnkey generator installations controlled by Tri-County to shave coincident system peak demand, gained training and experience with low and medium voltage breakers

14.Responsible for expanding Energy Management System from Water Heaters control only/ upgraded the existing load management system to include air conditioning, electric heat, and peak shaving distributed generation systems.

15.Tasked with trouble shooting system to improve performance of Load Management Equipment/Originated the development of a system improvement and corresponding patent that increased the two-way communication performance from 60% to 97%. This system improvement, adjustment of the firing timing to compensate for distribution system resonate frequency changes is still in use today.

16.Ten years’ relevant experience in High and Medium voltage transmission and distribution systems

17.Six years’ experience supervising electrical crews performing work on High and Medium voltage transmission and distribution systems

18.Worked as system analyst on startup and operation of SCADA System. I worked on and was responsible for electrical data base and startup of first state estimator.

19.Worked with system control operators in developing graphic interfaces and displays for SCADA that were configured as the system allowed to what the operators requested.

20.Developed electrical data base on schedule, when I was given this task the electrical data base development was six weeks behind schedule we were able to prepare and deliver data base on schedule within the next year.

21.Worked on Clinton Power Station Stop Work Order Electrical Team responsible for expediting the lifting of seven electrical stop work orders. Under the direction of Stone and Webster Site Management I assisted in rewriting the electrical cable tray, conduit, instrumentation, and cable installation procedures and obtaining approval for these improved processes from the NRC. Trained site contractors and Illinois Power Personnel to revised NRC Construction Procedures

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JUNE 2020- Present

Self Employed Contractor

Electrical Engineer

Perform arc flash calculations and NFPA 70 E electrical safety training

January 2020- May 2020

Jacobs Engineering

Lakeland, Florida.

Electrical Engineer

Responsible for writing electrical specifications and developing electrical one lines for a phosphorus acid plant to be constructed in Layyoune, Morocco.

Worked with Moroccan Process Engineers on establishing the electrical requirements for this proposed acid plant.

Based the design on Moroccan Engineers input and a facility that was constructed in Casa Blanca four years earlier.

I then suggested a number of design changes that updated this facility to current design standards here in the United States.

Worked directly with Engineering Manager on all issues related to updating this design.

Jacobs recently sold out to an Australian firm Worley Engineering

March 2016- December 2019

Southern Safety Consultants and Services

Orlando, Florida.

Electrical Engineer

Responsible for all arc-flash calculations, short circuit calculations, device coordination studies, and device rating studies as requested by clients.

Assist in the development of customer one lines for their facilities.

Responsible to review client’s safety program, standard operating procedures and ensure safe work practices are being used in daily work practices and develop training program for employees as necessary.

Recommend level of Personal Protective Equipment needed to comply with NFPA 70-E

Gave NFPA 70 E training to all Amway employees in Grand Rapids Michigan Facility and spent a week there developing the start of an NFPA-70 electrical maintenance program for their facility.

November 2014-February 2016

Merced Irrigation District

Merced, California.

Manager of Engineering and Operations

Responsible for all Line Crew Activities and Scheduling of Construction.

Responsible to review safety program and ensure safe work practices were being used in daily work practices.

Worked as part of a team on reviewing future power supply options and reviewed requirements for Merced to become a Balancing Authority, Transmission Operator, and Generator Operator.

Implemented Easy Power Software for use in conducting system protective device coordination studies; this work included installation of new substation SEL relays and calibration of all new relays. Added two new circuit bays and two reclosers for new circuits.

Prepared and submitted department budgets for electrical engineering and operations.

Worked with General Line Foreman on writing equipment specifications for several new line department vehicles.

Worked as part of a team on reviewing MID policies and procedures to ensure compliance with all applicable NERC Standards.

March-May 2014

Kerrville Public Utility Board

Kerrville, Texas.

Director of Operations

Responsible for all Line Crew Activities and Scheduling of Construction.

Responsible to review safety program and ensure safe work practices were being used in daily work practices. Worked with employee safety committee to implement employee safety program.

Reviewed all control room activities and procedures.

October-March 2014

Electric Reliability Council Of Texas

Taylor, Texas.

Senior Reliability Training Specialist

Responsible for reviewing NERC Standard changes and recommending procedural changes to ERCOT Operating Procedures to ensure ERCOT Operations remained in Compliance with NERC Standards.

Instructor for simulator exercises for ERCOT/NERC Reliability Drills; such as the ERCOT Black Start Drill, the ERCOT Winter Storm Drill and the NERC Inter Regional Reliability Entity Drill.

Nov.2012-June 2013

ACES Power Marketing

Indianapolis, In.

Senior Reliability Compliance Specialist

Responsible for developing all NERC Standards Training Modules, updating existing NERC Standard Training Modules (22), and assisting in rewriting existing Trading Floor Desk Procedures and then developing training for Desk Procedures.

Works with 21 Member G&T Cooperatives on NERC Compliance Issues assists members in preparing records and documents for use as evidence in meeting NERC Standard Requirements and assists in defining what the NERC Standards are requiring the member to do to meet compliance. Also provide guidance to members on updates as NERC Standards change.

Feb 2009-Oct. 2012

Lakeland Electric

Lakeland, Fl.

Manager of System Control

Selected as Coordinator for Subject Matter Experts on twenty four NERC Standards. The NERC Audit of Lakeland Electric in Oct. 2010 resulted in no NERC Violations

Tasked to coach, train, mentor NERC Certified Operators assisted in rewrite of Lakeland Electric’s Training Program to include PER-005 Requirements, assisted in updating the Standard Operating Procedures in System Control to provide guidelines and explicit procedures that better identify the operator’s responsibility in meeting NERC Requirements.

Supervised fourteen NERC Certified Transmission Operators

NERC Certified as Reliability Coordinator Operator 12/29/2011.

Assigned to assist Power Supply Department, tasked with developing Lakeland Electric Generation Resource Plan. Recently completed training on PowrSym3 Modeling Software, have proceeded to work with Lakeland Electric’s PowrSym3 Consultant developing a power resource model for use at Lakeland Electric.

April 2008-Feb. 2009

R J Covington Consulting

Austin, Texas

Electrical Engineer

Assisted Municipal and Cooperative clients with transition from Zonal Market to new Nodal Power Market and attended fifteen ERCOT Training Classes on the Nodal Power Market.

Assisted a manufacturing client, to investigate unusually high number of cogeneration facility forced outages. Found in my investigation that cogeneration facility had incorrectly placed generation synchronism mechanism on the wrong side of a “Delta” “Y” metering point and was closing the generator 30 degrees out of phase with the utility bus, thus accounting for significant mechanical issues resulting in a high forced outage rate

OCT. 2002-Mar. 2008

Traverse City Light and Power

Traverse City, Mi.

Executive Director

Responsible for demolition and sale of a 25 MW coal power plant and substation. Honduran Investor provided the manpower to disassemble and ship this power plant to Honduras for reassembly this resulted in a net savings in demolition costs of $750,000 and income from the sale of $400,000.

Tasked with reviewing options for new base load renewable energy source/ successfully applied for and received a grant from the Public Service Commission of Michigan for $400,000 for a feasibility study for a variety of renewable energy sources.

Tasked with doing a cost of service study/unbundling study /rate increase study to determine adjustments in rates for various service classifications and amount of electric rate increase/We were able to minimize this rate increase by successfully petitioning the Midwest Independent System Operator (MISO) to allow TCL&P’s Transmission System to be included in MISO’s Bulk Electric Transmission System even though it is only 69 KV which resulted in an annual payment to TCL&P of $1.67 million.

NOV.1994-JULY 2002

Brownsville Public Utility Board

Brownsville, Texas

Director of Power Supply

Worked as a team member in acquisition of 105 MWs of 500 MW Duke Energy Plant, in addition construction of 35 MWs of distributed generation for peak shaving which provided strategic emergency energy sources during Hurricanes

Tasked with providing power market opportunities to reduce overall cost of service to PUB Customers:

Year Project Details Net Benefit

-1997/1999 Resource swap Reduced transmission cost 4.38 million

OKLA./San Miguel Trans. Cost Method=V.A.M.M

-1998/2001 Regulation Services Reduced Generation Costs 2.8 million

Contract with Reliant

-1999/2000 Resource Swap Reduced Generation Costs 1.60 million

Silas Ray/ Fonterra Trans. Cost Method was V.A.M.M .

-2001/2003 Revised Gas Trans. Reduced gas Transport Costs 0.29 million

Contract with Valero Converted to Partial to Non-Firm

-2001 Sold Unit #8 Sold 27 yr. old Ft4 Twin Pak 6.30 million

48 MW Turbine ( Over Appraisal)

-1996/2003 Power Marketing Reduced Net Heat Rate 16.0 million

Contract/Tenaska Purchasing Economy Power

TOTAL ALL BENEFITS 31.37 million

Developed a risk management policy and procedures manual for power supply worked as a team member in developing a policy and manual for limiting PUB’s risk by first establishing a Risk Oversight Committee (ROC) and writing a PUB Strategic Power Plan. These actions formed a solid foundation for a team review of power supply options for PUB going forward.

Purchased Tampa Electric’s Lineman Training Program and recertified all PUB Linemen to improve their working skills and safety awareness.

Obtained ERCOT certification as a system operator in 2000.

Designed and constructed two new distribution substations that resulted in valuable training and experience with 138KV to 12 KV substations

Completed a settlement negotiation with Westinghouse on the Silas Ray Power Plant that was constructed in 1998. This unit was never able to achieve air permit limits for CO and NOX and thus Westinghouse finally agreed to install an SCR at their cost.

Gained training and experience with microprocessor-based relays in performing system protection studies and relay replacement and upgrades.

Tasked with startup and constructing new Westinghouse Combined Cycle Combustion Turbine at PUB that resulted in valuable training and experience with large generator controls and operation.

Built two new substations which included ten miles of 69 kv transmission lines and 16 each 12kv circuit bays.

Reinforced grounding grid on substation that was built over a landfill by installation of 20 foot long ground rods and 4/0 grounding cable.

OCT.1992 –AUG.1994

Four County Electric Member Cooperative

Burgaw, N. C.

Manager of Engineering and Operations

Provided methods to reduce cost of power to our consumers by Expanding the existing Interruptible power program from 1.3 MWs to 26.8 MWs by assisting large industrial customers with peaking generator installations, largest site developed was 10.5 MWs.

Increased reliability in Load Management System by initiating the replacement of the existing Zellweger MPC Controller with a new microprocessor based controller, also acquired my North Carolina Master Electricians License for Four County EMC’s use in installing load control devices in customer facilities.

Reduced outages due to trees blowing into lines by successfully implementing a new trade-a-tree program at Four County EMC and in one year removed over 500 trees in conflict with transmission and distribution lines.

2 years relevant experience in High and Medium voltage transmission and distribution systems

2 years’ experience supervising electrical crews performing work on High and Medium voltage transmission and distribution systems

Converted 12 kv substation to 25kv for increased capacity; this included installation of 25 kv insulators and equipment on 16 distribution substations.

OCT.1990-SEPT.1992

Tri-County Electric Cooperative

Mt. Vernon, Il.

Manager of Engineering

Provided methods to reduce the cost of power to consumers by expanding the existing load management program from 3MWs to 16 MWs by providing Tri-County Cooperative Customers with turnkey generator installations controlled by Tri-County to shave coincident system peak demand, gained training and experience with low and medium voltage breakers

Tasked with expanding Energy Management System from Water Heaters control only/ I upgraded the existing load management system to include air conditioning, electric heat, and peak shaving distributed generation systems.

Built one new 69/12 kv substation, added 4 circuit bays in existing substations.

JAN.1986-OCT.1990

Department of Defense

Scott Air Force Base

Manager of Energy/ Military Air Lift Command

Developed Energy Conservation Program for fourteen MAC Bases by implementing energy conservation programs at all fourteen MAC Bases and as a result reduced energy consumption by 3.5 percent on an annual basis.

Wrote justifications for and programming for MAC Energy Improvement Projects/ I was able to justify and then programs over 5 million dollars worth of projects in the Power Improvement Program. I successfully developed conceptual designs for energy improvement projects submitted these to the Pentagon and received approval of funding from the Productivity Investment Fund.

JAN.1984-DEC.1985

Chance Load Management

Hazelwood, Mo.

Sr. Applications Engineer Two Way Automatic Comm. System. (TWACS)

Tasked with installation of TWACS Load Management Systems at customer locations/Installed the first six TWACS System at customer locations on budget and on schedule.

Tasked with trouble shooting system to improve performance of equipment/Originated the development of a system improvement and corresponding patent that increased the two way communication performance from 60% to 97%. This system improvement, adjustment of the firing timing to compensate for distribution system resonate frequency changes, is still in use today.

Supervised five electrical engineers

Installed Load Management Equipment into 6 customer substations. This included Outbound Modulation Equipment, circuit current transformers, and control equipment.

Dec.1973-Dec.1983

Illinois Power Company

Decatur Il.

Gas and Electric Operations

Experienced in electric and gas operations management; Electrical Engineer in Non-Conformance Review Group, Clinton Power Station

Worked as gas engineer on distribution work orders which included new gas main extensions, renewal of existing gas mains by direct burial replacements, and gas main renewal by plastic pipe insertion, gas regulator station rebuilds and new gas regulator installations, and odorant station upgrades. Worked also as assistant gas superintendent in gas meter shop and served as gas supervisor on call for three years.( one week per month)

Worked with retiring Right of Way Agent to learn his courthouse procedures on finding existing utility easements and putting together paperwork describing new utility easements. I then taught the new Right of Way Agent these courthouse procedures for finding or defining utility easements.

During 4-week strike, worked on line crew for electric operations; and gained familiarity with day-to-day electric operations and interest in same.

Worked with electric operations on major distribution projects for four years gained training and experience with high voltage breakers and relevant experience as an electrical supervisor

Served as Electrical Supervisor on call 4 years. ( one week per month) gained training and experience with high voltage transmission and medium voltage distribution systems.

During a major ice storm, assisted in development of new procedure for handling system outages. Procedure was used throughout Illinois Power.

Engineering duties included underground residential electrical distribution in new subdivisions; carried out load studies, fuse coordination, was responsible for work of eight engineering clerks, two draftsmen and department budgets.

Completed design for replacement of Champaign and Urbana downtown underground commercial systems; selected cable and assisted in implementation of new system of connectors; method standardized by company and was used in all service areas.

8 years relevant experience in High and Medium voltage transmission and distribution systems

8 years’ experience supervising electrical crews performing work on High and Medium voltage transmission and distribution systems

Installed 8 circuit bays on existing 12kv substations and built two new substations which included ten miles of 69 kv transmission lines and 16each new 12kv circuit bays

SCADA System Analyst.

Worked on startup and operation of SCADA System.

Worked with system control operators in developing graphic interfaces and displays for SCADA that were configured as the system allowed to what the operators requested.

Developed electrical data base on schedule/When given this task the electrical data base development was six weeks behind schedule, we were able to prepare and deliver data base on schedule within the next year.

Worked on Clinton Power Station Stop Work Order Electrical Team responsible for expediting the lifting of seven electrical stop work orders. Under the direction of Stone and Webster Site Management. /I assisted in rewriting the electrical cable tray, conduit, instrumentation, and cable installation procedures and obtaining approval for these improved processes from the NRC.

EDUCATION:

University of Illinois

Urbana, Il.

Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering (BSEE)

Train Certifications:

NERC Certified Reliability Coordinator Operator 12/29/2011

ERCOT Certified System Operator 6/23/2000

Licensed as Unlimited Electrical Contractor 1993

References:

John Bruciack (CEO)

Brownsville PUB

1425 Robin Hood Drive

Brownsville, Texas 78523-3270

Phone 956-***-****

Kevin Smith (President of Marketing)

Tenaska Services

1701 E. Lamar

Arlington, Texas 77042

Phone 214-***-****

John Davidson (Brownsville attorney for 30 years)

Davidson and Troilo

7550 West IH-10 Suite 800

San Antonio, Texas 78229

210-***-****

William Cook (CEO)

Zeeland PWB

350 East Washington

Zeeland, Michigan

Phone 616-***-****

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