Project Management Electrical Engineering
Resume:
Ritesh Patel
Naperville, IL *****
***********@*****.***
Successful, results-generating engineering professional with analytical, planning and implementation aptitude. Leverages knowledge of and experience in systems engineering, resource planning, technology transition and resource training for software, technology and field deployment and maintenance scheduling.
Skills
Work History
Sr. Engineer
Invenergy, Chicago, IL January 2021 - January 2025 Managing Director
RKVA Corp, Carl Stream, IL January 2017 - January 2022 Sr. Engineer
ComEd an Exelon Company, Oakbrook, IL January 2015 - January 2017
• Performance monitoring • Technical reporting
• Project management • Staff supervision
• Cost analysis • Team management
• Technical presentation • Electrical engineering standards
• Requests for proposal rfps • Codes compliance
• Continuous integration • Continuous deployment
• Engineering studies • Strong analytical mind
• Reviewing One Line and three-line drawings for facility rating requirements
• Substation maintenance compliance: NFPA, NEC and ANSI standards
• Wind, solar and BESS operations
IEEE standard, NERC compliance standard: FAC-008, PRC-005, PRC-025-26-27,
• MOD-25-26-32, IEEE 1547
• System Protection and reliability standard: IEEE-242
• Interconnection study: Power Flow analysis, Reactive power study, Harmonic study
• Managed day to day operations of small business
• Collaborate with vendors for product ordering and pricing Managed financial operation including regulatory filing for business sales tax, licenses and
• training
• Managed financial operation for annual federal tax filing Technology support for cellular and smart metering applications (MV90 & TMS ITRON
• System)
• Read Rate analysis and reporting for monthly, quarterly and annual reporting Developed reports requirements for daily read rate analysis to monitor AMR system
• supporting Commercial and Industrial customers with high revenues
• Unread meter analysis to monitor meter health to support meter to cash operation Technical evaluation and implementation of net metering requirement for AMI Mash network
• meters transitioning from AMR meters
Manager, Metering and Field Customer Service
Salt River Project, Tempe, AZ January 2006 - January 2014 Manager, Automated Metering Infrastructure
Salt River Project, Tempe, AZ January 2010 - January 2012 Electrical Engineer
ComEd, Oakbrook, IL January 2001 - January 2006
Education
MBA in Business Administration January 2013
University Of Phoenix, Phoenix, AZ
Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering January 2000 Bradley University, Peoria, IL
Accomplishments
Provided budget requirements and contract review for vendors providing support for
• application management and deployment of network devices Managed company's meter operation and field operation providing support to over 900,000
• residential and commercial customers with 145 field employees Analyzed and Implemented department's field labor requirements to meet changing work
• force requirements with technology deployments including training requirements Revised job specifications to meet new technology maintenance needs to support customer
• operations and improve reliability and safety
Provided consultation for Meter Data Management System implementation to improve data collection, storage, analysis for following different application: Interval data collection to provide hourly usage information to customers Historical data analysis for load forecasting, outage detection & technology failure
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Managed a group of engineers and analyst to monitor wireless network performance for 850,000 endpoint device and achieved above 99% average daily read performance to improve data reliability, reduce bill estimate, flexible bill date, reduce safety incident in field and grid operation by collecting power quality data
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Subject matter expert to developed system integration diagram for meter data flow from multiple different data collection systems to implement automated integration to support field, back office, customer service and revenue billing operations
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Lead a Risk assessments analysis project to identify vulnerability associated with Advance Metering application and network devices and developed mitigation plan to mitigate the identified risk associated with the systems
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Planned and managed installation and testing of AMR devices using the most current,
• advanced wireless technology
AMR (Automatic meter reading) data retrieval systems including MV90 and TMS
(Transaction Management System). Managed daily system performance and provided analysis to ensure timely and accurate data retrieval of customer usage information, including IPP metering with totalized data in AMR system, data validation to verify integrity of meter data, meter error code, meter time difference with comm server time, Validate meter data based on the customer type and meter configuration
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Coordinated and scheduled software upgrade procedures and requirements with vendors
• and effected internal business areas
• Supervise Meter shop Operation, Meter inventory and ordering Complete a transition of Smart Synch pager technology meters to a GPRS cellular meters
• with internal antenna
Administered the company's annual random sample and periodic meter testing programs, analyzed meter sample test results, managed the resulting asset testing and retirement requirements, and provided required reporting to state regulatory bodies. (ANSI C12.10, 12.11)
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Performed data collection and statistical analysis that resulted in sound recommendations
• that were adopted and implemented
Developed new standards for distributed generation to meet changing requirements for
• residential and commercial distributed generation Developed metering standards for Interconnection and Generation metering for load balance and new installation, standard development of distributed generation, substation metering, and 138 KV and 238KV high Voltage line.
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• Standard development of 120/240V, 120/208V, 240V, 277/480V and 480V services.
• Relay metering and SCADA metering for substation and Generation metering
• Familiarity with ANSI OSHA, IEEE, NEC, IEC standards Development of new secure communication infrastructure for wireless technology and successful deployment to provide accurate data in timely manner and over secure network for more than 800,000 customers via end point devices
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A technical liaison/champion for Federal ARRA grant project AMI system (AMI meters, AMI data collection/configuration system, Meter data management system, configuration is Asset management system)
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