Electrical Engineer

Location:

Little Rock, AR, 72205

Salary:

$65000

Posted:

February 16, 2012

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Resume:

Armstrong, Trevor M.

Address : **** ****** **

Benton, AR 72015

Phone : 501-***-****

Email : *******@*****.***

OBJECTIVE:

Seeking employment as electrical engineer where excellent technical skills and my professional experiences will make me a valuable asset.

EMPLOYMENT HISTORY:

SOUTHWEST POWER POOL

Engineer II, Modeling and Data Integrity, Jan 2009 – Feb 2012

• Worked with a group of engineers to maintain an EMS electrical network model of approximately 5,000 buses spread over a nine state footprint.

• Worked with other engineers and business analysts to operate the Southwest Power Pool Energy Imbalance Market, using the electrical network model as a base for system topology, line flows, and congestion monitoring.

• Coordinated with member utilities to find and validate changes to the EMS model on a monthly basis.

• On – boarded new balancing authorities and market participants into the Southwest Power Pool Energy Imbalance Market.

• Maintained a database of over 3000 contingent elements and oversaw its use in Real Time Contingency Analysis.

• Maintained Inter – Control Center Communications Protocol system consisting of approximately 90,000 individual analog and status data points.

• Used programs such as Microsoft Excel, Visual C#, and Python to create custom applications used to troubleshoot and monitor EMS and ICCP subsystems.

• Managed testing for a project to upgrade EMS software and hardware. This project consisted of executing approximately 250 test cases against eight individual servers over a period of six months.

ARKANSAS AIR NATIONAL GUARD, 223rd Combat Comm. Squadron

Satellite and Wideband Communications Journeyman, March 2001 – March 2007

• Operated and maintained satellite, troposphere scatter, and line of sight communications equipment.

• As Increment Monitor, supervised deployment activities and logistics plan for Troposphere Satellite Support Radio equipment package.

• Honorably discharged March 2007 with rank of Senior Airman (E-4).

HOME DEPOT

Sales Associate, Freight Crew Associate, April 2002 – April 2004

• As Sales Associate, assisted customers in finding merchandise and fulfilling orders. Assisted Pro Sales Associates in fulfilling large orders for contractors and other large volume customers

• As Freight Crew Associate, worked to move incoming product from staging areas to permanent storage, as well as bringing product from storage to sales areas.

EDUCATION:

B.S. Electrical Engineering University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, AR Graduated 2008

ADDITIONAL CERTIFICATIONS:

• Registered Professional Engineer Intern with Arkansas Board of Registration for Professional Engineers and Land Surveyors. Certificate #: 7486

SOFTWARE AND HARDWARE SKILLS:

• Alstom Habitat 5.7 and Energy Management Platform version 2.3.

• Operation of customized EMS functions for monitoring post contingent line flows in real time, outage scheduling and load forecasting.

• Programming Languages: C, C++, C#, Python Visual Basic for Applications

REFERENCES:

KEVIN BATES

Supervisor, Modeling and Data Integrity, Southwest Power Pool

501-***-****