I'm a licensed Professional Engineer focused on distributed and resilient electric power.
I get really excited about software, tools, and policies that support local, renewable electric power.
My experience spans data science, ocean energy,
and distributed renewable power systems.
Co-inventor on a couple wave energy converter patents.
Co-author on a couple techno-economic papers.
I speak passable Spanish.
Fully authorized to work in the US and available for assignments worldwide.
Smart colleauges have taught me a lot. Download my CV! for more details.
It's not always obvious how an electric distribution grid's physical layout corresponds to its electrical connectivity. Often this data is inaccurate, unavailable, or both. I wrote a bit of code to reconstruct an electrical connectivity map from GIS data of a medium-voltage feeder from Southern California Edison's territory in Goleta, California. Explore the resulting map and review the code on Github.
The grid can add lots more distributed energy resources (DERs) generally, but each node in the grid is ultimately constrained by a unique set of operation conditions. SCE provides some data about these constraints, and I made a tool to explore the profile of the nodes within a feeder of interest. See the details on Github.
I've made a lot of sparks. As electrical lead for CalWave Power Technologies, I designed, installed, and commissioned the electrical drivetrain for CalWave's grid-connected wave energy converter demonstration in San Diego.
How fast must ocean energy improve to compete with wind power?
Read our paper on IEEE and see the code
on Github.