Leadership Team
Farnoosh Rahmatian
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Farnoosh is a Professional Engineer and a leading expert in electrical power system instrumentation, measurement, and testing. During over 30 years in the electrical power industry, he has developed methods and tools to improve power system measurements, monitoring, metering, and protection and has been awarded 11 US patents. Farnoosh is very active with IEEE, IEC, CSA, and CIGRE. He is a Fellow of the IEEE, and a past chair of the IEEE PES Technical Council. He is a member of the IEC TC57 WG10 (developing IEC 61850, digital substation communications protocol) and the IEC TC38 WG37 (developing IEC 61869-9/13 substation process bus and merging unit details), and active in the IEEE-PES-PSRC (Power Systems Relaying Committee), the IEEE-PES-PSIM (Power System Instrumentation and Measurement) and CIGRE. His area of technical focus includes digital/optical instrument transformers and synchrophasors.
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Patrick
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Patrick is a consultant and Professional Engineer in NuGrid’s measurement, calibration, and substation practice areas. He has worked on multi-disciplined technology development and technical leadership at the device and systems levels. Prior to joining NuGrid, Dr. Chavez was an engineering and business unit manager of Powertech Lab’s electrical labs and Substation Services department, providing specialized testing services and studies to power equipment manufacturers and utilities from around the world. His work has directly resulted in the invention and full development of a new generation of non-conventional optical voltage transformers for 115 kV to 550 kV metering and protection applications (NxtPhase T&D), development of cryogenic magnetic shielding for special superconducting quantum interference device operation (quantum computing startup D-Wave Systems), and development from concept to product of a machine-learning quantitative stock portfolio management system for publicly traded securities (founder of Innovol Corporation). Dr. Chavez holds several peer-reviewed journal and conference publications, patents, and awards in relation to his work on NxtPhase novel high-voltage optical voltage sensing technology, the NXVT.
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Steve Dolling
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Steve is an author and business leader with 25 years of experience bringing new technologies to market in the power and telecommunications sectors globally. His work has spanned a broad spectrum including brand formation and company development, international business, product management, market development, R&D, and business strategy across a range of technologies including dc measurement, optical sensing, protective relaying, a variety of smart grid sensors, satellite signal processing, broadband fiber optics, and optical mass data storage. He has served as a medium voltage sensor device expert on a major smart grid utility project.
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David
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Dr. David Peelo is a consultant and former switching specialist at BC Hydro. He is a graduate of University College Dublin (BE Electrical Engineering) and Eindhoven University of Technology (PhD). He worked first at the ASEA Power Transmission Products Division in Ludvika, Sweden and then for BC Hydro for 28 years rising to the position of Specialist Engineer. As a consultant, Dr. Peelo has clients worldwide and in particular teaches continuing professional development courses on current interruption transients and surge arrester application. He is an active Cigre member and is a past Convenor of IEC MT32 (Inductive load switching), the Convener of IEC PT42 (Current interrupting capability of air‑break disconnectors) and a member of IEC MT57 (Application guide for IEC 62271‑100 and other circuit breaker related standards). Dr. Peelo is an IEC 1906 Award recipient and a Distinguished Member of Cigre. He has authored or co-authored over 70 publications on circuit breakers and surge arrester application, is the author of a textbook on current interruption transients calculation and a co-author of a textbook on switching in transmission and distribution networks.
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