Chadd Smith
- Role
- Senior IT Solutions Architect Grid Operations at Portland General Electric
- Location
- Hillsboro, OR, US
- LinkedIn followers
- 500 followers
About Chadd Smith
Senior Business Analyst | Solution Architect | Software Automation Specialist I…
Experience
Senior IT Solutions Architect Grid Operations
Jun 2022 — Present
Architecting & delivering quality software solution and streamlining business process across organizational boundaries using my breadth of experience in software development, dev ops, and leadership to help solve problems. Working to define and implement Virtual Power Plant (VPP) for electrical network integration of Direct energy resources (DERS), distributed and 3rd party energy providers (DERMS), and large scale battery, solar, and wind farms. Aligning the electrical ecosystem to work in conjunction with electrical marketing function, operations, and management of demand response, frequency response, peak shaving, and contingency reserve as it relates to VPP to build a more automated solution. Working to redefine and implement notification management across the company to build a more holistic solution that supports customer communications, crew communications and outage to customer management, and building out cloud based solutions to support these solutions. Managing GIS efforts to align information across solutions and platforms to support multiple initiatives.
Education
Portland State University
Bachelor of Business Administration (BBA), Information Systems Statistical Quantitative Analysis
1991 — 1995
Skills
- Web Services
- Sql
- Agile Methodologies
- Scrum
- Selenium
- Software Engineering
- Intel
- Test Strategy
- Xml
- Software Development
- Databases
- Test Cases
- Hp Qtp
- Defect Tracking
- Microsoft Sql Server
- Test Automation
- Testing
- Sdlc
- Agile Testing
- Hp Quicktest Professional (Qtp)
- Quality Center
- Test Planning
- .net
- Java
- Qtp
- Systems Analysis
- Software Development Life Cycle (Sdlc)
- Regression Testing
- Tfs
- Debugging
- Software Quality Assurance
- Visual Studio
- Team Foundation Server (Tfs)
- Soapui
- User Acceptance Testing
- Software Project Management
- C#
- Quality Assurance
- Integration
- Business Analysis
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