Katie Dugan Barrett
Project Lead @GDS Associates, Inc.
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WORK HISTORY
Project Lead @GDS Associates, Inc.
Ms. Barrett began her career at GDS as a cooperative student in 2014 and joined the team as a full-time consultant in 2017 after she graduated from the Georgia Institute of Technology. She has worked in many areas of utility consulting including utility privatization, cost of service studies, retail rate design, and valuations and acquisitions.Federal Proposal Development/Contract Management (Utility Privatization, IGSAs, etc.)Ms. Barrett has assisted many clients in development of 50-Year business plans to acquire privatization contracts on military installations, as well as continued support of the contract after the award. Work done on these proposals involves: • Authoring a Comprehensive Technical Plan • Detailed Analysis of Financial Statements • Contract Price Modeling and Development through Allocation of Costs to Estimate the Operations and Maintenance Expense of the System • Pro Forma Financial Analysis • Facilitating Contract Negotiations• Price Redetermination and Economic Price Adjustment• Building Extensive Pricing Models for Clients with Large DoD Contracts that Calculate Contract Pricing Adjustments due to Changes in Scope.Valuation/Acquisition Support & AnalysisMs. Barrett has assisted in development of valuation studies for cooperatives by conducting in depth analysis of financial statements, doing neighboring market research, and assembling reports detailing the data collected.Utility Rates & Rate Design• Development of cost of service models for electric utilities. This modeling included the classification of a utility’s plant data, development of cost-based load allocators, and development of proforma financial statements to determine overall revenue requirements.• Supporting the development of financial forecasts and revenue requirements for various utilities across the country.
EDUCATION
Georgia Institute of Technology
Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Industrial Engineering
SKILLS
ABOUT KATIE DUGAN BARRETT
Located in west Georgia, Katie has been working in the electric utility consulting industry since 2014. Her work experience includes project management of large scale projects, developing long-term business plans, and performing in-depth analysis of financial statements. Specific experience includes participation in RFP processes including development of military utility privatization proposals, developing and managing RFIs and RFQs, valuation and acquisition studies, rate studies and cost of service models for utility clients, and implementing tools to determine contract pricing adjustments for long-term contracts. Katie holds a B.S. in Industrial and Systems Engineering with a Concentration in Economic and Financial Systems from the Georgia Institute of Technology.
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