Kris Redding

About Kris Redding

I am a motivated and experienced Instrumentation and Controls Engineering Manager with almost 30 years of field service, design and management experience with on-site emergency standby, cogeneration and peak-shaving LV and MV generator control switchgear, SCADA, EPMS. 12 years Field Service, performing start-ups, modifications, maintenance, troubleshooting and repair. 3 years Project Engineering, developing physical, single-line, protective relay and schematic drawings and sequences of operations for LV and MV switchgear. 5 years Electrical Design Supervisor, translating engineering drawings into production prints for assembly of the switchgear. 8 years I&C Engineer directing design of data center EPMS, Electrical Controls, protective relaying and trapped key interlocking systems, and recently promoted to the global technical governance team driving design datacenter critical environments instrumentation standards and processes globally.Specialties: LV Switchgear; MV Switchgear; Controls; Electric Power Generation, Control & Distribution, Transfer Switches, SCADA, EPMS, Trapped Key Interlocks, Data Centers and other critical environments, project management, program management.

Experience

1. Principal Critical Environments Instrumentation Engineer

   Microsoft

   Nov 2020 — Present · Redmond, WA, US

   As a member of the Data Center Engineering Technical Governance Team, I own and manage global standards and processes for the design of our Critical Environments Instrumentation, inclusive of Electrical Power Monitoring and Building Automation, to ensure safe, reliable consistant and cost-effective CEI systems that meet our operational needs, at hyper-scale and -speed, to support the unprecendented growth of the Microsoft Cloud.

Education

• The Ohio State University College of Engineering

  BSEE, Power & Control

  1987 — 1992

Skills

• Electrical Wiring
• Power Distribution
• Electrical Design
• Scada
• Ups Systems
• Commissioning
• Preventive Maintenance
• Electricians
• Switchgear
• Power Generation
• Building Automation
• Power Systems
• Project Engineering
• Plc
• Industrial Control
• Energy Management
• Generators
• Engineering Management
• Engineering
• Control Systems Design
• Manufacturing
• Maintenance & Repair
• Electricity
• Testing
• Electrical Engineering
• Electric Power
• Instrumentation
• Automation
• Wonderware
• Electrical Controls
• Transformer
• Troubleshooting
• Modbus