Victor Alfaro

About Victor Alfaro

My background in both technical and creative thinking allows me to approach complex problems with fresh perspectives, while communicating ideas clearly and concisely.

Experience

1. Field Engineer

   Puget Sound Energy

   Jun 2024 — Present · Puyallup, WA, US

   Responsible for supporting operations and maintenance activities within Pierce County including outage management, system-related customer issues, and storm management. I assess, design, and provide engineering solutions to daily system incidents, system reliability problems, and distribution replacements of failing infrastructure. • Leading engineering, project, and cost management with estimates greater than $20k for operations and maintenance activities of Pierce County involving system and customer projects of 122,191 residents. • Provide technical support and leadership to maintain the power infrastructure to another 119,677 customers in Thurston County.• Maintained lowest abnormals count in the entire company for 3 consecutive years while Pierce County seeing growth up to 15% consistently in last 5 years.• Perform 30+ weekly assessments, and 30+ monthly engineering designs and provide the coordination of practical and cost-efficient solutions to electric distribution system problems across departments. • Consultant to support outage restoration within a geographic area both during daily outage situations and during emergencies (such as storms) via storm board analyst role. • Lead the operational and technical support with 7+ cross-functional departments in the implementation of solutions for electric distribution system problems.• Act as a consultant to support key accounts and customer reliability issues.• Design and engineer minor system distribution improvement and distribution expense orders to maintain the electrical system and replace failed electrical infrastructure. • Provide total engineering support to planning for long-term, permanent distribution systems solutions.• Provide mentorship to different employees throughout different teams. This includes the creation onboarding materials to effectively ramp up new and current employees in projects.

Education

• The University of Texas at Dallas

  Bachelor of Science (BS)