Utility operator. Platform vendor & developer. Systems integrator. Consulting partner. AI solutions leader.
Most people in this industry see grid modernization from one angle. After 33+ years of deliberate moves — 22 years operating a utility control center, 6 years leading SME work at a major ADMS and DERMS platform vendor, 2+ years directing systems integration practices, Partner at a global consulting firm, and now NVIDIA Solutions Director at SoftServe building GridCORTEX — I see it from all five. That perspective is what I bring to every conversation.
I started in this industry long before “smart grid” or “grid modernization” were terms — when operations were 100% manual — so I know what's under the hood in the operating systems and the operating practices. I evolved with every generation of the technology. From fully manual operations to leading the AI evolution.
I started long before “smart grid” or “grid modernization” were terms. I know what's under the hood — because I ran the grid at every stage of the technology.
Mapbooks, pencil, paper, and a calculator — a magnetic and paper mapboard, some SCADA control on a few substation devices, and GIS maps on screen.
An immature, in-house-built OMS that helped group outages — and the beginning of integration with SCADA.
ADMS arrives — integrations with SCADA and OMS, plus some minor DMS functionality — implemented from the operator's chair.
The growth of ADMS and DERMS — 14+ utility deployments across two continents, from the vendor, integrator, and consulting-partner chairs.
GridCORTEX at SoftServe + NVIDIA — the intelligence layer above the grid. 137 use cases, 22 domains, ten agents.
Thirty-three years, one through-line: I evolved with the technology and the operating practices — so I know exactly what each generation actually does under the hood, and what the next one has to get right.
Each transition was a deliberate step toward a capability the previous role couldn't teach. Here's what each one captured.
Real-time T&D control center. NERC Certified Reliability Coordinator. Built and ran the Blackstart restoration program from the ground up. Lived through every major operational technology evolution from manual SCADA to ADMS.
Lead Smart Grid SME. Set new sales records every year for six consecutive years. Led the SME team across 14+ utility ADMS deployments in North America and Australia. Fed operator-driven product enhancements directly into the engineering roadmap — including the first-of-its-kind ADMS+DERMS hybrid architecture at APS and the wildfire mitigation capability built into ADMS for PG&E. Pioneered the cloud-based virtual server environment that became the global default for ADMS demonstrations.
Director of a Smart Utilities Digital Grid practice, then Senior Principal of Grid Management Solutions consulting. Led major engagements across DER SCADA migration, OSI DERMS, GE OMS and DMS, ADMS upgrade strategy, AMI 2.0 integration, and operations change management.
Partner-level practice and platform leadership. Architected three signature offerings: GridVISION (flagship overlay platform), Suite 16 (16-domain modernization framework), and MC-LLI (mission-critical large-load infrastructure market category). Led executive advisory with National Grid and Avangrid.
NVIDIA Solutions Director for Power & Utilities at SoftServe. Architecting GridCORTEX — the AI-powered utility intelligence framework for electric utilities, built on NVIDIA's accelerated computing infrastructure. 137 utility-specific use cases across 22 operating domains, ten domain agents, and the first utility AI framework to extend into autonomous physical AI and robotics.
The pattern is consistent: take a real operational problem, translate it into architecture, then build how the solution gets sold and delivered.
The AI-powered utility intelligence framework — the intelligence layer above the grid. 137 utility-specific use cases across 22 operating domains. Ten domain agents, entering through the four domains utilities are funding today: Connect, Resilience, Asset, and Operations. Powered by NVIDIA accelerated computing including Earth-2, Isaac ROS 2, Jetson Orin, Omniverse, and NeMo. The first utility AI framework to extend into autonomous physical AI and robotics.
A modular system-of-systems platform that overlays a utility's existing operational stack — ADMS, DERMS, OMS, SCADA, EMS, GIS, AMI — to unify data, simulation, and AI-assisted decision-making. No rip-and-replace.
Mission-Critical Large-Load Infrastructure — the strategic play built to serve the fastest-growing demand source on the U.S. grid. Bridges the utility side and the large-load enterprise side that almost no consultancy can credibly serve together.
A 16-domain framework that shifts the conversation from grid modernization to utility modernization — covering the full enterprise value chain the way utility CIOs and COOs actually structure their portfolios.
The full sales-and-delivery model owned at Schneider Electric from 2016 to 2022. This is what proves the practice-builder pattern is repeatable — I had already done it once at scale before doing it three different ways at Wipro, and again at SoftServe.
Across every major operational platform on the market — ADMS, DERMS, OMS, DMS, SCADA, EMS, GIS, AMI — and the major vendors that build them.
Rewriting integrated resource plans across North America. Every major IOU is rebuilding its load forecast around it.
Out of demos and into the control room — with all the operator-trust, audit, and human-in-the-loop questions that come with it.
Outpacing the operating models utilities currently have. The architecture problem is no longer optional.
NVIDIA Isaac ROS 2 and Jetson Orin have crossed the maturity threshold for utility infrastructure. Autonomous inspection, first-responder robotics, and edge AI are no longer research projects.
Half the utility workforce is retirement-eligible this decade. Forty years of operational knowledge walks out the door every Friday. The gap layer is the only place it can be captured.
I've spent 33+ years preparing for a moment exactly like this one. The full operator + vendor & developer + integrator + consultant + AI solutions perspective is what this moment needs.
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