#Brian James Davis# 9917 NE 322nd ST La Center, WA 98629 US Day Phone: 503-752-2145 Mobile: 360-356-2498 Email: davis.brianjames@gmail.com ##Work Experience## ###Bonneville Power Administration (Portland, OR)### BPA is a nonprofit federal power marketing administration and part of the Department of Energy. BPA markets wholesale electrical power from 31 federal hydroelectric projects in the Northwest, one nonfederal nuclear plant and several small nonfederal power plants. The dams are operated by the Army Corps of Engineers and the Bureau of Reclamation. BPA provides about 27% of the electric power generated in the Northwest, and operates and maintains about three-fourths of the high-voltage transmission in its service territory. BPA has 2,793 full time employees. 01/2009 - Present (Full time, 40% telework) Electrical Engineer/GS-13 For the past ten years I have been the primary responsible engineer for our substation control system (SCADA). Our users are a diverse group that include substation operators, system dispatchers, maintenance technicians and many others. During this time I've lead multiple efforts to develop innovative solutions to our agency's problems. I've coordinated meetings with users for requirements research, user testing and feedback collection, and system acceptance. I've created prototype and production systems, documented technical designs, and built consensus for particular solutions. I believe my experience doing innovative and cross-discipline work for a federal agency would be invaluable at TTS. - Develop a standard for a Human Machine Interface control system for transmission substations. This was the first effort to develop a computerized control system at BPA after many years of using only electromechanical controls. Our team overcame a great deal of hesitation and reluctance by involving users early and often, repeatedly asking for feedback, conducting extensive user research and testing and most of all by listening and caring about our users. This system has been deployed in one substation with designs currently in flight for three more. I coauthored a paper and presented on this project at the Power Energy and Automation Conference by WSU. - Study Human Factors Engineering (Wickens, Lee, Liu and Becker. 2004. An Introduction to Human Factors Engineering, 2nd Ed.) and present on the subject to peers. - Develop a networked remote data collection (SCADA) system standard. This was another area where introducing new technology was met with many concerns. Ultimately we succeeded in deploying substation networks by building a cross-agency team, working to find consensus, developing novel documentation, and performing rigorous testing. This system has been deployed at 57 of BPA's 261 substations with more installations every year. - Create an engineering tool (software) that can transform engineering documents (excel) into equipment setting files. In the beginning this was a tool to automate some of my work. I wrote it in python as that's the language I'm most familiar with. However over time it came to be useful to many other people at the agency. - Develop a database and web front end for engineering data files. In this case my colleague and I worked with the man users (engineers in our group and adjacents) to determine work flows and mocked up a system using python and sqlite. We then presented this system to BPA-IT to turn it into a production tool, available both inside and outside the agency. This project was successful in that the product was eventually deployed and is in use today. However, BPA-IT has struggled to provide the necessary resources to maintain it. One of the things about TTS that interests me is that I've seen how IT departments in the federal workforce struggle and I'd like to help. - Throughout my time at BPA I have sought to provide mentoring and guidance to junior level engineering employees. Relevant software: python, lua, Excel, Bluebeam Revu. Supervisor: Joel Ankeny (360-619-6296) Okay to contact this Supervisor: Contact me first ###Lattice Semiconductor (Portland, OR)### 05/2006 - 01/2009 (Full time) Manufacturing Product Engineer - Perform experiments and analysis using statistical tools and automated test equipment to identify critical process parameters with the intent to improve yield and quality while reducing cost. - Establish and prove verification methods and performance criteria for automated test of integrated circuits. - Troubleshoot manufacturing and customer problems with mixed signal and field programmable devices. Supervisor: Robert Alvarado ((503) 268-8000) Okay to contact this Supervisor: Contact me first ###Netsol Communications (Portland, OR)### 05/2005 - 01/2006 (Part-time) Engineer Intern - Design PCI based voice over Internet Protocol (IP) solutions - Investigate use of Asterisk voice over IP server software on x86 platform Supervisor: Jack Lee (360-606-1177) Okay to contact this Supervisor: Yes ###Standard Insurance (Portland, OR)### 02/2005 - 05/2006 (Part-time) Junior Programmer Supervisor: Jeff Alexander (503-321-8150) Okay to contact this Supervisor: Yes ###Portland State University (Portland, OR)### 01/2004 - 03/2005 (Part-time) Systems Administrator Supervisor: Mark Keller (503-725-8479) Okay to contact this Supervisor: Yes ##Education## ###Portland State University (Portland, OR)### BSEE 06/2006 with GPA: 3.68 Credits Earned: 122 Quarter hours Major: Electrical Engineering Relevant Projects: - PCI controller simulation in Verilog - Analog and Digital circuit design in OrCAD Relevant Coursework: - ECE 331-332 Electromagnetics 8 Credits - ECE 321-323 Electronics 15 Credits - PH 317-318 Solid State Physics for Engineers 6 Credits - ECE 311 Feedback and Control 4 Credits ###Clackamas Community College (Oregon City, OR)### Transferred to PSU 06/2003 with GPA: 3.78 Credits Earned: 146 Quarter hours ##Affiliations## - Tau Beta Pi Engineering Honor Society - Member - IEEE - Member - Registered Professional Engineer (EE-Power) in the State of Washington. ##Hobby Projects## ###Personal Server### - From 2009 to present, run a personal webserver using LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySql, PHP) software stack. Used my own hardware for about 2 years before switching to various VPS (Virtual Private Server) options. At it's busiest I had eight customers sub-leasing my hosting services. - In 2016 converted from a hand configured Ubuntu distribution to a Debian based with Ansible configuration. - Used Ansible to configure home desktop and laptop computers. - Tested a pfSense home firewall for content blocking. Eventually abandoned as too much work to keep up with the content white/blacklists. - Configured a custom DHCP server with DNSMasq on a dd-wrt router setup whitelist only internet access on my kid's devices. - Joined Exercism.io as a student and a mentor for python. - In 2018 created a personal website written in Markdown and parsed using python to generate static HTML. http://www.fadedbluesky.com. - Created Electrophone, a music maker app for android. http://fadedbluesky.com/electrophone/index.html - Wrote Linux Administration for Nerds: http://fadedbluesky.com/tech/LinuxAdminIntro.html a compendium of things I've learned setting up, using, breaking and fixing computers running Linux. References available upon request