Speakers

Craig Preuss is the subject matter expert at Black & Veatch for IEC 61850, DNP3, synchrophasors (including Phasor Measurement Units [PMUs] and Phasor Data Concentrators [PDCs]) and cybersecurity (both physical security and cyber security) associated with distribution automation, substation integration and automation systems, and power plant control systems. His extensive project experience includes project management, strategy development, detailed engineering, and construction support tasks. He creates system architectures with the supporting cost/benefit models and technology, infrastructure, and application evaluations. He manages, leads, and performs the design, configuration, installation, testing, and commissioning of these systems. His architectures address integration and interoperability challenges and problems in protocols, configurations, North American Reliability Corporation (NERC) Critical Infrastructure Protection (CIP) compliance, and networks. He is familiar with Energy Management Systems (EMS), Distribution Management Systems (DMS), Generation Management Systems (GMS), Outage Management Systems (OMS), and Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA) systems.