Lesia Bilitchenko is the Senior Engineering Manager of the Planning Tools and Capacity Analysis team within Asset Strategy and Planning unit at Southern California Edison. She leads the teams responsible for advancing Distribution and Transmission System Planning tools, studies and strategic roadmaps. The team also performs integrated capacity analysis studies determining available hosting capacity for generation and load interconnections to the Distribution grid.  Prior to that Lesia has held various positions in T&D and IT units at Southern California Edison spanning a 13 year career. Lesia holds a Bachelors of Science in Computer Science from Cal Poly Pomona and a Masters in Business Administration from the University of La Verne.