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Michael Thesing

Michael Thesing

Manager, Smart Grid Engineering, Patterson & Dewar Engineers, Inc.
United States

Michael Thesing, P.E. is an IEEE Senior Member and engineering manager for Patterson & Dewar Engineers in Norcross Georgia. He has worked in SCADA product development and power systems projects for twenty-seven years and prior to that, eight years in process control and military communications. His current work involves system design and consulting on utility smart grid, AMI, SCADA, automation, and communication projects. Mike was the working group chair and principal author of IEEE Std. 1615-2007, “Recommended Practice for Network Communication in Electric Power Substations” as well as author of the DNP3 over IP network standard for the DNP Users Group. He has written articles for and spoken at several industry conferences on topics ranging from SCADA communications to flexible AC transmission system (FACTS) applications. He holds a B.S.E.E. from the University of Notre Dame and is a registered professional engineer in Georgia and Nebraska.