Dr. Stuart Laval is a global engineering director at Eaton responsible for leading its Distributed Energy Resource Management Systems Center of Excellence. Additionally, he is the Board chair for the UCA International Users Group and also serves as the co-chair of its Open Field Message Bus (OpenFMB) users group. Dr. Laval has 20+ years of technology development experience in electric utility power systems, telecommunications, and power electronics. He holds a Bachelor's and Master's degrees in Electrical Engineering & Computer Science from MIT, an MBA from Rollins College, and a Ph.D. in Industrial Engineering from the University of Central Florida. Dr. Laval is a certified Professional Engineer in the state of North Carolina.