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Emergency Communications in the Control Room

September 30th, 2021

Maintaining secure and reliable audio and video communications between the control center and the back up facility is crucial to maintaining reliability in the electricity sector. Considering all the recent upheavals in the world, ranging from pandemics to hurricanes to civil unrest, this topic will be of interest to all stakeholders responsible for maintaining system reliability.

Jeffrey Trask

Job Title: 
Head of Emergency Management and Business Continuity
Organization: 
ISO New England

Jeffrey Trask is an experienced professional in the field of Resilience, Emergency Management, Business Continuity, Disaster Recovery, Data Center Operations, and Crisis Response. Currently serving the New England power grid operator. Formerly employed by a Fortune 100 company, he also has experience working on the state/local government and academic sectors. He is a Certified Emergency Manager through the IAEM and Master Business Continuity Professional and Certified Business Continuity Lead Auditor through the DRI. He is a FEMA certified instructor and holds instructor certificates in many emergency-management related topics.

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Lance LaBreck

Job Title: 
Business Continuity Manager
Organization: 
CAISO
Lance LaBreck has over 29 years of escalating Business Continuity Management experience in the military, government, and commercial industries. Over his career, he has managed over 400 Incidents and Crisis events covering everything from major loss of life to network outages around the world. He has published five books in the subject of continuity, information security, safety, and risk management. Lance holds a MS in Management and Information Systems from Florida Institute of Technology. He has a certification from FEMA, BCI, and DRII. As a combat veteran, Lance served twenty years in the US Marine Corps as an infantry unit leader. Since 2016, he is at the California ISO, responsible for business continuity encompassing, emergency response, incident management, business recovery, IT disaster recovery, and crisis management. Recent events of note: The GridEx V and VI lead planner for the Western US, representing the ISO for state and federal exercises, and on several national and international continuity committees.
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Sue Paul

Job Title: 
Principal
Organization: 
Robinson Bowmaker Paul

Sue Paul is a Principal at Robinson Bowmaker Paul, where she leads our audit and assurance work. She has particular expertise in operational audits and reviews, business process performance improvement, and certification of market software.

She has carried out energy market audit projects in New Zealand, Australia, the Philippines and the United States. She has led operational and software audits for the Independent Australian Energy Market Operator of Western Australia, the Australian Energy Market Operator, the Philippine Electricity Market Corporation (PEMC) and Transpower New Zealand.

Sue also advises on the design and implementation of energy markets, advanced modelling and forecasting techniques, and how to better design and manage business processes to mitigate risk.

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Speaker

Women In Energy: Flavia Anyiko

September 1st, 2021

The Women in Energy series is a joint project between USEA and USAID that was developed out of USEA’s Engendering Utilities Partnership, a program funded by USAID to improve gender policies and gender outcomes at their respective organizations.

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Flavia Anyiko

Job Title: 
Head of Risk Management
Organization: 
Uganda Electricity Generating Company Ltd (UEGCL)

Flavia Anyiko is the Head of Risk Management at the Uganda Electricity Generation Company Ltd and is responsible for the development and implementation of Enterprise Risk management policies, programs, systems and procedures that enhance the achievement of UEGCL strategic objectives. She is an accomplished Civil Engineer and Risk professional whose work experience includes Structural design, Construction Supervision, Compliance and Risk management in both the private and public sector. She values integrity, teamwork and mutual respect and has been able to demonstrate these values in her experience leading multidisciplinary teams to deliver on collaborative tasks.

Flavia is committed to mentoring young people and is a member of the Girls for Girls Project Uganda as well as the Global Women’s Network for Energy Transition.

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