WECC-0118 INT-020-WECC-CRT-1.1

WECC Interchange Authority Back-up

Request to Remove Interchange Authority

Drafting Team Roster

Below please find a biographical snapshot for the drafting team members of the WECC-0118, INT-020-WECC-CRT-1.1, WECC Interchange Authority Back-up, Request to Remove Interchange Authority.

Name / Biography
Craig Williams / Mr. Williams has worked in the electricity and energy industry since 1990 when he joined Siemens Power Corporation designing nuclear fuel for commercial power plants in the United States, Europe, and Asia. He then worked at the Hope Creek nuclear power station in New Jersey where he learned power plant operations, and eventually took a position as a real-time trader with PacifiCorp managing a fleet of generation sources and trading in the Desert Southwest. During his career Craig developed a First-Pass Acceptance quality assurance program, submitted a patent for a new type of nuclear control, implemented a Data Management system to improve rate recovery, and developed a training program for plant operators to improve internal coordination with real-time control.
He holds an MBA in Securities Finance from Portland State University, an M.S. in Nuclear Engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology, and a B.S. in Applied Physics from Brigham Young University. Craig’s business interests include strategic planning in a rapidly changing business environment, training as a tool to increase productivity and employee commitment, improving business processes using organic innovation, and developing successful communication patterns through relationships of trust.
Robert Sullivan / Mr. Sullivan has served as the chair of an INT drafting team and as a member of many INT drafting teams. Mr. Sullivan serves as the California Independent System Operator representative to the Interchange Scheduling and Settlement (ISAS) sub-committee and has done so for the last fifteen years. As a member of the CAISO Regional Operations Initiative group Mr. Sullivan monitors all Regional issues at the WECC.
Margaret Olczak / Ms. Margaret Olczak is the technical lead on compliance and policy issues in Bonneville Power Administration’s Transmission (BPAT) Real-time Transmission Scheduling (RT TS) group that manages Net Scheduled Interchange. The RT TS group's compliance and policy focus is on NERC Reliability Interchange Scheduling and Coordination Standards, NAESB WEQ 004 and WECC's accompanying Regional Criteria. In her role as the technical lead on compliance and policy issues in the RT TS group, she represented BPA’s interests on several efforts, including the WECC-0108 INT-021-WECC-CRT-2 (WECC Interchange Tool Checkout Confirmation) drafting team and NAESB's WEQ Coordinate Interchange Scheduling Subcommittee. Previously, Ms. Olczak represented BPAT on NERC's effort to streamline the NERC Available Transmission Capacity NERC MOD Standards for the duration of that effort.

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