Education
Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering, University Illinois, Urbana. Master of Business Administration, University Chicago.
Electric power industry executive
Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering, University Illinois, Urbana. Master of Business Administration, University Chicago.
Various positions including field engineer, district manager, manager business unit supply, operations manager, vice president engineering, construction & maintenance Commonwealth Edison Company. Vice president utility practice System Development Integration. Chief operating officer Laramore, Douglass and Popham.
Joined Kansas City Power & Light Company (subsidiary of Great Plains Energy, Inc.), 2001, vice president distribution operations, vice president customer operations, 2001—2008, vice president T&D engineering and operations, since 2008. Member distribution committee, distribution executive committee Edison Electrical Institute. Member T&D Advisory Group, Electric Power Research Institute Research Programs.
Member executive board Midwest Energy Association.
Board member Heart America Council, Boy Scouts America, Kansas City Harmony, Kansas City Metropolitan Crime Commission, Kansas Chamber of Commerce, Leawood Chamber of Commerce. Member of Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (senior ), Project Management Institute, Association Edison Illuminating Companies (member power delivery committee).