Douglas Proudfoot Chief Operating Officer

Douglas Proudfoot, MBA, Chief Operating Officer, Processes, and Project Management, has more than 20 years of utility experience. During the course of his career, he has held a wide range of technical and managerial positions in South Africa and the United States in the fields of power automation and medium voltage distribution equipment and solutions.

Experience and Background

Douglas worked for Siemens Industry in the Medium Voltage Products and Solutions group in roles including Manager of Engineering and Project Management, Business Segment Manager and Director of the Global Industries and EPC business unit.

Industry Accomplishments

  • Over ten papers published and/or presented at industry conferences including, DistribuTECH, IEEE T&D, Western Power Delivery Automation, Beijing International Conference on PT&D Technology, NRECA Conference, Int-PEC conference in New Zealand, Carilec Conference, IAS IEEE Conference, Latin America Power Conference, Energy Council of New England, America Power Conference and the Canadian Electricity Association Conference.
  • Past Member of the coordination committee for the Western Power Delivery Automation Conference.

Published Expertise

  • Substation Automation
  • Substation Integration
  • IT technologies for substations
  • IEC 61850 protocol

Amongst many others

Education

  • BSEE from the University of Pretoria, South Africa
  • MBA from the University of Pretoria, South Africa

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