Majida Malki Senior Director, Protection Settings & WAPC

Majida Malki, PE, PMP, Executive Advisor, Vice President, is a professional engineer and certified project manager with over 20 years of experience in the utility and consulting sectors. She has an extensive background in protection and control scheme design for transmission and distribution systems, relay settings development, and coordination studies, using tools like ASPEN and CAPE. Majida has led automated Wide Area Coordination Studies, fault event analyses, NERC PRC compliance studies, and Special Protection Schemes (SPS), along with single-point failure assessments, short circuit and breaker duty analyses, and studies on the impacts of high penetration of inverter-based resources (IBR) on protection systems. She is also skilled in IEC 61850 applications and T&D loss assessment studies.

Experience and Background

  • Years of experience in the electric power industry, 1994–Present
  • Executive Advisor, Vice President, Quanta Technology, 2007–Present
  • Senior Engineer, Synergetic Design, 2006–2007
  • Head of Protection and Automation Department, Office National D’Electricite, 1997–2005
  • Senior Engineer, Digital Protective Relays Test Lab, Office National D’Electricite, 1994–1997

Select Industry Accomplishments and Recognition

  • Member, IEEE
  • Member, IEEE Women in Engineering
  • Member, Project Management Institute (PMI) and North Carolina PMI chapter
  • Registered PE, Wisconsin
  • Certified Project Manager Professional (PMP)
  • Published and presented papers at Georgia Tech Protective Relaying Conference, Texas A&M Protective Relaying Conference, and PAC World Americas Conference

Areas of Expertise

  • Protective relay settings and coordination
  • Protection philosophies and standards development
  • Power system modeling and analysis in CAPE and ASPEN
  • Automated wide-area protection coordination studies
  • NERC PRC compliance studies (PRC027, PRC023, PRC025, PRC026..etc)
  • Protection Single Point of Failure and TPL001-5
  • Short circuit and breaker duty analysis
  • Project management

Education

  • BS, Electrical Engineering, Mohammadia School of Engineering