Gerry Abad

Associate Consultant

 

Email: Info@ESTAinternational.com

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Areas of Expertise

Mr. Gerry Abad is an Associate Consultant with over 45 years of total experience. Mr. Abad worked for over two decades in key operational functions for electric utilities in customer care, gas system operations, electric system operations, management of Bulk Transmission System Networks, NERC CIP Compliance, Bulk Power Generation, Distribution Systems, Energy Management Systems, and SCADA systems, and Nuclear Power Plant data center design, construction, and implementation. Leveraging that background, Mr. Abad has led projects and programs to deploy numerous customer system implementations since 1981 in the fields of Gas SCADA Systems, Electric Power Systems, Control Systems, Market Operations Consulting, Grid Modernization, Data warehousing, and Analytics.  Gerry was also part of the startup team for the California ISO in 1997 and transformation of customer systems into the Locational Marginal Price (LMP) and Simplified Market Design (SMD).

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Mr. Abad’s areas of expertise include:

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•  EMS/ADMS/SCADA Consulting

•  Transmission and Distribution Power Systems Operations

•  Control Center Operations and Design

•  North American Electricity Markets

•  Electric Industry Re-structuring

•  Operational Readiness and Change Management

•  Project and Program Management

•  IT/OT Integration with middleware platforms and data warehousing

•  eBusiness platform development, design, and implementation​

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Years of Experience

Over 45 years

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Countries of Work Experience

USA

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Education

•  M.S. /Electronic Commerce/National University, Sacramento, CA (1999)

•  B.S. /Applied Economics/University of San Francisco, San Francisco, CA (1996)

  

Professional Certification

​Project Management Professional (PMP) with the Project Management Institute (PMI) (since 2006)

Program Management Professional (PgMP) with the Project Management Institute (PMI) (since 2012)

 

Languages

English, Tagalog