1. Del J. Ventruella, MSEE, PE
Phone: 260-416-6441 E-mail: Ventruella@hotmail.com
Electrical Engineer/ Power Systems and Management Experience
An agent of change seeking to promote optimal power system design and development through focused engineering studies, professional
research, graduate study, professional society membership (IEEE) and authorship of papers, software, and instructional materials on power
systems and related issues.
Work Authorization/Citizenship: U.S. CITIZEN.
Qualifications
 More than a decade of experience in power system simulation and design analyses. (Includes a focus on electrical safety considerations,
the National Electrical Code, and arc flash concerns.)
 Senior Member of Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers and former member of IEEE Pulp and Paper Technical Committee.
 Submitted Engineering Study Proposals to, Achieved Approval for, and Presented Technical Results of studies, Including EMTP (ATP)
(originally developed by BPA, now under international user group) Simulations and Analyses Before Fortune 50 Corporate Engineering
Experts, Local Production and Factory Managers, and a Variety of Local Field and Technical Experts within Large Corporate Entities.
 Conformed to ALL relevant Engineering Standards (including state laws) in the Performance of Short Circuit, Load Flow, Harmonic Load
Flow, Generator and Transformer Protection Design and Relay Settings Development.
 Developed Alternative to Pilot Wire Relaying for Industrial Systems and Presented Before National IEEE Technical Conference.
 Studied Effect of Different Generator Exciter Types on System Voltage Following Initiation of Short Circuit and Devised an Alternative to
ANSI/IEEE device 51V (Voltage Restrained) Relays to Counter Risk of Failure to Trip When Using IEEE Recommended Practice of
Coordination with ANSI/IEEE device 50/51 Relays. Paper was Published in April/May of 1997 national IEEE engineering journal
“Transactions of the Industry Applications Society” in Addition to Publication in Conference Record.
 Manager of Engineering Services Department with responsibility for development of budget (beginning in first year as power systems
engineer in Birmingham, Alabama within GE) and employee performance under PEPCO.
 Repeatedly in charge of engineering studies for major power systems expansions valued in the millions of dollars (generator expansions,
transformer replacement, new interconnection studies within systems following transformer replacement to optimize power flow effect on
Voltage, design of tuned capacitor banks and related protection, power factor improvement). Studies evaluated switching modes and
acceptable operating configurations for power systems in terms of short circuit limits, load flow limits on conductors and sources, effects of
addition of capacitor banks, and impact of relay interactions with regard to selectivity.
 Rapidly adapted to a large variety of Windows software for power system simulations, including SKM Powertools, ETAP, EasyPower, and
GE Harmonic Simulation Software Tools.
 Developed Harmony software for internal distribution within GE for harmonic load flow simulation.
 FORTRAN Experience – Undergraduate Engineering Studies, Rose-Hulman.
 Visual C++ Experience – UAB – Directed Study Toward Graduate Degree, preceded by UAB Continuing Studies in C++ (Borland C++).
 Continuing to Apply Visual C++ to Solutions to Physics and AI problems while seeking to enhance these areas of interest.
 Visual Basic Experience – UAB – Continuing Studies – Weeklong Course.
 Employed CYMHARMO (originally developed by engineers from Hydro-Quebec) in harmonic simulation of major paper and steel mill
systems with regard to design of tuned capacitor banks.
 MSEE Presentation on Harmonics and Their Impact on Power Systems, including Design Methodology for Analysis and Design of Tuned
Capacitor Banks.
 Undertook simulation of Power Electronic Circuit in PSPICE for UL when Assigned Task by IPSEO (GE, Schenectady).
 Load Shedding/Transient Stability Study for Georgia Pacific Corporation in Alabama. Permitted System to Lose Power Supply from Utility
while Maintaining Power to Critical Loads Using Paper Mill’s Internal Generation (applied “Power System Stability” course taught by Auburn
University, Auburn Indiana).
 Employed EMPT to Identify Cause of Nuisance Tripping of ANSI/IEEE 50GS relay in Alabama due to Shift in Neutral Voltage of Low
Resistance Grounded Transformer for Faults on Other Feeders, Presented Resulted Before Corporate and Mill Engineering
Representatives.
 Responsible for Customer Satisfaction, Proposal Development, Review of Legal Terms and Conditions, and Later Completion of ALL
aspects of power systems studies for clients, including review of need for change orders as applicable.
 ENGINEERING MANAGER under PEPCO Holding Company. Provided previously listed major study types to clients in area, including a
local focus on power quality concerns as they relate to MRI systems and Hospital Power Quality as it Relates to Ungrounded Cardiac
Areas.
 Trained in Utility Power System simulation at The Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology, with subsequent Utility Level Graduate Courses at
The University of Alabama at Birmingham.
 Trained in field safety considerations to facilitate investigation of system failures or design requirements.
 Applied MATLAB to system control issues, including SIMULINK (UAB graduate studies).
 Now pursuing OCTAVE programming in Machine Learning Course via Stanford University.
 Developed Electrical and Mechanical Energy Savings Computational Techniques as Necessary Under DNV-GL (DNV-KEMA) While
Employed as an Energy Engineer (2013) in Fort Wayne, Indiana. Presented Results to local DNV-GL Manager and Indiana Michigan
Power Representative for Program. Results were later audited.
 Worked as Outreach Professional when time permitted me to deviate from Energy Engineer responsibilities.
 Languages: English (native speaker), Spanish (High School Major), German (Rose-Hulman College Minor).
Professional Experience
Self-Directed Research January 2004-Present
Self Employed Fort Wayne, Indiana

2.  Software Development and Related Research focused on Simulation of NEMA class B Motors during Motor Starting by modeling NEMA
class B motor starting characteristics.
 Developed related software in Borland Builder (C++) & Visual Basic in a Windows environment.
 Additional research into lighting transient modeling and simulation using the Electro-magnetic Transient Program.
 Application of various engineering and simulation tools in addition to EMTP, including MathCAD and MATLAB, in the course of related
research.
 The goal of the lightning transient research is to permit evaluation of the effects of lightning strikes on utility systems supplying industrial
facilities and to compare it to the impact of such strikes on medium Voltage overhead lines systems within industrial power systems
based on application of existing surge arrester technologies via EMTP simulation.
Brown-Mackie College, Fort Wayne, Indiana 2015
Adjunct Professor, Electrical Engineering Subjects, Bio-medical Engineering Department Fort Wayne, Indiana
 Develop technical presentations for four hour classes three nights per week.
 Develop all midterm and final tests.
 Assist with laboratory exercises as needed.
 Make presentations in front of classes on assigned topics.
 Assist students with their questions.
 Grade Homework, papers, and tests.
 Integrate A/V into classroom via internet.
 Assign final grades for classes.
DNV GL, (Previously known as DNV KEMA) 2013 – 2014
Energy Engineer/Outreach Professional (Received GE management award for my efforts) Fort Wayne, Indiana
 Targeted new clients for outreach activities.
 Worked within the Energy Incentives program of Indiana & Michigan Power.
 Tasked with regional outreach to clients to encourage interest, and served in that role at the energy savings seminar sponsored at IPFW in
Fort Wayne in the autumn of 2013 (which I had discovered and at which I urged participation).
 Provided simultaneous internal support in an engineering and outreach role, providing mathematical computational models in some
instances as needed to estimate energy savings produced by replacement of certain loads, including mechanical loads.
 Mechanical load analyses included compressors (with regard to elimination of intentional venting and replacement with more efficient
compressors), as well as variable pitch ventilation.
 Identified opportunities for compressor replacement that produced significant savings for end users.
 Calculated energy savings magnitude for compressors when two units were replaced with a single unit, and venting was no longer
required.
 Calculated energy savings when a unit that operated in an on/off mode was replaced by a drive system, realized substantial energy
savings for client.
Caregiver 2004 – 2013
Parents
 Supported parents in their home to avoid nursing home. Father had severe diabetes with difficulty walking. Mother had a memory
problem that prevented her from undertaking common tasks, such as driving and making purchases in a store.
Metropolitan Electrical Testing Company, (PEPCO Building Services Holding Company) April 2003-April 2004
Manager, Engineering Services Baltimore, MD
 Re-started an professional engineering services group within MET in Baltimore, MD
 Established power system study template and correlated the document foundations textual content by study types.
 Empowered use of engineering standards, including those developed by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
(IEEE), as the basis for all engineering analyses and recommendations.
 Created terms & conditions for engineering studies unique to the needs of field testing activity of power system studies
 Led the Six Sigma “Sales-Operations Interface Project” initiative at request of MET's President.
 Championed positive, team oriented change to improve business performance and engineering field operations, including the
Sales-Operations Interface, through Six Sigma analysis.
 Applied Six Sigma methodologies to engineering department related issues.
 Reviewed RFPs and developed engineering proposals for studies on a company-wide basis.
 Consulted directly with select clients, sales, & project management personnel regarding specific power systems issues. o Asserted
client interests relative to economic pay-back periods for new equipment sales.
 Actively involved in power quality analyses both in the office and in the field.
 Trained and mentored junior employees in power systems study concepts and techniques
 Responsible for Arc Flash Studies (Including Short Circuit and Coordination Studies).
 Used SKM PowerTools Suite for the power system study associated with a major Baltimore BWI airport expansion study.
 Developed proposal for power monitoring scheme, including fiber optic connections for port facility in the Caribbean.
 Conducted power quality studies for MRI imaging equipment and FDA laboratories in Baltimore/Washington metro areas.

3.  Led corporate change order initiative relative to engineering studies per mandate of MET's corporate president. o
Realization of change orders worth between 100-300% of original price of engineering services sold.
New Directions Services 1999 – 2003
Director Birmingham, Alabama
 Initiated start-up of a research business in Birmingham, AL.
 Researched client issues in areas that included grounding on an island in the Caribbean.
 Pursued external proposals and general clerical, day-to-day business activities as required.
 Engaged in client visits and business development activities.
General Electric, ISE Department, Motors (& Drive Systems) Division
1991-1999
Power Systems Engineer (II) Birmingham, Alabama
 Served as the primary internal contact relative to power systems issues.
 Responsible for multi-state territory reporting to Dallas, Texas Regional Manager of Power Systems Engineering.
 Consulted with and mentored clients to identify their needs and to respond with suitable, engineering analyses.
 Conceived, authored, and presented a series of technical papers for the IEEE on subjects related to completed client studies,
including “A Second Look at Generator 51-V Relays”, selected for publication in the national IEEE (IAS) Transactions journal
(May/June, 1997).
 Developed all proposals for engineering studies and entered related data into GE project tracking system.
 Contributed $100,000 in income and assumed sole responsibility for engineering studies required for a major expansion to International
Paper Corporation in Selma, AL involving addition of gas and steam turbine generators and new loads.
 Worked directly with GE turbine generator group to identify relays needed for all IEEE compliant study applications
 Held responsibility for engineering studies for adding a generator at the Georgia Pacific Corp. mill in Pennington, AL.
 Identified harmonic voltage distortion problem at carpet yarn facility in southern Alabama and designed medium voltage tuned capacitor
bank & relay protection scheme for power factor improving equipment installed as a result of this study.
 Assisted GE supplier to fulfill equipment needs for construction of tuned capacitor bank from results of engineering study.
 Interfaced with GE Engineering Services to provide for testing of local protective relays for installation.
 Returned to mill to confirm positive effect achieved by installation of tuned capacitor bank and to provide additional guidance related to
extent to which recommendations in study had been followed as a paid extension to original study.
 Power system simulation with GE tools, Electro-magnetic Transient Program (EMTP), SKM PowerTools, & EasyPower.
 Chosen for MAIC and Green Belt level Six Sigma Training as local Green Belt Representative.
 Received Management Award after increasing engineering study sales by 50-100% in first year in Birmingham by proceeding to offer
proposals immediately in response to engineering inquiries not be answered in the course of a call.
 Authored multiple papers for IEEE Pulp and Paper Committee. Presented them at national conferences.
 Completed Graduate studies leading to MSEE degree during this time frame. Undertook ALL studies in the evening and at night, to
avoid ANY work conflicts. Courses completed included Industrial Control Systems, Modern Control Systems, and Robotics I and II, in
addition to many courses in power systems engineering as it relates to power systems at the utility level. (These courses tended to
emphasize matrix mathematics and to require implementation of MATLAB solutions.)
 Undertook C++ course during directed study.
 Undertook introductory C++ course in evening (prior to directed study).
 Undertook Visual Basic courses in UAB continuing education program.
General Electric, I&SE Department, Power Systems Division 1988-1991
Power Systems Engineer (I) Cincinnati, Ohio
 Assigned short circuit and coordination study (including development of single-line diagrams and data collection) for new Toyota
manufacturing plant in Georgetown, Kentucky within first year with GE.
 Trained in power quality and harmonic load flow simulation using CymeHarmo by GE's National Field Manager for Power Systems
Engineering, which was then under the Industrial Power Systems Engineering Operation (IPSEO).
 Independently wrote harmonic load flow simulation program for small power systems; confirmed function in CymeHarmo.
 GE (IPSEO) harmonic load flow simulation software subsequently released to field offices, and trained in its use.
 Performed short circuit, load flow, coordination, harmonic load flow, power factor improvement, and power quality studies using GE
proprietary software and SKM PowerTools.
 Developed all single-line diagrams for my first power system study in AutoCAD.
 Supervised and trained interns on data entry for simulations and other activities necessary for power system studies.
Education (BSEE, MSEE)
The University of Alabama at Birmingham Birmingham, AL
Degree: MSEE, UAB (GPA, 3.8/4.0) 1995-1997
Power System Transients, Industrial Control Systems, Modern Control Systems, Economic Dispatch of Electrical Power
(Focus in utility power system analysis and design in graduate curriculum).
Auburn University Auburn, Alabama
(Graduate school, completed one course in Power System Stability before transfer to UAB) 1995

4. The University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, Ohio
(Control Systems/Robotics I, II - Engineering Courses applied to MSEE) 1990
The Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology Terre Haute, IN
Degree: BSEE (with a minor in German) 1984-1988
(Power Systems I & II, Industrial Power Systems, Power Electronics, Non-linear Electronics, Semi-conductor Device Physics)
Professional Development/Technology/Skills
License Professional Engineer in 1997 (District of Columbia)
Writing Technical (Proposals, Engineering Studies)
Academic (Published IEEE self-directed research/studies articles)
Standards National Electrical Code (NFPA 70E), ANSI/IEEE Standards (incl. ANSI/IEEE 519), Red Book, Buff Book, etc.
Simulation SPICE, PSPICE, SKM PowerTools, CymeHarmo, EMTP, EasyPower, SimuLink, & other GE specific software
Software Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint), Programming (C++, Visual Basic, FORTRAN, QuickBasic)
AutoCAD and AutoSketch (2D – single-line diagrams), ATPdraw, MathCAD, and MATLAB
Management MBA Track Course in Management Theory
Presentations For clients & engineering seminars as author/presenter at GE & IEEE national and international Conferences
Training GE corporate CARE contract risk evaluation course
GE corporate MAIC and Green Belt Training (Experience with DMAIC Six Sigma Methods / Applications)
GE corporate Project Management Training
OSHA electrical safety training
Electro-magnetic Transient Program - short course in Gainesville, FL
Programming for Everybody (Getting Started with Python) by University of Michigan on Coursera. Certificate earned on October 22,
2015.