BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:IEEE vTools.Events//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:US/Central BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20230312T030000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0600 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYDAY=2SU;BYMONTH=3 TZNAME:CDT END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:20231105T010000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0600 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYDAY=1SU;BYMONTH=11 TZNAME:CST END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20241119T172454Z UID:27BAF80B-9D72-4760-8116-12587A187A62 DTSTART;TZID=US/Central:20230323T083000 DTEND;TZID=US/Central:20230323T170000 DESCRIPTION:8:30am to 5:00pm\, Thursday\, March 23\, 2023\nAmarillo College West Campus Lecture Hall\n6222 SW 9th Ave.\, Amarillo\, Texas 79106\n\nJo in us for this valuable Continuing Education Seminar!\nYou’ll have a cha nce to win one of five $50 gift cards! To be eligible for the giveaway\, y ou must be registered for the Seminar and present for the drawings\n\nAgen da: \nKit Black – 8:45 am\n\nKit Black\, P.E. has served the Texas Depar tment of Transportation (TxDOT) since 2004 when he joined the Amarillo Dis trict. His current title is Director of Transportation Planning & Developm ent and is responsible for all advanced transportation planning\, project development\, engineering design\, and preparation of construction plans. He is responsible for delivering an annual construction project letting th at averages $220 million\, and oversees an annual consultant engineer cont ract budget that averages $15 million. Kit received a Bachelor of Science degree in Civil Engineering in 2002 and a Masters of Engineering degree in civil engineering in 2003 from Texas A&M University. He has been a Licens ed Professional Engineer in Texas since 2007.\n\nKevin W Jones – 10:00am \n\nKevin W. Jones received his BS degrees in electrical engineering and c omputer engineering from the University of Missouri in 1989. He has broad experience in the field of power system protection\, operations and mainte nance. Upon graduating\, he has served nearly 34 years at Southwestern Pub lic Service Company (now Xcel Energy)\, where he worked in various departm ents\, including Distribution Design\, Substation Commissioning\, Transmis sion Operations\, and System Protection Engineering. Kevin specializes in high-voltage transmission line relaying\, event analysis\, and system stab ility relaying. He is currently chairing three IEEE Power System Relaying and Control Committee Working Groups. He was the vice chairman of the NERC PRC-026-1 standard drafting team titled: Relay Performance During Stable Power Swings. Kevin has also served as a planning committee member of the Texas A&M Conference for Protective Relay Engineers since 2016. He has aut hored or co-authored many papers\, technical reports and tutorials. Kevin is a registered professional engineer in the state of Texas\, a senior mem ber of IEEE and a member of the IEEE Power & Energy Society and Standards Association.\n\nKevin W Jones – 11:00pm\n\nLunch Break – 11:45am – 1 :00pm\n\nAubrey Spear– 1:00pm\n\nAubrey has served as the Director of Wa ter Utilities for the City of Lubbock for over fifteen years. In this posi tion\, he leads water and wastewater system operations that serve over 275 \,000 customers. He also serves as the liaison for the City of Lubbock wit h numerous water boards and agencies. He currently serves as chairman of t he Region O Water Planning Group and the Texas Tech Civil & Environmental Engineering Industry Advisory Council. He is an appointee to the State’s Water Conservation Advisory Council representing the 16 regional water pl anning groups in the State.\n\nPrior to taking this position in the public sector\, he worked for 20 years in private consulting businesses assistin g numerous private and public entities to optimize their water and wastewa ter systems and reduce their environmental liabilities.\n\nAubrey earned h is Master of Business Administration with a Strategic Planning & Marketing Emphasis from Brigham Young University and Bachelor of Science Degree in Civil Engineer from Texas Tech University. He is a Licensed Professional E ngineer and Certified Professional Services Marketer.\n\nVarun Chhibbar – 2:15 pm\n\nVarun is an electrical engineer with more than 15 years of experience in the transmission industry. He has executed several projects in the areas of AC protection and control\, HVDC & FACTS control and prote ction\, specification development\, tender evaluation\, design review\, po wer system control and protection coordination studies\, IEC 61850\, HVDC & FACTS control and protection testing\, commissioning and project enginee ring. He is currently the Protection Applications Business Manager for Bur ns & McDonnell based in Kansas City. He is also the technical lead for HVD C in Burns & McDonnell. Varun is also supporting the deployment of an IEC 61850 based project for a client which involves the deployment of process bus\, station bus and MMS.\n\nPrior to working at Burns & McDonnell\, Varu n was the Regional Sales Manager (Grid Automation) for Hitachi Energy in W estern Canada. Before joining Hitachi Energy\, he was the Principal Engine er for P&C at AltaLink\, a utility in Alberta (Canada)\, where he led the evaluation of IEC 61850 based relays and worked closely with networking an d field operations to develop the network architecture and test plans.\n\n Rick Williams & Grant Langley – 3:30 pm\n\nBldg: Amarillo College West C ampus Lecture Hall\, 6222 SW 9th Ave.\, Amarillo\, Texas\, United States\, 79106\, Virtual: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/350544 LOCATION:Bldg: Amarillo College West Campus Lecture Hall\, 6222 SW 9th Ave. \, Amarillo\, Texas\, United States\, 79106\, Virtual: https://events.vtoo ls.ieee.org/m/350544 ORGANIZER:Tristanpatterson10@hotmail.com SEQUENCE:5 SUMMARY:SPRING 2023 PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT SEMINAR (Pantex Registration) URL;VALUE=URI:https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/350544 X-ALT-DESC:Description: <br /><p align="center"><strong>8:30</strong><stron g>am to 5:00pm\, Thursday\, March 23\, 2023</strong><br /><strong>Amarillo College West Campus Lecture Hall</strong><br /><strong>6222 SW 9th Ave.\, Amarillo\, Texas 79106</strong></p>\n<p align="center"><strong>Join us fo r this valuable Continuing Education Seminar!</strong><br /><strong>You&rs quo\;ll have a chance to win one of five $50 gift cards!&nbsp\; To be elig ible for the giveaway\, you must be registered for the Seminar and present for the drawings</strong></p>\n<p align="center">&nbsp\;</p><br /><br />A genda: <br /><p><strong><u>Kit Black</u></strong><strong>&nbsp\;</strong>& ndash\; 8:45 am</p>\n<p>Kit Black\, P.E. has served the Texas Department o f Transportation (TxDOT) since 2004 when he joined the Amarillo District.& nbsp\;&nbsp\;His current title is Director of Transportation Planning &amp \; Development and is responsible for all advanced transportation planning \, project development\, engineering design\, and preparation of construct ion plans.&nbsp\;&nbsp\;He is responsible for delivering an annual constru ction project letting that averages $220 million\, and oversees an annual consultant engineer contract budget that averages $15 million.&nbsp\;&nbsp \;Kit received a Bachelor of Science degree in Civil Engineering in 2002 a nd a Masters of Engineering degree in civil engineering in 2003 from Texas A&amp\;M University.&nbsp\;&nbsp\;He has been a Licensed Professional Eng ineer in Texas since 2007.&nbsp\;</p>\n<p>&nbsp\;</p>\n<p><strong><u>Kevin W Jones</u></strong>&nbsp\;&ndash\; 10:00am</p>\n<p>Kevin W. Jones receiv ed his BS degrees in electrical engineering and computer engineering from the University of Missouri in 1989. He has broad experience in the field o f power system protection\, operations and maintenance. Upon graduating\, he has served nearly 34 years at Southwestern Public Service Company (now Xcel Energy)\, where he worked in various departments\, including Distribu tion Design\, Substation Commissioning\, Transmission Operations\, and Sys tem Protection Engineering. Kevin specializes in high-voltage transmission line relaying\, event analysis\, and system stability relaying. He is cur rently chairing three IEEE Power System Relaying and Control Committee Wor king Groups. He was the vice chairman of the NERC PRC-026-1 standard draft ing team titled: Relay Performance During Stable Power Swings. Kevin has a lso served as a planning committee member of the Texas A&amp\;M Conference for Protective Relay Engineers since 2016. He has authored or co-authored many papers\, technical reports and tutorials. Kevin is a registered prof essional engineer in the state of Texas\, a senior member of IEEE and a me mber of the IEEE Power &amp\; Energy Society and Standards Association.</p >\n<p><strong>&nbsp\;<u>Kevin W Jones</u>&nbsp\;</strong>&ndash\; 11:00pm< /p>\n<p>&nbsp\;</p>\n<p><strong><u>Lunch Break</u></strong><strong> </stro ng>&ndash\; 11:45am &ndash\; 1:00pm</p>\n<p>&nbsp\;</p>\n<p><strong>&nbsp\ ;<u>Aubrey Spear</u></strong>&ndash\; 1:00pm</p>\n<p>Aubrey has served as the Director of Water Utilities for the City of Lubbock for over fifteen y ears. In this position\, he leads water and wastewater system operations t hat serve over 275\,000 customers. He also serves as the liaison for the C ity of Lubbock with numerous water boards and agencies. He currently serve s as chairman of the Region O Water Planning Group and the Texas Tech Civi l &amp\; Environmental Engineering Industry Advisory Council. He is an app ointee to the State&rsquo\;s Water Conservation Advisory Council represent ing the 16 regional water planning groups in the State.</p>\n<p>Prior to t aking this position in the public sector\, he worked for 20 years in priva te consulting businesses assisting numerous private and public entities to optimize their water and wastewater systems and reduce their environmenta l liabilities.</p>\n<p>Aubrey earned his Master of Business Administration with a Strategic Planning &amp\; Marketing Emphasis from Brigham Young Un iversity and Bachelor of Science Degree in Civil Engineer from Texas Tech University. He is a Licensed Professional Engineer and Certified Professio nal Services Marketer.</p>\n<p>&nbsp\;</p>\n<p><strong><u>Varun Chhibbar</ u></strong>&nbsp\;&ndash\; 2:15 pm</p>\n<p>Varun is an electrical engineer with more than 15 years of experience in the transmission industry. He ha s executed several projects in the areas of AC protection and control\, HV DC &amp\; FACTS control and protection\, specification development\, tende r evaluation\, design review\, power system control and protection coordin ation studies\, IEC 61850\, HVDC &amp\; FACTS control and protection testi ng\, commissioning and project engineering. He is currently the Protection Applications Business Manager for Burns &amp\; McDonnell based in Kansas City. He is also the technical lead for HVDC in Burns &amp\; McDonnell. Va run is also supporting the deployment of an IEC 61850 based project for a client which involves the deployment of process bus\, station bus and MMS. </p>\n<p>&nbsp\;Prior to working at Burns &amp\; McDonnell\, Varun was the Regional Sales Manager (Grid Automation) for Hitachi Energy in Western Ca nada. Before joining Hitachi Energy\, he was the Principal Engineer for P& amp\;C at AltaLink\, a utility in Alberta (Canada)\, where he led the eval uation of IEC 61850 based relays and worked closely with networking and fi eld operations to develop the network architecture and test plans.</p>\n<p >&nbsp\;</p>\n<p><strong><u>Rick Williams &amp\; Grant Langley</u></strong >&nbsp\;&ndash\; 3:30 pm</p> END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR