Accomplished Protective Relaying Engineer with a proven track record at Instituto Costarricense De Electricidad, enhancing operational indicators and leading multidisciplinary teams. Expert in Quality Control and Project Planning, with a knack for root cause analysis and technical reporting. Demonstrated success in improving protection scheme performance, leveraging both technical expertise and strategic management skills.
Define strategies to improve indicators of correct operations, compliance with the work plan, and integrated management system for the protection, measurement, and control assets of the ICE central transmission network.
Manage the resources of the protection, measurement, and control area of the central region, including inventories, maintenance plans, technical and engineering personnel, as well as maintenance plans and strategies for the assets.
Manage the contracts and technical specifications for the purchase of goods and services to ensure the correct performance of the control, protection, and measurement systems of the 30 transmission substations of ICE in the central area.
Professor of power plants and substations.
Professor of Protection of the electrical power system.
Direction and supervision of theses and graduation projects for the electrical engineering department.
Lead multidisciplinary work teams for the creation, approval, and testing of new prototypes of automation systems based on the IEC 61850 standard in electrical power substations of ICE.
Lead the Automation Systems Committee for the creation, publication, and dissemination of the Substation Control Systems Automation Standard for the ICE Transmission Network.
Active participation in the network protection committee for the creation and review of the ICE protective relaying standard for the transmission network.
Generate operation and performance tests for protection schemes and protective relaying functions.
Supporting electrical projects during construction, start-up, upgrades, maintenance, and commissioning of protective relaying and automation systems on electrical power substations.
Analyze faults and events in the transmission network to evaluate the performance of IEDs, control, and protective relaying systems on the transmission network.