Chuck Allen
Raleigh, North Carolina, United States
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With over 12 years of experience in implementing advanced metering infrastructure (AMI)…
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In honor of #BackToSchoolMonth, ElectriCities recently donated school supplies to students in our #PublicPower member community Town of Selma…
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Public media news organizations won 43 National Edward R. Murrow Awards in 2024, which were bestowed by the Radio Television Digital News Association…
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Large Electric Utility, Southwest US
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Implemented Oracle Utilities Custom Cloud Service (CCS) in an AMI deployment of 525,000 smart meters.
• Led Oracle's requirement gathering workshops with the customer and their integrators.
• Designed and oversaw the development of customizations to the base integration between Oracle CCS and the Itron UtilityIQ/AMM head end system.
• Developed visualizations using Oracle Utilities Analytics Visualization (OUAV) to help prioritize field work based on smart meter device events. -
TECO (Tampa Electric) AMI Implementation
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• Represented Itron in design workshops with TECO and Deloitte, TECO’s SAP integrator.
• Developed a custom “Record 40” adapter (C#, xslt) for use with Itron Enterprise Edition (IEE) MDM to fulfill on-cycle and off-cycle register billing requests for TECO's 790,000 installed AMI meter population. This was a bridging solution until cutover of accounts to SAP Meter Data Unification and Synchronization (MDUS) billing.
• Developed SQL "hot meter reports" out of IEE: 1) A report to return…• Represented Itron in design workshops with TECO and Deloitte, TECO’s SAP integrator.
• Developed a custom “Record 40” adapter (C#, xslt) for use with Itron Enterprise Edition (IEE) MDM to fulfill on-cycle and off-cycle register billing requests for TECO's 790,000 installed AMI meter population. This was a bridging solution until cutover of accounts to SAP Meter Data Unification and Synchronization (MDUS) billing.
• Developed SQL "hot meter reports" out of IEE: 1) A report to return EndpointID, temperature, and reading time where a configured temperature threshold is exceeded in a meter read (DEGC) between the hours of 20:00 and 03:00; 2) A report to return daily event count and EndpointID for each meter with a temperature threshold exceeded event count equal or greater than the configured number.
• Implemented full-population export of readings and device events to TECO's Azure-based Data Analytics Platform (DAP) IEE Export.
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Avangrid Energy Smart Community (ESC)
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Itron technical lead for Avangrid's energy smart community (ESC) pilot project in Ithaca, NY. Pilot project included implementation of the OpenWay RIVA AMI platform and Itron Enterprise Edition (IEE) meter data management system.
• Wrote tools to remotely monitor Cisco Grid Routers (CGRs) and the Itron CGR Adaptive Communication Modules (CAMs).
• Developed web service client in C# to automate the reset of demand registers on electric meters. Developed web service client in C# to…Itron technical lead for Avangrid's energy smart community (ESC) pilot project in Ithaca, NY. Pilot project included implementation of the OpenWay RIVA AMI platform and Itron Enterprise Edition (IEE) meter data management system.
• Wrote tools to remotely monitor Cisco Grid Routers (CGRs) and the Itron CGR Adaptive Communication Modules (CAMs).
• Developed web service client in C# to automate the reset of demand registers on electric meters. Developed web service client in C# to integrate OpenWay with the customer’s outage management system. Wrote services to monitor and filter device events and return selective events to customer’s AMI Distribution Management System (ADMS).
• Wrote XSLTs to transform master data from customer's SAP system to formats expected by OpenWay and IEE systems.
• Wrote custom health check and monitoring tools that produce reports out of SQL server and Oracle databases.
• Configured and tested Itron’s edge analytics agents on Itron Riva electric meters.
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SCANA Corporation, Columbia, SC
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Served as solution architect and technical lead for the implemenation of Itron's Openway Collection Engine, Itron Enterprise Edition Meter Data Management (IEE), and Itron Security Manager. This solution enabled the roll out of Itron's OpenWay CENTRON 4G LTE meters for a population of SCANA's small and medium commericial and industrial customers. Supported the development of interfaces with SCANA's customer information system, outage management system, and legacy Itron MV90 system. Developed…
Served as solution architect and technical lead for the implemenation of Itron's Openway Collection Engine, Itron Enterprise Edition Meter Data Management (IEE), and Itron Security Manager. This solution enabled the roll out of Itron's OpenWay CENTRON 4G LTE meters for a population of SCANA's small and medium commericial and industrial customers. Supported the development of interfaces with SCANA's customer information system, outage management system, and legacy Itron MV90 system. Developed custom design for solar net-metering calculations from multiple meters.
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Pepco Holdings Inc. - Solution One
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Served as Itron’s senior technical lead on Pepco Holdings Inc.’s Solution One project, which replaced two legacy customer information systems with SAP Utilities (IS-U). Developed and tested the implementation plan, data base conversion scripts, and configuration instructions to prepare PHI’s Itron Enterprise Edition Meter Data Management System (IEE MDM) for integration with SAP Utilities. Helped test and implement IEE SAP AMI Integration Module (ISAIM), a web service adapter that implements…
Served as Itron’s senior technical lead on Pepco Holdings Inc.’s Solution One project, which replaced two legacy customer information systems with SAP Utilities (IS-U). Developed and tested the implementation plan, data base conversion scripts, and configuration instructions to prepare PHI’s Itron Enterprise Edition Meter Data Management System (IEE MDM) for integration with SAP Utilities. Helped test and implement IEE SAP AMI Integration Module (ISAIM), a web service adapter that implements SAP’s Meter Data Unification Synchronization (MDUS) model and APIs. Wrote test harnesses (in C#) to simulate SAP messaging. Wrote various utilities (C#, Python) to support data conversion.
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Advanced Metering Infrastructure Implementation
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Worked on the IBM team to implement the Interval Billing and Dynamic Pricing (IBDP) phase of Advanced Metering Infrastructure Project for an investor-owned utility. Tested various IT components to ensure proper functionality. Performed business analysis of customer-facing content related to the IBDP program.
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