Vernon Humphries

SENIOR PROJECT ENGINEER

Education
B.S. in Industrial Arts, Southern Utah State College
Emphasis in Electronics and RF Radio

Engineering Specialties
Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition Systems (SCADA), Energy Management Systems (EMS) master hardware installation and site layout and connectivity, Tellabs Digital Crossconnect System, microwave, digital channel banks.

CC&E Engineers, Inc. - 2000 to present

Sr. Consulting Engineer
Consulting engineering services for all aspects of EMS and SCADA systems, design and installation of digital channel equipment, and installation and configuration of Tellabs 5320L Digital Crossconnect System.

Recent Major Projects
Engineering for the installation of an EMS at three different sites, which were linked by networks to form one large system. Tasks included the placement of the computer equipment and workstations at the sites, evaluation of present AC electrical power, and the engineering to provide the circuits to power the new equipment, network connectivity, communications port connection to existing communications circuits, and RTU protocol (TRW 9550, Pert 26/31, Granger 8000, SC 1801) testing and certification. The system consisted of 336 communications ports of which approximately 200 ports were to be used at the time of installation.

Consulting engineering for the installation of a Tellabs 5320L Digital Crossconnect System with 112 DS1 ports including audio and data bridging. Tasks included drawings for installation of equipment, connections to DS1 DSX jackfields and RF radios, fiber optic terminals, PBX’s, and IT computer equipment. Excel table for all crossconnects and bridges.

Engineering drawings for digital channel bank installation and channel assignment including customer connectivity associated with the upgrade of 5 hops of analog microwave radio to digital microwave.

Engineering design and drawings for the installation of GE D20 RTU’s in substations. Including, configurations to support data translation of RTU protocols from DNP or MODBUS to SC-1801. The configuration of GE D20’s to be a DNP Master obtaining data from Siemens meters and SEL devices.

PacifiCorp Electric Operations - Utah Power & Light Co.

Staff Engineer Positions – 20 years
Responsibilities included engineering for the installation of an EMS computer system master, LAN and WAN connectivity for the computer system, configuring of RTUs, installation of RTUs in substations.

Other responsibilities included the specification and purchase of the EMS computer system hardware, mapboard, dispatch consoles, dispatch workstations and chart recorders. Specification, purchase and installation of emergency generators, transfer switches, UPS’s, and PDU’s for a new dispatch center. Certification of legacy protocols on RTU’s from Harris and Landis & Gyr.

Engineering support of the EMS computer system for communication channel additions and general support on database and configuration issues.

Responsibilities also consisted of estimating, budgeting, specification, and installation of communications equipment additions as well as the EMS computer system.

Communications projects involvement included the installation of a Spread Spectrum Radio link (two T1 capacity). Also, the installation of analog microwave channels including the estimating, budgeting, and installation drawings.

Tech Support Engineer – 2 years
Responsibilities included the teaching of electronic technicians to repair and maintain the new digital and computerized Remote Terminal Units (RTU) and provide technical support to the communications and electronic technicians.

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