Brian Harrison, P.E.

Experience

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  Southern Company Services

  May 2015 - Oct 2024

  Design & review protective relay & control schemes and develop relay settings to protect and monitor the performance of electric power system facilities. Provide power system and protection engineering consulting services and technical assistance to other functional areas.Review transmission system operations and investigate root cause of abnormal power system operations.Participate in project meetings (pre-design, pre-construction, or scoping) and provide technical assistance to field engineers and technicians during project construction and commissioning. Show less Primary point of contact for detailed design questions on inhouse projects for Mississippi. Provide schedule updates in Primavera and attend biweekly design grease board meetings.Provide guidance and mentoring to new designers, contractors, and engineers on design processes and support formal training efforts provided to the group.Assist in the design and review of bid packages for turnkey CIS cabinets.Review preliminary Front View drawings and provide quality assurance for designs prior to transmittal.Participate in project meetings (pre-design, pre-construction, or scoping) and provide technical assistance to field engineers and technicians during project construction and commissioning. Review equipment drawings for approval. Show less • Responsible for the preparation, development and modification of single and three line diagrams, protective relaying & control schematic/elementary drawings, AC & DC schematics, wiring diagrams, panel front views, cable & conduit schedules, and bills of material.• Responsible for working closely with other engineering and design team members to coordinate overall design package and requirements.• Perform quality assurance reviews of all P&C project documentation.• Size equipment such as batteries, chargers, station service transformers and cables.• Provide support to field service personnel and customers. Show less • Design new substation grounding grids using specialized software to protect personnel and equipment from hazardous step, touch, and transfer voltages due to ground fault conditions.• Responsible for the technical evaluations and solutions in areas of substation grounding, direct stroke shielding, and solar interconnection studies.• Analyze the effects of additional generation onto the substation grounding grid due to utility scale solar projects.• Perform soil resistivitiy tests using various methods and equipment in order to achieve an efficient and economical grounding design.• Perform grid integrity tests of new and existing substations to determine possible weakness or installation issues on the grounding grid.• Performed Arc Flash calculations according to new NESC and OSHA regulations and specify required FR clothing requirements for a given assessment. Show less •Responsible for researching power quality issues related to new technologies and how tomitigate them.•Developing, evaluating and demonstrating efficient technologies for customer applications.•Provide Project Management and data aquisuition setup of high efficiency circulator projectto demonstrate energy efficiency and potential cost savings of system.•Assist Building Energy Systems, Industrial Technologies, and Electric Transportationend-use research program areas on as needed basis related to PQ and Reliability issues.•Design data acquisition systems and perform tests to collect data for analysisusing various Power Quality Metering systems such as Dranetz and PQube.•Assist in the setup and maintenance of web,virtual and email servers to provide valuabledata to power quality personnel.•Responsible for maintaining PQ View and PQ Investigator versions and databases•Assist in evaluating 3D manufacturing and technologies. Show less

  • Protection & Control Applications Engineer

    Oct 2023 - Oct 2024

  • P&C Project Lead (APC Eastern division)

    Oct 2021 - Oct 2023

  • P&C Design Engineer

    Oct 2018 - Oct 2021

  • Substation Design & Technical Studies Engineer

    May 2016 - Oct 2018

  • Research & Technology Mgt Co-op

    May 2015 - Apr 2016