Alka Singh

· Co-leading WIRES project that is funded by U.S. Department of State. We are working with 42 women engineers from SE Asia. We are mentoring them on technical topics related to power grid. At PNNL, we are a team of 6 mentors.

· Co-led an international workshop for WIRES in Vietnam. We had 50 attendees from 4 different countries along with 9 PNNL staff members.

· Leading a team of three in GridAtlas. Data Processing and creation of synthetic CIM models for distribution feeders across USA. Team size 3(present, might increase if needed).

· Led several projects related power grid communication, distribution, transmission. Some are GridAPPS-D, GridLAB-D

· Developed and implemented an application service in GridAPPS-D, an ADMS platform. The DNP3 service is being used and implemented by multiple National Labs and small industries.

· Represented PNNL at an International Female Leaders in Energy workshop in Philippines. I was invited as a speaker and a panelist to FLIE mentees about PNNL work on “Cross-Border Energy Trade” and share my career journey.

· Led the task for Integrating GridAPPS-D DNP3 service for NREL ADMS Test Bed. Developed a new capability to the service where GridAPPS-D is acting as a client to the actual devices in Distribution systems.

· Was invited to represent PNNL at SECA - Siemens EMA Customer Association as SME on Distribution systems.

· Co-led an international workshop for WIRES in Vietnam. We had 50 attendees from 4 different countries along with 9 PNNL staff members.

· Serving as Diversity, Equity Council representative for Electricity Infrastructure & Buildings Division at PNNL.

· Core Team member of Employee Resource Group: AROC

· Development of next generation Advanced Distribution Management System (ADMS) software tools

· Extending the capabilities of a state of the art ADMS simulation platform GridAPPS-D by integrating with commercial wide area situational awareness tools

· Responsibilities include integration architecture conceptualization, implementation and testing using real world use cases

Project Title: Surveillance Transformation

Client: British Telecom (BT), UK

Duration: Oct 2013 – June 2017

Technologies: UNIX (Solaris & Linux OS), Shell, ASL, Perl, Java

Team Size: 20

· Led the team for SMARTs development in DyNS (Dynamic Smarts) project at Infosys for monitoring of Virtual Networks. As a part of this project, I supervised several team members and trained them extensively.

· Led the implementation on NIAB (NOC In a Box) contracts like Zurich Insurance Group, DCG etc.

· Conducted KT sessions to BT India Team for handover of PEC Application Support.

· Led the VDC Migration of Credit Suisse and European central bank from InCharge8 to InCharge9.2, which are the most critical clients of BT currently

· Prepared and presented document for design and integration of SMARTS and PEC tools for monitoring of server health. The document was reviewed and approved by the BT MNC Forum and has become a standard for use in current and future integration projects within the team.

Client: British Telecom (BT), UK

Technologies: UNIX (Solaris & Linux OS), Shell, ASL, Perl, Java

Team Size: 20

- Led the PEC (Patrol Event Collector) installation on Solaris box and Porting to Linux; installation of PEC on Linux of around 20 SSML servers and monitoring of PEC alerts.

• Customization and automation via ASL, Shell, C, C++ & Perl scripts as per customer requirements.

• Development of pro-active scripts and their deployment on production servers to monitor the capacity and performance of the servers as well as the services hosted onto them.

• Deployed Hunter Tool on various VDC servers.