ANTHONY FERRARO

• Consolidated control rooms for two Cogeneration plants, wind farm and two solar power facilities into one location and with goal to integrate another 9 Cogeneration facilities throughout California central valley
• Hired, trained, and led over 200 engineers, operations, safety, and environmental employees
• Designated stakeholder and partner support team member for Richmond Refinery San Joaquin Valley Leadership Teams
• Operations Officer for Chevron Power & Energy Management, Chevron Power Holdings and Chevron California Cogeneration corporate subsidiaries
• Built strong safety culture and high-performing organization that consistently achieved superior results
• Prepared annual budgets with controls to prevent overages.
• Implemented process improvement to shape organizational culture, optimize procedures for higher efficiency and help company evolve and grow.

• Directed team to integrate new 550MW, $2.5 Billion power plant into existing operation with 470MW of generation
• Prepared annual budgets with controls to prevent overages.
• Led team on design assurance activities such as 3D model reviews, HazOp, alarm objective analyses, and graphics objective analyses
• Developed special methods and tooling to safely execute complex operations within GT modules that saved over $10 Million per module in fabrication costs
• Prepared Operational Readiness Reviews, procedures, switching cards, commissioning plans, and Management of Change documents for Core Substation Cutovers, complex 8 phase project executed over 18 months.
• Resolved conflicts and negotiated mutually beneficial agreements between parties

• Led early business development to study entering Japanese geothermal market and was member of geothermal growth and project execution redesign teams
• Directed efforts to renegotiate and renew 700MW power purchase agreement with EGAT Thailand
• Increased reliability and profitability of fleet of power plants
• Member of Operational Excellence Leadership Team and led efforts to identify and remedy long-standing issues that threatened reliability and safety of power assets.

• Managed new project development in Korea, Thailand, Indonesia, Vietnam, and Bangladesh
• Received Chevron Winning Together award by helping asset sales team exceed sale price expectations for asset in Korea by $300 Million
• Supported the development of the Casper Wind Farm, including the power purchase agreement negotiations, selecting initial O&M provider, and negotiating the O&M Agreement.
• Drove operational improvements which resulted in savings and improved profit margins

• Senior Chevron representative in the Tri-Energy Company (TECO) Joint Venture, accountable for the technical and

financial performance of 700 MW combined cycle power plant.

• Chaired the Operation Planning Committee and Led the TECO Management Committee.

• Led development to expand existing facility; implemented operational excellence management system, introduced a

performance management system, and improved safety culture.

• Directed a team that raised reliability at the plant from 95% to over 98.5%. By 2008 we had the two most reliable GE

9Fa gas turbines in the world.

• Designed detailed budget for engineering equipment and projects.
• Presented project information and status updates to board of directors and resolved concerns
• Recruited, placed and oversaw project staff for optimal results

• Maximized operational excellence mentoring personnel on management principles, industry practices and company procedures
• Improved plant financial performance by $3 Million per year
• Developed software tools to improve home office visibility of day to day operations
• Prepared annual budgets with controls to prevent overages
• Trained, coached and mentored staff
• Developed systems to track and log work plant deficiencies
• Implemented operational strategies and effectively built teamwork among partners

• Developed and implemented operational readiness review program
• Delivered public presentations to provide plans and updates on projects
• Improved safety and reliability at assigned plants
• Conducted feasibility studies for proposed projects using potential ROI and risk management
• Developed and implemented reliability based maintenance program for assigned plant

• Kept current on all federal and corporate regulations regarding nuclear compliance
• Identified reliability issues with emergency diesel generators and handled troubleshooting to resolve quickly
• Improved reliability of emergency diesel generators to over 99%
• Developed and implemented reliability based maintenance program that reduced costs and improved reliability

• Qualified on 2 naval nuclear prototype reactors.
• Trained over 200 US Navy personnel to operate and maintain nuclear propulsion equipment