Dennis Petross

Experienced leadership professional prepared to guide teams effectively. Strong focus on collaboration and achieving results, ensuring adaptability with changing needs. Proficient in project management, conflict resolution, and strategic planning. Reliable and flexible, fostering cohesive and productive team environment.

• Bonneville Power Administration I have been at BPA since May of 2016. I brought with me a baseline institutional knowledge of operations on the Lower Columbia River and Willamette Valley hydropower plants. I also brought with me leadership skills developed from leading multidisciplinary teams. I currently serve as a senior civil engineering expert regarding fish culture, hatchery design, fish passage, and fish habitat projects. I collaborate with team members across Bonneville Powers resource groups to ensure that scope, compliance, and mission are met. In a team environment develop and employ asset management policies, guidelines, strategies, objectives and procedures. Bring stakeholders together to gain agreement on policies, procedures, or imposed changes. Before I was administering contracts at BPA, I was a project manager supporting their capital asset management objectives across the Federal Columbia Power System. I collaborated with our stakeholders across the valley to update and improve our transmission system and hydropower.
• U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, I held 4 positions while at the COE in Portland. I was a structural engineer, Technical Lead, Construction Manager and a Workforce/Workload Manager. All of those roles were centered around my ability to lead teams to accomplish tasks on time and within budget. As the WWM I managed and lead teams who developed software (EMS), process, architecture and products to ensure quality in design and construction for civil works projects. To align with the organization's goals., Develop roadmaps to support the development and implementation of change., Develop and implement plans for the execution of standards and processes to execute change in alignment with agency goals and missions., Provide recommendations for staffing plans and develop training materials and execute training in accordance with agency goals and standards., Provide ROI for implementation and training., I provided leadership and institutional knowledge in the development of products meant to ensure quality, reduce redundancy, and improve efficiency in resource management.

• General Engineering; I have been a general engineer for the better part of 20 years. I have lead design teams at the Corps of Engineers who delivered plans and specification for Fish Hatcheries. I have also administered fish culture, habitat, and fish hatchery contracts in a COTR/COR role. I have worked on hatcheries for Cougar Dam, Minto, Foster Dam, John Day Avian Predation projects, and downstream passage projects at Bonneville Dam, trap and haul facilities, upstream passage on the Columbia River and habitat projects like Julia Butler Hanson Wildlife habitat improvements.
• Problem Solving: I identify problems and determine the accuracy and relevance of information through: Evaluation of facts and stories and parsing those two things out. I use predictive tools to help me identify challenge areas of a project or program. I use tools to evaluate alternatives objectively and make recommendations based on facts, math, and/or science.
• Project Management; I hold myself and others accountable to measurable, high-quality, timely, and cost-effective results. This is achieved through negotiation with stakeholders, product owners, and team members. My experience as a construction representative gave me the opportunity to practice this skill when millions of dollars and compliance regulation violations were at risk. I use SMART metrics, scope development and creep attenuation, and meaningful schedules to follow progress and track areas of improvement. This skill was useful as the 3 agency Performance Committee Co-Chair for BPA and again compliance and reliability of the system was trying to be improved and enhanced. I accept responsibility for mistakes I make and for failed results. I also ensure to give praise where it is due.
• Technical Competence; I currently serve as a senior civil engineering expert regarding fish culture, hatchery design, fish passage, and fish habitat projects in EWL. I have been a civil engineer, and served as a technical adviser, expert, and leader for the past 6 years in different roles at Bonneville Power Administration.

• OSHA Certified
• First Aid Certification
• CPR/AED Certification
• OR Driver's License
• EIT