Kevin Grogan

As a Senior VMA with NV Energy for the past 11 years, I excel at managing resources and personnel, as well as planning, and adjusting plans to meet changing priorities in challenging circumstances. I enjoy project logistics and implementation, and I take pride in providing clear objectives and plans to our field resources so that they can deliver and complete projects on schedule and within budget constraints. I have enjoyed the autonomy and trust extended to me by management to perform the following roles, or serve in the following capacities:

• Project Manager,
• Program Planner,
• Coordinator,
• Scheduler,
• Resource/Personnel Allocation
• Database Manager,
• Lead or assisted in the creation, maintenance, and ongoing development of departmental databases and software.
• Data Analyst,
• Reporting Lead (generating both production and financial reports),
• Monitored operations, and reviewed records and metrics to understand departmental or contractor performance.
• Assisted in the development of new administrative systems, procedures, and policies.
• Analyzed operational processes and recommended improvements to enhance efficiency.
• Implemented strategies to take advantage of new opportunities.
• Set specific goals for projects to measure progress and evaluate end results.
• Created presentations with Microsoft PowerPoint, Word, and Excel for management team members.
• Utilized document management systems to organize departmental files, keeping up-to-date, and easily accessible data.
• Utility Forester,
• Risk Assessor,
• Auditor,
• Oversaw quality control to identify inconsistencies and malfunctions.
• Customer Conflict Resolution,
• Contract Administration/Oversight (for patrol, line clearance, traffic control, and heavy equipment operators),
• Government Agency Liaison (City, County, State, and USFS, BLM),
• Assisted with budget preparation and tracking of expenses.
• Facilitated training sessions for new contractors on company policies and procedures.
• Performed data entry tasks into computer databases from paper documents.
• Answered incoming calls and responded to customer inquiries and requests.
• Developed spreadsheets to track project progress, budgets and other related data.
• Monitored emails, sorted mail and distributed correspondence accordingly.
• Handled correspondence, including drafting emails, memos, and reports for senior management.
• Prepared reports on various projects for management review.
• Assisted in the recruitment process, from reviewing new hire candidates, sitting on interview panels, and onboarding new hires.
• Analyzed key performance indicators to identify effective strategies.
• Facilitated communication between departments to support project completion and goal achievement.
• Maintained positive working relationship with fellow staff and management.
• Maintained updated knowledge through continuing education and advanced training.
• Completed day-to-day duties accurately and efficiently.
• Recognized by management for providing exceptional customer service.
• Managed time effectively to ensure tasks were completed on schedule and deadlines were met.
• Updated and maintained databases with current information.
• Demonstrated strong problem-solving skills, resolving issues efficiently and effectively.

• I supervised a team of seven CUFs (Consulting Utility Foresters) under contract to NV Energy to patrol the distribution and transmission infrastructure, and identify, prioritize, and report vegetation conflicts near power lines throughout NV Energy’s Northern Service Territory.
• I trained my team of foresters and handled all relevant human resource-related work as their direct supervisor, as well as serving as a liaison between CN Utility and NV Energy.
• Organized work and circuit patrols performed quality assurance audits on my own team, as well as the line clearance contractor, and assisted the Vegetation Management Administrators to achieve their objectives.

• Finished as a detailing GS-7 Timber Crew Supervisor, but served mainly as a GS-6 Timber Sale Prep Crew Boss, supervising a timber crew of 14 people to accomplish multiple objectives throughout the Tahoe National Forest.
• Assisted in Timber Stand Improvement (TSI) reforestation by conducting planting unit layout, planting trees, inspecting contractor planting crews, managing field production data, GPS, managing and organizing data in ArcGIS, and creating field progress maps and project overview maps.

• I worked as a GS-5 for the USFS in Susanville, Ca
• On the Eagle Lake Ranger District on the Lassen National Forest
• I was involved in a winter season timber marking in 4 different timber sales, to prep them for cutting in 2008
• I applied 'leave tree' timber prescriptions, identifying wildlife trees for retention, identifying hazard trees, and defining and laying out wildlife protection areas and non-treatment zones
• Additionally, I assisted the Plumas National Forest with timber salvage (post fire), and roadside hazard marking within the Moonlight Fire

• As the Assistant Crew Boss GS-5, in Urban Lot Management, I conducted various tasks within the Urban Lot Department, marking trees, laying out treatment units, timber stand improvement, tree felling, BAER (Burned Area Emergency Rehab) Implementation (post Angora Fire), crew supervision, contract inspection, prescribed fire, and hazard tree mitigation
• I assisted my field supervisor in ongoing field duties, often acting independently to complete timber sale prep objectives

• Company Overview: Division of State Lands
• As a Forester 1, I worked to maintain forest health objectives on State of Nevada owned general forest and urban parcels on the east side of Lake Tahoe, within the Wildland Urban Interface
• I wrote field prescriptions for NDF and country fire agency (NLTFPD, and TDFPD) work crews, supervising field work, cutting trees and brush, marking trees, conducting forest health and stand/site inventory for records, maintaining accurate records of field work, budget tracking, prescribed burning, and hazard tree assessment and mitigation
• Division of State Lands

• In my second season as a GS-5 Forestry Technician on the El Dorado National Forest, I worked again on a timber marking crew that completed many projects on and off our forest during the season such as a Spotted Owl habitat improvement projects Tahoe National Forest-American River Ranger District, and a stewardship logging project on the Georgetown district of the El Dorado National Forest
• I am proficient in applying silvicultural prescriptions in various circumstances and terrain for understory thinning and fuels reduction
• In January 2005, I was sent to Wiggins Mississippi (Desoto Ranger District) to assist on the Hurricane Katrina Recovery on a 3-month assignment
• I was responsible for the training and safety of 30 (Guatemalan) contractors, and an interdisciplinary team of USFS employees on a wildlife assignment to protect endangered species habitat from post-hurricane forest clean-up/ logging operations

• As a GS-5 Forestry Technician, on the El Dorado National Forest, I was a part of a timber marking crew that laid out and prepped timber sales using understory thinning, and 'cut tree marking' prescriptions
• I have experience in Fixed Plot and Variable Plot Stand Exams (in post fire environments), timber cruising, salvage logging operations, and roadside salvage projects
• I worked on neighboring districts such as Amador, Placerville, and Georgetown, on the El Dorado National Forest

• As utility forestry contractor for PG&E, I patrolled power lines in El Dorado County California
• I located and prescribed utility tree trimming work for trees that needed to be trimmed for safety and service reliability per California Public Utility Code
• I consulted with property owners about removing trees which posed a risk to the utility infrastructure