Scott Alford
Peoria,AZ
Summary
Demonstrated achiever with exceptional knowledge of electrical transmission & distribution systems, load calculations, reliability, project construction, technology, Operations & Maintenance and Customer service. Strong experience background in all aspects of Utility Maintenance and Predictive Maintenance. Large variety of leadership, training, and project management experience. Motivational Supervisor with fourteen years of experience monitoring, coordinating and allocating employee efforts to achieve organizational goals. Proven track record with continuous improvement, performance growth and schedule management.
Overview
37
37
years of professional experience
Work History
Predictive Maintenance Supervisor
APS – PDM Department
Phoenix, AZ
08.2018 - Current
- Manage 22-person statewide testing team
- Balance O&M and Capital Budget
- Drive a continuous improvement culture
- Plan and schedule work for PDM Tech
- And coordinate their work
- Manage the SF6 leak reduction program, doble program, substation visual inspections, ground grid testing, infrared inspections
- Company leadership duties, employee assessment and performance reviews
- Work with other departments to assist and communicate reliable results for PDM findings
- Direct effect on company’s reliability improvement and record setting reliability
- Corporate trainer for the Certified Reliability Leader program
- PDM inspection program for all transmission and distribution power lines, both overhead and underground
- Team leader for the seasonal readiness and strategy efforts for transmission and distribution.
NFL Team Referee
Arizona Cardinals
01.2015 - Current
- On field team official insuring rules compliance to NFL rules book
- NFL rules consultant and interpreter
- Pre-season and regular season team member and practice rules consultant.
T&D Maintenance CFAL (corporate area functional leader)
APS – T&D Operations Support
Phoenix, AZ
08.2017 - 08.2018
- Provides oversight and guidance to Construction, Operations and Maintenance leadership to include standardized work management policies, programs, and procedures across the Functional Area
- Drives On-Line Work Management and Construction or Outage Management work maintenance and operational issues to a timely and consistent resolution providing leadership and experience
- Benchmark to obtain Industry Best Practices
- Utilize results to improve work management programs and procedures for the Functional areas
- Responsible for the development, refinement, and execution of Work Management Tools (i.e., Maximo, etc.)
- Periodically review and assess current programs/procedures ensuring that we are leveraging the assets
- Make and implement recommendations for improvement
- Lead regularly scheduled meetings involving T&D maintenance issues and involve management to obtain the best solutions
- Identify ways to reduce costs through streamlined and standardized processes/procedures
- Assume single-point accountability for developing controlled documents for the applicable Functional Area
- Ensure review of policies, procedures, and processes by affected personnel prior to submission to final approver.
P&C Maintenance Supervisor
APS – Protection & Control – Maintenance
Phoenix, AZ
08.2016 - 08.2017
- Manage 32-person statewide complete Maintenance support team
- Merged several unique processes together to form a team with a common vision
- Manage O&M and Capital Budget
- Lead on multiple budget units’ items and ensure that we comply with budgetary requirements
- Manage total budget spend of 4.9 million dollars
- Manage budget current work plan
- Company leadership duties and employee assessment and performance reviews using APTMS performance review HR system
- Statewide P&C team for maintenance functions, emergency response, and relay functional testing per FERC requirements
- Capital P&C projects to include breaker and transformer change outs
- Leader of the seasonal readiness committee and reporting TD&C per procedure
- Team lead of the PRC-005 and FAC-501 – WECC compliance teams
- Ensure that teams perform maintenance of all records
- Lead the self-certify annual team and the periodic WECC audit team
- Draft team member annual compliance RSAW in accordance with requirements
- Lead team Human Performance training sessions and monthly safety meetings.
Maintenance Support Supervisor
APS – Maintenance Support Department
Phoenix, AZ
01.2014 - 08.2016
- Manage 30-person statewide complete Maintenance support team
- Merged several unique processes together to form a team with a common vision
- Manage O&M and Capital Budget for four units
- Lead on unit’s budget items and ensure that we comply with budgetary requirements
- Manage total budget spend of 3.7 million dollars
- Manage current work plan
- Company leadership duties and employee assessment and performance reviews using APTMS
- Work with other departments to assist and communicate reliable results for PDM, field testing, Oil laboratory and Planning / scheduling functions for P&C, Transmission and Substation maintenance statewide
- Direct effect on company’s reliability improvement
- Leader of the seasonal readiness committee and reporting TD&C
- Manger of the PRC-005 and FAC-501 – WECC compliance teams
- Ensure that teams perform maintenance of all records
- Lead the self-certify annual team and the periodic WECC audit team
- Draft annual compliance RSAW in accordance with requirements
- Lead team Human Performance training sessions and monthly safety meetings
- Moved Team toward the technical inspection list
- Moved the culture from paper to digital in several processes.
Predictive Maintenance Section Leader
APS – PDM Department
Phoenix, AZ
01.2009 - 01.2014
- Manage 10-person statewide testing team
- Start up a department
- Manage O&M and Capital Budget
- Lead on unit 7437 budget items and ensure that we comply with budgetary requirements
- Plan and schedule work for PDM Tech
- And coordinate their work
- Manage the SF6 leak reduction program, this program is recognized by the EPA as a best practices and industry leading program
- Company leadership duties and employee assessment and performance reviews using APTMS
- Work with other departments to assist and communicate reliable results for PDM findings
- Direct effect on company’s reliability improvement and record setting reliability
- Upon 18 months of establishing department, it was awarded a national award by Uptime magazine for Infrared program of year in 2011 and honorable mention PDM program of the year in 2011.
Construction Project Coordinator
APS – PDM Department
Phoenix, AZ
01.2006 - 01.2009
- Oversee and supervise Doble crew and substation technicians
- Plan and Schedule all Doble work statewide and coordinate the projects
- Work with operations to set up outages
- Lead on unit 7479 budget items and ensure that we comply with budgetary requirements
- Plan and schedule work for PDM Technicians and coordinate their work
- Developed and manage the SF6 leak reduction program
- Perform field acoustical and vibration surveys along with complete transformer total health exams
- Work with engineering to determine the condition of substation equipment and provide support to make good decisions that drive reliability
- Responsible for and coordinate work for battery maintenance crews
- Responsible for and coordinate work for calibration techs’
- Responsible a 24-month long range Doble plan and schedule that produced as many as eight Doble test per week
- Schedule within 92 percent execution accuracy.
PDM Reliability Coordinator
APS – Substation Maintenance, PDM & Technical Support
Phoenix, AZ
01.2001 - 01.2006
- Oversee use and implementation of new technology used to predict problems and failures in the transmission and distribution system
- Plan and schedule repairs related to predictive maintenance data
- Assist with department budget and expense variances
- Prepare reports and process data to improve and predict areas of reliability improvement within the substations
- Operate and contract several predictive maintenance methods including Infrared, SF6 detection, Corona detection, visual inspections, Breaker and transformer Oil analysis, vibration, and acoustical research.
Design Project Leader
APS – Surprise Service Center
Surprise, AZ
01.1999 - 01.2001
- Provide customer service and construction design for electrical distribution systems
- Oversight of residential, commercial and subdivisions to ensure a quality design and reliability
- Managed and designed several projects using all applicable software
- Have proficient knowledge of the us of ACAD, MLIS, Maximo, CIS, EMAN, GIS and decision support.
Survey & Right of Way Representative
APS – Surprise Service Center
Surprise, AZ
01.1998 - 01.1999
- Provided survey and right of way support to the DPL and designers of all customer construction projects
- Provide customer service and obtain and easements for construction projects
- Provided field survey and as built data and staked projects to ascertain the equipment tie down and location for mapping
- Held all training needed to be proficient as an APS/SURVEY rep in aps and Newmont Gold.
International Exploration Superintendent
Santa Fe Pacific Gold Corporation
Albuquerque, NM
01.1995 - 01.1998
- Export entire drilling operation, inventory and portable camp to Central Asia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, and Uzbekistan
- Manage team of up to 82 people to operate both drilling, geological and camp operations in South America and Central Asia
- Managed perfect Safety record, held bi-monthly safety stand downs, and established a culture of safety first
- Responsible for an operation budget of over $3M
- Quality and warehouse inventory management
- This operation was set up, exported, and operated under my supervision and operated with competitive and comparable production to similar operations in the United States
- Worked with and through extreme weather and cultural challenges and language barriers
- Ex-patriot for two years.
Senior Engineering Technician
Santa Fe Pacific Gold Corporation
Albuquerque, NM
01.1993 - 01.1995
- Supervised several survey crews and apply mining survey, as built and design work
- Assist with short range mining and engineering planning
- Manage the relationship of the long range and short-range mining plan
- Calculate mine grade, mining dump volume and positive mining volume studies
- Perform ore control and area calculations and projections.
Exploration Drilling Supervisor
Layne Western Drilling Company
Chandler, AZ
01.1989 - 01.1993
- Supervise all aspects of drilling operations on a single drilling rig
- Manage a perfect safety program and maintain safe operations of complex drilling projects
- Manage, design, and construct simple and complex water wells
- Manage and maintain a fleet of drilling equipment
- Maintain and manage drilling inventory
- Leadership over one to four exploration drilling rigs and associated equipment
- Inventory and warehouse responsibilities to reduce downtime and effecting cost management
- Equipment preventive maintenance program
- State DWR license in Nevada, Arizona, New Mexico, Texas, and California
- Safety Committee Member
- CDL Driver.
Exploration Drilling Helper
Layne Western Drilling Company
Chandler, AZ
01.1987 - 01.1989
- Typical operation and maintenance driller helper duties
- Geology Test assistance and sample process
- Typical maintenance and service duties
- Safety Committee & Team lead.
Education
CRL – Reliability Institute -
Certified Reliability Professional
01.2016
Infrared Certification I, II & III -
FLIR Corporation
01.2013
Level I vibration Certification -
Vibration Institute
01.2010
Russian Language Training -
Berlitz College of Culture & Language
01.1996
Diploma -
Wickenburg High School
01.1987
Engineering / Geology -
Mesa Community College
Engineering / Geology -
Arizona Western College
Affiliations
- Certified Level III Thermographer ITC, Level III ASNT-TIR
- Public Utility Fortnightly – Nancy Fitzroy -Innovator of the year for safety and technology 2023
- EPA Awards – PDM team for sf6 reduction in 2010, leak detection technology, leak documentation and entered EPS voluntary memorandum of understanding for SF6 reduction.
- CRL TRAINER – Certified Reliability Leader Trainer – 118 APS certified CRLs
- Certified Reliability Leader (current)
- CMRP – Certified Maintenance Reliability Professional (expired)
- CMM- Certified Maintenance (current)
- Developed the APS current three phase standard transformer sizing, load calculation, flicker and voltage drop program. Teach the DPL load calculation, transformer sizing and blueprint reading class.
- Graduate of the 1999 DPL class
- Graduate of both Pre-Supervisor and Supervisor Academy
- Certified Category I Vibration Tech (Vibration Institute 2007)
- Certified Level II Airborne and Contact Acoustical Tech (UE Systems – 11/2006)
- Developed a nationally recognized PDM Team by Uptime Magazine 2010 & 2012
- Awarded The Uptime Asset Management Program of the Year in 2023
- Graduated from Auburn University BIU – Project recognized as a top ten in review by Executive Team.
- Certified in basic mechanical institute in Calgary, Canada in welding, EMT, Hydraulics, Pneumatics and Diesel Engine Mechanics
- University of Madison-Wisconsin – Substation Engineering and Design
- Certified water well construction and design license in four states
- Senior member at ASNT and SMRP
- Member WECC and Audit Assistant
- Published and recognized Speaker at over 30 reliability seminars for various reliability topics.
- Developed a proprietary criteria algorithm that leads the industry in daytime corona prioritizing.
- NFHS Football certified referee, NFHS Wrestling Certified Wrestling official, NFHS Baseball Umpire
- NCAA Football official - JUCO
References
Available upon request
Timeline
Predictive Maintenance Supervisor
APS – PDM Department
08.2018 - Current
T&D Maintenance CFAL (corporate area functional leader)
APS – T&D Operations Support
08.2017 - 08.2018
P&C Maintenance Supervisor
APS – Protection & Control – Maintenance
08.2016 - 08.2017
NFL Team Referee
Arizona Cardinals
01.2015 - Current
Maintenance Support Supervisor
APS – Maintenance Support Department
01.2014 - 08.2016
Predictive Maintenance Section Leader
APS – PDM Department
01.2009 - 01.2014
Construction Project Coordinator
APS – PDM Department
01.2006 - 01.2009
PDM Reliability Coordinator
APS – Substation Maintenance, PDM & Technical Support
01.2001 - 01.2006
Design Project Leader
APS – Surprise Service Center
01.1999 - 01.2001
Survey & Right of Way Representative
APS – Surprise Service Center
01.1998 - 01.1999
International Exploration Superintendent
Santa Fe Pacific Gold Corporation
01.1995 - 01.1998
Senior Engineering Technician
Santa Fe Pacific Gold Corporation
01.1993 - 01.1995
Exploration Drilling Supervisor
Layne Western Drilling Company
01.1989 - 01.1993
Exploration Drilling Helper
Layne Western Drilling Company
01.1987 - 01.1989
CRL – Reliability Institute -
Certified Reliability Professional
Infrared Certification I, II & III -
FLIR Corporation
Level I vibration Certification -
Vibration Institute
Russian Language Training -
Berlitz College of Culture & Language
Diploma -
Wickenburg High School
Engineering / Geology -
Mesa Community College
Engineering / Geology -
Arizona Western College
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