The PoleOS™ Company
Protecting Grid Infrastructure with Accurate Data and Better Structural Analysis
- 1 HR 15 MIN
Protecting grid infrastructure, managing joint-use attachments, ensuring all regulations and standards are complied with, and adopting to the grid’s modernization while delivering safe, reliable power to the public are just a few of the jobs facing utilities and their partners today.
In this hour-long webinar, IKE’s Malcolm Young and Spencer Hankin along with Nebraska Public Power District’s Patrick Hanrahan discuss how acquiring accurate data in the field allows for better analysis in the office, resulting in a stronger electric grid infrastructure.
Topics discussed include:
Why it’s as important as ever to protect grid infrastructure:
- Real-world experiences on data workflow from seasoned professionals in the utility, engineering, and communications industries
- The role accurate data plays in an efficient joint-use process and successful broadband expansion
- Challenges utilities and engineering firms face in assessing and protecting the grid
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Meet our speakers
Patrick Hanrahan
GM Retail Nebraska Public Power DistrictPatrick has over fourteen years of service for the Nebraska Public Power district, a publicly-owned utility and a political subdivision of the State of Nebraska which services all or parts of 84 of the state’s 93 counties.
Spencer Hankin
Senior GIS Manager ikeGPSSpencer Hankin is a Senior GIS Manager for ikeGPS. He has worked in every aspect of OSP aerial engineering including fielding poles in remote areas, building PLAs, managing field teams, and overseeing fiber design projects from start to finish as a lead OSP engineer. He holds an undergraduate degree in Geology from the University of Colorado and an MBA from the University of Redlands with a concentration in Location Analytics.
Malcolm Young, P.E.
SVP Structural Analysis ikeGPSMalcolm is a licensed professional engineer and creator of the IKE PoleForeman structural analysis engineering software. He has 30 years of experience in the electric utility industry which includes working as a power delivery distribution design engineer, line crew supervisor, and standards engineer for Alabama Power.