ICC MEMBERS,
Our Spring 2007 meeting is a short 2
months away, May
6 thru May 9 2007. Please
firm up your travel schedules and confirm your room reservations with
the hotel. Details Below.
Our
reservation form is posted on our
web site.
Submit this form to
Thomas Arnold
as directed and make checks payable to the ICC. The cut off date for
early registration is
Friday April 20.
Please register early, it is a tremendous help to keep your visit to our
registration desk as efficient as possible.
Visit our web site frequently for
all meeting news and announcements.
Our Opening Session on Monday
morning will be busy. We plan to start at 8 am to properly recognize
members with special IEEE recognitions and a guest speaker, Wanda Reder-IEEE
PES President Elect, will address our committee.
Shan, Rachel and I look forward to
seeing all of you in May.
Jim Fitzgerald
Wanda Reder Biography:
Wanda Reder, is the Vice President of the Power Systems Services Division
at S&C Electric Company offering engineering, field service, and project
management capabilities to utilities, developers and industrial
customers. Prior to S&C, Wanda was the Vice President of T&D Asset
Management at Exelon where she had responsibility for asset investment
strategy, standards, engineering, planning, reliability and work
management in Chicago and Philadelphia. Prior to Exelon, Wanda was the
Vice President of Energy at Davies Consulting. Additional experience
includes starting and leading a company that performed predictive
diagnostics on underground cable and numerous leadership positions at
Northern States Power including justification and deployment of
distribution automation, planning for long-range delivery system needs,
and development of conservation and load management initiatives.
Wanda received an Engineering Bachelor of Science degree from South
Dakota State University and a Masters in Business Administration from
the College of St. Thomas. Wanda has served on the IEEE Power
Engineering Society Governing Board since 2002 and now is the IEEE PES
President-Elect. Since 2004, she has been researching the maturing power
industry workforce to prepare a “road map” for actions to be taken by
IEEE Power Engineering Society.