William Greif
Mr. Greif is a Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA), Automatic Generation Control (AGC), and Human Machine Interface (HMI) expert with 29 years of experience working as an Energy Management System (EMS) Applications Engineer at a municipal power System Operations Center (SOC). He was part of the software team before the first EMS was installed and part of every upgrade and replacement since. Besides supporting the EMS, he was responsible for installing, maintaining, modifying, and upgrading the Remote Control Operating System (RCOS) located at the hydroelectric plants. He is an expert on many standard and communications protocols, as well as related hardware. He worked with other engineers and electricians on various projects, including plant automation, governor and alarm announcer replacement, remedial action schemes (RAS), and substation and distribution automation.