David Bogen started his career in the utility industry in 1981 with Texas Power and Light after graduating from Kansas State University with a degree in Electrical engineering.  David’s icurrent position is Manager Transmission and Distribution Services – System Modeling. David is a Registered Professional Engineer in the State of Texas.

During his thirty-six plus years of working of working in the electric utility industry, David has spent most of his time doing some type of transmission network modeling. Starting with Transmission Planning and then moving into modeling for dynamic studies. When Oncor’s Electric Delivery decided it was time to upgrade it real-time operations systems to include advance network applications, such as State Estimation, Real-Time Contingency Analysis, and Operational Training Simulator, David was selected to develop the Transmission Network Model. Since the deployment of these advance applications into the Control Room David has also been responsible for supporting these applications in the real-time including the development and updating of the transmission network model required by these applications.

David started studying the EPRI CIM in the early 2000s when he started to support multiple systems that required the same network model but had different data entry requirements.

In 2005 David joined the CIM User group and got involved in the annual CPSM interoperation testing and has participated in nearly all Interoperability Testing (IOP) events since then including the first European CIM IOP sponsored by UCTE. David has also participated in the EPRI projects to extend the CIM standards to include planning and dynamic modeling.

David was Oncor’s Electric Delivery lead person in working with ERCOT (Electric Reliability Council of Texas) on redesigning the electric market for the current implementation to nodal Location Marginal Pricing methodology.  One of the major activities that David was instrumental was the designing and development of the new ERCOT transmission network model which was the first large scale implementation based on the IEC standards for Common Information Modeling that includes both reliability and market modeling data modeling requirements merged into a single master database. David acted as a liaison between ERCOT, the Texas Stake Holders, the CIM Standards Committees and User groups during this development activity. The implementation of this new data management supported many changes to the CIM standards.

David is also supporting the CIM Harmonization activities with IEC 61850 by providing a utility view.

Ms. Goodrich has over 25 years experience with emphasis in consulting, project management and all support and production areas within the Software Industry.

Ms. Goodrich has been involved with various standards organizations during the past 15 years. She has worked with NERC, IEEE and the IEC to establish electric industry standards. Currently, she is active in the IEC WG14, WG16 and WG19 teams and she is Vice-Chair of the newly organized IEEE-PES CIM TF.

Ms. Goodrich has acted in a consulting capacity to provide expertise, project management and strategic consulting to several clients including EPRI, Cleco, COES-SINAC, ERCOT, KCPL and several power utilities. These activities include working with development and management personnel to ensure the projects meet the standards and are delivered on time and within budget.

Ms. Goodrich continues to provide her services as Test Director for industry IOP testing and coordination of the test findings with industry and standards organizations. She has written and published reports and papers on behalf of her clients surrounding various topics regarding the standards, training, testing and integration platforms.

Currently Ms. Goodrich is the Integration Director for SISCO, Inc. and is responsible for delivery and integration of all projects within SISCO.

Ms. Goodrich received her Bachelor’s degree from the UT Austin. In Feb, 2001, she received a patent for the Operational Database Maintenance System (ODMS).

Bob Bradish is vice president — AEP Transmission Grid Development, responsible for AEP Transmission system planning, which includes organizing and managing all activities related to assessing the adequacy of AEP's transmission network to meet the needs of its customers in a reliable, cost effective and environmentally compatible manner; the real-time operation of AEP’s transmission assets in compliance with all applicable safety and reliability standards, contractual and tariff obligations and all federal, state and local regulations and laws; and advanced technical/analytical studies in support of planning, engineering, design and operation of the AEP transmission system, and for managing/coordinating the Transmission Technology/R&D Program.

Prior to his current position, he was managing director — Transmission Planning & Business Development where, in addition to planning, he was responsible for the origination, evaluation, and execution of strategic transmission investment opportunities in support of AEP’s transmission business strategy.

Prior to returning to AEP Transmission, Bradish led the Market Operations group within AEP’s Commercial Operations organization. He was responsible for the development and execution of AEP’s day-to-day commercial strategy within the RTO wholesale markets.

Tom Kirkpatrick is vice president – Customer Services, Marketing and Distribution Services, for American Electric Power.

His responsibilities include Customer Services and Marketing, which provides for AEP's centralized customer interface, including oversight of AEP’s Customer Solutions Centers, billing, collections, and customer service support as well as responsibility for the distribution and customer operations information technology systems designed to support AEP’s regional utility divisions. He also oversees the economic and business development activities for the company. The group also directs the National Account Managers, the centralized meter labs and the system-wide implementation of projects such as automated meter reading (AMR/AMI).

Distribution Services provides corporate support services to AEP´s seven regional operating companies´ distribution organizations, including asset management and planning, contract management, dispatching operational support, forestry operations, electrical equipment repair, underground facility screening and locating services, underground network system engineering, right-of-way and easement services, engineering best practices, corporate technology development, distribution technical skills training, emergency storm preparedness, distribution budget planning, performance management and research, geographical information systems (GIS) and joint use pole attachment services.

Kirkpatrick began his career with AEP in 1980, where for more than 25 years he held progressively responsible senior-level positions in a broad range of functional areas, including vice president – Distribution Operations, vice president – Distribution Asset Management and most recently as vice president - Distribution Operations for AEP Ohio, responsible for the electric distribution system, including engineering, design, distribution line and safety that serve approximately 1.5 million AEP Ohio customers. Additionally, Kirkpatrick held leadership positions outside of AEP where he was senior vice president – Energy Practice for Davies Consulting, Inc. based in Maryland and vice president, energy for Patrick Energy Services in Illinois.

Kirkpatrick holds a bachelor of science degree in electrical engineering from Gannon University with a focus on electric power systems. He is a registered Professional Engineer.

Kirkpatrick is active on the EEI Distribution Committee and a member of the AEIC Power Delivery Committee. In addition, he was selected as the chairman of the first EEI National Response Event Executive Committee. He also is a board member of the Mid-Ohio Foodbank and the Southeast Electric Exchange, both non-profit organizations.