Frankie McDermott, Kevin Sherlin Named to Executive Posts at SMUD

The Sacramento Municipal Utility District’s (SMUD) General Manager and CEO John DiStasio has named Frankie McDermott as director of Customer Services and Kevin Sherlin as director of Business Technology.

McDermott will oversee all customer-related operations as well as energy efficiency and renewable energy programs.

McDermott joined SMUD in 2003 as manager of Supply Chain Services. In 2009 he launched Enterprise Performance, a group charged with establishing a system to measure the effectiveness of SMUD’s business performance. Previously, he worked in management roles at NEC Electronics in Roseville and in Ireland. After engineering school in Ireland, he earned an MBA from Golden Gate University and completed the Berkeley Advanced Management Program at the Haas School of Business at UC-Berkeley.

For McDermott, a major opportunity will be managing changing relationships with customers as SMUD moves forward with its smart meter and smart grid projects, as well as meeting its commitments for increased energy efficiency and reducing SMUD’s carbon footprint.

Sherlin joined SMUD four years ago as a Business Technology program manager. A year later he was named the department’s operations manager, overseeing all BT infrastructure. Previously, Sherlin spent 23 years at El Paso Electric, first as a substation engineer, moving into telecommunications management and then as information technology director. He received his bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering from the University of Texas-El Paso.

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