Wildfire Planning + Mitigation (Mar 06-07)

Tony Martus is a Applied Technology Services Supervisor at PG&E with 4 years of service and professionally licensed engineer. Tony has a Master’s in business administration from the University of Utah and Bachelors in Chemical Engineering from the University of Michigan. In his current role, he provides Providing leadership, mentoring, and removing barriers for a team that provides engineering services and expertise in materials, corrosion, and failure analysis to gas, electric, and power generation organizations. Prior to this role at PG&E, He was lead engineer of cathodic protection (CP), AC corrosion management, internal corrosion management, and TIMP risk assessment for Dominion Energy Utah. In his spare time, Tony will be found in the Sierras snowboarding and climbing mountains.

Dan Tilly is a Principal Failure Analysis Engineer at PG&E with 20 years of service. He currently supports a variety Electric Operations Asset Strategy Projects as a technical consultant including helping build industry leading transmission and distribution conductor condition assessments programs. Prior to this role at PG&E, He was the supervisor of various technical disciplines at ATS including metallurgy, failure analysis, corrosion, coatings, bathymetry, welding and chemistry. Dan has a Doctorate and Master’s Degree in Materials Engineering, along with a Bachelor’s of Science in Mechanical Engineering from University of California Santa Barbara. In his free time Dan Enjoys feeding his flock of chickens.

Wilson Wong is a Senior Materials Testing Engineer at PG&E with 5 years of service and a professionally licensed engineer. He currently manages the mechanical testing lab at Applied Technology Services in San Ramon. This role includes providing technical oversight of technology validation, asset condition assessment, and miscellaneous test requests. Wilson has a master’s in mechanical engineering from University of California, Davis and a Bachelors in Applied Physics from University of California, Santa Cruz. While in school he studied the correlation between finite element computational analyses and physical destructive testing measurements for residual stress driven stress corrosion cracking. Prior to joining PG&E he worked at Structural Integrity Associates where he lead a small engineering team that that conducted computational finite element analyses for complex structural/thermal analysis of nuclear power plant components. While not in the lab, Wilson enjoys traveling the world, mountain biking in the forest, and practicing various target sports.

Gene Hanes is a Principal Electrical Engineer at PG&E with 23 years of service. He currently supports a variety Electric Operations, Asset Strategy and Wildfire Risk Reduction Programs as a technical consultant. This work entails helping PG&E identify, evaluate and test new methods and technologies for improving safety, increasing reliability, reducing costs and eliminating wildfire risk. Prior to his current role at PG&E, Gene was employed in various Electrical Engineering roles at PG&E including Distribution Planning, Transmission Planning, Electrical Testing, Equipment Failure Analysis, and Investigations. Gene has a Bachelor’s of Science in Electrical Engineering from University of California Davis. In his free time Gene enjoys spending time with his family, exploring the outdoors, going to the gym and reading about history.

Daniel Rakin has been part of PG&E since 2013 when he joined the organization as an Associate Gas Engineer. Since then he has built upon is technical expertise in the utility by taking on wide ranging roles including supporting operations as a field engineer and taking on a leadership role as the Gas Transmission and Distribution Corrosion Control Supervisor. He has brought this varying expertise to Applied Technology Services were he currently is the Supervisor of the Non-Destructive Testing Team helping build programs to apply high-end NDT techniques to better understand the condition of gas, electric and power generation assets (e.g. applying Ultrasonic Contact Impedance (UCI) testing to achieve material property requirements of Part 192.607 for gas pipelines). Daniel has a Bachelor’s degree in Civil Engineering from California Polytechnic State University in San Luis Obispo. In his free time, Daniel enjoys spending time with his new born and hustling people at 8-ball pool.

Kellie Cloud is the Senior Director of Wildfire & Operational Compliance at Portland General Electric (PGE), overseeing wildfire mitigation, vegetation management, utility asset management, and operational compliance. She is a purpose-driven leader committed to positively impacting her community as we adapt to our changing environment and improve the resiliency of the electric grid. Kellie is one of PGE’s Incident Commanders for major events, and her team partners with others across the region to manage wildfire risk.

Kellie graduated Magna cum Laude with a Bachelor of Science in Engineering Science from Trinity University. She specialized in control systems and worked briefly as an instrumentation engineer in the oil & gas industry before returning to Oregon to work as a substation design consultant. Kellie started her career at PGE in 2003 as a protection engineer and developed a passion for leadership after a temporary customer service assignment. As manager of various engineering and field operations teams, she drove improvements related to quality assurance, compliance, customer service, and security. As director of substation operations, Kellie focused on engineering, technician, and journeyman talent as well as organizational development to enable transformation of the electric utility industry. As senior director of engineering services, she leveraged her decades of electric utility experience to lead cross-functional teams to improve asset management across generation, transmission, distribution, and substation functions.

An advocate for diversity and STEM education, Kellie has supported National Engineer’s Month, the Girl Scouts, and the Multiple Engineering Cooperative Program (MECOP). She currently serves on the board for PHAME, a fine and performing arts academy for adults with disabilities, and the Dean’s Leadership Council for Oregon State University’s college of engineering. Kellie is a seventh generation Oregonian and second-generation engineer with a family hazelnut orchard in the Willamette Valley.

Angelo Campus has spent 10 years working on BoxPower Inc. and its precursor research projects. Originally the lead designer, Angelo has held almost every role at BoxPower and now leads sales and forward-looking technology. Angelo is a 2019 Forbes 30 under 30 listmaker, 2019 Halcyon Fellow, 2019 GSBI Fellow, DRK Entrepreneur, 2017 Echoing Green Climate Fellow and 2017 Princeton Tiger Entrepreneur Award winner.

Angelo graduated magna cum laude from Princeton in 2016, where he designed an independent major combining civil engineering and anthropology, where he focused on renewable energy technologies and business models for rural electrification. Outside of work you can find him climbing rocks, repairing his VW van, or tending to his new chickens.