Education:
Master of Science in Civil & Environmental Engineering │ Stanford University – Palo Alto
Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering │ University of Mexico – Albuquerque

Experience:
Gavin started his career leading the development of Software-as-a-Service products for electric utilities as a Technical Product Manager for Clean Power Research. He developed energy and economic models for battery storage, solar PV, electric vehicles, demand response, and energy efficiency. He also led the development of machine learning distributed energy resource (DER) adoption forecasting software.

In the intervening years before joining TOTH, Gavin provided engineering analysis and design at nearly every power system level. As an electrical engineer at the Mechanical, Electrical, Plumbing (MEP) design firm Affiliated Engineers Inc. he engineered building and campus distribution systems for healthcare facilities. His projects included feeder additions to healthcare campus distribution systems, retrofitting laboratory spaces, and construction of a new six story hospital.

Following his time as an MEP engineer, Gavin was part of a small team of distribution engineers at Burbank Water and Power. He performed multiple engineering functions, from outage root cause analysis, to developing interconnection standards for 5G small cell antennas, to designing and managing overhead to underground conversions for distribution feeders.

Immediately before joining TOTH, Gavin served as a Staff Engineer for the Load Analysis, Research, and Transmission Special Studies group at Evergy. He performed transient stability studies and research to drive growth and progress for the Transmission Planning group. Particular projects included developing Python toolsets to determine critical clearing time across the Evergy Transmission system, analyzing dynamic voltage recovery to determine size and placement for STATCOM units, and modeling generator dynamic stability in support of MOD-026/027 compliance. Gavin was also responsible for representing Every Transmission Planning in the North American Transmission Forum (NATF) and the NERC Load Modeling Working Group.

Gavin joined TOTH in 2022 to support the growth of TOTH transmission planning services: long-range planning, generator and load interconnection studies, and more.

 

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