Raymond Tran

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Raymond Tran is a seasoned Electrical Engineer with more than 40 years of global and domestic experience in the power generation industry. His expertise spans commissioning, operations & maintenance, project management, and NERC compliance, particularly focusing on the NERC Reliability Standards for steam turbines, gas turbines, combined-cycle plants, generators, excitation systems (AVR), and balance-of-plant equipment.  

Ray’s career began as a Field Engineer for GETSCO and PenPower, subsidiaries of General Electric (GE), where he served power generation clients across the world—including Asia, the Middle East, Europe, North Africa, Oceania, South America, and throughout North America. This extensive international experience built the foundation for his ability to solve complex engineering and operational challenges in today’s demanding power generation landscape, including the needs of generator operators and generator owners compliance.  

When the NERC Reliability Standards became mandatory in the United States in 2007, Ray was serving as a Project Manager for an O&M services company overseeing more than 32 power plants across the U.S. and Canada. He led the successful establishment of NERC compliance programs and long-term compliance maintenance strategies for these facilities, supporting owners and operators through the transition to mandatory enforcement.  

Over his career, Ray has held a wide range of technical and leadership roles, including:  

- Project Manager  

- Contract Performance Manager  

- Resident Engineer  

- Lead Commissioning Engineer  

- Electrical Field Engineer  

- Requisition Engineer  

- Lead Quality Control Engineer  

- Instructor & Technical Trainer  

His work with GE and its subsidiaries encompassed virtually every aspect of power generation:  

- Lead Commissioning Engineer: Responsible for commissioning turbines and generators ranging from 5 MW combustion turbines to 1,000 MW nuclear steam turbine-generators.  

- Electrical Field Engineer: Specialized in commissioning generators, AVRs, PSS systems, protection systems, and BOP electrical equipment.  

- Quality Control & Requisition Engineer: Oversaw turbine control software requisitions, testing, and quality assurance for GE control systems.  

- Manager: Directed O&M services for pre-commercial, transitional, and commercial power stations, ensuring safe, reliable, and compliant operations.  

- Instructor: Delivered high-level training in turbine controls, operations, generator excitation, and protection systems at the prestigious GE Energy Learning Center in Schenectady, NY.  

Today, Ray blends decades of hands-on engineering ans power plant experience with deep expertise in NERC compliance. He integrates the letters and intent of the NERC Reliability Standards seamlessly into each facility’s operations and maintenance procedures, building compliance programs that are practical, sustainable, and facility-specific, thereby enhancing generator operators compliance and generator owners compliance.  

Ray’s extensive global experience, technical depth, and proven leadership make him a trusted advisor to power plant owners, operators, and executives seeking reliability, operational excellence, and compliance confidence.  

He holds a Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering from the University of Nevada, Reno, and is a proud U.S. Navy veteran.

AES’s Physical and Cyber Security Director is Mr. Thomas Welch. Tom has over thirty-four years of experience in IT and security. He specializes in physical and logical security countermeasures security for utility, financial, healthcare, communication, academic, and government sectors. He is actively engaged in physical and information security consulting projects, which include compliance planning, security assessments, secure architecture design, policy planning and development, high-tech crime investigations and computer forensics, strategic planning, security self-assessments, pre-audit gap analysis and spot-checks, cyber security policy planning and development, information protection program and data classification, exceptions process, development of a personnel risk assessment program, security training, computer investigations and computer forensics, and NERC Critical Infrastructure Protection Standard compliances. His certifications include:

· Certified Information System Security Professional (CISSP)

· Certified Protection Professional (CPP)

· Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA)

· Certified Information Security Manager (CISM)

· Certified Fraud Investigator (CFI)

· Certified Homeland Security – Level 3 (CHS-III)

· InfoSec Assessment Methodology Certified (IAM)

Tom has provided NERC Critical Infrastructural Protection (CIP) compliance services for over fifteen years. Tom is an expert in physical and logical security countermeasures and is actively engaged in physical and information security consulting projects, including compliance planning, security assessments, secure architecture design, policy planning and development, security training, high-tech crime investigations, and computer forensics. 

Before his career in the Information Systems business, Mr. Welch was a Crime Analyst for the City of Orange, New Jersey, and a Public Safety Officer (cross-trained Police Officer and Firefighter) for the City of Coconut Creek, Florida. Tom is a Certified Information System Security Professional (CISSP), Certified Protection Professional (CPP), Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA), Certified Information Security Manager (CISM), Certified Fraud Investigator (CFI), and Certified Homeland Security – Level 3 (CHS-III). Tom is an author and frequent lecturer on computer security topics, including computer crime investigation and computer forensics.