Raymond Tran

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Raymond Tran is a seasoned Electrical Engineer with over forty years of global and domestic (USA) experience in the power generation industry. Ray specializes in commissioning, operations & maintenance, project management, and NERC Standard compliance of power generating facilities (Steam Turbine, Gas Turbine, Combined Cycle, Generator, AVR, and BOP).

As a Field Engineer for GETSCO and PenPower, subsidiaries of the General Electric Company (GE) serving international power generation clients, Ray's work took him to countries in the Far East, Middle East, Europe, North Africa, Oceania, North America (including the USA), and South America. Ray's diverse, formidable, and global experience helps him rise to the challenges of the highly demanding power generation industry today.

When the NERC Reliability Standard became mandatory and enforceable by law in the United States on June 18, 2007, Ray was a Project Manager for a power plant operations and maintenance company overseeing over thirty-two power generation facilities throughout the United States and Canada. Among his various responsibilities as a Project Manager, he successfully led the effort to establish NERC standard compliance programs and compliance maintenance programs for the power plants.

Ray’s extensive experience in power generation includes the following: Project Manager, Contract Performance Manager, Instructor, Lead Commissioning Field Engineer, Electrical Field Engineer, Resident Engineer, Requisition Engineer, and Lead Quality Control Engineer. 

Ray's work with GE and its subsidiaries covered practically every aspect of power generation:

• Lead Commissioning Engineer: In charge of commissioning turbines and generators ranging from 5MW combustion turbines and generators to 1,000MW nuclear power steam turbines and generators.
• Electrical Field Engineer: Commissioning of generators, AVR, PSS, protection systems, and balance-of-plant.
• Quality Control and Requisition Engineer: Fulfillment of turbine control software requisitions & final testing of the turbine controls, and in charge of their quality control.
• Manager: Project Manager, Contract Performance Manager, and Resident Engineer. Responsible for O&M services of pre-commercial, transitional, and commercial power stations
• Instructor: Customer and internal training of turbine controls, operations and maintenance of turbine, generator, generator excitation systems, Automatic Voltage Regulator (AVR), and generator protections at the prestigious GE Energy Learning Center in Schenectady, NY.

In his present capacity, he uniquely blends the letters and intent of the NERC Reliability Standard with each facility’s applicable O&M procedures and prudent practices, thus creating a seamless NERC Standard Internal Compliance Program specific to each facility. 

Ray’s forty-plus years of global and domestic leadership and hands-on experience in the power generation industry, coupled with excellent engineering and people skills, provide an effective solution to the industry's multi-disciplinary environment. 

Ray holds a Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering from the University of Nevada Reno and is a veteran of the United States Navy.

Thomas Welch has over thirty-two 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.